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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1891
Page
3
Schedule shows Base No. 58 arriving at 12 45 a m with no passenger service on Sundays. Times listed include 3 55 4 M ay 8 20 4 M 11 07 A M and 3 50 P M 6 00 P M. Agent W Rogers signs the notice.
Mrs E Turner is lying very low. Mrs Mont Bisbee improves slowly. Chas Hamilton spent Sunday in Marshalltown. Prof and Mrs Scribner started east last Friday. Mrs L M Bosworth visited Boone Wednesday. Mrs Chevalier spends winter with her sons in Des Moines. Sylvia Thompson visited Nevada Sunday. Will King had three days illness last week. Dilhe Stitzell of Nevada visited James Richmond last week. Harley Stuckslager vacationing in Englewood Illinois. Mrs Van Chamberlain and baby arrived safely in Riverside California. Prof Beyer will study at Johns Hopkins University this winter. Blanche Granger visited Mrs Arthur Bradley in Boone. W D Lucas spent last Saturday in Ames. Miss Stacy of Des Moines visiting the Misses Parkhill. Will Elmer Tom and Miss Mattie Winter returned for their father’s funeral. Miss Fanny F Thomas in Des Moines at the Savery for vacation. Prof and Mrs Hainer soon at home on the college grounds. John Kintzley took a trip to Chicago and Wisconsin. Mrs Henry McDaniel to return from Tipton due to a brother’s illness. Mr Jacob Winter described as kind and cheerful. Miss Chambers at Cedar Rapids preparing to study voice in New York. Mrs C Tedrow and Michigan daughter visiting G B Kooser returned home. Mr and Mrs R E Sonquist with baby visiting in town. Auntie Loud expected pleased. Robert enjoying a vacation due to weather. This week’s real live clam chowder from Searsport Maine shared with The INTELLIGENCER family.
Baker advertises jewelry and silverware while Adams Bros. promotes holiday crockery and pure maple syrup. Grove’s touts Iowa apples as good keepers. Bilder A. B. Hanner of Stuart assists the pastor at Ontario Christian Church in a meeting continuing through December 22.
Prof Ott of Drake University will preach at the Christian church next Sunday morning and evening. Adams Bros. have received a carload of New York Apples. Baker’s the Jeweler offers Elgin watches and Hampden watches. The Ames Musical Union discusses weekly meetings at the Congregational Church. Story County Teachers Association meets in Nevada on Saturday, November 21, 1891 at 1 PM.
Notice from T. J. KmGley states only nine Poland China Boars remain, bred from three registered males. Community items report Gum Tissue availability for dressmaking, the Ames Slat and Wire Fence Factory operating, and local social events at Dr. Richmond's and Evergreen Church. Jesse Carlton, 15, husked 23 bushels of corn in two hours and fifteen minutes on J. R. Decker's farm. Evangelist Hartsough will preach next Sabbath. G A R post to hold an open meeting with music and the Lilliputian Early Evening Warblers promised to perform.
Community notices include funeral thanks for a husband and father and funeral music by a choir. Visitors to the capitol. a Nevada theatre program for H M S Pinafore. Advent and church arrangements. travels of Mrs. Welch. a dog named Fido memorial. Local hires, college staff news, and the 1891 2 catalog for the I A C.
Hon. Thomas Beaumont died at his Lake City home on Tuesday November 10th after a long illness. A former Union soldier with one arm disabled by a bullet, he was remembered as brave generous and original. A memorial meeting is planned in Nevada Iowa on Saturday November 21st at 1 p.m. with officers elected and discussions on education and school sentiment led by local educators and Mrs L T Weld president.
The sermon on The Triumphs of Christianity last Sabbath morning was a master piece. It presented a strong array of facts and figures showing Christianity’s progress and hold on public confidence, contrasting with infidelity. The evening sermon What is your life? was sharp and memorable with careful humor. Meetings continue indefinitely. missing them means missing the town’s best offerings.
Members of the Christian Sunday School of Ames express heartfelt sympathy to Myrtle Kent’s family on her death. They pledge to remember her sweet influence and send copies to her parents and to the Ames Intelligencer, recording a note in Sunday School minutes. Committee members are Minnie Adams and Mrs T J Dow.
Jacob Winter died Friday afternoon last week. Funeral at his home Monday at 10 with Rev. F J Douglass and Rev. D M Hartsough of Des Moines. Born April 12 1820 in Berks County Pennsylvania. Survived by wife Mary Reagan and twelve children. three siblings also living. He was a miller then farmer, Lutheran by faith, aged while residing in Ames since 1873.
A mixed page of community notices and shop advertisements including subscription arrears for the American Sunday School Union, photographer Taylor offering first class work at reasonable prices, special prices on ladies and children garments, lamp and dry goods promotions from Grove and Bigelow Smith, New York apples at Hamilton & Co, gloves from Adams Bros, and a Union Thanksgiving service in the Methodist church with a sermon by Rev. B. Clark.
President Harrison proclaims November 26 as a day of joyful thanksgiving for providence, peace, and civil religious liberty. The notice urges rest from toil worship, family renewal, and aid to the needy, signed in Washington on November 18, 1891. Dr Beverly to host the next meeting of the District Homeopathic Medical Association in Ames on November 25. A pair of slippers offered for recovery of notice cost. Mr G R Melick returns with poll books. his horse dies en route, prompting commentary on saloon politics. Perry Chief.
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