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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1894
Page
7
Long list of local social visits moves through Ames Iowa as residents visit relatives in Des Moines Nevada Colfax Marshalltown and Jefferson. Notes on health injuries travels church activities meetings school board changes and upcoming events at the Ames schools and churches.
The notice urges careful spending and praises cash customers as merchants’ priority. It emphasizes starting the year economically and promises value for every dollar spent at the Opera House Cash Store.
Death notices Ames pioneer H F Kingsbury aged nearly 84 at daughter Mrs N A Rainbolt s home in Norfolk Neb. Kingsbury came to Ames in 1865 from Fairfax Iowa after earlier years in Aurora Illinois. He served as first railroad and express agent and first postmaster, ran a store and hotel, and was a charter member and first deacon of the Congregational church. He later lived with his daughter in Norfolk and spent winters in California. Sympathy goes to Mrs Kingsbury and family.
The I O O F officers were installed Tuesday evening January 16 by Myr Thompson D D G M with W W Clark N G C A Duntz W G, Walter Morris Ree Secty, Ss H Rich Per Secty, Wm Hulett Treasurer. L 8t John R 5S N G G M Pitsor L 8 N G Wim Deal Warden H Whitehead Conductor Ss P O'Brien Chaplain F Morris K G S Deal O G Gus Valiette R 5 5S F A Cochran L 8 8 M Hemsatreet R 8 V G A Porter L 8 V G
A number of Nevada members of the order attended the event, joining colleagues from other regions for the meeting and ceremonies.
An old newspaper page advertises subscriptions to the In Telligencer and Western Poultry Journal, discounted goods at Hamilton & Co and Canier Bros. & Herman's, lard and Cottolene, maple syrup, raisins, and salt. It promotes No to Bac quits program, a patent idea inquiry, and a legal address for patent attorneys DuBois & DuBois in Washington.
Local notices urge settling old accounts for Adams Bros. and Zenor & Son while promoting bargains at Adams Bros. including lamps, dish sets, and reduced shoes. Also advertising The Farm and Dairy and InTeLLIGENCER subscriptions. No extra charge for teeth extractions at C E Hunt parlors. 25 lbs sugar for $1 at Hamilton & Co.
For the week ending January 9 1894 various notices call for advertised sales. J E Duncan P M A L Trowbridge to sell January 23 at 1 PM at Dick Jones farm near Ontario items include horses cows hay livestock and wagon. Danl McCarthy to conduct sale. Private sale of household goods offered by Mrs W H Weeks at Ames Drug Co doorway.
Died in Marshalltown January 13 1894 infant son of Mr and Mrs George Spencer aged 3 months 48 days. Funeral held at Ames Iowa January 15 United Brethren church Rev B Clark conducting services and interred in Ames cemetery. The death occurred when a buggy seat was not fastened, causing occupants to be thrown out. The parents receive public sympathy in this hour of bereavement.
The Ames Drag stock transfers from the former tenants to D D Sales late of Benedict & Bales Maxwell Iowa. Bales, a Story county native with ten years in the drag business, plans to move his family to town and operate from the rooms above his drug store.
A busy Ames scene features a new sign at Ayers Gallery and various town items. Reports cover Miss Lillie Bingman visiting near Evergreen church, W.R. C. meeting tomorrow at 3 pm, and street cleanup by Street Commissioner Whalen. Local trials, lyceum plans, and a Wayne era gardening and tourism mention enrich the column.
The text notes Washington as the leading site for patenting car couplers with Boston hosting a Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen session that called for ending Sunday trains. It also cites the Central Railroad of New Jersey as the first to provide a hospital car for workers and reports 2318 railway deaths and 2000 serious injuries in the year ending November. Professor H W Rolfe presented diamond pins to three conductors for saving him from a wreck.
A compact collection of maxims urges restraint and humility. It warns that small sins still loom large and that calm speech outperforms violence. Encouragement is valued, while egotism fades when faced with self-knowledge.
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