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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1894
Page
7
Ames residents visit Des Moines Boone and Nevada with many traveling relatives and guests. Notables include Miss Hodgkins Rose Bartlett and a piano of poems. Dr Tomlinson praised for care to Mrs John Hoggatt. Keley’s army rumor draws a crowd to the depot.
The ad copy asks if you prefer accurate prompt grocery orders and value trading with a firm that appreciates your business. It highlights reliable service and customer appreciation as key selling points.
W F Chevalier of Red Oak shakes hands in the city and Mrs W O Payne and Miss Polly Neasham of Nevada visit P E O society with Miss Flora Wilson. County Treasurer Miller tends young trees on Ames property and tidies a cemetery lot. Col Hoggatt returns from Des Moines after seeing Kelleys army march. Thos Story of Turner Junction Ill visits Ames for town lots and property. Mrs Emma J Scott reports Mrs Olmstead improving. ELadium Suodolem will visit soon.
Joseph Applegate, about 60, living on the old Craig farm near Bloomington, was fatally injured Monday afternoon when he was crushed between railroad cars while crossing the tracks between the McGuire building and the elevator. He died at home about twenty four hours later. Doctor Merryman treated him at the scene.
In Vermillion Dated April 28 a correction states M L H Santee of Schofield Shurmer Teagle Co Cleveland and a Mrs Harry Martin were involved in alleged family troubles but a hotel encounter with a lady led two youths claiming to be reporters to misreport the matter. The correction says the prior Register story was wholly false and harmed both parties.
The article reviews Sec 1548 which imposes a $10 fine and 30 days jail for intoxication, with magistrates allowed to remit penalties if the offender testifies about liquor sources. It warns youths to consider the law when planning leisure and to reveal where they obtained liquor.
The MecGibeny Opera Company of 16 artists impressed the Monmouth Sentinel with singing dancing and comic opera charm. The full brass band impressed in a packed music hall. The May 8 1894 performance at the opera house drew strong demand with tickets at 50 cents.
A set of short notices include a trespass warning from B A Lockwoop, a plan for a ladies band in Ames, a remark on Sundays rain, a car dealer ad for Loughran selling high grade buggies, a W C T U meeting, a note about Mr Rankin visiting, a violinist remark about the Pio neer Press Leri Ramnold, chapel event at College Chapel, an ad for the perfect planter, a Force Drop corn product, a coal train wreck with no injuries.
Mr and Mrs Seth Kingsbury welcomed twin daughters Friday morning. The mother and babies are doing well with family joy and well wishes pouring in from relatives and friends.
General Superintendent Sanborn and C. N. W. Ry officials visited Des Moines on Tuesday night for an inspection tour. They returned Wednesday morning, continued northward, came back in the evening, and then proceeded west.
The original drummer known as the Boy of the Rappahannock and his son, a top American fifist, appear at Opera Hall on Saturday evening May 19 under the W R C auspices.
The note reports Mr. Lockwood plans to shut down a card playing shop and liquor resort in town by offering no free accommodations for such patrons. It also notes a schedule change shortening No. 7 and the fast mail trip to Des Moines to leave at 11 o'clock, likely starting Monday with time changes taking effect Sunday at noon.
The Knight Templar Commandery of Boone plans a special Friday evening meeting. About six to seven Ames residents are expected to attend. Next Monday evening the 3x3 Chapter of Nevada will meet to exercise the goat.
Grove Bros. keep pace with the procession and head the line with a new vegetable fountain that ornaments their west window. It promises patrons vegetables in excellent preservation and quality.
Kelley’s army arrived in Des Moines on Sunday and marched to the stove works building near the fair grounds. They camp there hoping for railroad fare to continue toward Washington. Locals provide at most two meals daily and crowd grows tired of feeding them while awaiting their next move.
A C Rankin the temperance lecturer starts a six meeting series in Ames on Sunday evening May 20. He has worked in Iowa for months and is regarded as a leading speaker in his field. The free lectures feature enthusiastic talks and testimony from many places of good accomplished with good music.
A small cultivated audience gathered last Friday to hear Nagarkar discuss Brahma Samaj doctrines. While some were disappointed by limited history of the movement, the speaker impressed with pleasant presentation and fluent English.
Multiple notices offer farm assets and services around Ames including eighty acres of blue grass pasture west of town, Keystone Woven Wire fence inquiries through Franklin and Washington townships, agents M W Templeton and Dr H M Templeton, and A D Benson at the old Fitchpatrick place. Also advertised are fruit trees and landscaping by A J Graves & Son, buggies by W J Zenor, a wallpaper cleaner at Hamilton & Co, shoes from Caniel Bros and Herman, chocolate cream coffee at Adams Bros, fresh fruit by W Sheldon, low shoes by Camier Bros & Herman, lace imports from New York, G G Tilden Es t a t s, Metzer's Lightning Colic Cure via H D Miller, and footwear deals from Lanier Bros & Herman.
Twelve farms 80 to 320 acres each near a railroad town in Kossuth County offered at 18 to 22 dollars per acre. Properties are cultivated with fair buildings and flowing wells, possession in fall, small down payment with long term at seven percent interest. Address Gro C Call Algona Iowa.
G Newman the oil man offers repair or cleaning of gasoline stoves at reasonable rates. He will call when you hear the bell clang and return stoves in good condition. Also notes on local ads for butter and eggs prices, old papers, carpets, vegetables, plow shoes, tobacco remedy No-to-Bac, and patent attorney services.
The Des Moines Twice-a-week News announces no extra fee for tooth extraction at C. E. Hunt's dental parlors. Subscriptions are 50 cents a year until May 1, after which the price returns to a dollar. Address The News Des Moines Iowa. Why Don't You.
Friction during a freshman reception led to substitute speakers and a refilled refreshments table as juniors and seniors handled the setback. A destructive fire on Story street burned eight to ten buildings, starting in Marsh & Merchants barn, with $30,000 in losses and $16,000 insured. Locals describe whisky theft incidents involving Ed Downs and John Williamson, leading to jail time for both after a court appearance.
District Court drags with Mrs. Dr. Bartlett vs Dr. Merryman ending in a hung jury and a retrial likely. Ames sees indictments from the grand jury, one for a burglar at Bigelow & Smith and another for Brenneman for maintaining a nuisance. Also notes on Mrs. Macomber’s continued charm and a lecture at Congregational church. Notices announce dissolution of Semstreet & McLain partnership and payments to Hemstreet.
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