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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1893
Page
3
Chicago and North Western Railway timetable lists GOING EAST and WEST schedules. Details include variousExpress and Limited trains with arrival and departure times, freight and accommodation services, and notes for passenger service. Agent GEO. W. Rogers signs off with Sunday notation.
Des Moines visitors and local residents share travels health and social updates. Mrs. Read sick in Ames. many names travel to Chicago Nevada Holdridge Hold the wedding visit sequences. Rev Henderson injures himself after church. Hoggatt seeks sanatorium relief in Battle Creek. social club events feature World's Fair program.
C A Duntz travels to Dakota to buy land for future use. C H Lies travels to Oxford from the death of his father. J F Herman from Boone visits to tend their sho e house as Tallman moves. R P Crawford takes a vacation in Anamosa. News notes include 18 ladies sewing carpet rags for Mrs Nelson Taylor who hosted them for meals without pay. Dr Hunt and C W McElyea return from New York state with the body of Mrs Hunt and burial details at Theresa cemetery. Mrs Hunt, Emma M Gates, formerly of Antwerp now of Ames, laid to rest with fraternal rites. husband mourns, mother and sister survive.
A fifth anniversary gathering at Mr. and Mrs. H. Davis home ends with guests surprised at home. Social games recalling earlier days entertain all ages. Masters Cooper Lang provide music as Mrs. Armstrong reads poetry and Mr. D Lang gives a speech and keepsake presentation until 3 30 a.m.
A. E. Markham's Ole Olson's Troubles Co presents a Swedish dialect comedy at the opera house on Tuesday evening March 21. Ole Olson by A E Markham delivers nonstop humor with clever specialties, songs and dances by Mamie McClure Pressly Perry Bessie Burroughs and Savoni. Reserved seats at Westerman Arnold's drug store. Prices 35c reserved 25c general.
Coroner's verdict says death came by strangulation with head crushed before burial in a snow bank. The child, afflicted by disease, was seen in January by Dan't Mc Carthy and Parley Sheldon in Des Moines bound for Ames. Investigators cleared the Ames family. a woman in missionary society notes a Tuesday meeting at Mrs. Tilden for the American Missionary Association work.
The Hardin county old court house was sold last week for 165.15 dollars. President Cleveland named his friend Robert Maxwell of New York fourth assistant postmaster general shortly after his inauguration. Maxwell is a brother of local citizen George H. Maxwell.
The Monday vote elected two directors for the full term with only 28 ballots cast. Mrs L. Tilden and Mr Underwood won without opposition. For the first time two women served as judges of election, while jailed, overseeing the proceedings.
Mr. Robert Young weds Miss Margaret Wherry at the residence of Mr. W. F. Templeton near Evergreen Chapel on March 8 1893 with Rev. Byron Clark officiating. Isaac Young hosted a reception the following day. Eppel and Aylsworth from Boone start a cigar manufacturing venture in Eagle Grove. Rev. H Holm moves from Cambridge to serve the Norwegian Lutheran church on Wright street and plans a $3000 home on Lincoln Ave Fitzmaurice addition.
Advertisements offer cultivators stirring plows disc harrows harrows and wagons at cheap prices. Thurston Swan & Co invites customers to visit. Also promotes Fedora hats from Bigelow & Smith as the latest style.
Advertises dental services by C. E. Hunt offering tooth extractions without pain. Highlights pleas for customers seeking relief and affordable care at the Hunt dental parlors.
Local merchants advertise half price sales on shoes furniture and real estate. Promoted items include Reynolds Bros laces and Columbia model 30 furniture, cane seat rockers, barb wire at 3c per pound, and cheap sugar. Mentions of deadlines March 20 and a 30 day closeout.
New pillar extension tables have arrived at J.oud's furniture store. Call and see them. Also Hamilton & Co advertises 25 lbs New Orleans sugar for $1.00 and fresh cabbage parsnips and rutabagas.
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