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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1890
Page
3
Chicago and North Western RAILWAY timetable notes trains northbound with specific arrival and departure times. Passenger service details mention agent Geo W. Rogers and statement that no other trains will carry passengers.
Mr. L. B. Reed is out again. J. J. Wiltse and family moved to a farm near Ames. George Arnold improves after illness. Belle Kooser begins five month school in Warren two. Nellie Stone visits Coggeshall. Mrs. Tedrow visits in Denver. Orville St. John visits Tama City and mother ill. J. J. Boehm returns to Spencer after four weeks here. Mrs. Briley returns from southeast state. Col. Eddy of Des Moines visits. Loud Soper and Mitchell drive to Boone. Kooser from Chadron returns home. Davis hosts friend from Rochester New York. Van Campen party and Dr. Bewlet visit Keedick Mt. Vernon and Estherville. Mollie Child visits brothers Freddy recovering from illness. Major Beck returns from Chicago with Mrs. Beck and Crozier. Moffatts of Aurora Wyoming stop en route from Michigan. Rev. Brown Baptist meetings in Kelly grow in interest. Severson plans Red Wing Minnesota study. Mrs. J. Duncan visits corn industry. Mrs. Bradley learns of Chicago mother’s death. Excursionists return. Drake and Goodnough longest travelers. Stella Bartlett notes cousin Harry Lewis dies in Detroit after health decline. Population totals of local townships given with Nevada and Ames figures. Good poultry prices at Briley & Bower. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGuire a daughter October 29. Republican meetings listed for Story county towns with Oct. 10–11 dates. Meetings in evening. township committees to arrange.
Etla Lcotta Swanton to perform under Epworth League auspices on Oct 14. Prof. Barrows to preach at Congregational church Sunday morning. Evergreen Church hosts a revival four miles west with over forty conversions and twenty seven joining. Baptismal service to follow next Sabbath at the river. Parley Sheldon joke ends as a new survivor from the 177th Ohio infantry, Wm. Hodges of Cleveland, is identified. Hodges, a former county resident, joined Dan and Henry McCarthy during the reunion.
Miss Maud Eastwood and Miss Cora Johnson went to Boone to be examined for teachers certificates. R. Jones had a colt killed on the railroad track. F. W. Foster went to Boone on business. Wm. Ball moved into T. M. Aylesworth’s property. E. W. Jones goes to Des Moines to finish his course at the C. C. Co. C. S. H. Delong and son Dick traveled to the corn palace and will visit J. H. Bevington near Sioux City before returning. James Wakefield of Bloomington Illinois is visiting W. J. Freed and other relatives.
The Evangelical Church held a well attended quarterly meeting this past weekend. Principal J F Reed reports 92 percent school attendance district wide, a high rate considering district size. Other notes mention residents returning from Spirit Lake and Ottumwa trips, and local travel for farming and sightseeing.
In Gilbert a young reading circle met at Miss Edith Dunno's home last Saturday for a debate on whether money or soul governs man. Miss S Needham read, with critics offering remarks, and the group plans future programs. A local farmer works on a Gilbert boom while residents prepare trips to Sioux City to see the Corn Palace. The Christian Church schedules Eld F J Dow for half-time preaching alternating Sundays.
At the old settlers meeting in Nevada Iowa on Sept 26 1890 a new executive committee was appointed to organize the annual picnic to be held Oct 8 1890 at Fair Ground. Committees named for coffee music and finances with a detailed program including addresses, music, and biographical sketches. A marriage notice follows for Glyde A Turner and Dollie A Sisson with reception plans and out of town guests listed.
Alba Heywood and Peerless Concert Co. present a silver solo band and orchestra at the Nevada opera hall on Thursday evening October 9. The program features Alonzo Hatch and Olga Widgren with Annie Miller and the Heywood family. Reserved seats 75 cents, gallery 50 cents. Presale begins Friday October 3 at Worsley Brothers. Also notes the S. S. S. Convention of Grant Township on Sunday October 5 at Enter prise schoolhouse.
Class No 2 of the Christian S S to hold an Oyster social at the residence of R McDowell next Friday evening Oct 3. All invited. Dr Bunce of Nevada will lecture in Ames next Monday night on Intemperance before the Good Templars and all interested in temperance. Admission free.
The Iowa State Horticultural Society at Ames on August 30 adopted resolutions to curb selling unworthy trees and to publish a list of recommended fruits. They condemn several fruit varieties and promote hardier stock, with a bulletin to aid planters and newspapers to disseminate guidance.
Mrs. H A Cook returns from Nebraska to visit her daughter. G Fitch of Mills County visits sisters Rosenfield and Sheehey. Mrs J W Little returns from Illinois after an uncles death. Peter Hanson and bride visit his father. Lulu Gray visits brother in Marshalltown. Mrs R Sheehey ill. Miss Billa Giddings returns from Mason City. Miss Abbie Bank visits. Peter Sutter family moves to Smith farm. A Stark moves to Wiltse home. Frank Foster reports a good trip to Des Moines. D Raymond visits Nebraska. J J Wiltse family moves to Templeton farm. Neighbors bid them farewell with a surprise. Rev L G Brown preaches at Baptist church.
Board of Supervisors of Story County Iowa adopts a resolution to issue ten thousand dollars in bonds to build a county jail with six percent interest and a half mill tax levy starting 1891. Voters to decide on November 4 1890 with For Jail Bonds or Against Jail Bonds. Also notes a Saturday evening class 2 Christian S S entertainment with plans for an elegant supper.
A collage of advertising blurbs offers crackers at five cents a pound, whole cracker boxes, ocean and foreign exchange services, Wyandotte chickens, new clothing, lumber and cash prices, boots and shoes, painless dental extractions, insurance and tombstones, and sugar specials. It also lists the Moyer farm on 90 acres in Washington Township with timber lots, needing inquiry to W. H. Johnson, administrator.
The notice touts Clyde Moingona Coal as a key item offered at low prices along with McBirmies Boone Lower Vein coal Cumberland Hard Coal and Blossburg. B A Lockwoop promotes Special California Excursions and references The Chicago & North-Western Rail.
J B Paxton and A M Perkins advertise silverware lines at Post Office Jewelry Store. A. M Perkins offers dental work with Amalgam fillings and new teeth. The Story Country Bank in Ames promotes real estate loans at six percent, plus free sample papers and tea offers. Des Moines and Marshalltown connections noted.
Notice that an instrument is on file as the last will and testament of Amund A Land, deceased, with a September 30, 1890 probate hearing date in District Court Nevada Iowa. The clerk is Henry Wilson Jr and deputy H L Carrell.
An advertisement details excursions to Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Montana at half fare for round trips. It directs readers to Chicago & North-Western Railway Company agents for full information and tickets. The rest of the passage is a miscellaneous jab at a NY press remark and a note about Dr Beverly using six driving horses for about fifty miles daily.
Train and excursion notices announce Wednesday departures from Chicago to San Francisco with Sunday arrivals and special trips to Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. Advertisements offer free mail copies of farm themed books from F B Bowes and J F Merry. Administrative notices detail the estate of F D Basket with payment and claim procedures. Tax redemption notice warns O P Esre of Story City about 1886 taxes due and a ninety day redemption period.
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