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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1878
Page
3
The catalog highlights a practical 160 page book with binding and quality, described as superior to other cock books. It is a premium for Tax Intelligence subscribers who pay in full for 1878. Extra copies are available at 50 cents each and the book is pitched to please ladies.
Prices for live poultry at Stickney and Taylor noted with value guidance for buyers. Frazee sets prices for goods to meet times, and watch clock jewelry services offered at Frazee and New York Cash Store. Lectures by Kilpatrick and a lecture reservation follow as events. A Christian Sewing Society meet at Mrs Andruss. a legislative summary appears on the first page. New baby at Dr Mercorius’s, premium Home Guide books in stock.
At the New York Store Hirsh announces stock take and selling goods at cost for cash. Thomas Soper Son close out winter clothing at cost. More winter stock will be carried over. Call J. E. Hiren for cash bargains.
A diagram of reserved seats for Kilpatrick’s lecture tomorrow night is viewable at Tilden McLsin’s where tickets may be secured. Mrs A C Hamptons has bought the stock of millinery goods formerly owned by Mrs Wray and will run the business from the old stand. The past week’s cold days push live hog prices higher while corn edges up slightly. Revival meetings at Union School House Franklin township led by Rev F M Johnson continue with many conversions.
Local retailer Tuomas Soren & Son offers a clearance of overcoats, urging early selection as stock will be sold.
D A Biazxon travels to Des Moines today to join delegates from other county boards. The gathering aims to devise methods to cut county court expenses.
The Baptist church hosts a lecture tomorrow night by Gen Kilpatrick on Sherman’s March to the Sea. The speaker will vividly picture and embellish the famous campaign, adding a captivating glow to a historic romance familiar to readers through song.
A petition circulated early this week asks the County Board to publish the names of the poor who have received supplies or medical aid with presented and allowed claims. It was widely signed and will be presented at the next board meeting.
Assemblyman Frank Curtis was in the city Saturday. Ole K Hill of Nevada called yesterday. Col Hoggatt has been seriously ill during the past week. Mrs E E and Miss Nona McFadden returned home from Illinois Thursday morning.
Preparations are underway for a February 22 celebration by local Masonic lodge members. The event includes a festival and fair, a supper and a lecture, and closes with an evening ball. Proceeds will fund construction of a Masonic Hall next season.
Some merchants visit a printing office to view advertisements in a paper from another town. They study which branches are represented and search for potential business leads to contact. Yet these same men say advertising is useless.
Mrs A C Hamilton announces purchase of Mrs Wray stock and plans a full assortment for Ames and vicinity. Miss Flick will oversee trimming. E J Couch forecasts January with specific eyelone periods and weather patterns, noting moisture trends and general moderation of winter except during cyclones.
The Lisbon Sun notes Albert Wettstein, long aiding the local jewelry business, has chosen to move west to Ida County. He is praised as a first class workman skilled in repairing timepieces and regarded as a gentleman in all respects.
The State Centre Enterprise recounts a highway robbery near Cole on a Tuesday night. R Dunkelberger, visiting Cole on firm business, was walking toward town with a stranger who produced a revolver and demanded his money. Dunkelberger surrendered six to seven dollars before the assailant fled.
The Boone papers report Henry Loafman, age 60, was stabbed to death by Polk Bennett on Christmas Eve. Coroner Templin conducted a two day inquest with timid witnesses, detailing the bloody sequence and Harveys account of aiding the injured man. No reward offered yet.
An information filed against H. J. Stebbens and others connected to the D M and M extension led to arrest and trial. The court found three prisoners were wrongfully arrested and discharged. The remaining defendants pleaded guilty with a one dollar fine, remitted on costs about sixty dollars. Superintendent Smart agreed to pay.
Weather remains fine but hard times press the area. C C Stevens buys and immediately trades a Kelley house for Dr Weber’s property. Wm Porter and Alice Bullock marry in Illinois on the 10th and plan to reside nearby. The literary society debates civil law versus moral influence and votes for the negative, planning a reading event next Friday with invitations to Pleasant Hill and Garden Prairie. Constable Towns visited recently.
Booned county notes farmers throng streets and merchants report heavy trade. Theodore Tilton lecture tickets sell well and $150 was sold last Thursday. Metropolitan Hall hosts gymnasium practice for 25. Mrs. Bradford dies of heart disease. Dr Louis Davis leaves town with unsettled bills. A birth reported at Eagle House after eastern bound train arrival. February 4 vote on a $15 000 high school building. Bondsmen of Jones resist paying bonds. Fire Department gains a new band fire engine. Diptheria widespread locally. Pomrer.
A correspondent from Hot Staines Arkansas on January 21, 1878, details the distant hot springs about 500 miles south and 26 miles east of Ames. He notes boiling waters tempered for baths, diverse international visitors, stark poverty, few schools, many saloons, primitive buildings, and local prices for game and produce.
Ex Governor Nehold asks the Legislature to fund a graded road drainage project at the college farm. He supports erecting a horticulture laboratory and propagating house, and sewer upgrades to protect student health, totaling several thousand dollars as necessary for agriculture advancement.
James Vick announces a new Tax Illustrated Magazine to replace his larger floricultural volumes. The glossy quarterly is printed on tinted paper with artistic illustrations and a colored plate of phlox and pansies. Subscriptions are 1.25 dollars yearly or 1.00 dollars for clubs of five or more, with Rochester New York listed as the publisher address.
A Storm Lake lawyer Frank B. Chamberlain, who died by suicide while drunk, prompted his wife to sue Dr. H F Parks for selling liquor. The Buena Vista District Court trial lasted five days and returned a verdict for the plaintiff worth $10000.
The report says Burlington ice dealers have started harvesting ice about eight inches thick and of poor quality. This brief item cites variable conditions and the cautious state of winter production in the area.
On January 10, 1878 the Circuit Court of Story County Iowa appointed Esrua Gueey Administratrix of the estate of George Green. All creditors must file claims with the court for allowance and debtors should pay the estate promptly.
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