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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1880
Page
4
A collage of holiday notices and local items from Ames: Christmas promotions and subscriptions, gifts and toys, a temperance lecture, charity appeals, church services, social events, and a roundup of recent small news including a theft arrest. The Ames Reading Room, Baptist church repairs, and community notices frame the season.
A heartfelt thanks from Charles LesiNe Emiy Lesine and Sophia Lesina for kindness during their son’s illness. The Intell will skip next issue until January 7 for holiday rest while the press is updated.
A reflective piece on the meaning of Christmas focusing on tenderness over gifts. It contrasts adult nostalgia with children’s unbridled joy and the unselfish generosity embodied by Santa Claus. A child’s questions about Santa’s origins, travel, and stocking expectations frame the holiday mood.
Mrs Belle Campbell of Omaha visits her sister Mrs Wm Ross while Mrs Amy Bennett of Odebolt greets friends. Emmett Starner of Odebolt plans trip to Chicago and Gettysburg after five years in this country. Starner, now assistant foreman on a Sac County farm, has saved one thousand dollars. Local market chatter notes Wilson Hayden leading the season with 65 000 bushels and Lyman Johnson close behind with 50 000. Knight and Smith take the remainder. A. E. Mossgrove and Miss Orcelia Beadle wed at the brides mother’s home with many friends in attendance. Mossgrove, son of a Boone County farmer, is noted for business acumen and plans a farm near Zenorville.
The page excerpt includes a weather line noting total weekly precipitation two tenths of an inch and a personal sign off by C E Bessey. It also presents a Christmas poem wishing joy and peace to all, with a festive toast to loved ones and forgiving foes. The text blends seasonal weather data with verse.
Rev C O Parmenter long serving pastor of Garden Prairie and Kelley churches died suddenly at Kelley on December 15 at age forty nine. He built the Kelley church and led singing, held 23 years of ministry with evangelistic revivals, and hoped to die in the harness. Funeral at Garden Prairie with Rev Bennett of Ames officiating.
The INTeL LIGENCER records Ames Iowa fall term 1880 with fourteen weeks from September 13 to December 17. It lists pupils present daily in North Primary, Lowh Primary, First and Second Intermediates, Third Intermediate, and High School, plus top standings, yearly and monthly notes, and personal mentions of residents and visitors.
An Ames trip by a board of trustees member notes the Iowa Agricultural College and Farm thriving with about 900 acres under use. Endowment yields over 40 000 annually from lands and interest, with state funds limited to maintenance. calls for annual treasurer and secretary salaries to safeguard funds and prevent misappropriation.
The notice promotes Shilohs Consumption Cure as the best cough remedy curing common and chronic cough bronchitis and relieving croup and whooping cough. It claims faster relief and mentions sale by D. and Bos.
One two year old estray steer, red and white spotted, ear mark noted. Report filed by A. J. aes and J. Hays Auditor in Story County Iowa dated December 2, 1880.
The Town Council of Ames Iowa passes an ordinance to vacate the alley in Block 20 and the street west of Blocks 16 17 20 21 24 and 25 in Blairs Addition. It takes effect after publication in the Ames Intelligencer with Jno Watts recorder and Geo 6 TrLpDEM mayor.
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