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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1879
Page
3
Advertising claims Boschee's German Syrup cures coughs colds and severe lung diseases and is safe for children. It boasts world wide sales and no reported failures while urging readers to ask a pharmacist and pay 76 cents.
Promises Shilohs Consumption Cure will cure and relieve coughs asthma bonebits whooping cough crowp and other respiratory issues in half the time of rivals. Claims pleasant taste suitable for children and notes price 10 cents 60 cents and 1.00. Sold by Thomas and McLain with urging to treat chest back pain and other symptoms.
Next Friday is Valentine Day with Suzer music for sale at Slingerland's furniture. Buyers pay 17 cents per bushel for corn as Ross at the elevator shells corn and returns cobs. A school board meeting is planned for next Monday night and a sociable occurred at Mrs. Frank Basket's last Tuesday. Houses for rent at 41-13 W M Harpy. Thomas Seven & Sex put up a new sign. Hines did the painting. Maxx warns of pride among lesser. Hiasa at New York Store boasts fifty cent corn. Wanted a girl to board and attend school. Tory exciting event at south side school. Crockery from Crockery Chamberlain & Clark priced down. After March 1 Lucas & Greeley take over the bank from W D Lucas. Morse geography old note on Albany housing. Harris & Smith patent safety lamps advertised by Thames & McLain and Bousquet & Co. A moral tale warns against evasive wrongdoers. Big hogs: J A McFarlan reported 11 hogs totaling 4675 pounds. For absence, E R Chamberlain handles affairs.
Mr and Mrs St John of Kelley were surprised by five or six friends last Wednesday evening. The note from Heen Compton mentions old customers at Onondaga Street and a gallery sale while The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen meets in Marshalltown to discuss higher insurance beyond the 2000 dollar guarantee.
A dwelling on J A Fitchpatrick’s farm west of the city burned during Wednesday night. The unoccupied building, worth about 700 dollars, likely shows incendiary cause. It is unclear if the house was insured.
Fishermen celebrate the Lake Trout stocking by Fish Commissioner Shaw who placed 100000 fish in Wall Lake and Mud Lake in Hamilton county. The lakes near Ames are expected to attract anglers and become popular resort spots once the fry mature.
The Manchester Press notes butter from two cows in Buffalo Grove sold in rolls at 22 cents, bringing $15.18 for four weeks. At that rate annualized per cow would be $98.67, a figure the paper says is unlikely but suggests Mallock’s cows could average about half that, yielding a solid profit.
A two and a half year old girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sholts, complained of arm pain. A sharp object was found embedded in the fleshy area below the shoulder, identified as two thirds of a corroded sewing needle, suggesting it had been there for some time with no clear how or when.
Tuesday and Wednesday this week before Esquire Greeley, criminal prosecutions against 8 and 6 Meredith were preliminarily heard. Both defendants were acquitted. A fire started in October in a Meredith field spread to neighboring lands, causing trifling damage. suit and costs taxed to C. A. Nowlin.
The Story City School Board of La Payette township voted to relocate the Story City school from the old site to a central location amid opposition from nearby residents. Contractor M J Johnson, hired to move the building, faced a malicious trespass charge with an examination before Exquire Ballard on Wednesday. trial results are not yet known.
During January there were twelve licenses to marry issued by Clerk Smith. Contracting parties include N D Holn and Belle Jacobson, Elijah Brown and Letha Sherman, Willis Grace and Lina Tillotson, James Johnson and Mary E Briley, James J Roe and Martha T Olson, Edward O Buckley and Nancy E Jones, J W Neighoft and 8 J Warrington, Wm F Spencer and Laura Stagg, Ed C O Donnell and Mary G Wilson, Elias Hanson and Betsey Helen, F P Bryant and M J Green, J W McCord and Martha Dounahoo.
Sheriff Gillespie captured Frank Harper in Moingona after a staged postal visit. Harper entered the post office for mail as a roving knight of the road and was quietly seized by the marshal, then brought to Nevada for secure confinement. The case suggests a substantial term of years may await him.
The city sleighing party to Nevada sparked widespread lamentations the following day. The county capital supper and dance were followed by days of remorse from party members. Last week the paper referenced the trip in a joking chronicle, drawing criticism the editors defend as fair coverage.
The I O U W Lodge in Ames expands with strong growth in the United States. It offers a life insurance policy of two thousand dollars for heirs of members in good standing at death. The organization runs on strict business principles and requires seven one dollar assessments in 1878 to cover $2000 insurance. Iowa has about 8000 members, mostly young men, and future assessments are not expected to rise. Difficulties with regular life insurers and costly litigation push people toward this safe family provision.
The winter term's first month honors include High School Delly Maxwell and George Shrader. Grammar Department honors go to Mary Elliot, Henry Barrell, Ora Towns, Thomas Swan, Mary Perkins, Winnie Starr, and Amanda Walker. North Intermediate names follow, including Allie Thomas and Annie Thomperon, with Eva Starr and Minda Towns among others. North Primary recipients include Edith Barber and Rosa Petersman, plus Cliffie Andruse and John Bourne. South Intermediate lists Eugene Kearns and Bettie Perkins, with Bettie Swan and Fred Hemstreet. South Primary honors include Frank Meredith, Davie Fairchild, Arthur Walker, and Willie Shockley.
Tuesday at Ft Dodge Webster county District Court began sitting Judge James W. McKenzie presiding. Joh L. Stevens took the role of prosecuting attorney for the Eleventh Judicial district with strong district support noted. Other items cover county finances and assorted local notices, plus updates on residents and officials.
Mr L Barrer of Colo plans to relocate to Pipestone county Minnesota this spring joining Mr L L Bailey and Riley French in the same county Bailey was the fourth settler in the county with only three families ahead of him now about 150 settlers remain in the county Representative.
The Nevada Iowa business men adopt resolutions mourning Warren H Mead a man of upright dealings frank in conversation and conscientious in all matters They extend sympathy to his wife and family and send copies to local papers and relatives California not involved. The note appears with secretary Jay Kiyo and president J M Frazier dated January 30 1879. The second item discusses supplemental county supervisor proceedings praising county patronage and reviewing 1878 to 1879 taxation and indebtedness including school funds and bridge expenditures.
The Boone Standard reports Williams, accused of an attempted rape on Mrs. Owen of Garden township, was captured by Thomas Paxton at Clear Lake in Hamilton county after a manhunt. He fled on ice fishing, was chased, overhauled, and jailed, with rewards previously offered by local residents and the Board of Supervisors.
Dr Marshall's Lang Syrup is advertised as a prompt cure for coughs and colds. The ad promotes 25 cent bottles and notes it is sold by J J Bousquet. Repeats the claim it is warranted to give satisfaction as cold weather rises.
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