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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1890
Page
3
Passenger train schedule notes show No 58 arriving at 9:55 PM and no other trains carrying passengers, except Sunday. Agent W Rocks lists times around 1:40 PM and 4:45 PM for Des Moines connections and freight movements on the line northbound.
Carter Rice is quite sick. Mrs. Grace Maxwell spent Friday in Boone. Loretta Hamilton visits Marshalltown this week. Miss Bebe Rutherford visited Nevada Sunday. Ada Cook visited her aunt in Kelley Saturday. Jas Reynolds was an Ames visitor this week. Belle Koons spent Saturday at home. Hattie Allen commenced school last week. R. W. Hopkins of Colo visited last Thursday. Union school is in session with Mr. Christman as teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Mallory from Boone visited Geo. D. Loud Sunday. Young people’s grange met at Mr. Lavelat’s last Saturday night. Walter and Gertrude Morris started schools near Kelley this week. Mrs. H. B. Hawley has been ill, narrowly escaping typhoid. Mrs. Corkins came from Des Moines to visit friends. Mrs. John Hoggatt and son Esmond returned from Marshalltown. Bert Bisbee began a winter term in Bloomington district. Dr. Richmond visited Nebraska last week. Editor Miller of the Manning weekly paper was in town last Saturday. John Neasham was in town on Saturday morning. Mrs. E. S. Wishard and daughter returned from Ames. Mrs. Sonquist from Cedar Rapids will soon move to Chicago. Mrs. S. A. McCann and Birdie visiting Gilbert Station. A letter from old ad Shep Anderson will be published next week. Mrs. Harriet Emily Simmons died at Logan, aged 71, buried Monday. Mrs. C. E. Turner went to Des Moines for a week with her daughter. Mr. Turner joined Thanksgiving Day plans in Osceola and will visit G. Rey. W. L. Moore was surprised with provisions and gifts at the parsonage. parishioners feasted several hours.
Mrs Simmons a former resident died in Nebraska last week. Her body was brought to Ames for burial in the M E church. Rev Douglas opened a Gospel meeting at Union school house last Sunday evening to promote the Sabbath school. District No 8 Monthly school report shows 20 pupils enrolled and 14.9 average daily attendance with Mildred Ralph Graham and Hugh Allen and Ella Morris as teacher.
At the M E church meeting last week twenty six votes were cast all for allowing women as delegates to the general conference. The United Brethren here are raising funds to pay church debt with about 850 subscribed of 1300 owed. James Gilchrist, son in law of James Hutchinson, died November 22 at Zenorville aged 30. burial was in town Tuesday with Masonic funeral. The Baptist Church hosts a sermon on The Indelent Church and The Rich Church next Sunday. Rev Barrington of Boone preached in Masonic parlor last Sabbath to a large appreciative audience. regular Episcopal services may begin here.
An Intelligencer reporter dined with C. P. Raynor in Boone and found Butler House well run. Raynor's fine manners and strong business show he remains a first class hotel manager and landlord based on his former reputation.
The reading club met Monday evening with Mrs. Wilson and had excellent attendance and a good degree of interest. The committee presented a report on a course of reading which was accepted. The next meeting was set for Monday evening at 7 30 with Miss Hamilton, to study the reign of King John.
A blaze Friday night consumed the Roland Kansas City Grain Co elevator with its contents and damaged nearby stockyards and a side track freight car. The fire drew crowds from surrounding towns to help, and nearby buildings including a tire factory were saved with great effort.
Woody Bros announce a Friday evening appearance at the M. E. Church. They offer storm sash in large quantities, priced to move, with prompt shipment and delivery before heavy snowfalls and possible railroad delays.
The thesis by C D Davidson outlines an electric street railway from Ames to the college using overhead wires and a Sprague system. It details route, station, car capacity, equipment, boiler and generator specs, cost breakdowns, maintenance, and projected passenger and freight receipts with a 12.2 percent return.
Norfolk gains the Oxnard Beet Sugar Company factory becoming Nebraska’s second sugar plant and larger than Grand Island’s. Community efforts included a 150,000 dollar fundraising push, a 20-person guarantee group led by N. A. Rainbolt, and support from the Experimental Station for seed testing and farmer guidance.
Union services on Thanksgiving Day will be held at the Congregational Church with Pastor Smith of the Methodist Church preaching. All town ministers are expected to participate and the usual collection for the poor will be taken. liberal bank offerings encouraged. Also advertising Badger State shawls by Bigelow & Smith.
SURE CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA Share a sure cure for hog cholera If you want your hogs cured send for me No cure no pay THOMAS Brooks Ontario Iowa Look at our stock of Gloves and Mittens All Wool Knit and fulled Mittens for only 15 cents a pair Bice Low & Sirs Death notice Emil 8S son of Isaac E and Wehka Hirsh Brooklyn 175 Hancock Street funeral Friday 1:30 p.m. Please omit flowers
A Shelby firm reports a woman named Mrs. Luther Lutz cured after seven years of illness and three months of severe coughing by Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption. The notice offers a free trial bottle at the local drug store.
A Pullman area farmer struck a rich bed of onyx while digging a well on his property. The find adds a notable mineral discovery to the region and may lead to further exploration.
In town A. M. Perkins the grocer advertises a full line of staples and fancy groceries including canned goods dried fruits teas coffees spices and more He invites customers to call and promises to save money offering 19 cents for frost eggs and 20 cents for good fresh butter.
Notice to electors and taxpayers that Story County bonds of ten thousand dollars will be issued and a tax levied to repay the debt for building a jail. The Board of Supervisors declares the proposition adopted following the November 4 1890 election. County Auditor Sie R Kine attests.
The article promotes the Mexican Gulf Coast as an ideal winter home near New Orleans with hunting fishing oyster beds and mid winter recreation. It highlights mild winters in the South but warns of an upcoming cold season and advertises a pamphlet titled Mexican Gulf Coast Winter Resorts by J F Merry at Manchester Iowa for details.
An Odell typewriter offer sells the Odell Type Writer and Check Perforator for 20 dollars and the Single Case Odell for 15 dollars. The copy touts durability simplicity speed and no ink ribbon. It promises two to ten copies per writing and a 1000 dollar prize for weekly performance, with agents and dealer inducements.
An old promotional verse asserts Castoria as a remedy and comforting product from infancy through motherhood, highlighting repeated use from babyhood to caring for children. The rhythm underscores brand familiarity and lifelong dependency, reflecting historical advertising language and family routines.
Happy Hoosiers William Timmens Postmaster of Ida ville Ind says Electric Bitters has done more for kidney and liver trouble than any medicine. John Leslie farmer and stockman calls it best kidney and liver remedy. J W Gardner hardware dealer reports renewed strength and appetite. Also a note about Pompeii excavation and Kipling relations to E Burne Jones and Henry J Macdonald.
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