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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1891
Page
3
Time table indicates trains heading north by Chicago and North Western Railway with limited service. No. 58 arrives at 12 45 PM. only Sunday service appears for passenger transport. agent George W. may handle tickets and inquiries.
John Hutchinson's weeklong visit. Miss Della Jones visits the Watts family in Ida Grove. Mr. Nelson and daughter Hilda stay in Gowrie. Mrs. McElyear visits Wesley's family. Prof Budd and family host their son. Numerous other neighbors travel, visit, and return from Chicago, Des Moines, Clinton, and Washington.
Rev Mr and Mrs Douglass entertain Humboldt guests Miss Shellenberger a longtime Humboldt teacher and Miss Turner en route to Audubon. Little Susie Claflin returns to city home after two months with Mrs Santee. Henry McCarthy remains under weather. D W Gage of Cleveland Ohio visiting Ames relatives after five years. Miss Hattie Fitzpatrick resigns from Ames primary to teach in Rock Rapids. Dr Raynor and wife visited Henry over Sunday and praised Hubbard area farms.
The W R C meets Friday at the usual place and hour. Rev T J Dow to conduct Christian Church services Sun. Rev T M Rickman to begin at Baptist church Sunday. Prof M F Morgan moving to Lake Citytown to teach next year. No service at Congregational church Sunday but Sunday School and Y P S C E meet as usual. Ballot results on Des Moines Ames train: Votes 42 Wheeler 83 total 125.
Transfers list numerous property moves including H Utterback to Geo H Richardson for 50 dollars Lot 1 Blair’s addition to Cole Jacob B Jacobson and wife to Shure O Hegland for 1200 dollars Lots 23 and 6 Block 45 Nevada. John Molstre and others to S Nordskeg a for 169 dollars Lot 1 Block 8 and Lot 8 Block 9 Story and Hegland to W F Swayze for 1450 dollars Lots 23 and 6 Block 45 Nevada. Henry T Shockley to AM Perkins for 30 dollars Lot 4 Block 7 Duff’s Add to Ames.
Geo. W. O'Brien carries a complete assortment of Studebaker, Schuttler, O'Brien and Ketchum wagons. Plowing is in season with Wild Irishman, All Right and flying Dutchman sulky plows also available. A full line of walking plows is offered.
The best selected assortment of Cooper Wells and Co hosiery has just arrived at Geo UG Tilden's store for buyers.
Carl Jacobs clerks for Larson and Moses. M D Madson builds a dwelling. Nelvis Jacobs visits Chicago. Needham of Boone called in Story last Saturday. Joe Anderson travels north for business. B M Rasmussen of Des Moines on streets Thursday and Saturday. Mitchell Swan and Theodore Herman son go to Des Moines for Highland Park College. Mr and Mrs W D Gandrup visit son Emil and wife at Zearing last Sunday.
At Boone County Fair the afternoon featured the 2:25 2:35 and 2:50 races. Golden Wing owned by B J Moore Dunlap Iowa and Toccsin owned by A J Fuller Storm Lake won heats, with Golden Wing taking the heat and race in a 2:34 best time on Boone tracks. Dillards Alexander from Audubon won the 2:35 trot with 2:354 time followed by Norway and Paul Pinkham. John L rose amusement in the 2:50 trot though finishing third, with 2:25 claimed for him as a racer. Miss Mayme McFarland heads to Marshalltown Friday as school starts Monday and many locals will attend the State fair.
Notices mention Sept 15 17 1891 county fair exhibits and premium lists for Tama county fair at Toledo Iowa with liberal stock prizes and open competition. Details invite participation in races music amusements and joint discussions on topics with Republican calls to action and early application for space and prizes.
Worrells Grove residents consider attending the State Fair this week enjoying excellent conditions. Prayer meetings were renewed at the school house with Mr. and Mrs. J Hall among visitors from Gilbert Station and Ames. The piece praises local roads crops and notes an advertisement for Wyoming Common Wealth offering stock in a mining firm.
State and local items report a Sunday fire destroying a town in Yarmouth Iowa and other tragedies including a gunshot suicide near Coon Rapids. Weevil damaged Worth County crops while several notable figures in politics and industry, including Leech Ford and Dolliver Yeoman, feature in varied notices and wagers.
The item references Newark indulgence in a cyclone last Friday, Lake Erie and Western railroad wage increases for conductors and brakemen, and Balmaceda’s flight. It notes a mammoth New York business block planned, Black Hawk War survivors gathering in Galena, and a deadly Western North Carolina railroad crash with about forty deaths. A geologist congress advisory, long excursion by foreign delegates, and a Cosmopolitan publishing discount for Grant are mentioned alongside local political campaigning by Georgia Warrick and calls for a county harvest festival.
Local and traveling salesmen wanted to represent L. L. May & Co Nurserymen Florists and Seedmen St Paul. No capital required to start. Earn about $100 per month for the right man. Apply quickly with age. This house is responsible.
Bingham and Company market a large stock of Old Standard Eclipse wind mills with strong endorsements from railroad corporations. The rail firms pledge to use these mills exclusively.
Scheduled train times and connections for Ames and College show multiple daily departures and arrivals. The text details weekday and weekend patterns, with limited rule about package handling at 9:40 am and 5:30 pm and exceptions for Parle Sheldon.
In a Groton letter Mrs Ada E Hurd recalls a severe cold that led to consumption and doctors giving up hope. She credits King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds with her recovery after eight trial bottles at L M Bosworth s Drugstore. Regular sizes priced 50 cents and 1 00.
President Diaz is well enough to handle executive duties but shows traces of recent illness. His wife urges Europe for rest, yet his ambition keeps him at home for now.
A ladies prayer meeting will be held at one o clock on September 8 with Mrs. L. H. Bingham presiding. All ladies are cordially invited to attend.
L M Bosworth, a local druggist, gives away trial bottles of J Miles Restorative Nervice and guarantees it cures headaches and nervous complaints, with Dr Miles' New Heart Cure offered for nervous or organic heart disease. A free booklet on nervous diseases is also available. Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt nervousness quotes noted. Queal & Co report busy lumber checks for a new bank and blocks, with 15 to 20 cars enroute for the fair trade.
An advertisement highlights Dr Miles New Heart Cure as a major breakthrough for heart disease. It claims rapid relief from breathlessness pain and swelling and promotes Dr Miles books and remedies sold by L M Bosworth and H D Wagner Co with additional products including hair growth tonic and diphtheria cure.
Retired physician, claiming to hold a powerful vegetable remedy from an East India Missionary, promises a radical cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung affections nervous debility and nervous complaints. He will mail the recipe free in German French or English with full directions to anyone who sends a stamped request to W A Noyes 820 Powers Block Rochester.
In 1891 MAcon Missouri a letter promotes the Queen City Silver and Nickel Plating Co of East St Louis Illinois. G Stookey claims high earnings selling their platers and invites readers to obtain circulars and price lists. The ad touts gold silver nickel copper and brass plating usable by all, promising up to 20 dollars daily.
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