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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1879
Page
3
Local ads announce McCune Bros shoe sales and winter goods including gum boots and wool lined Krp boots. Oysters from Hemstaert and Thayer candy toys for children plus Christmas groceries at Clark's. Debates at the Lyceum Club and a new canning exhibit by Nourse. Memorial notice for Katie Kistler and a dairy prize by H D Suexman noted.
Notices announce no issue next week and that the Intelligencer will appear Friday January 2 1880. Mentions readiness to buy poultry, new offerings at Nourse grocer, and various local notices about halls, school terms, livestock prices, and miscellaneous notes.
The State Centre Enterprise notes Prof Knapp of Vinton will take charge of the Iowa College farm on January 1. They praise his practical farming and stock-raising skill and predict improved farm conditions. He recently bought two fine blooded pigs, a six month old female 212 pounds and a similarly aged male 180 pounds, from Mr. Dobbins, whose stock is highly regarded.
Advertises easy chairs camp chairs rockers and holiday gifts with low prices. Notes wants include wood corn coal old iron copper brass and hay at Waient Camp. Includes brief obituary of La Force horse and a Story county school report showing 6135 students ages 5 to 21 with tuition average $138.
The Congregational church and society plan a Christmas Eve Kriss Kringle Kabin with singing recitations and festivities on Wednesday at 6 oclock. All are invited to bring gifts and participate. Come at 6 sharp to finish by 8.
The next annual session will meet in Independence on December 29 for three days. A banquet at Lytle's Hall will follow Monday evening with toasts by teachers and citizens. Lectures papers and discussions by prominent educators will mark the exercises. A humorous debating club anecdote contrasts wit and a tired old gentleman.
The find is on Frank Haster's place not Robert Heater's farm, remains mysterious with tools used failing to reveal the unknown substance. A driller shed is reached after twenty feet of solid rock, sparking speculation that copper ore may lie beneath if a shaft is sunk to the obstruction.
The master in charge organizes a Friday festival with a spirit of success. Opera Hall will be usable though not finished, with comfortable, well arranged spaces. Supper tables will be laid below in spacious rooms offering convenience. the spread will rival a metropolitan hostlerie on a state occasion.
A Chicago Tribune Des Moines correspondent questions the C N W Ry project. He suggests a new line from State Centre to Des Moines could be cheaper than converting the Narrow Gauge to standard. He believes the Narrow Gauge may not meet C N W’s competitive needs against other Iowa lines targeting Des Moines.
The sixth annual Iowa State Fine Stock Breeders Association gathering will convene in Des Moines on Wednesday evening January 14 and close Friday noon. The group invites all farmers, aims to engage nonmembers, and seeks to improve stock and agricultural interests statewide under secretary Firou B. Stracy.
The December United States official postal guide lists unmailable items including liquids poisons explosive and inflammable materials fatty substances easily liquefiable live or dead animals insects or reptiles fruits or vegetables confectionery pastes or confections substances exhaling bad odors and letters or cards with indecent or obscene language plus matters relating to lotteries gift concerts or schemes to defraud the public or to obtain money under false pretenses.
Dickinaon county residents urge state action to protect and expand fish populations in attractive local lakes. Northwestern Iowa communities share the demand as Spirit Lake grows in popularity as a resort, drawing increasing attention.
Citizens push a petition to establish a resident member on the fish commission as part of a neighborhood lakes recreation and pleasure plan. The proposal seeks direct local input to manage the waters and related leisure activities.
Town talks of a possible C and N W railroad from the local place to Des Moines. Surveyors and Northwestern officials visited last week and started a survey west of town. Officials discussed business, but truth remains unclear about any concrete plans. The piece notes rising local mortgage burdens and growing county prosperity despite debt, reflecting on changing fortunes over recent years.
The town reports another hog day with over seven hundred hogs weighed and paid for in one day. The booming corn trade fills cribs as buyers expand their capacity and streets stay thronged with teams. Snider & Son’s mill runs at full capacity, with post office circulars describing a New York auction of 12 000 Dead Letter Office lots.
John McDougal from Odebolt praises Sac county as the best in the state. Dar McCarthy recovers from injuries enough to go home. P L Stickney visits from Grand Junction. Supt. Baughman tours city schools. Hess & Williams take over McCoy’s photo gallery. Miss Kelle Barrell to Bellevue for a month. E S Bradiew of Illinois, Dr Bradley’s brother, visits. Cap Smith from Nevada returns smiling. Col Snider of Sheldah reports boom in milling. Jno Shelley sells Snider furnace blowers with good state sales.
The text notes coal shipments boosting business with 30 to 50 tons moved daily by teams from Zenorville. Jas Ross of Odebolt returns from Chicago with new dry goods stock. Eugene Favre, in Italy, expects early spring homecoming. T A Barrett plans a large basement barn for dairy work while Tom pursues farm profitability. Tip Sawyer adds 120 acres at 12 50 per acre. Sam Zenor sells near Zenorville to relocate to Boone County. Mrs Harris canvasses for Des Moines publishers I N Rice Co organs Standard and New England. Homer Dudley serves as resident minister at Battle Creek Woodbury County. Mary A Dudley leads Odebolt schools. R.
The Ft Didje Gazette urges farmers to weed out poor cows and improve herds. It notes the high losses from keeping inferior cattle, especially in the east where costs are higher, and stresses that no cow should be kept unless it yields at least five thousand pounds of milk per year.
A Dubuque report contrasts two cigars from Grant to President and notes corn surpluses and stock laws. It covers Fuller becoming station agent at the depot, upcoming repairs, and Blind Tom’s astonishing piano performances at the Opera House as described by the Jacksonville Journal.
Notice explains Iowa law prohibits foreign currency circulation under section 4047 and imposes a five dollar fine per misused bank note. Prosecution may involve justices of the peace for totals up to one hundred dollars, or district court for larger sums. The piece ends with an ad for The Intellicencer office printing services.
As an inducement to collect what is due is on subscription without recourse to law we offer a premium to all old subscribers who pay up or new subscribers who pay for one year in advance. The premium is a package of choice flower seeds totaling ten varieties including asters, double, choice, mixed colors.
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