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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1878
Page
5
Stickney & Taylor's advertises Aswtox dairy salt and Fersa fruits with daily deliveries. It promotes fruit jars, a small round turban worn by ladies, and bread priced at twenty five loaves for one dollar from Thever's. Mrs Giles Coox features a wax plant in full bloom.
A wandering man carried a bottle of chloroform asking others to sniff it. Several complied before a husband arrived to stop an alleged assault. Tur Adjutant General reports 1 000 rounds of ball cartridges for the lowz militia as a precaution. Ames and nearby areas may form a company. fans with autographs are used in a party fundraising plan.
Sabbath school workers held their weekly gathering at the Congregational church last Saturday evening with Bige low in the chair. After opening exercises the coming Sabbath lesson was read and examined by the President. The next meeting will be at the Methodist church next Saturday evening August 3.
Monday night between twelve and one o clock a Nevada couple visited Squire Greeley seeking marriage. John W Horgan and Miss Nelson were the couple. Greeley officiated and united them in marriage.
National Bank Redemption Division warns of a new $100 counterfeit note discovered at Pittsfield National Bank in Pittsfield Massachusetts. It appears to use the same plate as a recent counterfeit and is printed more clearly with excellent numbering. All notes of this issue will be withdrawn from circulation promptly.
The Louisville Medical College announces three complete courses in seventeen months with prices that save a student 297 dollars compared with other schools offering two courses. Beneficiary privileges are limited to five percent of the class. Next session begins October 1, 1878. apply now for catalogues.
Notice warns against buying or negotiating a promissory vote made in Ames on July 17 1878 in favor of M V Cisco for fifty dollars. It alleges the instrument was procured by misrepresentations by Cisco and is signed by Allen Keltner and Morgan Keltner.
George Lambertson walks the street with the air of a man weighing 200 pounds. He has a small seven pound girl at his house. Mrs L and the baby are doing well, and George is doing even better he sets them up.
Miss Helen Cooper of Des Moines will give dramatic readings and impersonations Monday night at the Baptist church. The Register praises her talents while other papers find the entertainments pleasing. Tickets are sold at Albert Wettetein's jewelry store. Virren relocates his barber shop to Ames, prompting Des Moines to lose a top barber.
Wednesday evening a threatening storm cloud from the south and east caused widespread fright in the city. The storm dissipated before reaching town with no damage reported locally, though some residents four to five miles away observed hail without wind.
Trampoline, the famous Story county trotter, entered in the 2:24 class at Cleveland races Wednesday. Eleven entries in the event produced four heats over two days with a purse of 1800 dollars. The four winners included Edwin Forest J H Maddock and Trampoline owned by J J Bowens and Dan Mace. Trampoline to be trotted next at Buffalo today.
Webster City voters approve a two per cent tax to aid the D M and M road and construction begins to extend the line to Webster City. Des Moines and Minneapolis Railroad President Callanan visits Cleveland to discuss iron purchases for the extension. Des Moines financiers propose buying fifty thousand dollars of D M and M railroad bonds to fund the Callanan Webster City link.
Boone County Normal opens August 26 for two weeks in Boonehoro High School. Prof C H Baker conducts with Miss Sallie Collier and Messrs S Todd Hammond and Goldthwait as assistants. Bring text book and prepare for strict recitation records and certificate decisions. Lectures and socials planned. first day arrival urged.
Rumor reports four horses died in the Bloomington area during a hot spell, some in fields and others harnessed. The paper invites readers to share new observations while the incident is still fresh.
Will Davis was away visiting Cedar Rapids friends and not in town this week. J. B. Little returns from Wisconsin reporting thriving dairy and cheese sectors. Mr and Mrs L H Bingham came back from Wisconsin Tuesday evening. J A Bain traveled to Cedar Falls on business. Miss Flick voyage to Galena Illinois for a two month vacation. Ed Forney back from Missouri slope now in charge of his D M & M railroad train. D A Bigelow has recovered health and is seen downtown again.
The piece notes continuous wet weather dam aging wheat, a temperance festival delay due to rain, and local updates on Drs. Schooler and Hopkins overhauling their drug store. It mentions travel for Wakefield medicines, local gossip about a candidate, and a Scribner's Monthly portrait of William Cullen Bryant with surrounding editorial content.
Croquet sets flourish at Gilbert Station with local residents Prof. C. M. Wilson Neal Mc Farlan Mr. Frank Gilbert and others. Corn and oats thrive while farmers harvest as grass grows. The Gilbert baseball club meets weekly, aims to play Evergreen by the Fourth. Gilbert school closes with Miss A Crambler praised. an exhibition may honor the last day. Wealth grows as butter sells at four cents and eggs at four cents per dozen. A carload of hogs was shipped here last Friday. A Sabbath school convention convened at Bunke grove with speakers from Nevada and Raecs, with another planned for Bloomington on the second Sabbath in August.
Readers describe a clear cool Monday as the sun's total eclipse passed, prompting wonder at astronomical precision and the science of predicting celestial events. Observers note animal and plant reactions while Denver reports the total eclipse observed on the second page.
The St Nicholas and Scribner Midsummer Holiday number opens with J T Trowbridge verse King Cheese about the Paris Exhibition of 1867 with Hopkins frontispiece. Includes Sarah Winter Kellogg Summer Fishing Story Rode for Five Lucy Lareom Happy Fields of Summer and Frank R Stockton The Emergency Mistress. Also notes Digger Waeps piece and travel hints. A notice in Story County Iowa warns Calvin Giddings to appear by Sept 5 1878 in a foreclosure and mortgage action with detailed property description. Tanner Fay attorneys.
The undersigned and Mr. West had no control over earlier arrangements for occupying the vacant store room with a stack of boots and shoes. I now offer the room for rent again, together with suitable apartments for light house keeping, or either of them separately. Signed K. W. Brown.
A long chain of hearsay leads to a public notice urging readers to buy bread pies cakes buns canned fruits candies nuts cigars and tobacco at Chaney's Bakery. The fragment emphasizes widespread belief and involvement of many named individuals in a local sales pitch.
The Story County Teachers Normal Institute will convene August 19 at the Nevada School Building, with Prof E R Eldridge of Grand View as conductor. W Von Coenen will attend the third week and meet county teachers. lectures will be offered weekly. About 145 teachers are expected to attend and obtain certificates. A course of study is available. examinations conclude the institute. provisions for board at low rates will be arranged.
Notice that Jennie Nelson has filed a divorce petition in the Circuit Court Clerk's office alleging desertion as the cause. The case schedules a term beginning September 5, 1878, with default possible and judgment to follow if not answered. Stevens & Upperman are the attorneys for the plaintiff.
An advertisement touts Green's August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and liver complaints claiming it stabilizes digestion, heart and brain function. Sample bottles cost ten cents and three doses prove its effectiveness, with J. J. Bousquet selling it in Western towns.
This old time advertisement urges guardians to keep Parker's Ginger Tonic to guard children and family from colic cholera morbus dysentery and diarrhea and claims the tonic cures stomach disorders headaches nervousness insomnia liver issues and other ailments with a one dollar bottle or fifteen cent sample from J J Bousquet & Co.
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