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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1891
Page
3
Timings listed in scattered 24 hour format showing multiple departure and arrival points. entries include 2:10, 4.M, 3:22 A M, 8:2P a, 11 00 A M, 12 P.M, 6:30 P.M, 1021 P.M, 1:00 A. M, 3:35 A.M, 8:29 A. M, 11:07 A.M, 3:0 P.M, 6:00 P.M.
Mont Bisbee is on the mend. Mrs Bradley and Mrs Starr hosted visits. J J Butler family socializing in Boone. Blanche Kinney visiting Grace Kent in Ames. Duaning of Belle Plain visits her mother Mrs McGuire. Henrietta Clark and Edith Hill from Boone spend Sunday in Ames. Loughran returns to Marshalltown to visit daughter. Mrs Jacob Winters travels west to Ogden. Miss Sarah Pierce of Kansas visits Mrs Fair. E A Kegley and family travel from Cedar Rapids to relatives. Doctor returns home. Miss Emma McCarthy to China for two weeks with sister. F Moore visits Ames. Ed Adams of Miller visits en route to Rich Hill. Blanche Granger returns from Boston trip. W A McCord elected Polk County School board head on Republican ticket. Mr Green, Camia postmaster, visits. Mrs Tedrow and daughter from Bloomfield, Michigan, meet after 14 years. Mrs Van Chamberlain and sister travel to California seeking health benefits.
A discussion of Ballou leading a Democratic campaign in Story county predicts a 1500 vote majority for Republicans. H S Goble unveils a two story brick front for his harness stock after a period of disorder. A Republican crowd including college boys met at Capt. Greeley’s hall with band music and speeches in a good natured, orderly rally.
The fall session of the Boone District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church meets in Ames starting Monday the 9th with Rev. Geo Winterbourne preaching at 7 30 p m and the Lord's Supper. Thirty two pastoral charges are represented as sessions run through Tuesday and Wednesday.
The program lists events from November 8 to 11 including a Baccalaureate sermon by President W M Beardshear a farewell meeting for the Christian Associations a review for state officials a commencement concert and an address by Hon L G Kinne. Hallowe en celebrations and local remarks follow with notices on Baldwin Maxwell assignment for creditors Ames church staffing and Rev Byron Clark new pastor move to Ames.
Fragments note events at Simpson College Indianola including a banquet by the Sophomores, new exhibit cases, a fountain donation by the class of 1891, and praise for the I A C memory. The annual oratorical contest results list Hodson Ballrich Nichols, a senior officers reception, drill prizes, and YW YMC A meeting.
Myrtle Kent was born September 28, 1879 in Polk County Iowa and died at her Ames home on November 1, 1891 at age 15 years 1 month and 1 day after five years of invalidism. Funeral services were held at Prof. Kent's residence conducted by T. J. Dow on Tuesday.
A tribute notes the death of Elsie A C St John with a loving remembrance. The poem reflects on her youth and faith, saying she is with Jesus in heaven and that mourners will reunite in a world of glory. It speaks of sorrow, love, and eternal reunion through faith.
Citizens show election zeal with strong turnout and conveyance needs. Tom Dodds returns from Highland Park College to cast a prohibition ballot. Ed Gilbert builds a wind mill and installs drain tiles on his farm. The K C Grain Co completes a corn dump at its elevator as corn shucking peaks. Mike Sanders moves into the Needham property.
The Rural Life Publishing Co. advertises a fourteen month subscription from November 4 1891 to January 1 1898 for one dollar. The 16 page weekly covers stock dairy poultry horticultural topics by practical writers. Less than two cents a week. Waterloo Iowa. Mrs John H R Bond of Chicago now Miss Crisp of England holds the Victoria Cross for nursing in the Zulu and Egyptian Wars.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway offers fast trains to California with Pullman drawing-room sleeping cars and dining service. Tourist sleeping cars provide first or second class berths from Chicago to San Francisco for $4.00, with six month return tickets and reservations via agents or W. A. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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