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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
7
Local notes report Grant Cashatt ill with typhoid, Miss Fannie White in Boone, and a new depot planned for Webster City. County fair set for October 2 4 in Nevada with other community updates, fires, accidents, and social events across Ames, Boone and surrounding towns.
In an adjourned session last Monday the council passed an ordinance for the Clark street storm sewer and authorized advertising for bids. It also enacted sidewalk material standards demanding stone, cement, vitrified brick or similar materials unless granted permission for other, and require council permits before rebuilding. A resolution directs a five foot cement or vitrified brick sidewalk on the west side of Hoggatt street from State street to the motor track.
At Friday's Board of Supervisors session the election boards for the coming general election were named. Ames ward clerks include Cal Giddings and Sid Hamilton with judges G W Rogers J O Brownlie John Hoggatt. Second ward clerks J E Davis W H Wynn Jr with judges Van Chamberlain F E Morris Parley Sheldon. Third ward clerks Geo E Baker P O Compton with judges John Lanning Perry Bowers M C Ufford. Fourth ward clerks H Knapp H M Branson with judges A Marston G W Bissell John Hoover. Victor Coffee listed at 25 cents from T J Minter & Son.
E F Kistner licensed embalmer operates with M Jay Adams Co offering call services around the clock and answering calls at all hours for funeral arrangements and related needs.
The Ames Opera House hosts the company engagement on Tuesday September 18. The three act comedy offers room for specialties and reviews praise the production as a top seasonal entertainment with refined performances and high order of merit.
Tilden & Loughran advertise a fine line of toilet articles and perfumes. The firm promotes a range of personal care goods aimed at daily grooming and scent. Local customers are invited to explore the new display at their shop.
The City Electric Light Plant in Ames Iowa invites sealed proposals by 4 PM September 24 1900 to furnish materials and to perform labor for the tile drain project on Onondagage Clark streets. Plans and specifications by Marston and L C Hudson are on file. bids must include certified checks and bonds as required. bids opened and considered by the City Council September 24. The city reserves right to reject bids and requires compliance with the plans and specifications and state law.
Ordinance authorizes construction of a tile drain from Onondaga east of Hoggatt to Clark and North streets. Costs to be paid by abutting property assessments per frontage, city paying street intersection costs. Effective after publication. Signed by Clerk CAL Gliddings and Mayor Thomas Thompson.
Ordinance 133 requires new or replaced sidewalks in Ames Iowa to use cement brick stone or similar material. The sidewalk committee may demand abutting owners repair defective walks within thirty days or have the city replace them with costs charged to the property. Property owners need a permit from the City Council to lay any sidewalk.
A reader requests posting one hundred postage stamps to Safe Young in Des Moines and to receive the Weekly Iowa Capital through the period after the November election.
A brief note asserts a pledge to guarantee all goods with a concise company assurance.
Under date of November 4 1897 from Vryburg Bechuanaland Captain G Dennison notes he bought Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy before the last campaign and used it himself and gave it to his men with beneficial results. For sale by all druggists.
Homes seekers may travel on the first and third Tuesdays monthly to western, northwestern, and southeastern points at one fare plus two dollars for a round trip. Inquiries should be directed to Iowa Central ticket agents or Geo. E. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown Ia. Also notes on Golden Eagle flour and a new novel Philip Gerard available at Taylor's book store.
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