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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
5
Local paragraphs list advertising charges per line with 5c for events with fees and 25c for cards of thanks. one free publication for church lodge and club notices. The column then catalogs numerous Ames area social notes, visits, travels, and upcoming events with many named residents and towns through the week.
Last week for $1.50 season tickets for all Chautauqua numbers. After August prices rise to $2.00. Children 8 to 16 pay $1.00. Tickets from Judisch and Bosworth, or secretary J A Campbell. See talent lineup and grounds facilities west of North Branch O N W, north of main line.
Only a few left of those eight foot long porch or lawn seats made of hard maple and iron to close out. Each priced at $1.50. Sale location 162 Van Chamberlain.
James Alverson a farm hand working northeast of Nevada died Monday at 5 30 p m from injuries on Greely Handsaker farm. He had mowed and dropped a fork prong down a chute when the handle struck his bowels tearing ten inches into his body. He removed the handle himself before help arrived. Physicians tried to save him but he died. His parents live at Batavia where the body was taken.
L C Van Dyke died March 23 1908 after a long illness first noted in 1901. Born near Knoxville Iowa June 27 1862 he lived in Ames Boone Frankfort Clarinda and Webster Kansas. He was married to Carrie A Kurtz and united with the Methodist Episcopal church as a child. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Carven and he was buried in Clarinda.
The piece argues saving money is crucial as most earners spend nine dollars per dollar saved. Small prudent purchases like garden seeds or a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy can prevent larger expenses, with Loughran & Bauer selling the remedy.
The Woman's Exchange will be ready for business on Tuesday August 2 offering services and merchandise to the community.
A door to door style sales pitch urging purchase of Chamberlain's remedy for immediate use in case of colic cholera and diarrhoea. It states the product may save a life and promotes sale by Loughran and Bauer.
The Civic Improvement Club invites Ames residents and others to a basket picnic at City Park on Friday August 5 at 8 p.m. A speaker from abroad is expected to discuss civic improvement. Attendees may bring baskets. coffee and lemonade will be sold by club ladies.
Rath, a young girl from Agnewville Virginia, survived cholera infantum after her parents used Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. They had given up hope, but within five hours the child improved and was nearly cured after a small bottle was finished. The remedy is sold by Loughran Bauer.
The M. B. church and Sunday School held a picnic last Thursday in Worrel grove southwest of the city. Between one and two hundred attendees enjoyed a perfect day. The Young Bachelors defeated the Married Men 26 to 15 in a lively afternoon ball game umpired by Miss Ethel Cessna.
Rena F Merchant transfers to R E Huston a lot 4 block 3 Beardshears addition Ames for 575 dollars. J and Z Graves with wives transfer to L Stevens the east half and the south half of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter section 16 township 88 range 24 for 400 dollars. O A Haughland to F P Kalsem for 482 dollars a 174 by 600 feet tract beginning 175 feet east of the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of section 23 township 82 range 24. Dyer Martin transfers to Citizens Lumber Co for 1 dollar a lot 6 block 15 Borns addition Ames.
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