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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
7
Ames this week features social visits and retirements, with Dr Harriman moving into a new residence and weddings planned. Local updates include smallpox quarantine progress, camp meeting preparations, and movements of merchants, teachers, and officials across Boone and Story counties.
Obituary notes the death of Ralph Gerald Banks age six at his Ames home on May 25 with funeral at home May 27 and burial in Ames cemetery. Other items report Boone Mutual Telephone Co plans to transfer franchise to an Ames firm, organize a local company with $10,000 capital, and subscribe stock. a bankruptcy trustee appointment for Mrs. S. E. Bigelow. and a school board decision to graduate this year’s class with no commencement exercises followed by the class roll.
Henry Banks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for their kindness toward him and his family during their time of grief and great loss.
Miss Lou Beth Gossard of Kelley and Mr. D. D. Foley of Burt joined in marriage at the Boone manse at 10 a m with Rev. W Y Brown officiating. Gossard, a Story county schoolteacher, is noted in Boone, while Foley is a respected Burt businessman. They will reside in Burt and host friends in their new life.
J W Harden of Story County obtained a search warrant in Boone and found items stolen from him in a fifth ward house. Recovered goods included a plush coat and vest, four baby skirts, four shoes, a bonnet, mink skins, and other articles. The woman denies theft, claiming the items were left by another woman. Harden plans to arrest the other woman but requests delaying service due to the woman's delicate health.
Mr. Charles Holzhauer, a Newark druggist, extols Chamberlain's for coughs colds and hoarseness as safe and reliable. Advertisements urge laundering lace curtains at Wing's Model Laundry and note Tilden & Loughran's fine wallpaper line.
The Iowa Central Railway markets a Homeseekers excursion with tickets sold on the first and third Tuesdays monthly to western, southern, and southwestern points including Denver and Colorado Springs. Round trip fare is one fare plus two dollars. Inquiries to Geo. S. Barry, G P T A, Marshalltown Iowa.
A rumor of Lyman Crane’s death in Waterloo last week proved unfounded though circulated widely. The Crane family and friends are relieved there was no truth to the report.
The Iowa Central Railway offers round trip fares for the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia June 19-20 at one fare. Prohibition conventions in Chicago June 27-28 and state event June 26 at one and one third fare. Democratic National Convention in Kansas City July 4 at one and one third fare. Tickets on sale dates listed with return limits. For details contact coupon ticket agents or Geo. B. Barry G T P A.
Notice to Homeseekers states on May 1 and 15 June 5 and 19 1900 the Iowa Central Railway will sell Homeseeker tickets at one fare plus two dollars round trip to territories including Arkansas Arizona Colorado Idaho Kansas Montana Manitoba New Mexico Oregon Oklahoma Louisiana Missouri Utah Washington Texas Iowa Minnesota and the Southeast. For details contact ticket agents or Gro Barry G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
On select Tuesdays from May to December the Iowa Central Ry will sell Homeseekers’ excursion tickets to many states and territories including Arkansas Arizona Kansas Montana Manitoba Nebraska New Mexico Oregon Oklahoma Louisiana Missouri Utah Washington Wyoming Texas Iowa Minnesota North Dakota Northern Michigan Wisconsin South Dakota and southeast points. Tickets may also be sold to Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs. For full information contact ticket agent or the undersigned G P and T A Marshalltown Ia.
For sate cheap a good baby carriage used but little inquire at this office.
An editor discusses whether newspapers should publicly endorse proprietary medicines. The piece endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, recounting twenty years of use in the editor's family and urging readers to keep a bottle for early use, while noting medicine is not a cure and a physician may be unnecessary in many cases.
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