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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1877
Page
3
Ames notices report the Baptist Sunday School concert planned for Sunday evening June 3. The item notes Des Moines hotel registration and local civic activity among Ames residents.
A fragmentary item notes De Mrrewenn of Marshalltown with a reference to West Hovel on May 30 and mentions catarrh treatment and patient referrals in Ames. It also advertises Baylies Mercantile College scholarships, offers a discount, and laments persistent night disturbances from “cat teasers” and a boot jack pitch er near the Thomas orchestra.
Supt Smart seeks a farm near the depot grounds while the Misses Sweeney promote their latest styles and best millinery at low city prices. In Ames, waiting periods hint at potato farming potential for the town.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters leads a campaign against Fourth of July fire crackers and other loose pyrotechnics, challenging safety concerns even for older youths and some larger children.
A vendor offers letters, envelopes, cards, billheads and state ments printed in a workman like manner at reasonable rates. Estimates on large or small orders cheerfully furnished.
A well traveled gentleman reports magnificent crop prospects in Woodbury Plymouth Cherokee Clay O'Brian Sioux and Lyon counties. He notes crops look fine and farmers are happy throughout the region.
It argues that buying cheap goods is false economy and that durable, good articles from home merchants offer better value. Traveling peddlers and distant merchants lack the reputational incentive to maintain quality.
A. B. Tuomas promotes wall paper and patterns at low prices with Latin patterns two price points per roll. He offers pocket books pencils envelopes and writing paper and two cigars for five cents. He declares war on high prices and invites cash customers to compare prices.
Boors and shoes crockery and groceries in first class stock with very low prices. Stock updated daily with seasonable and late style goods. A careful inspection invited. Agents for Butterick patterns. Catalogues furnished on application to Tobey Edwards Nevada Iowa.
The official ball will be the present size and weight with three quarters of an ounce of live rubber and a women’s finish. It will be signed by maker L. E. Mahan on the cover and used by all League Alliance clubs, reducing errors from cotton finished balls.
The farewell sermon of Rev D D Proper, pastor for two years, will be held Sunday evening. Under his leadership the church saw 35 conversions and 40 members join by letter, $400 debt cleared, and unity and growth. After morning services, a committee will report on his successor, whose identity is not yet disclosed.
The piece explains how cheap cards lure youths, gathering names that are sold to dealers in dirty books. It warns parents to stop children from sending for such cards to prevent deviant material and harm.
Citizens push for improved fire protection. A letter seeks permission to use the C N W railroad tank and engine as a water supply. Debate centers on linking a mains to Onondaga street and hydrants between Kellogg and Duff, funded by local business contributions before appealing to city authorities.
Mrs. Chaney Thomas travels east for erysipelas treatment of the lungs. John L. Stevens spent part of the week in Des Moines handling a legal matter. N A Rainbolt and Howard McLain were out west this week on county business. Weskey McElyea returned from California last Wednesday. McCracken of Sheldahl visited city midweek. Geo Lambertson of Carroll looked to relocate here. Henry Shockley bought Isaac Finch’s property to make a home. C D Norman bought Walter Evan’s house and lot for his mother. Mrs W O Robisson left for her mother’s to spend the summer and W O plans Texas later. M E Rudolph of Kellogg Reporter visited Saturday and Sunday. Seth Turner of Wauchope Grader Co was in town Tuesday. Dr Andruss suffered from quinsy this week. Mrs Geo Underwood has been ill the past week.
The pupils listed are credited with first class department attendance at the High School for the month ending May 11 1877. Names include Mary Hughes Linda Smith Nora Foote Emma McCarthy Maud Shelley Eva Black Mary Perkins Bette Lynder Ruby Creer Mary Leach Rose Bartlett Ollie Butler Lillie Miller Clara Todd May Cady John McCarthy Ida Snyder Cena Trayer Clara West Aggie West Grace Bartlett.
Justice Greeley hears a case against Lewis Rierson for allegedly kicking and beating Mrs. Martha Farnes. Evidence showed Farnes was knocked senseless by her own actions after an argument with riersons. Rierson’s accuser Mrs. Paines later admitted her own violent outburst, and Farnes’s allegations proved unfounded.
Irvin Gore closes his Boonsboro drug store and travels to find a new site. Goods are packed for shipment once a location is found. C E Phipps as administrator will sell at public sale on Saturday June 2 in this city all furniture and fixtures of the Occidental hotel in Boonsboro now closed.
The Tur Wauchope grader drawn by eight horses under Hank Owens was tried southwest of the depot. Despite sticky ground, it graded about 0 rods of road to a smooth finish and was judged creditable and satisfactory for its purpose by the Nevada Representative.
Wm H Shockley a brakesman on the C and N railroad was thrown from a box car top after a chain broke. He sued in Circuit Court, the master was moved to the U S Court, and the company offered 5500 dollars which was accepted.
The article compares college literary societies, praising the Clio Society’s chapel and formalities while noting its doors are kept closed and suggesting a larger space makes the group appear smaller. It argues the college’s aging program may rival others in the state as years pass.
The piece recounts student societies at a college with debates on topics like farming in town versus state advantages and praise for the Philomathian Crescent and Bachelor groups. It also lists numerous transfers of Story county real estate and town lots, detailing sellers, buyers, locations, and acreages amid a June feature.
A writer argues city papers lack home news and local notices. They urge readers to value papers that publish schools churches meetings and county town progress, noting cheaper city papers miss local enterprise and even basic notices.
The Actives opened their season with a creditable performance against the College nine despite waterlogged third base and poor grounds. Key players Keigley Barstow Holden Byers Barroll Davis Raft Matten McFadden, Getteman Griffith Jackson contributed to a competitive score. Boone next hosts the Actives. local civic note praises Boone’s strong baseball organization and aims to challenge Ames this season.
A Kansas journey note describes a barrel planter system to grow strawberries with minimal weeding. Hollow holes are drilled around a hooped barrel in zigzag breaks, filled with soil, and plants inserted from outside. One grower with six barrels reportedly harvested thirty baskets from a single barrel the previous year.
The article notes that TuF failures in the United States over the past year were far fewer and smaller in amount compared to England or Canada, suggesting a regional improvement in incident levels.
Direct letters to cities by street address and number. Include full address in the sender’s name block and request reply be directed accordingly. Mark letters to strangers as Transient in the lower left corner and place the stamp in the upper right corner with space for port marks.
VAN OLINDA Ames offers wood turning scroll sawing block and relief letters models and patterns made to order. Also advertising a large stock of wallpaper now available in Ames Story county. Tinprxs and McLary promote extensive wallpaper selection.
Sate offers an 180 acre improved farm six miles north of Ames in Milford township. The property is timbered with 20 acres of timber and farm land plus proximity to Soper's grist mill within forty rods. Reasonable price and easy terms offered by K Hine of Nevada Iowa.
McCauthy Stevens Unnerwoon announce on hand and for sale first class farms prairie lands and desirable city property at low figures. Ames Iowa.
Ames News Depot and partners have added many papers and magazines for sale including the Chicago Times Tribune Des Moines State Register weekly issues and major monthlies Scribner’s Harper’s and more. A sale of land is offered nearby with easy terms through 2Jm Ross & Inwix in Nevada Iowa.
Prospective students urged to apply for half membership at Bay lie's Great Mercantile College Keokuk Iowa on the Mississippi. Programs for bookkeepers penmen reporters operators and teachers detailed with emphasis on personal address to Prof Miller Keokuk Iowa.
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