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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1898
Page
3
Local notices promote Adams Bros. flour and Canier Bros. & Herman shoes with low prices. Public notices cover tax Rathbone meeting, homicide case appeal, and a Masonic convention. Personal paragraphs mention many Ames residents, the watermelon market, and a death obituary.
Mrs. Will Elliott received the sad news that her aged father died August 31 in Sodaville Oregon. Dr Bradley has opened an office over Miller and Kooser's grocery in Ames and will practice there, known to the county's older settlers.
A family expresses gratitude through the Times for the support and kindness shown after a loss. Mr and Mrs J B Lincoln and their children thank friends for acts of sympathy, care for their child, and prayers during a dark hour. They look forward to returning home to memories and faithful friends.
Fragmentary notices from Wa. Clark Howard Adams and F T McLain report actions in town. Wardens, a popcorn stand move, a desire to buy boar pigs, a doctor visiting Story County Bank office, Dewy flour promotion, and a North Western Line ticket offer for Lumbermen's Day in Omaha are recorded in brief notices.
The frayed end of the old democratic populist and free silver factions met in Marshalltown and nominated a slate aligned with the Chicago platform. Ticket includes Claude R. Porter for Secretary of State Nils Anderson for State Treasurer E H Gillette for State Auditor J M Parsons for Attorney General W A Spurrier for Supreme Court Judge A Hanson and Herman E Wills for Railroad Commissioners Earl R Perkins for Clerk Supreme Court and W A Ferrin for Supreme Court Reporter.
Ames Iowa council in regular session approves last meeting minutes. Claims for damages to college grade road are considered. a three member committee is appointed to investigate. Lighting upgrades approved at Douglass Pearl, Steve O’Brien and J W Adams locations. Ordinance 120 on hackmen pricing suspended. 1898 tax levy set: 10 mills corporation, 5 mills agricultural lands, 1 mill Ayers case, 5 mills electric plant, 3 mills improvements, 5 mills water district. Freeland allowed to connect barn to sewer under street committee guidance.
The Commercial Club will meet at Read's hall tomorrow evening. M. K. Smirno presides. The note mentions a burly tramp roasted for trying to work without money, then begging an exchange at the Times office.
A July 23 letter from P. E. Botier in Santiago, Cuba credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving lives and keeping pack-trains in operation during a rush mission to supply front-line troops. The writer recalls diarrhoea and the lack of time for medical care while stressing the medicine aided endurance. Sold by Chamberlain Medicine Co Des Moines Iowa and local druggists.
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