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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1877
Page
3
Goff manufactures serviceable harness sold cheap by W B Mayer in Soper Building. Quick sales and small profits drive the trade. Gear, shoes, and furniture advertised with broad discounts. Weather notes mention a damp past week and lingering coughs.
The issue lists hardware and stationery supplies at Tilden and McLain, Thayer’s dining room serving warm meals, and the New York Store’s arrival of 6 and 7 cent prints. Goff’s offers durable harness and repair work. A Christ Church sewing society meeting is announced, with tea at six. Personal mentions include Mrs. Fedden’s sorrow and Andruss’s travel claims.
Da Braver and Dr Templeton amputated a leg near Town Center on Wednesday due to gangrene spreading from the toes. Promotory to Sac County reports a Chicago Northwestern agent Martel plans relocation to Sac County and removal of a residence. The Scale hall lecture by Prof Sywing on The Novel drew a large audience and praise for insight and wit.
A southwestern state student named Devos died in Cambridge this week from typhus fever after being treated at the college and then moved to friends’ home where his condition worsened.
A display of the new time lock safe drew interest this Wednesday. The device, presented to visitors, is valued over $1000 and noted for its delayed access feature.
Frazee offers silver cased Elgin watches priced at $13 each marketed as gifts for boys. Limited stock available.
H. T. Martin will sell at his Ontario residence on Saturday October 20 including horses cattle hogs and other livestock. Ten head of yearling steers will be offered. Also advertised is a rich display of dry goods clothing boots and shoes at B. Al. & T.'s store with cash buyers claimed to get better value than any county firm.
S. S. Paxton issues price lists and circulars for the fall 1877 and spring 1878 trade offering bargains in price and quality of stock. Paxton is a well known, successful grower recommended by local and neighboring counties. Send for trees plants and shrubs.
Letters remaining in the Ames Iowa post office for the week ending Saturday evening before the paper date. If not called for within 30 days they go to the Dead Letter office. Names include Charles M Eliott Mrs Mary Eagebager Jordan Ballard Wm Fegely J P Harrison Mellie Hays Charles Nevelgate Mrs Hattie A Lecas P M.
Lt Mrs W G Wright has been seriously ill with typhoid fever for a week. Mrs A McFarlan is dangerously ill with little hope of recovery and died last night. Funeral services at the Baptist church tomorrow at 2 PM. Mrs Chaney Thomas and Geo France are ill with typhoid. Miss Nettie Barndollar is also very low. Other fever cases reported in the county.
Oss green is the season color and felt mats replace the toilet table as a novelty. Plush bonnets and round bats lead fashion, with orange bud jewelry for brides. Carricks collars grace ladies while beetle, lizard, and serpent motifs appear in jewelry. Moonlight jet rivals sunlight beads and new fringes imitate flowers like lilies and tulips.
Geo W Graham an old county resident and former Janesville, Wisconsin citizen died of heart disease last Friday at the Mt. Peasant Insane Asylum. His funeral was held at the Congregational church Tuesday. A letter said his reason had been restored and he was to be returned to his family, but telegram confirmed his death first.
The following marriage licenses were issued since our last report Asa J Mead and Amy Hie Geo M Wilkie, Mar C Shearer, Wm Hammed, Mary D Jackson, James Meekins, Mary Pieh, A J Moss, Mary Barstow, Knute Woster, Martha Jenksen, Jno E Presenal, Margaret Scot, Jno J Long, Clarinda Coffman, Samuel Hadly, Clara L Chase, Chas Johnson, Johann Olsen, J H McLain, Phebey C Wheatley, Mathew Elliott, Lydia Jane Barb, Dan T Post, Cindrilla Romano, Jesse Cross, Mary M Dawson, Leonard J Percival, Margaret Eastman, Cyrus E Livingston, Jennie J Ball, Henry Ersiand, Julia Severson, Benj Ersiand, Sarah Thompson.
The temperance group debated the questionResolved that moral suasion is the magnet power to advance the cause of temperance. Judges D A Bigelow Henry Towns ruled affirmatively. The meetings grow more interesting and may provide winter recreation if continued. Speakers included Mr Black Mr Soper Mr Perkins on the affirmative side and Mr Compin and Rev Brady on the opposing view.
Tus Board of Supervisors adjourned after finishing all business for this session. The term of Chairman John Evenson expires this year and he retires after many years of service under both supervisor systems. The county loses a faithful watchdog of Story county interests.
A plea for letters from readers across the county invites notices about neighbors, moves, visits, building projects, farming, and school changes. The column seeks community details on homes, orchards, renovations, crops, and who teaches in schools, suggesting Kelley remain a home for such timely notes.
East visitors search for land and business spots as hog and grain trade thrives. Apples are scarce and dear with a man selling crabs after a lengthy banter. Schoolhouse work drags. meetings and Sunday schools meet in the depot. Pastor Mr. Dickerson plans new field next year but will be absent for a few services amid ongoing church efforts.
A local advert urges shoppers to inspect the extensive inventory of Bigelow Huntington & Tilden before buying any dress goods linens prints shawls cloaks wrappings laces collars cuffs or carpetings. The firm touts the largest and best stock ever invoiced in the city.
A new joint work titled Royal Path of Life is published for subscription. L. W. Yaggy and T. L. Haines describe it as a curated collection of eminent literary extracts tracing life from cradle to grave under the true Royal Path. Professors Wynn and Wenn commend it as a book of rare merit suited for all readers, especially youths. The volume will be canvassed by Hunt of the L. A. C. In local commerce the Invincible coal stove has won top premiums at Wisconsin and Illinois state fairs, on display at Werner & Loris.
A 500-lady authored Home Guide from the Chicago Tribune compiles nearly a thousand practical cookery and household hints. This never-before-published book offers valuable home keeping experience, with 160 plus pages, bound, and offered as a subscriber premium for 1878 with extra copies for 50 cents each.
A long list promises various gifts tied to new subscribers at $1.50 per year. Rewards range from wagons, sewing machines, a scroll saw, butter workers, seed sowers, to pumps, ranges, boilers, cisterns, watches, stamps, and more. Totals scale by subscriber counts with offerings from multiple vendors and a bonus Home Guide book for full-year payment.
A garbled report lists clerks assessors and trustees for Palestine Nevada Sherman Richland Milford Franklin La Fayette Warren Lincoln and more, naming numerous individuals including J Scott Thos Berland Jno Johnson W Graves and W H Golley. A quoted remark questions whether Indians were treated cruelly by whites and mentions captivity.
Two good second hand heating stoves offered by Bixouam and Bannows suitable for offices school rooms or hotels and offered at a very cheap price.
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