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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1878
Page
3
Peremax builds a bake oven behind his restaurant and offers bakers supplies. Tux Nevada brass band buys a band wagon and visits the city with music. Boyd Chapman sells harvesting machinery and farm implements cheap. Fauuen Husesarp’s team ran away causing a heavy loss. a $210 reaper was damaged.
Second hand threshing machine for sale with good horsepower. Interested buyers urged to call for information.
Postmistress Lucas announces the reestablishment of a night mail service to and from Chicago. The first mail will be received tonight and sent east, restoring late shipments and improving business communications.
The new store in Story county prides itself on best stock and neat inviting premises. It offers a wide line of goods at low prices and promises to pay the highest market price for butter and eggs.
A woman called on Dr. Meredith at Justice Gr eely's office to have eight teeth pulled. After the first tooth, two lawyers taking depositions paused the session for a rest. The tone mocks lawyers as kindly beings.
Thomas and McLain announce eight varieties of machine oils in stock including Amber Engine Neutral Arctic Extra Lard Whale and Castor. Oils chosen for purity and lasting quality offered at low prices.
The agency for most insurance companies and the business represented by the late N H Granger is turned over to Dr J Starr. All companies represented by him are first class and the public is advised Starr is an honorable and agreeable gentleman to do business with.
William West, Esq., left a sample cut of Nebraska wheat gathered during his late visit. He praised portions of Nebraska and stated that in the best part of the state desirable farming lands are selling at very low figures.
In Sherman township two horses working in a field died from overheating. John Heberlin of Sherman township suffered severe sunstroke Friday and nearly went mad on reaching home. The report also notes two prisoners, Rounds and Tompson, chained and fed on bread and water after breaking their shackles. blacksmith Gates re-secured them.
The Jefferson Bee reports Col L Q Hoggatt of Ames visiting the Bee office and predicting Greenback success in Story County. He calls the congressional nominee a lean Hoosier from the Wabash ague belt and claims the county will vote Greenback this fall, predicting Paine fell short by about 1000 votes last election.
From Friday to Tuesday intense sun made life uncomfortable with temperatures from 85 to 90 and 102 in the shade, with no air movement. No sunstroke cases were reported in the county though many workers left fields for shade or indoor rest.
Governor Gear’s proclamation targets tramps seen as not seeking work and prompts county officers to act. Farmers in Illinois offer $2 to $2.50 daily, suggesting Iowa workers should pay poll taxes to access roads and labor. The writer predicts many able-bodied men will leave Iowa within a month as tramps depart.
Alice Beckwith seventeen, eldest daughter of H. B. Beckwith, died after a kerosene lamp exploded at their home six miles southeast of town. The blaze engulfed her, parents and another family member smothered flames, father burned while trying to aid. A cautious family report cites lamp design and wick size as causes.
The text notes a partner for a shop with W. H. Hopkins of Ames and predicts profitable business. A new groceryman Harred refits stock to a first class family grocery. Town adds dry goods stores, Hartman travels to Chicago to stock a new store room. Shipping becomes the biggest activity with 44 car loads of grain and 27 hogs in June, and Sheldahl rival's 71 car loads a month.
Sunday morning a crowd of 596 Mormon converts, mainly Scandinavians with some English Germans and Welsh, traveled by a 14 coach 4 baggage car train from Ames to Utah under Mr Cook of the Utah Missionary Society. They include Lawrence Young, Brigham Young's son, and will be settled among 225 settlements in the Territory. One Elder Hyde died en route at age 40, and a six month old child died at sea. a measles case affected one woman while the rest were in good health.
Personal mentions include Mrs A G Ryther and Master Freddie Ryther of Chicago visiting friends Mrs N B Gates and daughters and Miss Etla Barnes of Port Huron Michigan visiting, Ed Monroe back from Black Hills, Charles Skinner's cousin Mrs Hayes starting a one month trip to Chicago Crystal Lake and Ohio, L H Bingham in Evansville Wisconsin, Miss Belle Barrell visiting near Cedar Rapids, Flave J West away in Norway, Mrs W F Barber's grandmother Mrs Rice of New York visiting, Miss Zella West of Chicago planning to make Ames home, Miss Lockwood visiting niece of Maquoketa, W D Lucas and wife at A E Lucas wedding at Grundy Centre, Mayor Underwood stricken with cholera morbus, Mrs Compton leaving for Ohio, Miss Cora Gage visiting with grandfather W H Cole.
A pleasant shower drenched the area yesterday between five and six o'clock. No wind or thunder accompanied the rain, simply a welcome cool down after heat.
Telegrams report extreme heat across multiple cities with prostrations near 150 in St. Louis and Sunstroke cases rising in Quincy Burlington Davenport Keokuk and other towns. Fatalities include a German musician and a traveling salesman as temperatures reach about 100 to 107 degrees.
An advertisement asserts Green's August Flower cures Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia with symptoms like headache and dizziness. It claims wide Western sales and offers a sample bottle for 10 cents with three doses claimed to relieve. Sold by J. J. Boussevet.
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