GOING SOUTH.
| No. 51 Night Express | 1:50 A. M. |
| No. 55 Passenger | 5:00 P. M. |
| No. 53 Passenger | 11:40 A. M. |
| No. 57 Passenger | 8:05P. M. |
| No. 59 Freight for Des Moines | 6:45 A. M. |
GOING NORTH.
| No. 1 Passenger | 10:55 P. M. |
| No. 54 Passenger | 11:35 A. M. |
| No. 52 Passenger | 8:20 A. M. |
No other trains will carry passengers.
M. C. JONES, Agent.
TWENTY CHANCES TO LEAVE EVERY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
It seems by the time card there are eighteen to twenty chances every twenty-four hours to get away from Ames by railroad.
There is no other town in the county that has such facilities for getting away. Good for Ames!
The College library is said to contain 5,540 books of various kinds.
PALESTINE TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF PALESTINE TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT
AND ORGANIZATION TO MARCH, 1887.—CONTAINING, ALSO,
A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION—TOWNSHIP 1,201, SHELDAHL 164—1,365.
Elsewhere will be found, also a history, in part, of the early settlement of the Township. The Township was named " Palestine" in remembrance of the ancient Palestine as recognized in Holy Writ. The Township was organized in 1858, comprising now only township 82 north, range 21 west.
Of the brief items a few were culled from our county papers.
A Rev. Mr. Ives Marks had a seminary building erected about the year 1855 or 1856, for a kind of religious institution on a site