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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1903
Page
4
Local notices cost 5c per line per insertion. Entertainments with admission or monetary interests cost 5c per line. Cards of thanks 7c. Resolutions of respect and condolence 1.0. Church and club announcements published free once. additional publications 5c per line. Rates for all advertising furnished on request. All changes for display ads due by the evening of each week.
E D Stivers of Mason City attends campus events. Professors Bennett Newens Lanphear and Knapp feature in court visits lectures and luncheons. The seven ty acre apple orchard spraying project at Glenwood is led by Franklin Brown. The Great St Louis exhibit looms for Shamrock No 2. An octagon stock pavilion valued at 12000 will rise near the east barn with Old Glory flying. Ossanville Greenhouse advertises fruit trees and hardy stock grafted in twenty three varieties.
Mary Ann Winter widow of Jacob Winter died at her Ames residence on March 28 1903 from paralysis after being stricken Friday morning. Funeral at her home March 30 conducted by Rev J R McIntyre, burial beside her husband in Ames cemetery. Survived by six sons and three daughters among 12 children. oldest son William Winter of Rockford Illinois and niece Mrs Mary Hood of Battle Creek Iowa attended. Born July 2 1825 in Pennsylvania. Lifelong Lutheran and respected member of the Ames community.
Visitors packed the Ames high room Friday afternoon to view art from all city grades including South Ames. Miss Kyle, the visiting art instructor from Des Moines, helped showcase drawings, clay pieces, paper crafts, and Palmer method penmanship taught by Prof. Scroggie.
Mrs Anna D Leecing of this city died suddenly on March 26 1903 at age 79 years 8 months and 18 days. Born in Sweden December 8 1823 she and her husband came to America about 52 years ago. She raised nine children four survive three in this locality and one in West Virginia. Surviving children include sons Agustus and John L and a daughter. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church around 1888 after her children united with the church.
The product is advertised as free from resin, wood fibre, or adulterants and promises users a simplified wash routine. It asserts that following directions eliminates hard scrubbing and drudgery at the washboard.
The notice lists oil meal at 27.00 dollars per ton and 150 dollars per hundred, attributed to B. A. Lockwoop Grain Co.
The high school reports a successful Friday assembly with about five hundred visitors, exhibitions by all grades, and student service by six servers. A letter from Frederick, Oklahoma, describes community growth, agriculture, and town facilities near Lawton detailing cotton, wheat, oats, and promising economic signs.
The advertisement touts a pleasant to take harmless One Minute Cough Cure that provides immediate relief for coughs croup and la grippe. It claims the medicine does not pass into the stomach but draws out inflammation heals and soothes to cure permanently by aiding lungs to deliver oxygen to blood and tissues. Loughran and Bauer.
Wm Winter of Rockford Illinois and Mrs Elroy Hood of Battle Creek Michigan were summoned to Ames by a death in the family during the past week Melodic verse and tonic remedies advertise Rocky Mountain Tea and Little Early Risers as liver and constipation cures with claims of natural restoration and no system weakening.
Clyde Goldsberry will cease clerking at the Button dry goods store Saturday evening and will start work in Geo. Millers grocery at Ames on Monday. His friends express sincere regret at his departure from town.
Mrs Mary S Orick of White Plains Ky praises Kodol Dyspepsia Care for curing indigestion and stomach disorders. She says she was a dyspeptic for years, tried remedies, worsened, then improved after using Kodol and regained weight health and strength. Loughran Bauer endorses the product.
Perry Simmons offers a $100 challenge to prove the best two year old Percheron stallion in the state. He says he has three stallions and one jack this year and will confront any challenger. The notice dated 51-16 signals the event details.
Public notice asserts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the only salve made from pure un adulterated witch hazel and has cured thousands of piles where others failed. It warns against counterfeit products and urges buyers to seek the genuine salve from Loughran & Bauer.
Call on Ed F Wright for tailor made suits with prices from ten to twenty dollars and up. A fine trouser with fifty patterns priced at five dollars. All work guaranteed under White's hardware. Porcelain tubs for baths and farm loans at five percent with first mortgages preferred, inquire F Meredith.
The Des Moines upper Des Moines Baptist Association rally in Ames drew large crowds Friday to Sunday. Missionary Groesbeck and Rev. S. E. Wilcox delivered standout sermons. Resolutions urged deeper mission study and thanks to churches and hosts. A Huntington family home burned Tuesday due to a gasoline stove explosion with no alarm sounded. Also notices promote a Jewett typewriter No.5 sale and spring lines from local merchants.
Notice of the second Story County Shorthorn Breeder's Association meeting at the Nevada courthouse on April 8 1903 at 1 o clock to perfect the organization. All Short horn cow owners invited and eligible. O A Steward secretary. Also shoe bargains at Cainer Bros Hermann and Read Loughran Bauer ads this week.
Hawthorn and Booker hold a closing out sale at the Gossard livery barn on Saturday April 4 at 1 PM selling 9 head of horses including 2 farm horses 6 driving horses single top buggies 3 surreys harness robes nets and related equipment.
Ed. F. Wright offers razor honing services at his barber shop located under White’s hardware, providing professional grooming for customers in the area.
A brief item notes activity along the paint line at Lough ran and Bauer's with no further details available.
Advertises reduced prices at 45 locations of T J Mitter & Son and urges shoppers to seize deals this week. The brief notes special offers and limited-time savings across the chain.
The North Western Line announces greatly reduced excursion rates to the northwest west and southwest territories. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars available with free reclining chair cars. For full particulars contact Chicago & North Western Railway agents.
First class round trip tickets go on sale May 3 and 12 to 18 to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The overland limited offers luxury and quick service from Chicago daily with sleeping cars dining cars and barbers. Three trains daily to the coast with tours to California Washington and Oregon. Apply to Chicago and North Western Railway ticket agents for details.
In a Washington Star excerpt Mr. Comrox reflects on a palatial apartment, noting the immense comfort of a house large enough to wander and get lost in during social gatherings hosted by mother and the gals.
Mrs Crusty asks if they remember their first quarrel while Mr Crusty questions whether it occurred as they entered or left the church.
The report notes a widening disparity with more millionaires and more paupers in Moscow than across England. It highlights increasing wealth polarization and suggests economic strain affects both ends of the income scale in the Russian capital.
Promotes choice strawberry plants and plum trees from H. P. Sayles with emphasis on Nebraska Wonder plums noted as early bearers highly prolific and flavorful.
Excur sion tickets to New Orleans via the North Western Line offered at one fare round trip on April 11 12 and 18 with return extension to April 30 for the National Manufacturers Association convention. Apply to Chicago & Northwestern Ry agents. Also Rocky Mountain Tea advertised for clear skin at 35 cents by L M Bosword.
Loughran and Bauer advertise Johnsons Fair chocolates and bon bons and Richelieu canned goods with best on earth claims. The notice also promotes 45tf T. J. Millem and Son and wallpaper from Loughran and Bauuer.
The minister laboriously extended his sermon to the seventh division while a sleepy parishioner muttered Amen. The scene captures the weary end of a long sermon and a lighthearted aside from a wakeful attendee.
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