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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1881
Page
3
Bulk garden seeds at Nourse’s and fresh roast beef in cans highlight a busy Ames page. Several notices report upcoming services, school elections, market prices, farm implements, and new businesses with torches of local life in Clark and surrounding counties.
El Briggs Jr. son of W H Briggs was injured Wednesday afternoon at Polk City when run down by an engine while coupling cars. He is getting along all right. Citizens with buried relatives in our city cemetery are asked to contact Henry Wilson Jr adjutant G A R about decorating graves.
A watch charm with a cameo on one side and onyx on the other was found in Ames on the eve of Monday April 18. The finder should return it to the office for a reward. The notice also mentions school house bond negotiations and lodge officer elections at Arcada Lodge.
W R Doolittle and Sons of LaFayette township sold 50 head of steers to a Chicago commission house for 3500. The cattle were shipped from Story City to Chicago. The Doolittles are noted as prominent Iowa farmers.
Mr P Spence of porerty wins a contract to supply 75000 ties and bridge lumber to the Milwaukee and St Paul railway, with delivery near Sweed Point. Floods in Illinois and Wisconsin disrupt railroad traffic, delaying spring goods for Ames merchants as lines report washouts and water covering rail beds.
Weather summary for week ending Wednesday April 20 1881 notes days with cloudy to clear skies and variable winds. It records a warm spell on last Sunday 17 reaching 75 degrees at 2:30 PM and notes the last 75 degree day occurred October 8, with seasonal peak then.
Sonata No 2 for four hands featuring Miss Butcher and Mr Shaw. Moonlight Dance by Clements with White and a group of Misses McDonald Chatburn Fiegenbaum and Belden and Messrs Faville Beersford Hopkins and Harlow. Two Pianos with Guisttation Méldelesohn featuring Miss Reeves and Miss McNeil. Trio for Piano Violin Cornet with Bowillion, Miss Athearn, and Mr McHenry. Glee Blue Bells of Scotland by Baum and Belden with Faville Beresford Hopkins and others.
The dead man found in Boone county is identified as George Rich of Laporte Black Hawk county. Coroner to hold inquest as detectives seek a killer, with evidence suggesting murder and a clue the officials alone know. Rich, a miller with property in Kansas, had been in Fort Dodge and Laporte recently. skull fracture found.
The McPherson Freeman reports an extended critique of Edgington portraying him as a deceitful figure tied to fraud across Illinois Nebraska and Iowa. It notes checks drawn on the McPherson Bank and a pending arrest warrant while detailing his marriage to Mrs. Edgington and family distress.
Capt. Jno A Head A Schleiter and Geo H Welsh returned from Milwaukee where they discussed with C M and St P managers the potential cross road from Boone to Des Moines. Merrill indicated the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line wished to come to Boone and would finance or lease the line if Boone builds it, with cars expected by next fall.
Tax INTELLIGENCER keeps in stock a full line of legal and commercial blanks neatly printed on good paper. They are sold as cheap as you can buy them.
Wright & Ives at Wright and Child's old stand offer tin copper and sheet iron repairs in a neat workmanlike manner. They employ skilled workers and use high quality materials for all projects.
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