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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1888
Page
3
A mixed collection of light verse and aphorisms reflects on New Year’s themes. Contrasting wry observations mention local concerns, seasonal imagery, and social quips about taxes, trusts, and public life with quips about Santa, turkeys, thieves, and a shifting year.
Our paper is two days late after a press accident. A guy rope failure caused a forward part to drop and break, loosening mechanisms and delaying production. A rumor of intoxication is dismissed. expect a new gilder fluke and resumed service this afternoon. The office remains busy with printing items and tasks.
Program includes roll call quotations from Bryant Whittier or Poe. Lessons on history literature and questions on the November Chautauquan. Recitation Annabelle Lee Bert Richmond. Music Miss Starr. Meeting at Dr Richmond's. Local mentions include visits, travels and a corn thrashing experiment prompting reader views for The Intelligencer.
Hamittron and Co advertises to call for grocery or crockery needs. They promise quick payment and an 18 cent rate for butter and eggs.
Local retailer A Breeton & Co. announces a very cheap closeout of dress goods remnants. The sale urges early attendance as stocks will not last long.
A 116 acre farm with 75 acres cultivated, house, barn, good well, and never failing spring. Includes natural grove and other improvements in Milford Township Section 5 Story County. Apply to Wesley Arrasmith, adjoining the above farm.
A brief notice from D. A. Bigetow & Co. urges customers to buy overcoats at bargain prices as the firm conducts its yearly inventory and aims to reduce stock.
Rev. Mr. Moulton preached a fiery farewell in Ames on Sunday. The church was crowded and the pastor’s discourse stirred members with fervor and pathos. The resignation is viewed as a mistake by the congregation, yet they hope divine wisdom guides the future as his Shenandoah ministry begins. The family leaves tomorrow for a new home. City Council member George Henry Maxwell has advanced water works talks, securing permission from C N W R R to connect mains and hydrants, with mayoral approval expected to follow.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as Nature's laxative and cleanser for biliousness constipation headaches colds fevers indigestion piles and related ailments. It notes the product is manufactured by a company and for sale by Riese.
The Sixth District Lodge I O G T met in Ames with over 40 delegates from Ogden Nevada Ridgeport Webster City Eldora Dayton Pilot Mound Story City and Ames. Resolutions express thanks to Arcadia Ames residents and several individuals and the Ames string band for hospitality and entertainment.
By request of Bishop Foss the dedication of the new M E Church will occur January fifteenth instead of the eighth. The building is an ornament to Ames and a credit to the town. The community’s financial aid and goodwill are deeply appreciated by the Methodist pastor and members. The fifteenth is called a red letter day and Bishop Foss is regarded as a leading preacher. Morning service starts at 10 o’clock with the rest of the program to be announced next week.
The County Board of Supervisors met at the Nevada Court House on Monday. All newly elected county officers filed bonds and were sworn in. Burgess resigned and was replaced by Ersland, who was appointed and qualified. Stewart, the new board member, was also sworn in.
An advertiser notes inquiries and ads in The Intelligencer boost local reach among Story county farmers. He reports selling about 40 units since placing a short ad. Edsworths Post No. 30 G. A. R. to meet next Saturday at 6 15 for muster and inspection before installation. Comrades urged to attend promptly. installation to start at 7 30.
The piece notes a railway expansion by the St. Paul Minneapolis Manitoba Railway promising growth in central and northern Montana. It highlights higher cattle and hog prices in Chicago since 1872 and reduced transport costs, with a call to obtain a detailed country map from C H Warren. It also recounts local social notes from Maxwell Ames Perry and surrounding towns.
An OCR fragment touts Syrup of Figs as a popular remedy that cleanses and tones the system, dispels headaches colds and fevers and cures habitual constipation and digestive ills tied to weak kidneys liver and bowels. It credits the California Fig Syrup Company of San Francisco California as the manufacturer.
OrrTaRio endures four blizzards in a week as residents note an open winter forecast. Miss Lizzie Freed visits relatives while postmaster departs west. O. C. Freed travels to Mapleton. Jasper Zeger hosts a late night gathering for local youths. Rev Ostrander conducts meetings at the M. E. Church amid poor weather.
Local column highlights Worrel's Grove on welcome New Year resolutions and a wolf hunt misadventure ending with a yellow dog mistake. Cambridge reports a resident's suicide by self immolation, town events, a fire at a hay barn, a murder attempt trial, new dray arrival, a Christmas program, and Drake University library efforts.
Storms hindered attendance at the Wortman sociable. Clarence Stevens of New York visits his brother C C Stevens. Harvey Helphey visits his aunt Mrs Stailey. G A Bale is in Des Moines at school. Only one Sunday School in Kelley New Years. Rev Wilson did not preach last Sunday. Next Literary debates whether a limited tariff benefits the country.
Dr L L Goxsucn testifies after forty years in general medicine that Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co cures catarrh when taken as directed. He offers a $100 reward for any case not cured. The Toledo, Ohio advertisement notes the remedy is sold by druggists for 75 cents.
The E. R. Sheldah Post of the GAR will publicly install their officers on Saturday January 14 with the public invited. Isaac Crowder died last Thursday morning of lung fever leaving a wife and two children. Dr GC W Allen and J M Clark attended the Sixth District Lodge I O G T at Ames this week despite the storm and good work was done. Story City News.
Teaching notes on Matthew 14 15 21 with Rev William Newton B D meditating on Jesus compassion and miracle. The scene shows Jesus miraculously feeding 5 000 men with five loaves and two fishes while disciples doubt and baskets of fragments remain, illustrating faith and provision.
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