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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1880
Page
3
A scan of notices offers items from Bosworth Co and City Drug Store including new goods, decorations, and holiday wares. Ed Barstow & Co, Thomas Soper & Son, Nourse, Hemstreet, and A Bever advertise lamps, corsets, slippers, candies, and novelties. Livelihoods and sales notes mention local prices and upcoming events.
Home news notes discounted annual memberships offering Tae MvEe.i- Gender and the State Register for $2.50, plus the Chicago Journal for $2.40. The Register requires no commendations and is widely known. Subscribers to this paper can save on these combined rates by joining with leading papers and periodicals.
Advertised by A Bever and M HempsTreer offering fresh oysters direct from Baltimore packed in bulk or cans. Special inducements for large quantities, plus overstocked Boots and Shoes sold at cost. Call for supplies in the oyster trade and related goods.
Debaters and those interested in forming a winter debating society are invited to meet at the South Side School in Ames on Saturday evening. Also suggestions for Christmas gifts offered by Thomas Soper Son include dresses, shoes, boots, furs, silks and hosiery.
The fall term nears its close while a two week vacation precedes the ten week winter term. Teachers and pupils have done excellent work this year and patrons express satisfaction with the schools.
An adjourned meeting of Baptist church members is scheduled for tomorrow Saturday at 2 30 PM at the church. H F Emessary serves as Chairman and H Jennies as Secretary.
Felt hats priced at 25 cents with trimmed hats also 25 cents ornaments 10 cents fancy wings 15 cents boys caps 25 cents and other items at proportion. Heavy stock and season’s end push the price cut to clear out inventory.
Rev Parmeter, longtime Christian worker in Kelly Shel Garden Prairie area, died Wednesday after preaching at all three communities Sunday. The report cites overwork as the cause. Ed Barstow promotes new Christmas goods at market. An Opera Hall event featuring Blind John drew a modest crowd. he is praised as a capable pianist though some compare him to Blind Tom. John plans another appearance next Wednesday.
Clinton mills produced 113,437,000 feet of lumber and Lyon mills 30,650,000 feet summing to 144,087,000 feet along with 36,580,000 singles and 23,908,000 lath. One thousand nine hundred seventy workers earned 597000 in wages. Lumber cars totaled 12771 with freights costing 450000.
A notice urges buyers to call early to select holiday articles and have them laid aside. It warns stock will shorten and improve selection by choosing now. The ad is from D. Bosworthn Co.
A December 12 letter from P. L. Stickney of Warren in Marshall County Minnesota notes the Mercury hitting 32 below on the 6th. He froze two fingers and his nose and wonders what he will do if temperatures reach 58 below, the low last winter. He jokes about making a will or leaving the cold country, and mentions wheat threshing in northern Minnesota.
It is generally conceded that the Rural New Yorker is the leading agricultural and horticultural authority in the country. Its eighty two acre experimental grounds aid subscribers with free plant and seed distributions, and its illustrated pages offer original contributions from top writers. The paper proves invaluable to farmers gardeners and fruit growers nationwide. Address: 34 Park Row New York.
Henry Lesing son of Charles Lesing died from blood poisoning Friday after recovering from a February fall at Nevada that fractured his left arm in three places. He had begun teaching a winter term before worsening arm symptoms led to his death. The poisoning arose from dead bone fragments remaining from the prior fracture.
A roof collapse in the Zenorville coal mines on Monday afternoon killed Mil ton E. Canady, about 27, leaving a wife and three children. Coroner Doran held an inquest with jurors R. K. Weston George A. Young and J. B. Brooks, returning an accidental death verdict. Canady was a brother-in-law of Owen Kearns and formerly a Crawford county resident associated with Hutchinson Brothers.
Friends and customers are informed that Frank Kegley has agreed to help during the holiday trade. Kegley and the business express they will strive to make everyone happy and welcome all visitors respectfully.
Town improvement tips urging selling town lots at fair prices, donating land for enterprises, attracting business, supporting local commerce, mindful travel budgeting, praising public ventures, favoring local projects, welcoming strangers, investing locally in factories, and supporting the town newspaper.
Ed Forney of Blair Nebraska returns home after visiting friends here last week. Prof. Stalker plans to buy a Clydesdale stallion in Europe for the College farm. Des Moines visitors include A. J. Graves, Robert Marshall and John King as Story county delegates to the State Grange. The Des Moines News reports Rev. D. D. Proper resigning as east side Baptist pastor to enter state missionary work next month. Minnie G. Perkins of Avoca visited Metropolis with Miss Lillie Frisbie. Prof. Wynn of the Iowa Agricultural College toured the city to see his son, grocer R. C. Wynn. N. A. Rainbolt attended Supreme Court case in Des Moines. George H. France has been ill, now improving. C. E. Bessey, botanist and editor of the American Naturalist, begins as editor of the Botanical Department with a nine page Sketch of Progress of Botany in the United States for 1879. The Iowa State Agricultural College Board of Trustees met, with no radical changes and several staff promotions and salary adjustments. The college treasurer is William D. Lucas. Deputy is General Geddes. The General Boarding Hall rate is cut to 2.25 per week, with incidentals 21 cents and fires and lights 35 cents. Incidental fee reduced to 3 per term. Estimated current funds total 46,000 dollars. The Story County Teachers Association meets with strong turnout and a full program, including lessons on percentage, grants administration, primary reading, and language instruction.
The board approved major appropriations for salaries and farm improvements, and praised contractor Whiting of Des Moines for the new buildings. Professor Stalker received leave to buy a Clydesdale stallion in Europe. the printing department will close and the college Quarterly will end after one more issue. Husking match figures corrected: Sunday 32 bushels 5 pounds, Arndts 27 bushels.
In Story County Iowa a petition filed in the District Court lists the defendant’s goods credits and promissory note. The notice requires appearance on or before noon the second day of the next county to answer and defend. A. Rainbold is attorney for the plaintiff.
Nevada Iowa November 23 1880 W A Wier administrator announces sale of farm land described as sixty three and one half acres in section five township ninety north range twenty four west of the fifth principal meridian. Terms require half cash and balance in twelve months with ten percent interest secured by mortgage.
To Titus M Lour court of Story County Iowa a petition by Elvey Loux for thirteen hundred dollars with foreclosure of a mortgage on west half of northeast quarter and southeast quarter of northwest quarter of section 31 township 85 north range 24 west of the 5th principal meridian Iowa Also for attorney fees and taxes paid since mortgage date unless you defend by noon of the second day of the next term of court to begin February 1 in S county Iowa N A Rainbolt attorney for plaintiff
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