13 Apr 1893
Page 1
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1893
Page
1
Fragmentary timetable text shows references to limited service 2-Limited 2-Way freight and express schedule times. Mentions 2:16 a.m accommodation and 6:10 PM westbound service with unclear station names and lines.
John W. Spencer is gravely ill at home. Several residents and visitors travel for visits, including Miss Budd, Miss Libbie Shearer, and Mrs. Whitaker. Notable events include attendance at Y P C E convention, funerals, millinery shopping in Des Moines, and a note on Ri. F. Hodson now owning the Salem News.
Mentions Wesley Arrasmith sick at Bancroft, Henry Barnes planning year travel, Major Beck moving to West Halifax Vermont hoping to return. W W Wilson leaves Bancroft for Ames with family, buys a residence, wishes prosperity. Ames Register praises Wilson. F A Barnes shop advertises plow wagon buggy work. G W Bissell introduces mechanical engineering department at Ames Iowa with new equipment. THURSTON Swan & Co. advertises cultivators plows and wagons at low prices. Hamilton & Co. advertises ham and bacon prices.
Local merchants announce shoe clearances at Caniel Bros. Herman’s and discounts on boots and rubber goods at Tilden's. Til den's adds a new line of kid gloves and a large assortment of umbrellas and parasols. Bigelow & Smith promote a broad selection with new colors while May 1 price cuts on wire end. Real estate and loans advertised by Zenor & Son Hemstreet & McLain. Daniel Bros. Herman clear out broken lots of shoes for cash. Ice cream season celebrated with praise for J. M. Butcher.
Advertisement for a horse treatment claiming to cure hard or soft calluses and a range of leg and throat conditions. It promises savings of 50 dollars with one bottle and instructs to wet a blemish curd, selling from L M Bosworth, a druggist in Ames Iowa.
In Ames, Easter services featured Rev Rickman on Close Communion at the Baptist church and sermons on Baptism by Rev Everly and Rev Douglass at various congregations. A dime social at Rev Everly’s and a YPCCU district conference in Des Moines were noted, with multiple church activities, baptisms, confirmations, and upcoming lectures and union meetings.
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