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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1893
Page
3
The clipping shows a vintage timetable for the Chicago and North Western lines with sections for Going East and Going West, and a Night Express. It lists routes such as Des Moines, Dakotas, and freight lines with times like 4:10, 6:50, 11:30, 1:40, and 10:05 P.M., indicating passenger and freight schedules.
Saturday in Boone and Monday visitors to Ames mark a busy social week. Local residents travel to Des Moines Chicago and Carroll while others host friends and family at Sunday school gatherings and social events. The community follows births visits and farewells as Ottumwa and Des Moines ties appear in letters and reports.
Local ads list good cow for sale at $40.00 and pasture near Ames. Offers include White enamel and brass curtain poles, corsets and waists, ladies shoes, Oxfords, Chenille curtains, leather seat rockers, bicycles, farming implements, dress goods, seed potatoes, and bicycles. Zenor & Son promotes Columbia bicycles and stock. May 1 1898 payment notice for B A Lockwood debts. Mrs Beck heads to Chicago then Vermot.
An ad from J. F. Kintzley at Union Nat Bank promotes the O K Barber Shop offering hair cutting, shaving, shampooing, and child hair clipping at low prices with best work claimed in the city. Also notes a May Musical at the college chapel and Masonic lodge leadership changes with Dr Hunt elected W M and L C Tilden named Senior Deacon to fill vacancy.
People in Ames Iowa can apply to L B Read for Light Brahma eggs at 50 cents per setting. Local bakers near Ames are urged to try Sisson's Fine Flour for bread, with the slogan It takes the cake.
A dense classifieds collage offers cheap cultivators and farm tools from Thurston Swan & Co, bicycles from Zenor & Son, Hebra's Viola cream via L. M. Kosworth, White Flour from Sis son, and real estate and loan services by Hemstreet & McLAIN. Also listed are lime from Queal & Co, canned fruit from Hamilton & Co, shirts from C. M. Soper, and various apparel and groceries, plus veterinary cures and a Blemish Cure from L. M. Bosworth.
The Ames Bicycle Club will hold an important meeting at the K P Hall tomorrow Friday evening at 8 o clock by order of the club president.
Pastor Thomas M. Rickman announces the withdrawal of the Infant Baptism sermon planned for May 7 and states evangelist Geo. I. Brewer will preach both morning and evening at the Ames Baptist Church. All are invited.
Ames readers learn of youths using a box car for penny ante games and a crackdown led by Marshal Hoggatt. The report also covers the death of L B Carpenter a 19 year old IA C Freshman from measles and subsequent pneumonia with funeral details and campus tributes.
The town notes a Madame Janauschek performance at the opera house Saturday evening. Geo H. Brewer to occupy the Baptist pulpit next Sunday. W W Talbott buys J M Butcher’s business. Communion and preparatory meetings slated at local churches. Reports of deaths, baptisms, and community events fill the week.
The upcoming performance features Janauschek on May 13 at the city opera house. Tickets and venue details are available through the box office.
Memorial Day arrangements are advancing for Tuesday May 30 with Capt Youmans of Fort Dodge as speaker and Miss Chambers in charge of music. The ceremonies will follow the traditional format used in prior years.
Raymond M Bacon youngest son of Mr and Mrs J M Bacon of Ames died in Albuquerque New Mexico after a seven week illness of typhoid pneumonia He was 19 years 3 months and 8 days old Born near Ames he traveled the country before a brief stop in El Paso and Pomona His death grieved his family and friends and the X M C A aided in his care burial occurred in Albuquerque with his parents notified by his son in law W H Pierce of Pomona California.
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