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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1893
Page
4
At the College Chapel Misses Chambers present a concert featuring Mr Heighton of Des Moines and department of music pupils. Proceeds go to the YWCA college chapter to fund sending representatives to the Lake Geneva Wisconsin summer school. Admission is 25 cents.
Harry Barrows returns home as Misses Stone, Close, Pope, and others travel to Winslow Des Moines Odell and Ames. News on family visits, illness improving, Sabbath school picnics, teaching assignments, travel to Council Bluffs, and an upcoming wedding announcement for Stephanie Marx and Charles William Curtis in Washington.
Sunday visits and hometown travels fill the week as Carroll, Story City, Des Moines, and nearby communities report residents visiting relatives, camping with family, and attending events. Highlights include engagements, family gatherings, and local commerce, with notes on travelers to the World’s Fair and a post office jewelry store transition.
Advertisement style plea from Bier Low & Sarra and Grove Bros. asks all debtors, including those with January 1 1893 accounts, to pay as much as possible to meet immediate bills. The notice promotes stock from summer dress goods to hats and shoes, with bargain prices and home delivery.
Grove Bros. advertises gasoline and White Rose flour at 1.00 a sack with quality guaranteed by Adams Bros. Hebra's Viola cream is praised at L M Bosworth's. Daniel Bros. & Herman hold a clearing sale of ladies Oxfords this week. California dried grapes priced at 5c at Grove Bros. Try them.
An ad promises tooth extractions without pain at the dental parlors of C. E. Hunt. It emphasizes no extra charge for the painless service.
New shipment of Souvenir china arrives. HamMiLtron & Co offers first class fruit at Good table peaches 15c a can. Adams Bros advertises ham and fruit. Rock Island hay loaders available at Loughran s. Diamond Bluff sack goods $1.00 at Grove Bros. Til den's sells Superlative flour for $1.00 a sack.
A druggist in Ames Iowa promotes a single bottle remedy that allegedly removes hard or soft lumps and blemishes from horses and curbs spavin splints sweeney ring bone stifles sprains swollen throats and coughs saving buyers $50. The ad credits L M Bosworth as the local seller.
A Thurston, Swan and Co advertisement urges readers to buy gasoline stoves to beat the heat noting the stoves are valuable in such weather and offered at bargain prices.
A 10 percent discount applies for cash purchases on all men's boys and children's clothing at Tilden's through July 4.
The ladies W C T U will meet at the Methodist church next Tuesday afternoon June 20 at 3 o'clock. All interested invited. Mrs J McDaniel secretary. Go to the D C Freed Company for ice cream they are prepared to furnish it and will send it to any part of the city.
The experience social given by the M. E. ladies last Friday evening drew a large attendance and pleased all. The event was financially rewarding for the ladies. Children’s Day is set for Congregational church with a morning sermon and a Columbian concert titled My country in the evening. The church will be decorated with flowers and flags and all are invited.
Obituary for Susan Wooten near Duff place north of town after a three week illness. Burial planned at Iowa Center with a union prayer meeting to follow at United Brethren church as churches consider monthly unity services. Burglars hit Hutchinson Bros. & Son’s store at coal banks stealing $136 and escaping. one pair of shoes forgotten. Temperance meeting on south side school grounds draws good attendance and strong address by Prof. Wilson despite some locals drinking.
About 1100 acres in Jim River Valley between the James and Pipestone rivers. Land near the Jamestown & Northern NP R R branch, mostly under cultivation with good yields in wheat and barley. Available in one quarter sections with favorable terms for real estate trades. buyer could secure a home for under one third price. Auction-like appeal cites nearby sales and rising regional demand.
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