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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1891
Page
7
A damaged OCR note contains garbled phrases and scattered references to scenes and numbers. The legible content is minimal and lacks coherent details or identifiable persons organizations places dates or outcomes.
Local society items record Br. O Bacon resuming duties in Pairfield, Miss Witt visiting Mrs Coggeshall, and several residents returning from trips in Minnesota Colfax Ohio and South Dakota. Mentions include Prof Chevalier in Ames, Judge Stevens at Cuba Kansas, Major Beck with a sprained ankle, and Mrs Turner recovering.
Edwin Read returns from Detroit with fond memories while Mrs. Bigelow and Margaret visit Colfax. Various residents travel to Des Moines Osceola Tipton Eureka Springs and Ames. A wedding trousseau trip to Minnesota, trips to Chicago, Cedar Rapids and West Plains Missouri are noted. A death, local improvements, and fair premium list are mentioned.
The Lecture Association has secured Lyman Abbott for next Tuesday evening, a rare treat given his prominence. George Van Houten of the Western Iowa Horticultural Society has issued circulars to fruit growers about a display at the Blue Grass Palace and invites exhibit inquiries to Lenox, Iowa.
The College Choral Club convenes this evening in the Chapel at 7 45 led by Miss Chambers director. A motor leaves the station Thursday at 7 30 to bring townspeople wishing to attend. Boone District Agricultural and Horticultural Society touts its fair, Aug 24 27, with Northwestern offering round trip excursion tickets at one and one third fare.
Rev G C Lamb will lecture Friday evening at the Congregational church on the Holy Land. He is known in Ames for a memorial day address at the opera house. Tickets are 2 cents for adults and 15 cents for children at G G Tilden's store. advance purchase advised for seating.
Reports from Ames and surrounding areas include a proposed lecture by Professor Kent at a Christian church, a soldiers reunion in Nevada, travel discounts, praise for R G Harr’s Republican tariff speech in Boone, a marriage in Milford township, remarks by President Beardshear on Cedar Rapids convention and college leadership, and a fatal Keigley branch hill accident near Gilbert involving brakeman Ed Phelan.
M D Van Hook aged about 30 died suddenly at 4 pm yesterday near the Monroe farm four miles south of town. He suffered from consumption and his death is attributed to a ruptured blood vessel after a coughing spell. He was born in Kentucky and had lived in Iowa about three years. He leaves a wife, a young child, his father and mother, and several brothers and sisters. Services will be held at Evergreen church this afternoon, with burial in Ames cemetery.
Special correspondence from Nevada reports Hoggatt’s party held a county convention with about twenty five attendees including spectators. The slate includes John O Neill for representative Parley Sheldon treasurer John McLain sheriff H Ed Nothomb superintendent E Henri Munk coroner and L Mc Kim on the board. The ticket was placed without consent of most nominees except Munk. A Kansas woman caused a disruption by backing prohibition and the meeting adjourned.
Hon John L Stevens Ames judge of the eleventh district visited the office expressing optimism for Republican success this fall. He asserts prohibition enjoys strong sentiment nationwide and in smaller cities, while gambling and prostitution hurt from licensed saloons now on the defensive.
Mrs Eliza Decker living two miles east received 134 birthday presents on the 12th the event was a complete surprise and was remembered with pleasure A young peoples sociable followed at the same venue The P S S picnic is announced for Sopers Mill this Friday Mrs L E Butler returns to Aledo after two weeks visiting relatives Grandma Watters will accompany her to Bloomington Ill Mrs Wilson travels to Cincinnati and plans a weeks long visit Bert Grinnell plans a move to Humbolt Station Agent White and family now occupy Wm Marshalls residence.
Drake University President Aylesworth spoke at the Christian chapel on Sunday evening about "The Men and Women of the Future" and urged optimism. He praised the school and suggested coming generations will be brighter healthier and happier. A student joke about bones ends the note.
J A Kerr offers his grove near the tile and brick yards for a Harvest Home Picnic to be held Saturday Aug 2. The site is shaded and has water near the motor line. A fair highlights and other notices appear in the column. Attendance urged.
Edwin A. Hartshorn cites social and economic theses on protection and free trade as essential to national preservation. The piece contrasts labor systems, education, and climate against universal suffrage and discusses the Southern Confederacy’s trade ideals. This record notes a humorous aside about a boy and fireworks impacting a piano on the Fourth of July.
Dialogue shows Miss Annex addressing Mr. Crimson with initials. He hesitates to reveal his middle initial and contemplates dropping the B to ease identity. He hints at hemp as a potential aid in some unnamed motive.
I have just received a large lot of crockery consisting of intricate patterns and white porcelain scalloped pieces, making the finest dinner sets. Prices are very low. Be sure to come in and see them. Rs Gallons.
Lightest draft plow praised for ease and durability with bold claims to beat others in the field. Multiple vendors promote seasonal goods and sales, including clothing from Tilden and new fall hats. Dysentery warning and medical cure ads appear beside retail notices.
The Story County Normal Institute begins in Nevada on August 3 with unusually strong attendance. Enrollment already matches last year and may become the largest in county history. Teachers show marked interest across departments and note books fill rapidly as the tenth institute is underway.
Deering and Empire mowers offered at big discounts through J.H. Queal & Co in Ames. Gero W O’Brien extends thanks for patronage amid competition and promises ongoing market service. John Hoggatt buys chickens and fowls at five cents per pound with no roosters above ten cents. inquire at Ben Read's.
Gro W O'Brien advertises a full car load of Studebaker wagons and a line of Schuttler O'Brien and Ketchum wagons. He notes plowing season and keeps Wild Irishman All Right Flying Dutchman sulky plows and a complete line of walking plows.
J. J. Grove announces agency rights for Story and Clark and Farrand and Votey organs. Persons wishing to purchase are invited to call, inspect catalogs, and obtain prices.
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