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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1893
Page
7
Thursday August 31 1893 Chicago and North Western Railway schedule lists going East and going North trains with times for passenger and freight service. Specific arrivals shown include No 58 at 10 10 PM No 56 at 6 PM and No 62 freight at 5 10 PM. Only passenger trains operate except Sunday.
Dr Merryman visits Iowa City then returns. Mrs Will Paxton Miss Winter spend time in Nevada with Mrs Frazee. Mayor Sheldon assists with races at the fair. Several residents from Story County and Des Moines travel to Chicago Milwaukee and the world fair. Community notes cover teaching weddings moving plans and social events with many named locals.
Olives olive oil and condiments including Cross and Blackwell pickles malt vinegar Watkin's Herbs in Glass shrimps lobsters sardines and pot meats offered in our dry goods department with rare bargains and special prices available.
Notices announce the closing of All Summer Goods. The item mentions H S Goble and daughter Katie returning from Illinois, Mae Cottrell and E J Wood’s upcoming marriage at Woodward, and various local residents traveling to fairs and visiting relatives.
The page lists debts outstanding at Zenor and Son Ames Iowa Aug 17 1893 urging payment signals a general collection call. It includes public auction notice of old bridge material Squaw creek, Aug 17 1893. local merchant tailoring room reopening Carlston. multiple ads for plows flour and wagons. dry goods price cuts at Grove Bros Loughran Machine Co. Adams Bros high butter and egg prices. Chinese Laundry Hwune Ler Ames Iowa 16 4.
Miss Margaret Bigelow and Sid ney G Hamilton were married Thursday evening August 24 at the bride’s home in Ames. Rev T M Rickman officiated with relatives present and a small social gathering followed. The couple departed for Marshalltown and a World’s Fair trip before settling in Ames for their future life together.
Mr and Mrs Charles Sargent entertain a small boy guest. E L Green's body sent to Webster City for burial with legal fraternity in attendance. Unauthorized access at Queal Co office found harmless. State Fair trains run Ames Sept 4 5 6 7 at 7 55 am. return Des Moines 5 50 and 6 15 pm. Nebraska youths caution to avoid delays before Chicago cattle trips. Squire Fitchpatrick complains of melon and pumpkin thefts. local boys blamed. Reports on a hole in the wall and new competition at a neighboring business. B A Lockwood office breakage damaged safe wheels. incident occurred 4–6 am. Story County pension examiners confident ratings will pass external review. TalIman daughter Catherine Gertrude dies at age 1 9. services at home, burial in Boone. Elijah Purvis loses granary and carriage house to fire. loss about 800 dollars. Fire cause deemed spontaneous combustion. Onondaga Tribe No 52 of Improved Order of Red Men organized in Opera Hall with A B McGowan and delegates from eight lodges. Officers listed. about twenty initiated. meet weekly.
Sunday evening concert at the college chapel drew a full house as town and country attendees filled the main floor and gallery. Miss Randall delivered a moving reading of The Changed Cross after an allegory by Miss Thomas and Miss Wentch, with Greek costumes enhancing the performance. Haas Bros shipped out remaining stock while Cramer Bros moved into the store, planning to display their enlarged clothing stock soon.
A compact advertisement notes a small upright steam engine and boiler available by inquiry at the office. It also advertises California canned goods at 15e per can or seven for $1.00. Grove Bros and Adams Bros announce an enlarged showroom and readiness to serve customers, inviting visits.
A curious mix mentions Odontunder and Grove Bros offering gasoline while old papers are offered for sale at the office for 20 cents a hundred. The fragment hints at a local commerce note with small ads and prices.
Enrollment is smaller but interest remains high as instructors Weld Carsten Shaker and Arey sustain quality. Supt Reed earns praise for efficient management. Miss Lincoln Marshalltown primary teaches valuable lessons. Evening exams extend study with a likely seven graduates. Alumni reunion set for Saturday at the schoolhouse.
Fresh fruits daily at Grove Bros. Avoid tobacco with Spit or Smoke your Life Away. Hebra's Viola cream marketed as the best made at L. M. Bosworth's.
A reader asks if a proposed idea is valuable and patentable. The note cites DuBois & DuBois, longtime patent attorneys in Washington, inviting inquiry.
The report notes Sunday activities across several churches including Baptist, Congregational, Christian, Episcopal, M E, U B and Odd Fellows venues. It mentions vacations for Rickman and Everly, sermons by Douglass Beardshear and Be Beardshear, and a state convention delegation’s reports from Oskaloosa. A large U B congregation heard Dr Beardshear on Philippians 4:22.
Mrs. Ole O Roe formerly Sarah Olsen born 1861 in Chicago died last Thursday in Des Moines after months of declining health. A Story county native who lived in Nevada and Story City, she was devoted to family and community, leaving husband and four children. Services were held at the Des Moines home, then in Story City Lutheran church before burial in Story City cemetery.
The Story County veterans reunion drew widespread turnout from the upper county with Ames represented by old soldiers and wives. The event featured speeches by Harry Boyes and G A R department commander Phil Schaller, with Nevada set to host next year and officers named including L. L. Smith, M. C. Allen, T. J. Miller, Freeman Elliott, James Dillin, Pather Doty, Geo. Pitsor, and A. O. Hall.
Since leaving Marshall town, Ed ward T Devine has earned a Ph D and become a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as staff lecturer on economics for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching and directs the university extension summer meeting. He has lectured in Philadelphia and other eastern cities and spoke at Oxford and Edinburgh in 1892. Marshall county may well be proud of such a distinguished son.
For the week ending Aug 29 1893 a list of names including Allen Bob Armstrong B A Clark Miss E A Fenton James Frees Miss Lillie Foster Clay French Miss Ella Haas ae A Lockwood Martin J Matthews H Miles Henry Thomas Miss Mary Thomas Prof C F Persons calling for these please say advertised J E Duncan P M
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