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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1879
Page
3
Local stores advertise boots and shoes for men women and children. McCune Bros offer Tar McCune custom boots and a fine line of ladies shoes. Thomas Soper Son and New York Store push hosiery ribbons beaver cloaks and waterproof goods. Cram’s Michigan apples and various dry goods appear for sale while a new photograph gallery is planned. A wind driven day, holidays near, and council bills noted.
A Germantown Zephyrs display offers shaded clouded and pisin yarns with fancy and common varieties at The Council sidewalk committee. City work aims to improve sidewalks despite late season. A stray note laments poker culture and embers in stoves. A lost small black and tan dog named Fido with engraved collar, Mary L. Joussrox offers a liberal reward. Tus Intelligencer clubbing rates advertised with major newspapers and periodicals.
Heck Goble holds the belt title for champion pig age and weight. He butchered a six month seven day old pig weighing 225 pounds dressed. He expects to keep the belt for the year. Some exchanges note lawmakers elected advocate salary cuts. The editor warns against taxation hurting prosperity and cautions on cheap labor.
J H Miller moved his stock of hardware into the new brick on Monday. A grocery stock will fill the room he vacates. The hog boom hits Sheldeh with buyers on the warpath and corn buyers snarling on street corners. OB.
The Republican faction questions a Northwestern transfer from Ames to Boone and laments perceived neglect of Ames. The speaker accuses Boone of selfishness and urges acceptance of a car lot of colored miners visiting the town.
Emmaus Commandery of Jefferson announces a banquet and reception at the Court House on Tuesday evening with installation ceremonies to follow. Acknowledgement of an invitation is extended and attendees are promised an enjoyable occasion if the affair matches the invitation.
Nichols and Maxwell started with another car lot of horses for Minneapolis yesterday morning. If luck holds, they will arrive tomorrow night. The sixteen horses were bought to meet No 1 roadster and draft horse demands and this lot is described as the best yet shipped from the county.
The semi annual meeting convenes in Grand Junction on Monday December 15. Papers read include Sulphate of Cinchonidia by R S Gwynn Swede Point Diptheria and its Treatment by H A Eberle Webster City The Use and Abuse of Aconite and Gelseminum by W S Schermerhorn Jefferson and Some Observations on Acute Infectious Diseases by D S Fairchild Ames.
For 2.50 in advance we will send the weekly State Register and Tus Interti oemcenr for the year 1880. The Register is one of the best newspapers in the United States and grows stronger as patronage and field expand. To Iowa residents the Register is worth more than eastern weeklies, with its agricultural department surpassing rural papers. Father Clarkson’s department is timely and practical.
A starving man clutches a torn paper bag containing twenty pounds of buckwheat flour while bystanders mock him. The scene shifts through sharp, crude reactions as a bald man, a crane-patterned figure, and a butcher offer gruff remarks, culminating in a shared curse on the situation and the seller of the sack.
An unruly Ames school boy was arrested and fined 15 dollars after noon on Tuesday for profane language. Protests to Justice Greeley to remit the fine failed, and the youth must pay or face jail. Other students may soon face consequences for similar conduct at school. Parents are urged to curb language on school grounds.
The Methodist Church set a lamp post at the corner of Onondaga and Kellogg streets and lit it to aid pedestrians at night. The same congregation also removed its outside platform reducing seating for Sunday night loafers who disturbed services.
The Orange Judd Co announces a new book by J. W. Long on wild fowl shooting. It covers haunts habits and methods across western states, guns blinds boats decoys retrievers checkered bores action testing, with illustrations. Post-paid at $2.
Personal updates from Boone and surrounding areas record travels visitors and visits from Ohio Nebraska and Iowa. Marshalltown Mason ic Lodge honors B J Blaney with resolutions and prayers.
Ontario shows a booming tide with revived trade and property turnover. Squire Scott sells a $4,000 dry goods stock while Ross Bros overflow capacity. M L Dudley buys a Baltimore press and 15 font types and acts as notary. Captain Rigby relocates boot and shoe shop to resume general manufacturing. Mrs. Harris completes 350 music lessons for 25 pupils, traveling 920 miles and earning $175 since June. Elisha Briley’s farm suffers cholera with 140 cattle removed from pasture.
Fact notes brisk business with corn moving fast as Kelley invites Ames buyers to ship cribs. Shields & Co. and Hunter & Co. expand crib capacity. M Stevens resigns as station agent amid changes. Local residents Kercheval Bale Keneer Parmenter return from west, some planning new homes or farms, Iowa sentiment mixed with western fever.
The Town Council approved a tax remission for W H Cole covering 33 acres of land for 1872 1873 and 1877 totaling 18 92 plus 6 percent interest. They also asked the Board of Supervisors to remit a sidewalk tax against E Estlake due to an error and instructed the sidewalk committee to raise the north side sidewalk on Onondaga street to grade within twenty days. Bills payable include Ed Whaler J M Balliet J A Savitts Barnes Stembough L Van Dosen plus attorney and actuation fees with various small entries.
Hon. John D. Gillette state senator elect plans a two week absence from his Java New York home returning in time to take seat at the opening of the 17th general assembly on the second Monday in January.
The monthly St Nicholas edited by Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge grows rapidly and starts a permanent size increase in November. The Christmas issue, over 100 pages with 95 pictures, includes stories by Trowbridge Gladden De Forest Thompson Kellogg and Alcott chapters plus a boys serial by Stoddard and more art and verse from noted authors. A festival play and life of the New York Telegraph Boys accompany illustrations by Dore and others. Subscriptions and payments via mail or at news dealers. price 3.00 yearly 25 cents per issue. Sculptor Co 743 Broadway New York.
A December Agriculturalist letter argues against racing at fairs and proposes provocative ideas to boost Sunday schools. It suggests cock pits and dog fights as attractions with admission fees, directing proceeds to education and missionary work, and even endorses political support to push the plan.
The Supreme Court ruled that a passenger who rode without a ticket must either pay the regular fare or the extra ten cents demanded by the conductor. The decision states the railroad is released from obligations once a traveler refuses the full fare. The case arose when F W Hoffman rode the Davenport & Northwestern line from Delhi to Delaware, refused the extra charge, and was ejected, eventually reversing a $2,000 damages judgment.
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