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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1885
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered mentions of Chicago Ames and numbers with stray letters. No coherent event or clear names emerge to form a full news item or summary. The readable bits suggest ad like snippets and scattered references without a definite story or outcome.
Passenger train times listed for the Montour route with 16 cars and freight connections. Schedule shows departures and arrivals at 4:50 a.m., 1:00 a.m., 5:06 p.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 6:30 a.m. along with freight passenger service notes.
R. W. Ballard of Story City seeks the Republican County Convention nomination for County Supervisor. He asks the editor to announce his candidacy dated May 1st, 1885.
Lafayette two farmer Mr. T. J. Moses declares his candidacy for sheriff subject to the County Republican Convention. Described as intelligent industrious and of irreproachable character he is hailed as an old soldier of the Republic and deemed eminently fit to discharge the duties of sheriff.
Mrs. E J Stewart returns east while Pat Hurcuison visits Carroll and a Sweeney brother visits Ames. Mrs A H Thayer stays in the capital city. Dora Hamilton heads to Marshalltown. Billy Miles's new Ames house ready. Dr Waterman reports business in Ames and sale of a Story Street residence offered by G E Bisbee. Neighbor notes include local parties, sewing society, agricultural college delegates in Washington, and weather and band outings.
Mr. H. Hopers and his wife reunited with two daughters who had stayed in Vermont after the move to Iowa. Cou. Preverr of Waterloo visited with his daughter who had spent several weeks with her brother J. H. and his family, returning home Tuesday.
The Ames club posted 30 runs to 7 for the State Center organization on the fourth at State Center. A pleasant call Friday from Mr. W. W. Wilson of Gilbert is noted. He recently bought a fine thoroughbred mare and her colt from Mr. Sheldon, who takes pride in the purchase.
A physician, Gilbert Clark, M. D., states that any user of Hunt's Remedy will certify to its excellence as a standard remedy for dropsy and kidney diseases.
Mr. T. B. Howland of Milford is building a large barn. Also noted in the township are Henry Kersey constructing an elegant house and Frank Curtis a fine barn as part of local improvements.
Miss Belle Gaston filled a teacher position near Swede's Point for three months and returned home in this city last Saturday.
Rev. C. E. Movaron left Tuesday for Spirit Lake and will remain several days to preach on Sabbath. There will be no services in the Congregational Church Sunday unless another notice appears in this issue.
Hon. Samuel James, President of the Vermont Sheep Growers Association, and his wife visit Dr. Richmonds family. The narrative recalls James traveling through Iowa about thirty years earlier and purchasing land near Grinnell when the town had only a few houses.
Week ending July 1 1855 shows multiple land transfers recorded by H L Carrell Abstract and Loan Agency Nevada Iowa Including Theodore Grubb to Samuel Flickinger for section 30 82 22 Wd price 800 Duncan McMartin to Ethan Akin section 28 85 24 Wwd price 1600 J C Mitchell to Caroline F Lyman section Bik 21 Burris addition Nevada Wd price 34500 Alzina Lopez to Anna Roberson lot 2 block 14 Ames W a price 480
A public notice urges homeowners to meet health board requirements for cleaning and sanitizing house, cellar, and surroundings. It stresses prompt action and compliance to avoid penalties.
The divorced wife of a Bonanza millionaire died after taking chloral which unsettled her mind. The piece promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for general debility, nerve weakness, and poor digestion, claiming it would have strengthened her to fight sorrows.
Spots on the sun enlarge and drift across the solar face with the central largest spot appearing as the progenitor of several smaller ones. Observers using smoked glass and a telescope note a great upheaval in the sun’s luminous atmosphere, resembling a storm.
The July issue of St Nicholas presents Edward Eggleston's A School of Long Ago and Washington's First Correspondence. It surveys early American government from Carpenter's Hall to the Declaration, with The Liberty Bell poem by Brooks and features Elizabeth Zane and Ensign Gibbons in Letter-box and A School Afloat.
A column laments tardiness at Ames churches on Sabbath and recalls a pastor in the east who prayed for those arriving early and those yet to arrive as a remedy. The writer asks if this method could work in Ames and notes it is easier to be early than late.
Perkins and Son offer market fresh beef pork mutton veal ham sausage lard and tallow. They invite Ames and nearby citizens to patronize their shop for choicest cuts.
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