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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
7
Albert Grove visits Ames from Webster City while local society notes record births visits and departures. Obituaries Velva Bradley and events at the college and churches mark a busy community week with concerts plats inquiries and public notices.
O A Duntz J A Arrasmith and J A Campbell toured southern Iowa farms last week Arrasmith bought a Shenandoah area farm in Page county for 6450 dollars for 120 acres with good improvements and ample fruit He plans to move his family there around March 1 Hemstreet and Campbell credited with another sale.
Longtime Story county resident Peter Marshall died at his Gilbert Station home on Thursday January 25 1900 and was buried there Sunday. Born February 22 1829 near Canton Ohio he married Rachel Slaughter in Illinois in 1855 and moved to Story county in 1866 where he lived until death. He leaves wife two sons and two daughters. The family thanks friends for aid and sympathy.
DeWitt Miller will deliver his lecture The Uses of Ugliness Thursday evening Feb 22 instead of Friday Feb 2. It is the fourth number of the P E O lecture course and reports indicate strong patronage. Miller is renowned as a lecturer.
A Lafayette farmer received a fake full dish set via a Chicago offer after sending one dollar. He got a small box with a toy teapot creamer and sugar bowl filled with paper, charged $2 including express. Nevada sellers offered similar goods for 15 cents. The farmer laments being duped in this Watchman note originated from Harpers Weekly dating.
Advertisement claims Foley's Hon and Tar stops a cold if taken after exposure or at early symptoms. Encourages customers to examine goods at Tipen LOUGHRAN and J W Adams stores, noting courteous treatment regardless of purchase.
A reader reports the remedy cured a severe cold and cough after trying Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The letter claims it is the best medicine for colds and coughs and notes it is sold by all druggists.
In almost every neighborhood there is someone whose life has been saved by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy or cured of chronic diarrhoea by that medicine. For sale by all druggists. Wanted girl for general house work inquire at this office permanent place.
Smith Bricker abstracts report transfers from Nevada Iowa listing buyers and sellers with deed amounts. Jennie Flagstad to Farmers Savings Bank 68700 lot 15 bik 10 Roland. Sadie Smay to WO Maur hey 500 lot 8 bik 4 Connells ad evada. William A and W to Martin Lon ning 825 lots 7 8 blk 9 south ad Zearing. Cramer to Barkhurst 225 lot 11 blk 26 Blairs Ames. Drake to Nelson 200 lots 1 2 blk 16 McCallsburg. W W Lincoln to No ble 8840 wig nw 365 83 21. Halleck Hanson to Thompson 3800 eg sw 32 82 24. Eva Stewart to L Oliver 1 etc 161g ft west side lot 8 se sw 32 82 24. Benj Confare to Alderman 8000 10a wig nw 24 84 24. A G Armstrong to C F Fish 6400 elg sw 21 82 21. A H Buck to Whitinger 5600 sig ne ne se e%g se nw 24 84 24. Chas Kingsbury to Oliver Wilkinson 700 wig lot 6 lot A se uw 2 88 24. CO J Thomas to Hans Lundy 125 sig lot 6 blk 88 Cambridge.
Jerold McNaughton a comedy cyclist with Cleveland's all white minstrels will perform at the opera house Monday night February 5. He is the only rider worldwide to ride a diamond frame backward and the only trick rider to stand erect on his head. Also see the 'Silly Bill' act in the noon parade. Support home industry by buying an Iowa made buggy or wagon from Spring & Son.
Dr Hutchison speaks to the Mothers Union on what mothers ought to know. The Friday meeting at three o clock welcomes all, not just members, with a 25 cent call for those joining the auxiliary to state and national Mothers Congress. New honey at Letts'.
Mr Joe E Coffman and Miss Mae M Jones wed at Will Heacocks residence north of Ames officiated by J R McIntire. They will live on a farm southwest of Ames. At Evergreen Baptist church annual meeting officers and committees were elected including Treasurer F P Harris Clerk Mrs Bigelow Trustees J L Seis S G Hamilton Cal Giddings Mabel Harris and Mrs McFarlane Organist Mrs S G Hamilton Ushers Marie Mellor Vinnie Banks. The church notes good growth, debt reduction and hopeful outlook.
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