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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1877
Page
3
Mrs Wray’s millinery rooms offer eye catching lace bibs at 25 cents while Slingerland’s stocks lawn chairs. S. N. Sheily & Co. advertise revolving tooth hay rakes and D N Maxwell sells second hand blacksmith bellows. Thomas Soper & Son touts cash only policy with 10 to 25 percent savings for cash buyers.
Local notice invites motorists and residents to obtain beat receipts for road and poll tax at low prices, touting cheaper options than white writing paper. The item also mentions a TELegram from Ft. Madison on a death, a State Centre excursion organized by Charlie Soper, and a call for readers to submit nearby news.
A plea notes financial need and asks subscribers to pay for the past year and the current year to help the publication meet expenses. It urges as many subscribers as possible to remit payments.
Tilden and MeLcla declare they will not mislead customers at their Story County shop. They advertise oils medicines and related items and emphasize genuine quality. Local readers are urged to judge their wares by this pledge.
The Wheatland News reports Grange Mall will host divine services by Tre Rév Mr. Percival. Morning sermon titled Prugality in the use of Spiritual Blessings and evening discourse The Good Seed, choked by the Thorns. A postal notice to a local grocery, Ames June 23 1877, requests calm handling of a small back bill.
Tuers is one social dishonor about which few speak yet it does more harm than any other. Repeating conversations not made under secrecy betrays trust and undermines integrity, despite boys learning to avoid tale bearing in school. Society often betrays confidences, a paradox in moral education and conduct.
The Keokuk case alleges bigamy by J W Bishop of Cole is false in every respect. The doctor claims the accusation is a blackmail attempt and challenges arrest or payment demands. Nancy Lamen returned to Keokuk without money, and Bishop says she is a liar and untrustworthy.
The regular monthly council meeting approved Boyd Bros. nails and plows bill for 62.36 and deferred J M Baller sidewalk bill for itemization. Items for J A Bain feeding tramps and Le Vaun Dusen street work also deferred for audit and precise listing. A Onondags street cleanup petition was referred to the street committee. North Street to be vacated with a public highway opened on the township line. Road to cemetery to be repaired for passable condition.
The Actives defeated State Centre 5 to 4 in Ames amid 1500 spectators. The game lasted about two and a half hours with the Actives dominating the first and last three innings while State Centre led in the middle. Raf and Byers were noted for strong play.
Walt Evans of Evans Bros. and Ross, Ames, Iowa, spent part of the week in Del Norte with optimism about at least a hundred thousand from the Nevada lode in five years. The Del Norte Prospector notes the crew believes in success if their lead doesn’t fail. Editorial visitors Geo McFadden and Miss Clara Butler joined Put-in-Bay and Niagara Falls trips, while Geo A Underwood celebrated the Fourth in Madison and plans to return next week. Henry Shockley reports rapid improvement at Colfax Springs, praising the waters. Col James A Penfield of Boston visited W D Lucas, both veterans of the Fifth New York cavalry.
Local sellers Nicuore and Maxwett offer several horses at low prices with very easy terms to clear surplus stock amid heavy losses. Objects listed include working mounts and brood stock.
The column describes a hot day with trains to Des Moines and State Centre, a Sabbath School picnic at Arrasmith’s grove, and events in Story City and Sheldahl. Crowds enjoyed picnics, music, orations, and dancing with police keeping order. reports from Ontario, Coanbridge, and Boone mirror Independence Day festivities, including local burglaries, school board actions, and a convict transfer to the penitentiary.
John A. McFarland has been transferred from the District to the Circuit Court. The text notes a revived Concert Band and its impact on the community’s nights. Mrs Cheouts, wife of the count, appears in fragmented local notice.
Story County Board of Supervisors met June 30 1877 in special session with Evanson and Elliot present. The board allocated numerous bridge related lumber and rebuilding appropriations across Milford Franklin Grant Indian Creek Warren Richland Nevada Colo and State Centre areas with directors including Morgan Evans John Engelbarger J C Carpenter Ben Confare Ed Elliot T J Sowers W H French FE Farrington H F Murphy S L Shearer and A K Banks. Auditor authorized to issue warrants on the bridge fund and minutes were read and approved.
Transfers of real estate during June include numerous parcels across Union tp Warren tp Nevada tp Collins tp Grant tp Indian Creek tp Washington tp New Albany and other townships. Buyers and sellers include T BR Hughes O K Hill MC Allen K Blackmaan and many others with parcels ranging from 26 to 160 acres per sec in multiple townships.
A Tama Herald note praises a farmer who allows passage through his farm road for fifty cents per team and cites a town in Illinois that drilled grader work with donated labor to cover 17 miles before frost, suggesting town trustees should buy a Wauchope grader to maximize road money.
Mr. Strong of Strong & Van Deusen in Vail argues that liberal advertising fuels a flourishing business and prevents bankruptcy. He notes a typographical error drawing attention to ads and warns that without advertsing towns stagnate and roads worsen, stressing the link between ad presence and economic health.
Real estate offers include first class farms prairie lands and city property offered at low figures by McCartney Stevens and Unnerwoop Ames Ia. Ames News Depot announces expanded papers and periodicals from Calkins to be sold, including Chicago Times Tribune Des Moines State Register New York Ledger Weekly and more. Eighteenth century style notices invite Masonic communications and offer wood turning scroll saing and model patterns by E E Van Olina Ames.
An improved 150 acre farm surrounded by timber and suited for stock raising includes 20 acres of timber with the farm. Located six miles north of Ames in Milford township within forty rods of Soper's grist mill. Sold at a reasonable price with easy terms. O. K. Hint, Nevada, Iowa.
A mailed recipe claims a simple Vegetable Balm will remove tan freckles pimples and blotches to leave skin soft and clear and promises instructions for growing hair on a bald head. Address Vandels & Co Box 6121 No 6 Wooeter St New York.
Advert shows questions about headaches nervous symptoms and indigestion claiming Green's August Flower cures Dyspepsia Liver Complaint and Indigestion. States 2,400,000 bottles given away in U S by Druggists. Sample bottle 10 cents regular 75 cents. Ames Iowa dealers listed.
An advertiser announces permanent cure from consumption and offers a free prescription and usage directions for treating consumption asthma and bronchitis through a mailed copy. Requests should be sent to Rev. E. A. Winsor at 194 Penn Street Williamsburgh New York.
Advertises discounted half membership for bookkeepers penmen reporters operators and teachers at Baylie's Great Mercantile College Keokuk Iowa. Encourages applicants to address Prof. Miller Keokuk Iowa.
An ad promotes Green's August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia liver trouble and indigestion with symptoms like sick headache dizziness and nervous prostration. Two doses relieve quickly and sample bottles cost ten cents with regular bottles at seventy five cents sold by J J Bosquet Ames Ia and by general druggists nationwide.
A gentleman claims a sample remedy cured years of nervous debility and youthful excess and offers the recipe free to any who need it. Address Joan B Capex 42 Cedar St New York for details. Also ads for new wall paper stock by Tinoex and McLats promoting Ames Story county offerings.
Crrcaco publishes a new musical monthly The Musical Review with the June number before readers. Editor George B Armstrong gains praise for his critic’s reputation and the journal’s scholarly tone. Send 15 cents to Musical Review 58 Fifth Ave Chicago for two sample copies by return mail.
Howard P. McLain administrator of Susan McLain deceased seeks court order to sell 1.5 acres described as portion of lot 21 in Township 84 Range 23, water rights included. Proceeds to pay debts and admin costs. Respond by noon of the second day of the next term starting October 1, 1877. Raixnon Banges attorneys.
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