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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1888
Page
4
Long Ames note on spring talk and street plans. Weather change hints, social events, church notices, and local commerce updates. mentions Council, water works, and potential bonds to fund a 5 000 person system. reflects upbeat civic optimism with individuals like Mrs Huntington mourned.
A report from G A R Hall details a lively Saturday meeting with speakers Nelson and Field winning audience engagement. The item lists attendees and notes Des Moines officials traveling to present. Vernacular mentions Moore municipal race results in Nevada and Story City, with Capt. Browns pew building becoming available April first for cash grocer and Hodgson taking Nourse’s room.
Mrs Cairns travels with husband to the northwest visiting Omaha and Nevada areas and reports storms and regional scenery. Mrs Kate Condit and Mrs Bosworth install officers of Jason D Ferguson W R C at Nevada with Henry Wilson Jr presenting badges. Locals Karl Granger teaches near Webster City and prepares for IA C term. Frank Shockley and family move to Stone City. E Loughran in Des Moines. Capt Brown and wife visit the State capital. Miss Wilkinson closes Pleasant Grove school. Miltie Little contracts measles as illness spreads. Miss Rose Bartlett heads to Detroit for several months. John Elliott family relocates. Mrs Winterspeed visits her parents Loughran.
A Republican club named the Wm. B. Allison club of Story City was organized last Saturday evening in Story City. Officers: E. L. Erickson, President. T. T. Haryson and H. S. Larson, Vice Presidents. O. B. Peterson, Secretary. H. R. Boyd, S. R. Corneliusson and L. J. Tjernagie, Executive Committee.
Local ads tout D A Breeston Co and Nourse selling yeast powder and extracts. Headlines urge readers to visit George G Tilden for new spring trousers and note Hamilton & Co offer low price flour in Story County. Also mention new hats and butter offers and school election polls open 12 m to 4 p m under a new law.
Advertisement notes a fine line of pants with all new styles and patterns offered by D. A. Breetow & Co.
College notes describe the new term at L. A. C. with eight freshmen, rising attendance, and strong returns from last year’s seniors. Miss Gun arrives as preceptress and language instructor, while Clarance Baker has left for Des Moines to serve in the Legislature. Measles case impacts the campus as Holmes departs due to sickness.
A list of affordable properties includes a 10 room house with lot on the north side for 140 dollars, a large house and barn at 6000 dollars, a south side house and lot at 3500, a 139 acre farm with 139 acres and fruit trees, and other dozen properties. The broker invites land trades and notes multiple locations and acreage.
The Republicans of Washington Two will hold a meeting at the Ames town hall on Saturday March 10 1888 at 3 pm to select six delegates for the county convention at Nevada on March 17 1888.
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