Chicago & North Western Time Table Note
Fragmentary timetable note mentions arrival times and an agent name, with garbled station identifiers and numbers. No clear events, dates, or full station list available for a fuller summary.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1890
Page
3
Fragmentary timetable note mentions arrival times and an agent name, with garbled station identifiers and numbers. No clear events, dates, or full station list available for a fuller summary.
Community movers and visitors fill Ames area as families host gatherings and plan speeches. Notables include Rev Proper of Atchison and Hon J A Lyons with upcoming talks. paper and envelope sale announced. Evergreen church hosts baptism and conversions. marriage notices in Ames and Franklin Township. and Jacob Buck of Westminster Cal discussed in obituary notes.
Mrs Forbes of Nevada visited Ames on Monday. Several locals hosted visitors and attended events, including Mrs Hawley, Sheriff Wood, and Mrs Smith. People traveled to Des Moines, Tacoma, Osceola, and Philadelphia. The community attended teas, receptions, and religious services as Rev Wells led a town meeting on a $20 000 endowment.
A new 16 page monthly Western Garden of Des Moines Towa offers practical gardening advice from a western perspective. The notice touts its usefulness to gardeners, plant owners, and poultry keepers and suggests subscribing for $1.00 to receive a year free and a free sample copy.
Old papers offered at 20 cents per hundred with additional notices about local school and community events. A. L. Kloster named Postmaster at Huxley. Dr. Newton to visit West House Mondays for dental care. Lumber and coal suppliers advertise large stock and ordering options. A Dorcas Society meeting and district LO. G. lodge gathering planned. Entertainment by Ella Scott Swanton and play rehearsals noted. Old settlers picnic at the fair ground and a war canvassing effort in Boone county announced.
The community mourns Mrs. Elmer Grove who died Thursday from malarial fever. She was daughter of A B McClellan and part of a bereaved family with a motherless baby. The family, including J B Grove, and many friends express sympathy as others recover from illness.
Mrs J E Duncan reports a visit to Sioux City praising the Corn Palace with its corn covered exterior and broom corn ceiling fringe. Describes 1857 and present day views, the Elgin band paid 20000, new stores and booming industries, elevating rail plans, Riverside Park and a three state region, and a Law and Order League keeping order amid rapid growth.
The Chicago and North Western Railway announces weekly excursions to California in colonist cars from Chicago to San Francisco with no changes. Cars depart Chicago Wednesdays at 10 30 P M and reach San Francisco Sundays at 10 45 P M. For tickets and full information contact local agents of the railway.
The Washington township Republican caucus will be held at the Ames town hall on Saturday October 25 1890 to nominate township officers including one trustee clerk assessor two justices of the peace and two constables. Also a court docket notes several jury trials and society gossip about Mrs Cruger and her social circle.
Stor y county Republicans plan a convention at the court house on Monday morning at Neats o'clock to determine representation for townships including Collins New Albany Franklin Palestine Howard Union Indian Creek LaFayette Warren and others.
Story County Iowa votes on a bond issue of ten thousand dollars to borrow for a county jail. The plan calls for bonds of at least one thousand dollars each at six percent interest, payable annually, with a half mill tax levied in 1891 to cover principal and interest. Ballots will read For Jail Bonds or Against Jail Bonds.
Local caucuses to nominate delegates for the upcoming party convention are listed by town with dates and times. Collins Collins Gilbert Enterprise School House Maxwell Maxwell and others hold sessions October 10 to 17 to select four to eight delegates per locale.
A long list of Republican meeting dates and speakers across Story County towns in October 1890. Events include Story City Cambridge Slater Nevada Ames and others with various nominees such as W. O. Payne M. P. Webb J. F. Reed and Henry Wilson Jr. Notices indicate evening gatherings and committee arrangements.
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