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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1888
Page
3
A string of lighthearted notes on spring pains and plans. Pothole roads, muddy lanes, and chores like gardening and cleaning plots frame seasonal humor. The musings touch on weather, farming tasks, and the social quirks of rural life.
Wheat and Zenor advertise a range of farm wagons buggies seeders cultivators and more as a first class implement house. Reverend Anna Shaw will lecture on Woman Suffrage April 14 at the M E Church Ames with 25 cent admission. J P Alperman notes rag collection next week. Horses and cattle roam the cemetery raising concerns about desecration of God s Acre.
Real estate firm A H Thayer & Co advertises improved farms for sale including No 113 a 140 acre property. offers bargains in residences, vacant lots, and unimproved lands across Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Southern Minnesota and invites inquiries using the listed office contact.
To the Ladies of Ames and vicinity Mrs Fowler announces she will, for the next few months, do dressmaking at reasonable rates. Contact over Carpew and AL 2 Church. D A BreeLow & Co.
D A Bigelow Co reports M K Smith traveling to Chicago to acquire spring stock of straw wool and fur hats. The notice notes vaccination readiness and urges readers to act now for vaccination.
Studio notice states unable to secure an agent and offers wholesale piano and organ stock through Lyon and Healy at the Rink building. Call at once as only a few days remain. A humorous aside declares women cannot fill traditional business roles.
City Fathers and Town Trustees held a Monday meeting as Boards of Equalization of Assessments. Sessions are prolonged. G Hamilton & Co reduced coffee prices by five cents per pound across all grades, with the best Rio now offered at a lower rate.
D. A. Breetow & Co invites Story County residents to visit on Friday April 13 to view a finely selected Spring Goods stock offering. Local shoppers can inspect window glass and related items during the event.
A crowded column notes Miss McConnon and friends vacationing afar while Miss Jones and Miss Maxwell study at Commercial College in Indianola. Many locals move to Ames or visit, and Captain O Brien and others are briefly mentioned with illnesses and relocations amid a wave of arrivals and departures affecting Cole and surrounding areas.
The revival grows as many confess sin and seek new life. Rev. Smith offers plain guidance and urges attendance at daily meetings including Saturdays. Program includes daily 3 p.m. and 7 30 p.m. sessions, 4 50 p.m. youth meeting, Sunday class at 10 a.m. and sermons at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. by Rev. Joel A. Smith.
A bomb-like blast at Jack Gallagher’s smithery last Wednesday caused a crowd to rush toward the scene. An emery polishing stone, spinning at 3500 RPM, burst, sending debris through the front partition, rear wall, and over Ben Zenor’s car into the roof area. Zenor survived with only a scare, the tool lacking protective woven wire.
Weekly report shows transfers in Ames and Humboldt including William Ulam to Josiah Ulam, Rose Hoyt to George W. Kelley, and others with prices from 75 to 1700 dollars. Also notes business interest in Humboldt for a canning factory with stock plans and public sales dates, plus education text book legislation adopted by the Nelson substitute.
The committee invites sealed bids for a frame building to serve the experimental station on the Iowa Agricultural College grounds in Ames. Plans are at Foster & Liebbe Des Moines and copies will be in the Secretary’s office after April 1 1555. Bids due April 11 1888 with right to reject.
The plan to establish a regular Market Day in Ames gains broad support from residents. It aims to provide a venue to sell or trade farm garden and orchard products benefiting those with goods to offer.
The Ames column lists a wide roster of names and notes amendments to House Bill 373 extending state control over railroads, ending free passes, and empowering the railroad commission. It also reports meager turnout at a War Songs Concert, court house fresco bids from Lindman McIvor and painting by Lewis Simmers, street and city improvements, a street commissioner appointment, and a packing of local civic events with notices for an April 7-8 union convention and a Sabin speakership in Ames.
Charlies M. Wilson will wield the gavel as President of the school board for the coming year. J. J. Coon and J. H. Langsdorff bought a long twine structure rumored as a fly net or seine. Burglary at Caleb Walters’ home netted $2.76. coroner to gather shreds for inquest. Births and marriages: a boy born to Fred and Mrs. Marshall. Will Sutter and Alice Stravise marry in Story County.
Ontario notes mild weather and a closing term of writing school with 24 pupils. Alpha Ross will teach in Odebolt this summer. Foster returns home for a few days and Cameron family moves to the Foster property. Anna Favre returns from teaching near Odebolt. Eastwoods of Boone visit. Wide Awake Society elects six month officers. Suttons move into Crossley residence. Beedle couple welcome a girl.
Mrs. Phoebe of Paterson Iowa reports years of kidney pain and lameness ended by Electric Bitters. She now does her own housework and praises the tonic as reviving youth. Advised by J. J. H. Pickett & Co Palace Drug Store. Also notes Bigelow’s Positive Cure for lung care and general strength.
In Story County Iowa District Court a writing purporting to be the last will of L D Olson is on file. A hearing for probate is set for May 7 1888 in Nevada, requiring all interested persons to appear and show cause against the will. Henry Wilson Jr Clerk of the District Court.
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