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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
5
Local notices cost 5c per line per insertion with charges applying to entertainment events and meetings involving an admission or monetary interest. Cards of thanks and condolences priced at $1.00. Church service and club meeting announcements published once free, extra insertions 5c per time. Display rates available on request. changes due by Friday evening weekly.
Social column items detail Miss Kate Sayles and Anna Richmond visiting Nevada, Miss Anna Gamroth in Ames, and several trips to Des Moines, Webster City, Chicago, and Boone. Local gatherings include M. W. A meetings, dancing lessons, and family visits as well as church society events and a hospital of Ames.
An ad hawks Fauntless shoes claiming better quality for the price. It questions typical shoe value and pitches the product as delivering more than the cost.
A collection of personal updates from Ames covers condolences for a mother and grandmother, visits by H. B. GosLz and W. W. Spring, a Des Moines trip to see a ill daughter Mrs. Smith, Halloween plans by the Bachelor Maids, social visits by Miss Bess Dunham, and a Grand Lodge trip by Jess Campbell. Also details of Rebekah and I O O F delegates and a newborn daughter of Mrs. Emery Hurd, linked to Rose Runke and Ames Runkle.
One Hundred Dollars Reward for the name of the young lady who ate 97 biscuits and drank 48 cups of coffee at the Malleable exhibit at Cade and Steigerwalt's hardware store in Ames. Also listed are numerous property sales and transfers in Ames Cambridge Maxwell and Olinger's ads, with judgements and deeds recorded.
Miss Jennie McMichael received a surprise shower last Friday as she prepared to visit a friend. Refreshments followed and gifts filled a bushel basket marking a generous outpouring of keepsakes from China.
Real estate transfers include DMIF&NL&E&T Lot Oo to Fern ald Town Lot Co for 9000 covering multiple blocks in Fernald Ia. I B Norton to Micky Seemed for 5 dollars Lot 1 Block 1 Zearing. Susie Williams Coffelt to T J Pollock for 1200 Lots 17 18 and 17 ft of lot 16 Block 7 Zearing. Sarah J Kibbee to Nellie Robinson for 1100 Lots 15 16 Block 8 Gilbert Station. D Shepard to Katie K Dickinson for 200 Lot 4 Block 6 Gilbert Station. John Hefly to H M Dayton for 1200 Lots 9 10 Block 6 Bairs ad Cole. Caroline Clawson to N& N WRR Cold for 490 Lot 8 9 Block O Nellis ad Cambridge.
A campaign outline urges voters to remember the Iowa race will influence the national contest next year. It warns Democrats seek gains to affect the legislature and paralyze business by removing tariffs, cites Hearst aiding Iowa Democrats, and stresses every Republican should vote.
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