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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1893
Page
7
An OCR fragment shows train names and times for eastbound and westbound service. Listings include the Atlantic Express Denver Limited Overland Pacific Express Carroll Express and Way Freight with times around morning to evening.
Grove Bros request all who owe them to call at once and settle as they close their led ger. The notice asks for prompt payment to finalize accounts.
Miss Rosa Bingman grows weaker. Ames residents John Mitchell and Miss Mary Sweeney visit, while many townsfolk travel to Chicago and Des Moines. Notes recount hospitalities, family occasions, moves to new homes, school events, and the upcoming I A C Science Club meeting with a Mexico lecture by Prof Osborn.
John Van Scoy junior, six, son of the late John Van Scoy and Mrs Ernst, on the Van Scoy farm five miles south of Ames, died after a head injury from a colt kick. He died Friday after the Wednesday incident. Funeral services were held at Evergreen church and burial in Ames cemetery. The boy’s father was killed on the same farm years earlier by lightning while plowing.
A compact sale listing furniture, instruments, hardware, and produce. Advertises violins and other instruments at Ames Drug Co. with repairs, a coal burner trade in for a wood stove, Adams Bros selling salt and a car of fine potatoes, Hamilton & Co heaters, and a forthcoming New York apples shipment with delivery from the car. Special prices for bulk orders.
The message touts Best and Seal of Kansas as two of Ames's finest flour brands and promotes the store as headquarters for flour, emphasizing a strong commitment to selling flour products.
We offer lumber logs sawn up to sixteen feet with early drop off for spring fence manufacturing. Northwestern Fence Co notes log intake early as custom work ends when fence production begins. Car load of flour arrives at Adams Bros and Camer Bros. & Herman's advertise White Rosa flour and cheap shoes in cash sales with fall stock arriving at Canier Bros. & Herman's.
Taylor urged to visit Caniel Bros and Herman for boots and shoes with prices described as the lowest this season. The ad promotes a sale on footwear mentioning unbeatable pricing.
An advertisement touts No-to-Bac as a harmless guaranteed method to quit tobacco with little cost and no risk. Sold by druggists, with mail orders available from The Sterling Remedy Co. Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind. The note also promotes Vida cream and invites readers to contact DuBois & DuBois for patent ideas.
The Iowa Central Railway offers excursion tickets to St Louis from Sept 6 to Oct 21 at very low rates. For train times rates and more information contact agents of Iowa Central Ry or Thomas P Barry General Passenger Agent Marshalltown Iowa.
An advertisement proclaims free pain extraction at the dental parlors of C. E. Hunt with no extra charge. It emphasizes painless service and invites patients seeking relief for dental woes.
For Sale or Trade. A Little Yankee riding plow, nearly new. Apply at this office.
Boone Valley Coal & Ry Co appoints J A Kerr as Story county agent to sell lots in Frasier new town Boone county Ia For maps prices contact Kerr Riverside Peoria and Lexington stoves offered by Thurston Swan Co Ames Drug Co sells Musical Instruments or repairs Next door to Bigelow Smiths Highest price for butter eggs paid by Adams Bros Hard dry stove wood 175 per cord Zenor Son soft dry wood 150 per cord Call Zenor & Son for wood supplies
A Republican rally features a district congressman as speaker with HON A L STUNTZ presiding. Community groups meet and plans are urged for turnout. Local letters note Sleepy Eye Minnesota inquiries about mill sites. a wrecked Engine No 420 is back in service. Ames attracts outside attention while a Polk County rally faces partisan pushback. Citizens demand sidewalk repairs on Washington Street to avoid damages.
Dr Perren's lecture at the Baptist church Friday has been canceled. The Ames wheel club plans a lantern parade Friday evening with city hall selling lanterns. The college music department advertises two entertainments, one tomorrow and one next week. Misses Starr Gifford and Williams graduate this term and appear at the pupils recital tomorrow evening.
The college schedules a pupils recital on Friday October 27 at 8 o clock in the chapel. On Friday November 3 a Choir Benefit will raise funds for choir maintenance with Miss Marie Chambers Miss Genevieve Westermann and Boston reader Miss May Usher Griffin performing first, the Grasshopper Cantata to follow. A twenty five cent admission is charged. Also noted is the death of Amos Densmore, co inventor of the Remington typewriter and developer of the Densmore model, who died in New York City after a long cancer illness. His cremation and burial arrangements are described.
Small upright steam engine for sale inquire at office. Old papers 20 cents a hundred. Paper offers subscribe to this paper and New York Weekly Tribune for one year at 1.50. Monthly report for district No 8 Washington township ending Oct 20 shows 24 pupils 21 days taught 20.2 average daily attendance. Perfect in attendance Ralph Gray. Roll of honor listed Nora Stark Lena Tesdahl Mabel Gray Anna Johnson Clara Hamm Sarah Severtson Frank Wortman Ward Smith Gerrku De Morris teacher.
The Ray L. Royce troupe gave an unusually good show last Thursday evening. Performers, including impersonator Mr. Royce and banjo mandolin master Mr. Moore, were highly praised and the audience showed full appreciation, with a full house expected on their next visit.
A fragmented list of names and titles appears, mentioning Cannon LW Erickson Hulton Lufien Nelson Nelts and Miss Ella, with dated reference Oct 24th 1393 and various persons including J. ng, Hollingsworth, Johnson, Mansell, Peren, Stedman, Wilson, and E. Duncan P M.
An advertisement touts a combined subscription to The Intellligencer and the Des Moines Weekly Register for only 1.50 dollars annually. It promotes value and convenience for readers.
Reports from Ames describe the ceremony uniting Miss Jennie Stilwell and Mr. Harry Child at the bride’s father Dan Stilwell’s home near the college grounds. The couple, soon to reside in Nevada, celebrated with a small gathering and well wishes from friends.
The Iowa Agricultural College at Ames will auction October 31 at 1 p m. surplus stock including ten bulls and forty heifers from Shorthorn Walled Angus Galloway Red Poll and Jersey breeds twenty spring lambs from Dorset Horn Merino Cotswold Hampshire and Oxford Down bucks and ewes twenty Poland China spring pigs boars and sows. All stock from finest families selected to reflect breeds. Cash terms or one year at 8 percent on good security.
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