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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1878
Page
3
A county paper offers one year at 1.50 for new subscribers and arrears payers, with extended content including county, legal, and home ads. It urges community support, notes discounts, premium offers, and club rates, while listing local merchants and seasonal weather.
Our Nevada News announces a weekly county seat news letter to summarize all local news. The notice also states the law firm Stevens and Underwood has dissolved and will occupy the same suite of rooms individually in the future.
Frazee announces a fine new jewelry lot arriving for the holiday season and plans to display a portion of it next week. Customers are urged to call in and view the selection.
Van Vatxersone and Co urge patients with Latin prescriptions to bring them to the new drug store where pure ingredients are used and careful handling ensures no mistakes.
Timely notice from W. Suines Stann demanding all persons owing move to call and settle their accounts immediately by cash or note. Costs will be applied to those who do not heed this notice.
P L Porter announces full capacity at his butter factory with plans to ship 500 pounds to Denver on Tuesday night. In obituaries, Jonx Exxter, father of Supervisor Elliot, died Monday at over eighty, with his remains en route to his former home for burial. described as prompt and highly respected by all who knew him.
A scam moving through Illinois uses traveling agents to sign farmers to contracts for wire and deliver a small wire receipt. The scheme allows immediate separation, turning the contract into a note. The warning urges buyers to avoid strangers and to purchase wire from local merchants to prevent losses.
In Marshall County Judge Bradley discharged a larceny suspect after a jury was dismissed for absence and the defense sought a writ of habeas corpus. The trial had begun, a juror was missing, and the court postponed. the writ was granted, freeing the prisoner on double jeopardy grounds.
Wendell Parmurs will lecture in Boone next Monday evening. Ticket prices drop to 50 cents with no charge for reserved seats. Parmurs is reportedly in fine form and this is billed as his final West tour. A Cholera Census will be taken once Auditor Hays distributes assessors’ books next spring. Township assessors will report hog cholera deaths to gauge local losses.
Nevada Notes reports persistent money matters with corn prices at 14 cents and a lively poultry market. It notes rising farm transfers westward, 137 marriage licenses this year up from 113, and detailed November nuptials and local tax figures showing an 11 percent levy decline.
A letter from P. L. Stickney in Minnesota says his health improves. Sven Chamberlain has been sick the past week. G. B. Pray of Webster City attended court in Boone county and visited friends in Ames. Vic and Clyde Turner visit Ft. Dodge. C. E. Turner and wife travel Wisconsin and Minnesota. Frank Brroses becomes night operator for Chicago & Northwestern in Ames. he is praised by locals.
Dissolution of the co partnership between the parties effective on this date. Jons L. Stevens states the partnership is mutually dissolved.
An Ames advertisement touts a hog cholera remedy as head and shoulders above others claiming it prevents and cures disease. It invites farmers to visit J. J. Bousquet & Co for certificates from Iowa and Illinois hog raisers and notes exclusive Ames handling.
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