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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1892
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text shows incomplete rail line references and garbled tokens. Names and dates are unreadable, with partial mentions of a Atlantic Express, Denver, Beebe, and Carey passages. No coherent event or outcome can be deduced from the fragment.
Mrs Simmers returns to Oskaloosa Tuesday. Mrs Loughran visits Nevada and Des Moines. E Sucas of Des Moines surveys town Tuesday. Mrs Leecing back from Louisville Neb. Hale sisters visit Nevada. A I Thayer in Des Moines Monday. Santee visits from Ames. Prof Barrows from Indianola with parents Sunday. Neva Dunn from Gilbert Station visits Liddle sisters. Hattie Sheldon ill this week. James of Grinnell visits Dr Richmond. Bertha Thompson hands mail to Amesites Monday. W L Marshall visits Gilbert Station. Boardman from Nevada visits Simmers. Lynn Chevalier visits mother Saturday. D G Ives and daughter from Ames visit Boone friends. M K Smith accompanies Mrs Simmers to Des Moines. Mrs R L Sonquist and baby due Saturday for weeks with Ames relatives. E S McCord enjoys Turkish Bath at Our theatre. Taylor parents visiting en route from Nebraska. Jen of Des Moines visits Duncan. Cena Thayer welcomed home from Cedar Rapids. Eli Little moves to new house. Judge Weaver spends Sunday with Stevens, returns to Nevada to close term. Etta Budd speaks at Drawing Teachers Convention. Della Jones to Clinton, grandmother joins later. B S Warner of Grand View visits Rev Douglass en route to Webster City. Douglass and Wright attend Town State Congregational Association. Adkinses from Onawa visit Richmonds. Adkins to Webster City. Dr E A Kegley and family visit Cedar Rapids. return Sunday evening. Doctor plans a summer home. W M Handy in Des Moines. will serve as grand juror in U S District Court. Charley Soper recovering from illness ahead of cemetery meeting. Mattie Winter resigns Ogden school post for Ames position. to arrive about the Ist.
Readable items describe the Andrews Raiders oil paintings by W. J. Knight to be shown at the Ames opera house on May 21 with admission two coins and schoolchildren at ten cents. The event is part of a broader Ames news roundup including local visits, doctor updates, and community notices.
The third annual Field Day at Iowa Agricultural College was conducted on campus due to rain damaged grounds. Events took place on a slippery grass track with a light forenoon rain. spectators stayed enthusiastic as winners qualified for the State Field Day in Des Moines on June 3 under referee Gen. J. Rush Lincoln.
A collage of advertisements lists planters, wallpaper, walking plows and hardware, wall clocks and watches, cough remedies, recitals at the Opera House, loans, real estate, insurance, and currency rates. The notices promote sales, wages, and club subscriptions with pricing hints and offerings from Loughran's, McLain's, Geo. Baker, L. M. Bosworth, and Henstrier & McLa.
May 21 College event at 30p.m. admission 25 cents, Drake University versus 1 A C Eggs 12 at Bigelow & Smith’s. May 20 Opera House Boy Orator at Grove & Zenor Co. Best kerosene oil 15 cents per gallon four for $1.00. Stolen black horse from L M Walters near Gilbert Station on Monday night. reward for recovery and arrests.man kicked on left leg by a pit. no bones broken, bruise severe.
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