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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1885
Page
3
The Intelligencer lists business notices, local updates, and social notes. Reports include jail status, illnesses, college staffing, a death in Woodbine, new subscribers, and several residents’ activities and calls for school supplies.
The Ames High School graduating exercises will be held the evening of the 27th in Opera Hall. The class numbers fourteen and will honor the alma mater. The graduates are Bertha Soper Hattie Weld Eva Starr Karl Granger Frank Haverly Roscoe Miller Bernice Sheldon.
Grand Army boys of Ellsworth plan a reunion at Opera Hall tonight at 7 30. Gen Ged will lecture on Travels in which country he was before coming to America and the talk will repay all. Admission 25c for ladies and gentlemen, 15c for single, 10c for children. Afterward the old soldiers and families hold a bean social above Huntington’s store with music between talks.
A former city resident, who gained entry to a prestigious position elsewhere, sold mortgaged property claiming it was unencumbered, then vanished after taking ill or feigning illness. Several townspeople who trusted her now face unsettled obligations and the issue attracts local attention.
Zenorville correspondent reports lightning struck a Zenorsville saloon on February 5 destroying eleven kegs of beer and one keg and one jug of whisky. Beer branded L. A. Zimberman Boonsport Iowa. whisky labeled Council Bluffs. No defense, owner vanished. some patrons sought other drinks or coffee.
Mr William Johnson of Huron Dakota reports his wife suffered bronchitis for years. After trying many remedies with no permanent relief, a bottle of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds produced a magical effect and proved a permanent cure. Free trial at Henry Westermans Drug Store large size one dollar.
East Des Moines public schools honored President Hunt of the I A C with a grand reception last week as he rose to the I A C presidency. Wynn family to move to college, Kearns to occupy professor’s city residence. Alumni critique Hunt’s appointment. urge a one year trial. W H Grove to auction horses, cattle, farm gear in Franklin Township Feb 26. Palace Drug Store markets School Books and supplies. Baptist Ladies Aid notes death of Mrs K W Brown and offers condolences and prayers for the family.
Our I A C will open on the 25th. 62 Tile for Sale by Shields and Cook. Go to the Palace Drug Store for Tablets Copy and Scratch Books. The Ladies Society of the Congregational Church will meet with Mrs W G Wright Thursday afternoon next. Capt Henry Wilson returned from Clinton where he had been rusticating in the snow. Ben Brenneman 18 circulating a petition for the appointment of constable vice Mr J J Wiltse elected but declined to qualify.
In Ames residents express thanks to the bucket brigade for timely help at a recent fire. The notice from O'Brien and Glidden extends gratitude to the community. Also announced is a marriage in Geneva Illinois between A B Maxwell of Ames and Grace Baker, with congratulations from The Intelligencer. Pickett & Co promotes a large stock of school books stationery and supplies.
In Cedar Rapids a widowed mother with three hungry children was found during frigid weather near starvation. She and her kids were huddled under a scanty cover to keep warm, dangerously weak from hunger and cold.
Senator Gillett was sick from a malarial fever with lung issues starting last Tuesday the 3rd. He was confined to bed and deemed dangerously ill with callers kept from his room. He is now thought to be mending according to the Ogden reporter.
A Co A 10th Iowa Infantry correspondent from Sheldahl is reminded that his article must include his signature for publication. The note stresses authorship evidence and urges the writer to sign his next communication.
The Story County Sunday School Association plans a March 1 meeting at the Northwest school house Grant Township with a full program. Devotional 10:00 led by H B Kingsbury progress of S S work 10:30 by superintendents and others. Address Who are the workers and practical results led by Pay ne 11:00. Sunday School study 11:45 conducted by C Barbour. Song service 2:00 led by J R Fetterhoff. Session on avoiding frivolous games at 2:30 led by T Gossard. Temperance in Sunday Schools at 3:00 led by A Liddle. Children's meeting 3:45 by Rev Everly. Consecration service 4:30. Closing song and benediction 5:00.
A Gilbert correspondent questions a columnist's claim that the I A C is prospering while most business begins on Sunday. The writer cites college practice of avoiding unnecessary Sunday work and notes regular chapel and evening worship. The piece includes a January weather summary with stormy days and a blizzard.
The piece notes seasonal sickness and suggests Parker's Tonic as a digestion and organ tonic for all ages. It mentions local comments about a Ground Hog winter, a Township Assessor visit, a coal sled accident, and quotes Hunt's Kidney and Liver Remedy with an endorsement from H. W. Payne of Springfield Massachusetts.
J P Wilson sold his drug business to A P Cronk. Mr Parks arrives as new newspaper man and printer. Mrs Bronson ill but hoped to recover. Prof McCord’s school enrolls more students and adds a teacher. Dora or the Quiet Family performed in Masonic Hall to fund an organ. James Hemstock, once of Cambridge, visited from Clinton. C E Smith from Nevada stayed during the blockade.
Local merchants in Rush City Jordan Winona and Jackson report wide customer satisfaction with Brown's Iron Bitters. Martell Johnson say it provides entire satisfaction. Klinkhammer Co notes sales exceed all other bitters. Hackley & Son report universal customer praise and Iman cites good purchaser satisfaction. Dozens more attest similar results.
Ames residents Henry G Kaynor Sadie Stamp J B Paxton Mamie Kaynor E H Graves Mamie Rockwell attended a Des Moines Pythian Banquet amid heavy snow. Northwestern trains delayed by cold and snow caused a West Express to arrive Friday morning after a bridge burned at Arcada.
William Whiteside of Lancaster Pennsylvania reports a six year battle with diarrhea ended by Misbler's Herb Bitters. He claims the remedy cures kidney and liver issues indigestion foul stomach dizziness nausea and sick headache among many ailments.
The Boone Standard reports flowing wells near Story City Eagle Grove and other Iowa locales. Samuel Steelsmith on a Buffalo Creek farm shows a fine flowing stream rising 18 feet in a pipe, delivering excellent quality water.
An 1890s style advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It promises cure or money back and guarantees satisfaction, priced at 25 cents, sold by Henry Westerman.
A Stratford man lodged with Mr Newman near Sheldahl on Wednesday night. Thursday morning the lodger allegedly fled with sixty dollars, leaving a jug of whisky. The marshal arrested him and he agreed to guide Newman to the money, then returned to the town with Newman.
A Boonsboro item notes free sample bottles of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup for coughs colds consumption and bronchitis. Capt. J Rosu Lincoln to lecture on the Gettysburg battle at the M E Church Friday evening Feb 20. Boone Republican.
Dr Bosanko originator of the great Cough and Lung Syrup praised nationwide for coughs colds consumption and throat and lung ailments. Priced at 50 cents and 1.00 sold by J T Pickett Co with prescriptions carefully compounded by a competent registered pharmacist at the Palace Drug Store.
Farmers are urged to contract with Bingham & Co to buy the popular Plano Binder again this year, promising easy draft performance and savings in money, time, and labor for horse teams.
Our examination finds Bege's Tropical Oil ineffective for pains cuts rheumatism frost bites chilblains and similar conditions. The claim of unequaled relief is not supported by our tests.
A local ad urges readers to save money by dropping subscriptions to papers and magazines and paying through L. M. Bosworth at the Corner Drag Store.
Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy claims to absorb tumors relieve itching and permanently cure with direct action on the affected area. Price 50 cents and sold by Pickett Co. The Marshall Times notes W H Calhoun W O Childs and W W Miller traveled to Ames to take depositions in the Willard Stairway Easement case.
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