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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1886
Page
3
Fragmentary railroad schedule shows No 3 Pacific Express with arrival and departure times at multiple points. Includes freight for Des Moines and notes that no other trains will carry passengers. Transport official credited as M. C. Jongs.
Local printer advertises full service work including new type fine and coarse stationery and other desirable supplies. Prices are stated as low enough to keep the business profitable and invites customers to give them their job printing.
Gen Greppges rode behind his horse Phil when it bolted as he unhitching from a buggy. He sprang into the vehicle to seize the reins but the partially unharnessed horse ran a block or two before Maxwell and France restrained it. No serious damage occurred beyond slight harness wear.
Workers spent time at the State Fair Grounds three miles east of the Capitol. The grounds host numerous buildings and significant work already completed for the fair. Next year should show better condition. attendance is large and the fair aims for financial success.
A Belle Plaine scene reports a natural geyser at an intersection three blocks south of the railroad. The aperture measures three feet, water erupts nonstop at about 500,000 gallons per day, and the slate colored mineral taste water drains into the Iowa River.
Community items include Charley Ruth presenting a 40 pound watermelon to Franklin Township, G H Maxwell's coach horse arrival in Ames, and a large Sunday School Association meeting at Enterprise Schoolhouse. Also notes of local sales, ads, births, preaching, and wagon exhibits.
A heavy shower with hail on Saturday caused window damage across Ames. The public school building and numerous private homes reported fractured glass from the storm.
The writing school at the public school building will close today. Fifty pupils aged eight to fifteen attend regularly. Great improvement noted and a premium is offered for the top scholar. Mr. W. A. Hicks taught a large class last winter, Bertie McLain winning the prize.
A Sunday School Convention gathered at Gilbert with local workers and guests including T. B. Howland Milford Rev. R. A. Ferguson Nevada J. Templeton G. H. Spencer B. Paxton Dr. Bever ly Ames George Kogle Ames. Weather kept attendance down but the day yielded useful topics and hopeful blessings from G. H. Spencer.
Readers urged to view the Gettysburg panorama during the Chicago Exposition with low rates and unique, sweeping battlefield imagery hailed as Chicago's Pride and greatest artistic attraction.
The death of Senora Dolores Festa widow of Mexican General Santa Anna is noted. She lived in retirement in Mexico City, about 49, endured her husband's many dispensations, and had no children. She spoke of his adventures with evident fondness and welcomed American visitors who showed interest in her husband’s life.
The Webster City Freeman notes a forty foot high mound east of Kamrar on section 1-SS8S-24 that serves as a geographic hub in Hamilton County. It has long guided pioneers traveling to Marshalltown Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and was once thought an Indian burial site, a theory not supported by excavations.
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