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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1895
Page
13
In Ames area items record visits by Miss Ruby Taylor and Miss Lillie Gillespe, new arrivals and moves, church services, and college life. Highlights include a marriage announcement, cattle and hog trades, a play project, and local court action. Community events, travel, and faculty changes at the college are noted along with social gatherings and Y M C A discussions.
Classifieds offer jobs and rental leads with a printer trade inquiry and a furnished front room for gentlemen. Retail items include pants sales and hats from New York porters. Church revival at U B Church continues with Rev Dawson from Des Moines aiding, while Hale brothers take over Belle Plaine shoe and beet stock March 1.
The Metropolitan Opera company performed in Ames on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings presenting The Rose of Auvergne and Pygmalion and Galatea. Despite light attendance the artists impressed the audience with a high quality soprano performance by Miss Wolcott.
Ames residents mourn the death of R. Kelley born May 19 1894 in Story County Iowa after a brief illness. funeral at parental home and burial in Ames Cemetery. The newly organized young men conference meets March 3 and 10 at the Baptist Church with Walter Perkins and Little leading discussions. Dorcas Society plans a meeting March 6 with Mrs S K Wilson and Mrs J B Elliott providing lunch baskets. Shoes and general merchandise promotions fill shop windows as merchants urge balance on accounts and promote spring stock.
It features carpets rugs cushions and robes and boasts demand across families. The ad notes low prices on boots German sacks heavy woolen hose and Jersey shirts while promoting Go Lk goods and related household items sold by H. 8. Go Lk.
The notice warns debtors to settle immediately or face collection efforts. It references Garden seeds from Sioux City and northern seeds and notes railroad fare enforcement. A lecture was given at Belle Plaine to several men as part of a broader fare collection crusade across railroads.
Advise that medicines help the sick but some can aid well persons. Suggest occasional use of Ripans Tabules to prevent stomach and liver disorders. Emphasize preservation over repair as cheaper and better.
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