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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1893
Page
7
Train schedule fragment lists Atlantic Express and passenger service details with freight and passenger movements. Mentions departure and arrival times such as 2.10 AM and 9:30 PM, with notes on freight freight speeds and multiple trains. Names of routes are obscured, but service patterns indicate mixed freight and passenger operations.
A sweep of local notices recounts illnesses and hospital visits of Mrs. D N Maxwell Miss Ima Pitsor and Lillie Kegley. Visitors include Miss Jennie Stilwell and Mrs J L Stevens. Tradesmen, delegates, and residents travel to Des Moines Chicago and points near Maxwell. A debt settlement arrives as an emigrant meets past master.
All Summer Goods to close, rare bar gains as we offer special prices. Pay 12 cents for four dozen eggs. Wood for sale, trade sought, will tailor offers. The P. E. O. society to meet August 22 with Mrs. Chas. Arnold. The Wright house moved, new front building shown. Dr. Richmond remarks on his new house. Foremost Adams county horticulturist Mr. Seward Morris, now married to Miss Nellie George. Rev. A.M. Bemen official Adams Co. Union. Morris belonged to I.A.C. assoc. of 89. Mrs. Hytland’s nightblooming cactus blooms celebrated. New tower admired. plant to bloom more. Regret over Mr. M. Soper’s assignment to Mr. F. McLain for settlement with creditors. Charley Morris praised as salesman. hopes to resume business. School board: president position vacated by Dr. Fairchild’s removal. Judge Stevens elected director. Read elected president pro tem. Schools to open September 1st. School book business to be run from schoolhouse under Prof. Carstens. Republican force gains one more member. Baby born Aug. 8, 1898 to S. W. Holcomb. Boone light display marks electric works debut. L. W. Reynolds lights up. Ames, Aug. 17, 159. Please pay debts this month to Biocow & Sucre.
A dealer advertises a $225 outfit including a grey horse, harness, and phaeton with a timing offer. Items are described as sound, with the phaeton made to order and priced against Chicago standards. Also various sales from Canier Bros. & Herman, Adams Bros., and other local merchants offer shoes, dry wood, produce in trade, farm machinery at cost, and special prices on hats and fruit.
Hung Lees Chinese Laundry opens at the first door north of Davis House after nine years in Sioux City promising first class work for gentlemen and ladies. Adams Bros promote a larger shop and urge customers to visit. Sisson offers dry goods and groceries with a full stock and high market prices for butter and eggs. Grove Bros sell I A G cheese and Gretta Zenor sells popular song.
Old papers for sale at this office, twenty cents a hundred. Odontunder is pitched with a no pain claim at C. E. Hunt's dental parlors. No-to-bae is promoted as a harmless tobae to quit tobacco with low risk and wide availability through druggists and mail order. L. M. Hosworth sells Hebra's Viola cream. Dubois & DuBois offer patent attorney services in Washington, D. C.
Ames Intelligencer reports on Mrs Eva Vanile burial in Ames cemetery and a Relief Corps gathering. It notes a rail rider safety concern after youths ride trains, public events at U B church and M E church, a Colfax accident where Sidney Wilder died, and upcoming old soldiers events including ticket distribution for the state fair.
The article notes no services at the M E church last Sabbath due to the minister's vacation at Watkins well. Congregational church also had no service Sunday morning. The Christian church Y P S C E sent Mr E C Potter and Miss Gretta Zenor to the convention in Oskaloosa beginning Aug 24. Elder Hester preached in Ames and is recovering from injuries after a vacation. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Congregational Church meets Tuesday Aug 2 at 3 pm to study A M A work among the Indians.
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