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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
5
Rainy spell and hail described. Ames residents travel to Des Moines and Boone for visits, fairs, and lectures. Community events include church services, weddings, lectures on Mormonism, and school activities. Various residents plan trips to Newton, Omaha, and Oklahoma.
Short notice exchange offer from W. P. George seeking to trade Shropshire ewes for a good young horse or mare or for a fresh milk cow.
Iowa State College faculty will offer a two week winter stock judging and grain scoring course. Last year enrollment exceeded three hundred. this year preparations aim for five hundred. Tuition is free with a $2 charge for heat lighting and janitor service. The schedule covers horses cattle sheep and hogs across January 6 to 18 with specific day allocations.
Ontario lodge expresses sympathy for the family of C W Price. Resolutions note the bereavement, request minutes entries, publication in Ames, and a copy to the family. Also includes unrelated ad snippets about coffee, a Des Moines Capital subscription offer, and a local publisher.
We thank friends and neighbors who sympathized by word and deed in the sickness and death of our son and brother. Mr. and Mrs. E Husy and family.
The National Aid youths staged a literary program with songs and recitations after lodge. Mrs. J. H. Miller coached them and guests enjoyed refreshments. The Iowa League of Municipalities closed a two day session in Oskaloosa naming Iowa City for next year and elected officers led by W. H. Wray.
Farm owner announces thirty day private sale of thoroughbred Poland China hogs including herd boars and choice Short Horn cows fresh. Cleared land west of farm. sale conducted by T. J. Keonsy with terms and hours to follow. Fresh crackers available weekly at T. J. Miller & Son. 27-31
An advertisement lists OC A Woodcox as teacher of voice and harmony with twenty half hour lessons priced at $10. The studio is at Mrs. Perkins home, one block north of the post office. Also advertised is a six room nearly new rental near Main street and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy claims to ease throat irritation to help sleep, sold by druggists.
Very low round trip rate to New York City on the North Western Line advertised for sale until October 90 1901. Tickets valid for return within twenty days. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
Readable notes advertise second hand organs priced from 20 to 45 dollars. The listing appears under 262 OC and E Holmes, indicating a small local sale or catalog entry.
M. E. Lowther, clerk of district court in Centerville Iowa, endured three days of agonizing illness from cholera morbus after eating Cucumbers. He tried a dozen medicines before relief came from three doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, now available at druggists.
Walter Petry of the Kelso School of Chicago presented a piano program praised for musical phrasing and strong crescendos. The Joliet News notes the young performer’s capable execution and urges attendance at a church entertainment on Tuesday evening October 22.
Tickets at greatly reduced rates sold on the first and third Tuesdays each month through 1901 to the indicated territory. Standard and tourist sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars offered. For full particulars apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway. Dee 14.
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