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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1891
Page
3
Reading shows a railroad timetable listing the Omaha Express and Des Moines Freight lines with going west and going east directions. Scattered fragments mention trains, stations, and numbers, indicating a period-era rail schedule.
Miss Vera Kistler visits Des Moines for a week while L. H. Bingham travels to Hardin County on business. Miss Myra Stevens of Nevada stays with Miss Maggie Jones, and Miss Hattie Sheldon visits Ames group at Lake View. The Ames colony returns from Lake View medicinal waters. Albert J. Lamb, former Ames resident, dies in Oxford Mississippi. Various visits, health updates, marriages, and a note on Beardshear’s Toronto trip and the G A R meeting. The motor line is touted as a successful venture.
The W R C will meet tomorrow afternoon at the usual time with all members urged to attend. The M E church ladies host an ice cream and cake sociable at M Hemstreet’s residence this Thursday evening with a cordial invitation to all.
Last week featured multiple group picnics with local sites. A party of ladies visited Hannum's Mill, another group of young ladies went on an outing, and about twenty young ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a picnic at Soper's Mill.
Cel Hoggatt intends issuing an official invitation to the elect in politics to meet in a mass convention at Nevada on Saturday August 15 to confer for their own and the country's good. All who endorse the Ocala and Cincinnati platforms will be welcome.
Constable Sullivan arrested painter John Gorman in Ames on Saturday. He had worked in the city and moved to Ames for cases on Agricultural Buildings. Before leaving he owed boarding house keeper D. J. Desmond $25.90. He appeared before Justice Storts and was sentenced to fifteen days in jail.
Rev C P Boardman of Humboldt and Rev F J Douglass swap pulpits next Sabbath. Boardman attended the Christian Endeavor Convention in Minneapolis and will address the Congregational church society at 8 p m with a convention report. He will also preach at Gilbert at 3 p m.
The July Wide Awake lists multiple readers for all ages including A Dream land Lantern The Rogue s Path The Anti Boy Picnic Ye Boston Grasshopper The Wrong Muscles Amy Robsart s Embroidery at Leicester Hospital How Teddy Morris made the Weather My Sea Daisies Pussy in Private Life Five Little Peppers Grown Up The Chimney Swallow Miss Matilda Archambeau Van Dorn Marietta s Good Times How One Mother is being Brought Up A Midnight Ride Grim the Corn Thief and Guess God won t be angry wishes. Wide Awake priced at 2.40 per year 20 cents per number. A specimen back number available for 5 cents. D Lothrop Company Boston.
Episcopal services Sunday evening July 26 at eight o'clock in Odd Fellows hall under Rev Mr Bohm. A cordial invitation to all to attend. College opens today with a full corps of instructors and students and every indication of a successful term for all concerned.
Agent Rogers reports a sale of 270 tickets to Boone for the 24 hours ending Tuesday p.m. Of these the 164 circus tickets sold out while the rest met demand.
The IAC music program welcomes Miss Jennie Gratz, Cincinnati College of Music graduate, to teach violin. A series of monthly recitals will begin soon. The town faces a puritanical stir with warnings to pool rooms and temperance talk tied to late night entertainments.
The text states round trip fare to Detroit for the G A R meeting from Ames will be 17 dollars 55 cents, cheaper than a full Chicago round trip. If enough travelers sign up a sleeper will be arranged at Boone with double berths priced at 4 dollars to Detroit.
A new music book by Prof. Chas F Escher features 32 lithograph portraits and selections from Beethoven Mozart Liszt Mendelssohn and others. At 450 pages it aims to please beginners and artists, with H J Smith & Co Philadelphia as publishers.
The notice informs readers that Supt Roe will end his term at the County Normal with plans for a better closure than prior years. It praises his progressive leadership and notes his departure ends an era of significant benefit and a spotless record in Iowa education.
Clayton Colcord is clerking for G A Shockley. W O Payne of Nevada was a Story caller Friday of last week. Rev Shervan formerly of Story City now of Orville Wisconsin is visiting. John Butler is erecting a new lumber shed. Brattebo Brattebo Co is the liverymen. Rumor says another hotel will be built here in the near future.
Wet weather helps corn while small grain harvest suffers. Labor in demand. farms sell land to Roland buyers. local residents move properties and plan a lawn festival to benefit the church. Missionary appointment announced. Pat Burns group trial ends with fines. Burns at large, Kelly jailed, Cory restless crowd. Alibi clears Mark Dwyer. A warning to improve conduct.
For the National Encampment in Detroit Michigan from August 3 to 5 the Chicago and North Western Railway offers half-rate excursion tickets. Tickets valid July 31 to August 2 inclusive and cover round trip travel. Inquiries and tickets available through C N W Railway agents.
Ames column describes travel with D B Bisbee to Minneapolis for the 1908 Christian Endeavor convention. Readers meet hosts Walter Trotter in Marshalltown and attend the Windsor Hotel, expo building, and a 20 000 seat auditorium. Key talks include Rev Dr G H Wells of Montreal and Francis E Clark. Prohibition stance noted and Iowa delegates honored at Calvary Baptist reception.
In Ames Iowa July 20 1891 Frank L Meredith notes New York city delegates won the 1892 convention and promise good entertainment if eastward travel is done. He suggests Minneapolis impressed in 1891 and urges attendance next year at the convention. Also reports Nevada Iowa hosts normal institute starting August 3 offering four weeks for teachers and hopefuls. A North American Review writer asks if lying is wrong, remarking editors could not lie even if they tried.
A compact list shows time card details for Ames and College train connections with various interchanges. Also advertised are dinner sets, tea sets, watermelons, flour, pineapple cheese, and organs from Story & Clark Farrand & Votey with invitations to inspect catalogs and prices at Grove’s.
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