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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1886
Page
3
Mr. Frank Shockley is ill while his brother Charles runs the drug business. The A F and A M regular monthly meeting is set for this evening. Revival services in the Methodist Church progress with great interest. Miss Dix continues selling goods at cost including trimmed hats and other items heavily discounted.
Passenger and freight train times listed for the Chicago and Northwestern line. Notes show No 52 64 express routes to St Paul Des Moines and freight service to Des Moines with various departure and arrival times. Agent M. C. Jones announces no other passenger trains beyond Hawarden and standard agent information.
The notice outlines pricing for local business notices at ten cents per line per week, reduced to five cents per line if continued weekly, with the head of Business Brevities set at five cents per line per week and no rate variations outside yearly contracts.
The Brown insurance remains unresolved as companies delay payment and Brown seeks explanation. The dispute could move to court, with potential judicial action looming.
Mr Heacock has been allowed a pension of six dollars a month with arrearages. He has purchased the lumber of the Barrelt building on Main Street and Abe Bingman is arranging work for him on his farm in good order.
College opens on Tuesday with prospects of a prosperous year as professors return and prepare for opening day. A nine year old editor’s son jokes with his sister's guest about settling in while Helen Louise works upstairs to finish her form before going to press.
The article notes Miss Dix selling white trimmed hats below cost though the season lags. It mentions Ellsworth Post of the city postponing its open meeting to Feb 27 due to Opera Hall school exercises. Local merchants face losses and a tough year for trade, with printers feeling the pinch. The Sons of Veterans event in Ames advertises a $1 ticketed gathering in Opera Hall. January matings list several names, and Willow Grove School’s monthly report covers 20 days and 39 pupils with a teacher named Maple McFarn.
Thomas brothers sell remainder of stock at low figures and expect to close out in a week or ten days. A B Thomas rents his residence to Burgess for March first. Mr Thomas and family move to Bloomington Nebraska to enter sheep business. A C Thomas plans commission business in Owaba. Insurance on their building burned is unpaid.
The Pleasant Ridge 8. H. hosts a February 21 1886 program with morning devotional exercises by H. S. Kingsbury and talks by G. H. Spencer O. B. Ingall on the Sunday School place and lesson explanation. Afternoon sessions include Mrs. Fetterhoff leading a long service and children's meeting, with discussions on lesson helps, Bible use, teaching methods and temperance in the U. S. led by various speakers.
Mr. Springer of Mechanicsburg Pa. reports recoveries from lung fever and abscesses after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. He bought a dollar bottle after the free trial, and after three bottles gained 48 pounds in flesh and health. Call J Hicksett & Co.’s Palace Drug Store for a free trial bottle.
An advertisement asserts Ayer's Hair Vigor cleanses the scalp, prevents dandruff and itching, restores faded or grey hair to its original dark color, and promotes vigor.
The notice lists Choice Squaw Creek Coal at 3 75 per ton cash from J H Queal & Co. It mentions February term of the Circuit Court in Nevada with ninety six causes, and various local updates including gifts to the Beacon Band, spring shoe stock, a Baptist Society social, and new tenants in the Peterman building with Mr Loud and wife moving in.
A speaker notes spending ten cents daily for tobacco amounts to seventy cents weekly and over thirty six dollars yearly, highlighting poverty. The Gilbert Literary Society will join Milford at Pleasant Grove school house on Tuesday evening February 23. Pupils from the second primary department presented Miss Anna Henry with vases and a valentine as a token of affection.
Story City Review notes the town council has acted on requests for fire readiness by installing a large force pump in the town well and laying four hundred feet of 14 inch hose. Ames trails Story City in the report.
To reduce stock before annual inventory D A Biellow & Co offers entire stock of men and boys overcoats suits hats caps odd pants and vests at prices that cannot fail to be satisfactory for the next thirty days.
Only two ministers Rev McDade of Boone and Rev Jean of Boonesboro attended the Ministerial Association meeting. The others were delayed by revival meetings at their churches. Rev McDade spoke to a large audience at the M E Church Monday evening.
Mr J F Meeker recounts Story county self sacrifice with Mrs Meeker's former servant Miss Johnson marrying a Story county countryman by Justice Haradon at noon. The couple's arrangement sees the groom return home as the girl resumes work at Meeker's until another hire is found.
A laborer finds a loving letter and photo of a prominent business man in his wife’s bureau. He watches the house, sees the man depart, pursues but loses him. He seeks legal redress but is told none. The veteran husband remains with a distressed family and wife.
Thousands endorse Electric Bitters as the purest and best medicine for kidney and liver issues. The product purifies the blond, regulates bowels, and saves doctors’ bills, sold at fifty cents a bottle by J. H. Pickett & Co., Palace Drug Store.
An 19th century style advertise claims disfiguring facial eruptions and pallor stem from internal illness and promotes Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a remedy to expel hidden health issues. The copy urges readers to seek tonic benefits and renewed vigor through the product.
The era of cold weather, municipal politics, and public notices sweeps through Nevada and neighboring towns. Reports note a mayoral question, Republican caucus, court sessions, school board meetings, and a flurry of public sales amid sleighing and thaw.
The Republican electors of the incorporated town of Ames will meet at Opera Hall on Saturday February 27 1886 at 4 pm to nominate candidates for mayor recorder treasurer assessor street commissioner two councilmen full term and one councilman to fill vacancy. By order of Committee A H Thayer chairman.
On Wm. Calhoun’s farm three miles south of Kelley the sale occurs Saturday Feb 20 at 10 am offering stock farm implements and household furniture Eben Bock on Dan McCarthy’s farm 14 miles south of Ontario holds sale Tuesday Feb 23 at 1 pm with stock farm implements F P Jansen 14 miles north of Kelley sale Wednesday Feb 24 at 12 m stock and farm implements James Hutchinson on Thos Porch’s farm Friday Feb 26 at 1 pm auctioning stock and farm implements.
Mr and Mrs Haverly rejoice over a daughter born this week. A son arrived for Mr Quick’s family last week. Mr and Mrs Wm H Smith of south Ames welcomed a daughter. Mrs W H Beadle of Ontario gave birth to a fine boy last week. The items note warm community pride and hopes for the children.
Mr A H Person and bride returned yesterday. Will Pierce came back from Louisiana last Sunday. Dr Welch and Prof Stanton were at the college last week. Squire Underwood and Capt Brown went to Des Moines yesterday. Miss Jessie Maxwell is sick with lung inflammation. Col Pickett of Waterloo visited son J H and family. Willard McCarthy and family moved to south Ames. Mrs Fitchpatrick can again teach. Gen Geddes and wife returned from Vinton where they visited friends. Mrs Dr Beverley Nannie Miller and Alice Graves were baptized at Baptist Church last Sabbath. Will A White returned from Dakota and visits Ames Gilbert. Chas Barrell passed through en route to Nebraska where daughter Mrs Holcomb is sick. Miss Marie Kaynor is unwell. Mrs Kaynor fills in. Mrs J S Norris and daughter Belle went to Marion for Sabbath with Mr Norris preaching there. Misses Lyon, Haverly nieces, spent weekend in Ames en route to Dakota to teach.
Mr B F Adams born in Muskingum County Ohio on October 3 1829 joined the Christian faith at 16 married Rebecca Evans March 19 1849 came to Ames eighteen years ago engaged in business a year later improved local farms and helped build the Christian Chapel He died on his property leaving a widow and six children and was buried at Ames January 16 1836 The funeral was conducted by Ames local clergy due to a snow blockade and the family expresses gratitude for comfort provided by the church members.
A church body in Pleasant Grove Iowa laments the loss of B F Adams. They praise him as a devoted husband father and brother in Christ and resolve to share obituary notices with county papers and family. They pledge sympathy and support to his bereaved family and to spread the resolutions in the church records. Signed by elders and the pastor.
J C Burrows of Kalamazoo Michigan testifies that after five years of hay fever and a persistent hacking cough, use of Strona extract of flax Catarrh Cure ended the cough and brought relief. Large bottles priced at one dollar offered by druggists.
An advertiser claims Shilohs Cure swiftly eliminates hacking coughs and guarantees relief. The notice emphasizes rapid results and confidence in the product.
Sleepless nights caused by a harsh cough plagued sufferers until Shiloh's Cure was promoted as the remedy. The advertisement touts relief with a focus on persistent coughing and general discomfort.
Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy claims to cure catarrh and improve health and breath. Sold by H. Westerman for 50 cents with a free nasal injector included.
A letter from a woman extols the home newspaper as a lifelong companion through birth, marriage, illness, and death. She praises its daily reflection of family life and its role as a living, comforting institution that shares joys and sorrows with readers.
Mr. F B Nourse of Royal Baking Powder Co cites strong results from Papillon skin remedy for children. He claims years of treatment are surpassed after days of use, with the flax extract product sold in large bottles for $1.00 at all drug stores.
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