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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1891
Page
3
Rail timetable details for east west south and north routes. Mentions limited service, freight lines, and specific train numbers with arrival times and passenger carriage notes. Includes agency stamp and times though many lines are garbled.
A fragmenting column lists items from the 1891 Iowa fall season including a carpenter’s steel square lost from M. H. Kistler, a notice of conflict with W. A. Ballou, and various community events. It notes a student recital, a political orator, prayer meeting with Mrs. D. L. Bisbee, a Twenty third Iowa Infantry reunion in Des Moines on October 7, 1891, and a new carpet in the Ll. A Library with a refined reading room.
Elder E. P. Bunce visited town this week and several residents from Ames travelled to Marshalltown Nevada and Chicago. Miss Dora Hamilton visited Marshalltown while H. B. Hawley spent the week in Des Moines and Nevada. Families including the Turners in Osceola and the Warricks in Nevada were noted. Sun stroke affected Russel Reed, now back at school. Anna Capps returns to Sisson millinery. Mrs. Turner improving. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. S. P. O’Brien and S. W. O’Brien from Cory Indiana with a long farewell trip to Chicago and Corwith visitations by S. Sargent and wife.
New 7crap tycoon teas at Tilden s. Mason s fruit jars at Grove s. Stone fruit jars at Tilden s. Judge Stevens holds court in Nevada this week and next. Elegant silk umbrellas at Brad Paxton s. New cloaks and jackets at G G Tilden s. Those owing me, please settle now. A M Perkos. Largest stock of watches and chains in Story county at J B Paxton s. Court session ends with second papers deadline before election. Hant ton waist corset claim. Fine corps of pastors observed. Pay dues to balance books. books at Adams Bros. J B Paxton Jeweler. watches specialty. Nevada Representative notes court canvass. Ad calls for settling debts to balance books. You will find my books over Adams Bros A M Perks.
Eggs sell for 16 cents at Bigelow and Smith. The I A C farm department recently received six spring fillies from England and France. Two percheroon two French coach and two English shires. They arrived with horses for Hon H C Wheeler of Odebolt. Prosper Templeton will preach at Evergreen Church next Sunday at 2 pm. Miss Chapman of California to give a Friday recital at the College October 9 1891 at 8 pm. Tickets 5 cents. American watches discounted 20 percent. J B Paxton offers the savings.
A Nevada Republican gathering drew a large turnout with high enthusiasm. Congressman Hull delivered an able, interesting address that was well received, reflecting a lively party spirit.
The people of Gilbert Station enjoyed three lectures by Prof. J Stanley Grimes with strong audience attention and perceived benefits and amusement. Interest and attendance waned with each successive talk.
The Dorcas Society will meet Wednesday October 7 1891 with Mrs. J G Stevens to conduct the planned gathering and activities.
Cans H Glidden blacksmith and Harry Fleming wheelwright plan a business opening at the old stand beside Nichols Livery Barn on Monday October 5 1891. Charley’s reopening is noted as a familiar return to the same building.
Special announcement from BickLow and Smith stating their Fall and Winter goods are all in and priced reasonably. They invite old customers and new visitors to inspect the large assortment with many items not listed.
Mr J F Gossard wife and sister Will Smette left for Pleasant Valley Nebraska on Sept 29 to visit a sister. Mrs Jennie Snyder and children of New York visit her mother Mrs Eckler. Station agent R W Gray and family visited Boone from Friday to Monday. Mrs Silverine Heggem died at home one mile south of town from consumption leaving a husband and two children. An auction notice offers a work animal at low price from Carlos Howe south of Ontario. A temperance meeting at the Congregational church discussed prohibiting liquor with remarks by Rev Coyle and Ames ministers urging prohibition.
Rev Mr Bohn conducted services in the Odd Fellows hall in this place last Sunday evening. Miss Marie Chambers of the College will sing at the Jones Concert next Tuesday evening with Mr Geo Backus of the College as accompanist. Lovers of music hear him.
The column mentions Charley Glidden resuming blacksmithing on main street opposite Evans Elevator with Harry Fleming assisting in wood while Charley oversees iron. It notes M. K. buying a skeleton factory or freak museum as suggested by Bigelow & Smith's window, with playful speculation about new breed of chickens by Charley Soper and Geo. Loud.
The notice calls a special city election Tuesday October 13 1891 to ratify the town council action to raise a temporary debt of 3000 dollars to start a water works system. It states the measure requires unanimous approval and notes four Main Street blocks nearing completion upon the Boyd Douglass Reed Building Stevens Budd Auditorium Loughran Machine Company and Roberson Steam Laundry projects as substantial business additions.
A piano lecture recital presented by Walter Howe Jones with assisted performances by Maiie Chambers and Geo. Backus. The program featured instructional commentary amidst a varied repertoire.
October 6 1991 program lists Beethoven Op 26 Andante con Variazioni Scherzo-Allegro Molto and Marcia Funebre Maestoso plus Bach Fantasie Impromptu Chopin Vecchio Minuetto Sgambati Schubert Impromptu Op 14 No 1 and Schumann Des Abends. Vocal selections include Marie Chambers and Marie Gembers with Galatea Jensen and George Backus as accompanist.
A Chickering Grand piano will be used for the concert, provided by their Chicago house. Admission is 25 cents. Tickets are on sale at Bosworth's drug store and Faxton's postoffice jewelry store.
Notice announces a special election on Tuesday October 15 1591 at Ames town hall to decide approving a water works system and incurring indebtedness up to 3000 dollars. Polls run 9 am to 6 pm. Readiness of plans on file with recorder and council order by Mayor Parley Sheldon and Recorder A Maxwell.
Hon T C McCall and A L Stantz address Wulfsburg school house Friday Oct 2. Ole O Roe and C G McCarthy speak at Cole Saturday Oct 3. Nevada Glee Club performs with A L Stentz and W O Payne at Huxley Saturday Oct 3 and Gilbert Friday Oct 9. Evenings unless stated. Local committees to arrange. H C Boardman Chairman.
Local notes report McFarlin Grain Co offering the highest cash price for grain and promote their Lower Vein Coal. visits by Col Hoggatt at Cambridge picnic, Rev Campbell Coyle preaching October 11, and Ladies Aid Society arranging a Jones concert. Ames W R C hosted Cambridge Nevada corps with a basket lunch indoors due to wind, then afternoon at the College.
Property deeds show multiple parcels traded across Ames Nevada Collins Sheldahl and Blair's additions. Transactions include transfers involving Clark Apple Nels Egland Martin Reese Tressa Brouchard and others with sums ranging from 40 to 9000 dollars and parcels in sections 14 18 55 23 and blocks 3 6 8 14 15 33 40 plus school districts and subdivisions.
The page records several real estate deeds including William Huin to O L Dunklebarger for sections 27 and 34, J Pict to w for 5600, Sarah E McCord to ES McCord for section 7, and Ebenezer Russell with B Eatherton to Jacob W McCord for section 6. An ad for St Patrick's Pills claims a carefully prepared cathartic liver pill line from L M Bosworth.
The waltz song by Llewellyn B. Renkirt titled Sweet Orange Blossoms is gaining popularity in New York sung by minstrels and poised to replace Mariuette. The publisher Malcolm Douglas at 67 West 53rd Street, New York City offers it post paid for 40 cents.
Claim highlights perfect action and health results from De Witt’s Little Early Risers a small medicine praised as perfect and effective for ease and well being.
The ad extols Humphrey’s Specifics as unrivaled household remedies trusted by thousands of families. It claims fewer illnesses, better health, and lower costs, with cures for children’s diseases, summer complaints, malaria, and rheumatism. It also praises De Witt’s Little Early Risers as non g ri p ing pills that druggists rely on.
An October St Nicholas article by Margeret Bisland covers a Curiosity relic from the Constitution figurehead with Andrew Jackson as a rival head stolen. features on grasshopper ears, Black Art silhouette sketches, artist notes by J H Dolph, and engravings. Poems by Crandall and Douglas. Lummis Tee Walon Folk-Stores. meeting with Hans Christian Anderson. stories by Putney, Bicknell, Jenks. volume ends with promises for Volume Nineteenth and a Chamberlain remedy endorsement from Hoe Observer of Pennsylvania.
J. P. Watson of Ames drilled 19 feet in three days for C. R. Holcombe in Jackson township finding a good supply of wet water. He surpassed a Colfax township record by drilling 230 feet in five days, as noted by the Colfax correspondent.
Auction note offers purebred Poland China pigs and high bred mares and colts. The item lists prizes from Story County Fair. The rest advertises October Wide Awake contents with multiple natural history and travel pieces, poetry, stories, and art. Subtext cites D. Lathrop Company Boston pricing at 2.40 a year.
Wm Timmons Postmaster and local residents John Leslie J W Gardner of Ida ville Ind tout Electric Bitters as the best kidney and liver remedy and a booster for energy appetite and zest. A hardware merchant reports renewed strength after use. Bottles are 50 cents at L M Bosworths Drug Store.
The Cosmopolitan pays Madame Lemaire ten times the article rate for illustrations of Three Women of the Comedie Francaise. It showcases work by Kate H Greatorex and others, adds monthly writer bios, Turkish life piece Modern Women in Turkey, a Desert Lake feature, and stories by Amelie Rives and Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen plus Cincinnati sketches by Murat Halstead.
A notice promising a $30 Bryant and Stratton Business College scholarship rewards the person who secures the most subscribers to the newspaper by September 1, 1891. The college advertises programs in bookkeeping shorthand telegraphy typing and English, with mail shorthand available, and is based in Malvern Iowa. Also advertised are thoroughbred Jersey Red hogs a pair of boars and Laced Wyandotls chickens for sale by Joan H. Keigley Ames Iowa.
An 1891 Macon Missouri letter touts Queen City Silver and Nickel Plating Co from East St. Louis Illinois. The writer claims initial $5 purchase yields weekly profits rising from $27 to $45 with rapid plating of knives forks spoons castors and jewelry. He urges others to request circulars and price lists claiming up to $20 daily earnings.
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