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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1882
Page
4
Town offers assortment of holiday items from carpets to slippers. Mystic carpet sweeper advertised. Donavin's Tennesseeans to perform Christmas concert in Ames. Local notices plus missing wood theft warning and a 70th birthday dinner at a Zearing hotel.
Ames sits on the Chicago and North Western line at its junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty six miles north of Des Moines. The city hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with several hundred students and a well appointed public school. Surrounding farms are productive and rich in fruit and orchard output. A local notice in the column will reach many in Story County. Readers are asked to notify us of visitors or any notable events.
Bargains in ladies and gents gold watches at I B Frazee's. Hoops nubias scarfs and hosiery priced reduced. A church entertainment at Marion Michigan featured an auction sale of female congregants, four originators sold as a group for 25 cents. Job work offered at the INTELLIGENCER Office. Letters remaining uncalled for at the office before December 21 1882.
An Ames notice promotes a Real Estate and Insurance Agency to buy sell and rent property in city and country with low rates. It lists office contact Dr G A Merideth and M Hemstreet, Ames, Iowa, dated November 16 1882.
Orpears for nursery men offered at the office and Holmway Surpress at cost. The Methodists promise a Christmas evening treat. CAL Gipprves visit Shannon Ill. Wits Clark and wife travel to Wisconsin for two weeks. AMEs Intelligencer and State Register offered at 2.65. Story County has seven newspapers. Gifts include The Intelligencer for a year. Brown’s Iron Bitters praised by Belmond firm. Marshll Shockley gains an antelope from Colorado.
Advertisers must submit favors by Thursday evening as the holiday edition goes to press early next week. The M E Church decorates Opera Hall for this evening's entertainment and invites all to attend.
The Intelligencer offers readers a Merry Christmas with wishes of happiness of mind contentment of spirit and healthfulness of body and many returns of the blessed Christmas-time.
Licenses granted for the week ending December 14 1882 include Ole Oleson to Myer Larson Asa Ellison to Alice West M K Smith to Laura West L D Ozman to Lilly Bell Harper A J Tesdahl to Ragnelde Steenson and E N Erickson to Mary G Ramsa.
The State Register marks its thirteenth year under current management. Twelve years of growth by the Clarkson brothers have made it a well edited paper. The sentiment in Iowa echoes Viva the Register as a model of success in the West.
The Maxwell Times quotes a St Patrick figure in Sheldahl as a newspaper correspondent whose conduct is criticized as sly and combative. The piece urges Willie to restrain anger and view the Saint’s actions with calm, suggesting his “love-pat” was affectionate and not malicious.
Ontario reports limited corn purchases this year and notes James Foster's return to Independence Asylum. Protracted meetings ended, Union Sunday School grows with two new classes. Miss Pearson of Ames plans a singing class at the Christian church next Friday. Union School prepares a Christmas Tree program for Christmas night. Ross Shango family to move to Pottawattamie County. CUNARD.
The Best Practical Art Magazine will maintain its high reputation with full size designs for painting embroidery wood carving and other arts. It includes illustrations of porcelain furniture needlework and bric a brac plus biographical notices of artists and criticism of exhibitions. Subscriptions $4 yearly specimen 35 cents from Montague Marks 23 Union Square New York.
Regular freight No. 15 reached Carroll where brakeman W. W. Corbin disappeared after lunch. The search found his body along the track east of Glidden after the train passed, with his remains mutilated by the wheels. Corbin, not married, had Dayton and Ogden relatives. Regular Baptist church in Kelly reports recognition, revival, and debt-free dedication of a new church building with services continuing next week.
Poultry dealers boost business in cold weather as Fine Stock Breeder's Convention nears in Ames backed by Col. Scott. The college gains support while merchants plan large holiday stock. Capt Smith notes Ames suited for weddings. D A Bigelow shifts Central Telephone office to the Post Office. Several attorneys attend Des Moines Supreme Court session. one voices Amendment talk. School Board saves 25 by hiring a cheap janitor but loses 300 worth of steam pipes. William and Mrs Lockridge and Swaffords host a large party at Mr Lockridge's home. James Fitzgerald has purchased the...
An old veteran urges readers to remember Civil War days and then join a new campaign against high prices and the credit system. He frames this as a patriotic duty to fight inflation in clothing and furnishings by embracing a cash system.
A. Delissa and Gouna Barsam throat and lung remedy sold by Bradley and Templeton druggists in Ames Iowa. Large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
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