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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1880
Page
4
The Republic county convention will meet at the Nevada courthouse to choose delegates. Representation favors townships with two votes plus one more for votes exceeding a threshold from the last gubernatorial election. Details on township entitlements and ratios follow.
A scattered Ames Story County update notes a range of items including harvest bids for 10 000 bushels of corn at Gilbert Station state pairs at Bigelow Huntington and Tilden five cents per ax incipient cyclone damage in Boone county and cotton goods reduced by 20 percent at B H T stores. It mentions Fourth of July celebrations across Story City Coto and Ames and lists local figures such as Dr R E Herculus of Des Moines and August 16 teachers institute in Story county with conductors Baughman and Payne. It also records crop comparisons Wright Hamilton counties and a Nevada Ames baseball game outcome and Northern Railway July travel offers.
Farmers who sold corn last fall and winter made clear money as buyers overpaid. A small bidder even offered 250 dollars to take corn off hands. Stock at a LaFayette township sale fetched 34 dollars for a steer and 126 dollars for a half-blood two-year-old colt on a 160 acre farm yielding 2800 dollars in livestock. The county faces a post office bill dispute over a false supplement folded in the paper. A lecture on Home Science by Will Carlton is praised. A ratification meeting for Greenbackers and citizens of Story county to honor Gen J B Weaver in Ames June 30 is planned with speakers to be announced.
Ben Cammett, once tied to a rebellion era incident in Story County, plans to move back after years farming in Plymouth County. He prefers 40 acres of tillable Story land over 160 in Plymouth with ongoing crop losses from grasshoppers and shifting sands.
The piece notes a Chicago and Northwestern fast train schedule from Ames to Chicago arriving 2 50 p m and the New York connection, plus a new railroad town near Callanan with potential land grants for Callanan owners and a cooperative stance from the railroad company. It also references ad insights from the New York Sun on newspaper advertising power and discusses Jupiter and sunspot activity and their possible earthly effects.
The Atlantic carries reviews of Howells and Aldrich plus King Lear and Hunt. A lengthy obituary honors George C Perkins, aged 19, who died after illness following Nevada High School exercises. The Nevada Ames baseball game ends in 14 innings with Ames victorious. Town council actions approve sidewalks, an artesian well fund, and Douglas Street improvements with reporting in The Ames Intelligencer.
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