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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1880
Page
3
Local notes advertise McCune Bros boots and cheap footwear with shaves offered at Peterman's. Community items include birthdays and holidays, school director elections, a Terpsichorean Club dance, Barstow farm auction, horse purchases, and various business updates from Watcat Carr to Novess and Reads meat market.
February notice confirms continuation of the seed prize for Tu Inreciia excer subscribers who pay in advance. Each one dollar and a half payment covers the paper and grants ten packets of flower seeds valued at one dollar.
Nichols and Maxwell sent a carload of horses and two mules to Minneapolis last Saturday. Judges of horseflesh call it the best car of horses ever taken from the county. N. and M. are determined to keep things moving as active men.
Mr A Chapman of Boyd and Chapman has sold his interest in the local hardware store. Rumor says stock may move to Story City, though that is not certain. The store is a pioneer business in the county and its loss would be felt in Ames.
In Story county eight couples tied the knot in January. Names listed include Thos Cromwell and Elizabeth Holmes, Simon Armstrong and Anna Bales, Chas E Samea and Anns M Olson, Jas Dewit and Mary Buell, Henry Anderson and Ida Russell, John Evanson and Bertha M Hooverson, J Thomes and Ida L Densmore, M E McMicheal and Sarah Long. Notice also that Leoat Buangs for Justice Circuit and District Courts for sale at this office.
A pocket book containing $130 was lost between the coal banks at Zenorville and the author’s residence four miles south of Roland. The finder should leave it at the offices or at the residence of Ove Carisrary Nevada P.O. address. A legislative committee later interviewed the Agricultural College reviewing expenditures of a two year old appropriation.
Colored lecturer J C Fremont schedules talks in Story county towns Bloomington Bloomington Feb 9. Gilbert Feb 10. Callanan Feb 18 14. Zenorville Feb 16. Ames Feb 17. Lectures at 730 pm on Negro Exodus from the South. Burlington HawkEye notes his growing public reputation and political activity.
The census supervisor reports two personal items a Norman couple welcome a ten pound boy and Andy Johnson brags about a ten pound son plus a road job prospect. McCune advertises gloves at ten percent under wholesale. The C and N W railway eyes a Keigley branch coal find and possible Narrow Gauge extension to connect with Winona and St Peter for coal freight savings.
The February 1880 outlook predicts generally mild weather with cloudy skies and low precipitation. Notable periods include 10–13 and 24–26 with cool or stormy conditions, strong winds, and possible snow, plus near 25 with a wind gale like the 1879 event affecting shipping interests. Auroras on several dates and zodiacal light visible on bright nights early in the month.
D. A. Bigelow has been ill at home but improving. C. E. Turner is seriously sick with a brain disease and convalescing. Howard McLain is back from Burlington with Willis improving slowly. John H. McLain, now in Colorado, visits Ames with old friends. M. B. Martin returns from Indiana and works in dough. President Welch attended funeral services in Des Moines for John C. Noble. Prof. Macomber delegates to the Grand Lodge in Burlington. Estlake couple respond to Jackson for illness in Mrs. Estlake’s daughter. Mamie Raynor returns from Cedar Falls.
A man in farmer dress visits several shops, buys small items, asks about molasses, then pockets tobacco and deserts with an unpaid bill. In a week, about six such visits yield eighteen pounds of tobacco, a scam that defrauds multiple merchants.
The notice from D. N. Maxwell warns that all debts must be paid by March 1 1880 or costs will be added. The item also advertises the grand opening at Thomas Soper and Son’s on Thursday February 12 with a large assortment of ladies and misses shoes and gents boots and shoes for Ames buyers.
Few understand the abstract of title trade. J A Fitch patrick has twelve years in the field and thirty five large volumes, creating the most complete abstract office in the state. He maintains books from the general land office in Washington and the State and U S Land offices at Des Moines, detailing every county tract. He has spent over four thousand dollars on his books but will write abstracts at about one third the rates of other counties.
Wm Tallent to lecture on woman suffrage at Brierley school house this Friday. Mrs Vienna Duckworth buys a residence in Sylvester Scott's old town area. A new blacksmith wagon shop arises with A Keefer of Mercer County PA recommended as smith and H C Foster to stock buggy repairs.
All persons indebted to the School fund of Story county must pay due amounts or arrange extensions. Joan R. Hare, January 26, 1880. Co. Auditor.
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