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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1891
Page
3
Chicago & North Western RAILWAY issues a time table notice stating freight and passenger service changes. The message notes passenger trains are suspended with No. 58 arrival at 12 45 a.m. and No. 58 service details, signed by George W. Roomns, Agent.
RB O Bacon returns to duties in Fairfield. Mrs. Witt of Nevada visits. Mrs. Read comes home from Colfax. Mrs. J A King and niece Miss Witt visit F M Coggshall's. Mrs. J J Butler returns from Minnesota. John Hutchinson goes to Hamilton county for coal interests. Mrs. Wheeler goes to Belmond for relatives. Prof Chevalier rests from Normal Institut labors in Ames. Col Eddy skims town amid hot weather. Mrs. Jones and sister visit Ohio. Rev Douglass visits Toledo and helps grandson. Mrs. Dell Maxwell improving, may return September. Mrs. G T Simmers returns from Ames and Nevada. Geo Cull returns from Hot Springs vacation. Mrs. S H Breese and Minnie to Ames for State Fair. Mrs. Turner improving fast. Judge Stevens visits Cuba Kansas. Mrs. T C Miller and Mrs. Elliott visit Dayton. Maud Stuart returns home. Mrs. Marion Tood travels to Kansas for Peoples Party. Major Beck returns with sprained ankle from Ft. Dodge hotel. Mrs. J E Duncan reports postmaster at Waukesha drinking waters. Judge S M Weaver to speak at Story City Park opening August 22. Kent and Beardshear advertised to speak. W D Lucas family from New York visit Des Moines. roads muddy. Mustum in Parvo Blonde Barber attends Y P A and sees his girl. Mrs. H P McLain heads to Chicago via Mechanicsville. Rev Percival visiting Ames. Capt Greely visits Detroit and reunites with old company after 28 years. Alex McFarlan returns from Detroit Windsor trip, party upbeat about McKinley Bill.
Edwin Read returns from Detroit with praise of the trip. Mrs. Bigelow and Margaret come back from Colfax. Mr. Christy of Des Moines lands Stevens Block contract. Multiple notices of travels, visits, and social events across Ames and nearby towns.
The district notices report land withdrawn from sale in Milford Township and announce an Lyman Abbott lecture next Tuesday evening. Geo Van Houten promotes a fruit display for the Western Iowa Horticultural Society in Lenox. The College Choral Club meets at 7 45 in the Chapel tonight and a motor club trip departs Thursday at 7 30 for townsfolk. Boone District Agricultural fair runs Aug 24 27 with Northwestern excursion tickets at one and one third fare.
Notice promotes a Friday evening lecture on the Holy Land by Rev G C Lamb. He delivered the address years ago in the opera house and it drew favorable responses. Tickets available at G G Tilden's store with adults two cents and children fifteen cents. advance purchase advised for seating.
Prof Kent schedules a Sunday evening lecture at the Christian church with the topic Conflict of Truth and Error. The piece notes a date correction to the 20th and mentions a soldiers reunion in Nevada today and tomorrow and round trip fare rates. It also reports praise for R G Harr from Boone audience and a marriage in Milford township IA and Council Bluffs IA. President Beardshear visited Ames and Lisbon for lectures amid Cedar Rapids convention chatter.
A Des Moines and Eagle Grove brakeman Ed Phelan died after a 4 pm crash near Gilbert yesterday. While boarding a way car on a southbound freight, he slipped and was run over by a attached freight car. He died at Boone after being brought from Ames.
M. D. Van Hook aged about 30 died suddenly at 4 p m yesterday near his Monroe area home. He had been in town mid afternoon and died after a coughing fit likely from a burst blood vessel, he had consumption. Survived by wife child father mother and several siblings. Services to be held at Evergreen church this afternoon with interment in Ames cemetery.
Special correspondence notes Hoggatt's party held a county convention with about twenty five people in attendance. John O Neil was named for representative Parley Sheldon for treasurer John McLain for sheriff H E Nothomb for superintendent E Henri Munk for coroner and L McKim for board member. The ticket was placed without consent of most nominees except Munk. A Kansas suffering woman sparked uproar when she supported prohibition and caused adjournment.
Boone pastor Rev Lamb will discuss his Holy Land tour at the Congregational church tomorrow evening. President Aylesworth of Drake University spoke Sunday in the Christian chapel, praising the future and predicting healthier, happier, brighter generations to come. Aylesworth’s optimistic view, and the school led by him, is seen as a factor for that better future. A classroom joke notes 208 bones, but the punchline says 207 after swallowing a fishbone.
J A Kerr offers his grove near the tile and brick yards for a Home Picnic to be held Saturday Aug 2. The Bove lies near the motor line with shade and water available. A floral concert is slated for Sabbath evening Aug 30 and a prayer meeting is set in the lecture room from 7 to 8.
Tom Toreson is sick. Cam Kuutson clerks for D. A. Darrow. Mrs. Will Pyle visits relatives in Marietta. Dr. C. W. Allen attended Knights of Pythias grand lodge in Sioux City last week. F. A. Fuller and wife visited relatives in Jewell Junction. Dale enters coal business with Henry Holleland. H. H. McCammon of Des Moines acted with parents Thursday. Barlie Ericson and Uale Sawing plan a new blacksmith shop soon. Mrs. E. M. Harrington visited relatives in Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Moses returned from Ce di fil to attend funeral of Mrs. Moses' father, Mr. Saylor. Brick Travans sold residence to T. Henryson for 400 and moved to Minnesota to farm. O. B. Peterson made a business trip to Boone Saturday. Park committee fixing up the park recently.
Edwin A. Hartshorn argues for protection as the best means to the greatest good, noting steam and electricity erase space limits and climate makes uniform living conditions hard. He links protection to preservation, education, and national stability, contrasting cheap labor with Southern Confederacy ideals, while a student’s explosive mischief ends the excerpt.
On August 25 and September 29 the Chicago and North Western Railway will sell Harvest Excursion tickets at very low rates to points in northwest Iowa Minnesota North and South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Wyoming Utah Idaho Colorado and Montana. For full information concerning rates and arrangements contact Agents C and N W RY.
An old classified notice promotes a light draft plow and urges seeing the Yankee at Loughran’s while advertising Tilden clothing and fall stock. It mentions cheap clothing from Tilden and a fire sale of hardware at cost by Geo. Roberson.
Story City hosts a multi day jubilee with music and speeches at Fairview Park including Farmers Day and Sunday School day. In Oxford Mississippi Mr A J Lamb died last Sunday and was buried Monday with a large crowd attendance.
Hon John L Stevens Ames judge on eleventh district says prohibition gains strong backing nationwide. He notes sentiment undercounted in cities but finds evidence of its benefits clear and believes gambling and prostitution evils lessen as saloons are put on the defensive. Cedar Rapids Re
Mrs Eliza Decker of the 24 mile east neighborhood received many gifts on her birthday. A young peoples sociable followed the next evening at the same place. A C P S picnic is planned for Soper s Mill this Friday. Mrs L E Butler visits end with plans to return to Aledo Illinois. Grandma Watters will ride with Mrs Butler to Bloomington then on to Cincinnati. Bert Grinnell plans a move to Humboldt. Station Agent White and family occupy Wm Marshalls former residence.
The annual Institute at Nevada began August 3 with unusually good attendance. Enrollment already matches last year and may become county history’s largest. Teachers show marked interest, notes fill quickly, and many Story County schools will benefit from this tenth institute held at the county capital.
A prospectus advertises a $30 scholarship for the student who secures the most subscribers by September 1, 1891. Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Malvern Iowa promotes diplomas in bookkeeping, shorthand, telegraphy, typing, and English, with correspondence shorthand available.
Gro W O'Brien J H Queal Co offer Deering and Empire mowers at big discounts as Ames is assured of ongoing market service. John Hoggatt buys chickens and fowls at five cents per pound with no roosters over ten cents each. inquiries at Ben Read's.
Gro W. O'Brien promotes a full stock of Studebaker wagons and options from Schuttler O'Brien and Ketchum. He also advertises Wild Irishman All Right and Flying Dutchman sulky plows along with walking plows as plowing season approaches.
J. J. Grove invites buyers to call and inspect organ catalogues and prices for Story & Clark and Farrand & Votey instruments. The notice promotes the Favorite sewing machine from Hamilton & Co at a low cash or monthly payment price for prospective purchasers.
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