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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1880
Page
1
Ames columns report Nourse's stores promote boots and goods, Jacon Wisten ill, butter and egg prices, new prints at Tuomas Soren, visitors from Ft. Ann, dressmaking updates, and community notices on reunions, wheat yields, real estate, artesian well progress, street weed control, and local births and politics.
Mrs Peres Casttz hosted a sister’s birthday party with Miss Louise Ross and about thirty guests. Fred Tilden began singing last week. a baby’s cradle lullaby is noted. Dr Srane and wife celebrated their wedding anniversary with friends. The T N W A R progress updates describe grading and iron work toward Webster City. Nevada baseball to play Des Moines next Wednesday at the old Fair Grounds. Noah Webster’s dog Watch buried aged 17 in Ames. Hannum’s mill iron bridge contract let but no progress, risk of a damage suit.
On Sunday night Col Hoggatt left for Indiana and will campaign among Hoosiers for Weaver. He has lived in Story County twenty years since moving from Indiana and visits his youth home on this trip. The note also mentions Self's Boots for sale and announces the Story County Fair on September 2–4 with new speed classes and no entrance fee, plus a Colorado map by Raxp McNatty & Co. priced at 75 cents.
The Hampton Record editor L B Raymond laments a two year old daughter’s death after ingesting concentrated lye. Ex notes frequent child fatalities from lye in other papers and warns to keep the toxin away from children, likening danger to strychnine.
The institute began in the Nevada high school building on August 16 1880 with seventy teachers on the first day and ninety on the second, a record session for the county. County officers are invited to observe, with an expected enrollment near 150 teachers. Secretary S. F. Jousson notes the strong interest and benefits anticipated from the normal.
A column summarizes a new hog disease with signs of tissue loss and odd symptoms, plus local notices on a lighting rod contract scare, a thief escape with stolen harness, and various city news items including a Des Moines railroad push and harvest sermon. The piece also cites kidney pad remedies and cartoonist rankings.
Delegates of the National Greenback Labor Party will meet in county convention at the Court House on Saturday at 11 o'clock to nominate candidates for Clerk of Courts Recorder and register other business. Townships represented include Colline Grant Indian Creek Palestine Sherman Warren and others.
Story county Republicans met in Nevada on Saturday to nominate a ticket for November. W. D. Lucas presided as temporary president with W. H. Gallup and C. F. Ruth as secretaries. T. J. Ross won the clerk nomination on the final ballot, and R. W. Ballard was chosen supervisor candidate. J. R. McDonald was named county central chair with Col. Scott and W. D. Lucas aiding.
The Times correspondent reports in Bucharest that four American makers Walter A Wood McCormick Co Aultman Co vie at an agricultural college trial in Romania The Aultman machine wins first prize cutting five acres of wheat in four and a quarter hours McCormick Wood place second and third Buckeye Binder from Aultman Miller Co Akron Ohio is highlighted via agent J C Mitchell Nevada Iowa
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