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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
5
Local notes from Ames area include J Allen moving to the Zenor property and Minnie Adams visiting Shalitown friends. Several deaths, illnesses, and social events are listed along with church services, school staff changes, and upcoming entertainments at the Ames Opera House.
Mrs Helen Cox Fairchild died at her parents home after a weeks illness and a fall down stairs in Chicago last month. Her death followed gangrenous slough peritonitis and blood poisoning. She was married to David Fairchild of Clinton a Drake Medical School student in Des Moines. Attending doctors were Dr Fairchild, Dr Schooler, and Dr Schrader.
On Tuesday evening November 76th Rev. F J Douglass officiated at the wedding of Lewis Ham and Sadie L Cook both of Kelly Iowa.
The ceremony took place at the bride’s father's residence with G W Akin and J Wesley Keltner as groomsmen. Effie Akin, oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Akin, wed a local farmer in a wedding witnessed by about sixty five relatives and friends. A bountiful supper followed and guests praised the hosts. R T Sisson and Geo O Brier attended.
A collage of ads from E. M. Soper, Bigelow & Smith, Adams Bros, Canier Bros & Herman, Tilden Bros. & Co. and Lockwood's Elevator touts cheap prices on shirts gloves linens sugar and footwear. Promotions feature new stock, low prices, and payment reminders with a church bazaar and Christmas gift items.
The Ft Dodge Messenger reports John P. Butler sold two quarters of section 27 Elkhorn township at 35 per acre after buying at 20. Mary Struck and the Schultze bought one each. Butler’s profit hovers around 10 000 with half the land unsold. Jimmy Ryan’s Colfax deal leads in percentage terms with a 6 000 profit on 300. A Holiday Creek query follows about 6 000 profit on 3 00. An afternoon tea at Mrs Westerman’s hosts without men. New furniture item at J B Elliott’s and two dozen Plymouth Rock Wyandott pallets for sale by Joan H Keeley.
A boy apprentice seeks to learn the printer's trade and inquiries are invited at this office. Dress goods and dress trimmings in all styles are available or offered.
A town hall gathering at 2 p.m. Saturday December 1 will consider demand for certain breeds of horses at good prices. Geo I Maxwell opens the discussion with others in attendance. Fairfield Ledger editor C M Junkin travels through Des Moines and northwestern Iowa with family involved in several papers.
A runaway Thursday wrecked a carriage owned by Mrs. E. Humphreys after the team bolted from Morris livery barn. Driver Mr. Whitehead stopped the animals briefly before they tore down main street at high speed. No injuries reported. only the rig was damaged.
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