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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1881
Page
3
Classified items include goods from J C Mitchell Nevada Browns store and Thomas Soper Sons selling hosiery collars and cuffs. Local notes mention a flood in Ames mailhouse taxidermy wild cat and Napoleon anecdote along with school book war end and population figures for 1880. Moving away of J T Barrett and W H Barrett from Story County highlighted by Representative.
A dealer asserts that new customers wrongfully doubt they will allow underselling and states readiness to price as low as any competitor. He invites customers to come and see.
In Ames on March 16 by Rev W P Bennett Jacob A White of Boone County and Miss Sarah Crossley of Ames wed. On March 14 at the brides parents residence Rev Bennett joined D Maitland Hayden and Christine J Shearer of Ames. W M Saner to Shockley Clark bakers in city praised as a first class moral man and famed lightning bread maker.
Weather report for the week ending Wednesday March 23 notes mixed skies and NW winds with periods of cloudiness and brief clear spells. The School Board held its regular annual meeting Monday electing Wm West president and organizing new members Underwood and Meredith. A committee was named to study schoolhouse plans, while farmers face spring work and delayed plowing and husking across Iowa and Illinois amid storm disruptions and Chicago freight congestion.
The Ames notice reports Boone’s high dog density, followed by a weather column predicting April 1881 conditions with three divisions, wind shifts, storms, and auroras. It also covers Daniel W. Robinson’s suicide, Royal Recitations by J. B. Coon at Opera Hall, and a chaotic Ames lecture with a live raccoon on stage ending in a partial profit and lasting memory.
Eprron Representative Joan R. Hays states she will not seek the Auditor position in the coming election. She thanks supporters and affirms she has served the public faithfully, wishing someone else the office while praising honest speech and restraint in public life.
The Second Annual Convention of the Story county Temperance Union will be held in Ames March 30 and 31 at 2 pm in the Methodist church. Mrs Laura G Fixon will lecture on What We Foreigners Want in Story City March 29 and on Ink Bottle vs Whiskey Jug at the convention. Delegates urged from churches Sunday schools and temperance groups with lodging and entertainment arranged by Mrs J H Soper at Ames.
Mr. P. L. Porter relocates his creamery to Ames Iowa and expands capacity aiming for about two thousand pounds of butter daily. He patents Porter’s Water and Air Milk Can a 12 1 2 inch by 16 inch device with a central air tube cooled by outside water to circulate cold air and keep milk cool. Des Moines manufacture price is $2.25 per can and he favors it over the Cooley can triple the price.
An advertisement touts Shilohs Consumption Cure as the best cough medicine curing common and chronic coughs bronchitis and related ailments in half the time. It claims cures for consumption and other conditions plus a money back guarantee and prices 1 cent 50 cents and 1 dollar. Sold by D Bs Bosworth & Co with Shilohs Porous Plaster also offered.
An advertisement touts a cure for catarrh diphtheria canker mouth and headache. Each bottle includes a nasal injector for more effective treatment at no extra charge. Price in cents. Sold by Bosworth & Co.
For sale in spring 1881, 20 000 three year old apple trees at eight dollars per hundred. Trees are even sized, strong, well shaped and of hardy proven varieties including Ben Davis and many others. Hybrid Crabs such as Queens Choice and Lake Winter are included. Varieties lean toward large showy fruit less blight prone, from Phyrus Astrachanica stock. Address J L Rupp Agricultural College Ames Iowa.
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