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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
5
Local notices cost five cents per line per insertion. Catereriented events with an admission fee may be five cents per line. Obituary and condolence notices cost one dollar. Church services lodge meetings and non revenue events publish once free. additional insertions at five cents per line. Display rates and deadlines provided on request. changes due by Friday evening weekly.
Ames social and business notices recap visits and travel across Boone Jewell Junction Story City and Maxwell. Entries include Miss Gertrude Bradford visiting Boone, Ray Dunphy heading to Spokane for work, several residents attending dances and parties, and local meetings of the Rebecca lodge and Ames Improvement Society.
A notice states that you can pay your assessment to A. J. Graves, agent, with instructions or details omitted. The fragment indicates an insurance association in Iowa handling payments.
A sale of all household items including 8 bedroom sets 2 heating stoves 2 gasoline stoves wood stove sewing machine chairs rockers bed springs mattresses folding bed piano mahogany sets hall stand china closet book case secretary tables lamps washing machine refrigerator and more. Ice delivered at $1 per load Read & Reap Mut phone 231.
The Ames Baptist church holds a February 3 reunion with a W M Walker Des Moines address slated for 8 p m. Barber shops announce February 1 price hikes to 15 cents for shaving and 50 cents for out of shop calls. A new Chautauqua association is forming with nearly 200 shares subscribed and a first annual assembly set for August 17 1904.
A pocket book was left at this office and may belong to someone connected with Frank Fowler or the West Livery. Readers with information are asked to contact the office.
Dr. John Harriman died at his home in Iowa City on Monday. Funeral services were held the next day and the body was taken to Hampton for interment. He was a University of Iowa faculty member and a respected surgeon who suffered appendicitis around early January. surgery was on January 2. His brother Dr. W. E. Harriman accompanied him during his illness.
Real estate transfers list multiple Ames properties including J H Meacham to R Christenson for 2000 dollars Lot 5 Block 6 Bigelows. Gilbert Station parcels to West ern Elevator Co and to Ind School Dist Ames. Corkins and others on Ames blocks. Friday night January 22 the Daughters of Pocahontas organized a council in Boone with Fort Dodge Chief present and a banquet. many Ames lodge members attended.
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