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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1891
Page
3
Train schedule shows GOING EAST and GOING WEST listings for the Chicago and North Western routes with times for connections to Denver and Des Moines. Notable entries include No. 56 arriving at 12:45 AM and various daily departures from early morning to evening.
The Ames column recalls a hospitable hospitality evening and reports Mrs. Welch will visit in autumn instead of spring. Mr and Mrs Welch are in Corning this week. The town trip to Dubuque included jeweller Baker who knew many towns and people from Cedar Rapids to Farley.
The notices report sugar lots for sale by Bigelow and others, an Ice Cream social at Mr James Adams residence on Friday April 24, and invites to attend. Hamilton & Co offers garden seeds. Story City merchants led by Henry Boyd visit Boone to study a factory expansion. Local ads promote hats shoes ranges and a new refrigerator model. The Baptist church reports no services due to illness and Charley Glidden becomes a Horton Co salesman. Elder Dow to serve the Christian church for a year with plans for a new building.
Several Ames residents and visitors are listed with health updates, travels, and social events. Notables include Mr McGuire seriously ill, Mrs Geades returning from Kelly trip, Dan McCarthy in Carthage on business, and visits by Hawley of Des Moines and Chas Smith and C G McCarthy of Nevada. Also mention dances, church events, meetings, and a musical class reunion.
Local notices show Bicelow and Smith promoting products from silk umbrellas to fabrics and ribbons while crowing about competition among three Ames lumber yards. Jay Gould’s party rolled through town on a special train with crashes and odd boasts highlighted alongside shop ads and merchandise.
G. W. O'Brien announces arrival of a carload of buggies spring wagons and carts. The Loughran Machine Co sends out a large batch of Little Yankee Riding Plows this spring.
The notice lists corsets and Ferris waists from Bien Low & Smith, along with mentions of Hamilton & Co. sugar cured meats, stock of blanks, Eclipse Wind Mills from Bingham & Co., Buckeye Sunbeam cultivator at Loughran, and a reminder to check the date on the paper label. It invites readers to inspect stock and come in for supplies.
A classifieds fragment shows cheap disposal of envel opes and promotion of farm equipment including a J I Case Triumph sulky plow. It includes a help wanted notice for a man and wife to work on a farm in Acton Walsh County with wages and a permanent position offered. It mentions riding plows and a state leading cultivator names and brands such as Flying Dutchman Wild Irishman and Al Right at G W O'Brien's.
A collected page of local notices and advertisements describes new lumber yard setup by H L Munn and son, gear and clothing outlets, and school supplies. It notes Ames Wire Fence factory progress, a Weir plow promotion, Dried Fruit Grove offerings, and baptisms at Evergreen church. Also mentions residents Johns Rich and Carrie Lane visiting.
Mr. E S Downs states the West End Lumber Yard will soon open, offering lumber of all kinds to Ames and surrounding areas. The announcement praises the two pleasant new lumber men and wishes them success and prosperity.
Brief items advertise J I Case plows, cheap boarding for Johnson County guests, and cost-cutting ideas. Community notices include a La Grippe afflicted Osborn family, a graveside burial in Bloomington cemetery, and drought-survived Dakota migrants needing sympathy. Also ads for dry goods, Batchelder steel tools, grade work Ames to College, and turned hitching posts.
The estate of the late P B Butler offers real property for sale with clear title. One lot on Onondaga street Ames includes a carpenter shop near the business center priced at 500 dollars. An 80 acre improved farm five miles from Ames and three miles southwest of I A College yields well and is a bargain at 30 dollars per acre. Admx Mrs M M Burer 4 16 31.
A collection of campaign notices from Story county in 1891 shows multiple residents declaring intent to seek county offices. James McKee and J F GruLesk announce for sheriff and treasurer respectively, with dates and conventions noted. Other entries name Meyer BrandlIng, J F Reep, S T Zenor, A L Stuntz, Henry Ep NotHome, and a general superintendent and representative run, each subject to Republican county convention decisions.
A Sabbath after evening session program from the 126th year 1891 in Ames Iowa lists talks and meetings. H S Hoot and Mrs Dr Jeffry of Nevada lead sessions at 2 00 and 7 30 pm respectively. Rev J Talbott Rev I S Ford Moore Douglass Morgan Smith and E A Wood are named with times. Closing benediction invites Sunday School workers to attend. J A Kerr presides.
A summary of campus life notes from Col Lincoln and trustees week in May. Students host receptions and students paint halls with new college yell while juniors stay in rooms. Des Moines visitors, new motor line, mumps, German military cap, and growing mechanical department with Prof Steinberg and Prof Ibne cited.
Seed Potatoes offering 200 bushels of sugar potatoes plus many large fine potatoes. Also bran by the sack and sugar goods. Selling glassware and entr coffees at competitive prices. Highest prices paid for country produce and best rates for flour.
A faded ad fragment lists C. L. Brooks breads including Mush Bread Graham Bread Steam and Rye Bread and buns and rolls offered by a local bakery. The text also mentions John perhaps as a customer or seller in a truncated line.
The issue lists several readings and essays including Chollemyisses Afflicted Holiday and Egg-rolling at the White House. It highlights pieces by Mason, Henry Kirke White Jr., Louisa Trumbull, Elizabeth Cumings, Anna Leach, M. M. Steele, Amanda B Harris, Grant Allen, Mrs. Mary E Blake, Mrs. Dana, Irving Wiles, Mrs. William Claflin, and Margaret Sidney. Also notes serials Five Little Peppers Up and Marietta's Good Times, with a price of $2.40 per year from D Lothrop Company.
At a recent Ames school board meeting all lady teachers were tendered their positions for the coming year. No action was taken on hiring the principal and the penmanship and drawing instructors. Miss Sophia C Thomas presented a Boone Presbyterian Y S C E entertainment, praised as refined and elevating.
In February a farmer’s association for the west side of the county formed with representatives from local alli groups. Meetings were once at Union school house and last Saturday met in Ames city hall with T. J. Miller presiding in absence of the secretary.
W Mills opened the discussion joined by several members. The association adjourned to meet Saturday afternoon May 2 at the same place. The topic will be rotation of oe and such rotation best secured. The Eagle Grove Times notes a birth last Wednesday night a son to Mr and Mrs Wm Muir. Mrs Muir was formerly a resident here and known as Miss McBarnes.
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