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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1894
Page
7
The Intelligencer notes Ames mail matter as Second Class, indicating standard postal handling for community notices and local correspondence. The brief item confirms office posting and classification for mailing under local press distribution.
Boone and Ames residents share visits, illnesses, and events. Notables include Mr. Chas Hamilton and Miss Allie Taylor visiting, Miss Lizzie Freed returning from Ontario, and Mrs. Grove mourning a Penn funeral. Society columns note Burdette lectures, card parties, school terms, hospital fire loss, legals updates, and upcoming marriage at Marshalltown.
The notice urges prudent shoppers to start the new year by patronizing the Opera House Cash Store, claiming cash customers receive full value and satisfaction for every dollar spent as merchants pledge strict frugality and dependable prices.
A collage of classified items including a 58 acre farm within oil limits at 100 per acre with house and barn, plus ads for subscriptions, household goods, groceries, maple syrups, No-to-bac quit aid, and patent attorney services, all from Ames and Indiana areas.
Local ads urge no extra charge for painless tooth extraction at C. E. Hunt parlors and promote Hamilton & Co. cash grocery deals, including 25 pounds of New Orleans sugar for 1.00. Adams Bros. markets Christmas gifts lamps dishes and stands while stressing customer debt settlement and low flour prices. A note about poultry journalism and G A R Post publication plans by K. W. Brown.
Citizens debate how nominees are chosen and whether a city library should be funded. The plan outlines ward boundaries, new election boards, and which offices are elected by people or council. Notes local weather, social events, and campus updates amid a January to March civic season.
Conductor W L Taylor of the Ames and Des Moines express backs up the engine to heat two new passenger coaches fitted with steam heating. He says the system, built in North Western Chicago shops, can heat a ten car train from the engine. Parish gatherings and temperance meetings fill the Congregational and M E churches with strong attendance and spirited programs.
Weekly notices list names for return of advertised mail including Barkalow Gee D Cooper Mrs Charles Eibert Mrs Ersonason James Leeona Mr Jd Rice Mr Lester Sills W L. Sunnyside School District No 8 Washington township reports January 12 month with 19 days taught 33 pupils enrolled 28.7 daily average 10 not absent Roll of Honor Minnie Rosenfeld Nora Stark Addie Hamm N Morris Teacher. A. L. Trowbridge announces rescheduled sale January 31 at Dick Jones farm two miles south of Ontario listing horses cows three Poland China boars three months old three young brood sows wild hay and more.
Advertisement offers the north town lot occupied by the sellers for three years and once by the Tilden family. It describes a sizable house with ample grounds in good repair and proposes selling as a whole on easy terms or by division, including the east half on Douglass street.
The pamphlet from the Illinois Central Railroad presents letters from northern farmers now in the south. It highlights rail line advantages and refrigerator car capacity, urging readers to obtain a free copy by writing to Manchester, Iowa.
All past notes and accounts owed to the firm of Zenor and Son must be settled at once by cash or new notes. Please call and arrange matters promptly. W. J. Zenor.
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