New $14 million railroad bridge opens
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, December 10, 2006
125 years ago
NEW NAME PROPOSED: There has of late been a good deal of talk about changing the name of the city of Council Bluffs, which leads one local newspaper to remark: "If we did not know the mayor of Council Bluffs, we should pronounce him crazier than Guiteau for suggesting the name of that city be changed. The present name is too long, but it is historic. It would be unwise to change the city's name."
PAY DAY: The pay car of the Milwaukee road paid last evening to the employees in this city between $8,000 and $10,000. At Minneapolis they paid to employes $86,000.
NEWS FROM OTHER PAPERS: The Fonda Gazette tells us "The rumor comes from pretty well authoritated that the Pomeroy News is about to be removed to Le Mars, Plymouth county. Mr. Bandon's people all reside there, and he is uneasy and dissatisfied when away from them."
MERE MENTIONS: Eddie Beller, a boy aged 8 years, living in the east part of the city, had his arm broken by a fall from a horse on Sunday. The other boy who was riding on the horse with Eddie fell on his head, which did not break.
MAPLE VALLEY NEWS: Maple valley is having a "boom" from one end to the other. Mapleton, Danbury, Battle Creek and Ida Grove are rapidly growing. Of these Mapleton and Ida Grove have the lead, but Danbury and Battle Creek keep well up in sight of them. They have just completed a pretty little Methodist church in Danbury. Battle Creek is following closely with what they claim will be a finer church costing less money. At Ida Grove they are erecting one of the best, most substantial and most sightly brick school buildings to be found in northern Iowa. Mapleton has a fine new school building also.
100 years ago
MAYOR DEFENDS POLICEMEN: Mayor Sears may take the floor in the meeting of the council tonight to explain to the aldermen the difficulty encountered by the police in apprehending saloon keepers who violate the Sunday closing regulations. "The declaration of some of the aldermen that only those saloonkeepers are arrested whom the police have it in for is not sound," said the mayor.
HE HAS FAITH IN THE PRESIDENT: Rev. Dr. J.C. Reid, the new pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, spoke to a large audience Sunday evening. He devoted much of his time to President Roosevelt's recent act in discharging a battalion of colored soldiers without honor. He said in part: "I cannot believe that the president would deliberately destroy his 'square deal' policy in this act which appears to be overt. The power of his personality and brilliant past achievements denote courage undaunted. Such qualities cannot be relegated to nothingness because the people fail to understand his reaction for such a radical action. Mr. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a providential president." Criticism should be withheld.
TRUANTS MAY HAVE SCHOOL: To care for boys and girls who refuse to go to school, and who are in danger of becoming incorrigibles, and to fill the gap between the public schools and the reformatories, a separate building for truants is being urged upon the school board by Judge David Mould and Truant Officer H.H. Wilder. From twenty-five to fifty children in Sioux City are in need of such a school, where they would receive a rigid discipline and special training. Many of these boys are little better than incipient criminals. They loaf about the pool halls and commit petty crimes.
50 years ago
MAN OF THE YEAR: Dr. Robert Ashby, former head of Morningside College's livestock marketing department, has been honored as Man of the Year by national terminal livestock markets and the land grant colleges for his "many years of outstanding contributions to livestock marketing."
BOARD TAKES ACTION: The Board of Education has taken action toward meeting the overcrowding in the city schools by naming William Beuttler as architect for the Emerson School addition and the new grade school to be erected in Country Club, and Robert D. Hecker as architect for the new grade school to be constructed in southeast Morningside.
NEW IN BUSINESS: A $300,000 expansion program by Wilson Trailer Co. involving construction of a new plant on Highway 75 three miles south of Sioux City has been announced ... One of the major business expansions here is completed with work in the closing stages on new quarters for Missouri Valley Machinery, 5001 Gordon Drive.
25 years ago
MISSOURI MAN RECEIVES VICTIM'S LIVER: Transplant of the liver of a Sergeant Bluff boy, killed in an accidental shooting, has been received at Pittsburgh by Curtis Hardin, 42, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. After the death of Scott Smith, 12, at Marian Health Center Monday, his parents, Leary and Joyce Smith, decided to donate his organs to science. Dr. Thomas Starzl, a Le Mars, Iowa native, one of only three physicians in the nation performing liver transplants, came by jet Tuesday to Sioux City and returned by jet to Pittsburgh immediately after obtaining the liver. Starzl is a pioneer in liver transplants and performs about two-thirds of the world's liver transplants.
BIG YEAR FOR BRIDGES: This has been a big year for Missouri River bridges in Sioux City. Another chapter was written Friday. Last summer, the old landmark combination bridge hit the water in a cloud of dust. Then Friday Burlington Northern Railroad opened a new $14 million bridge which put its old bridge out of commission after 93 years of traffic.
AD: Miss America, 1982, Elizabeth Ward, will be at Younkers to add sparkle and glamour to two fashion presentations on Wednesday, Dec. 9. You'll enjoy her singing and participation in our Christmas Fashion shows. Downtown: 2 p.m. and Southern Hills Mall: 7:30 p.m.
These items appeared in The Journal Dec. 4-10, 1881, 1906, 1956 and 1981.
Read more From the Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
NEW NAME PROPOSED: There has of late been a good deal of talk about changing the name of the city of Council Bluffs, which leads one local newspaper to remark: "If we did not know the mayor of Council Bluffs, we should pronounce him crazier than Guiteau for suggesting the name of that city be changed. The present name is too long, but it is historic. It would be unwise to change the city's name."
PAY DAY: The pay car of the Milwaukee road paid last evening to the employees in this city between $8,000 and $10,000. At Minneapolis they paid to employes $86,000.
NEWS FROM OTHER PAPERS: The Fonda Gazette tells us "The rumor comes from pretty well authoritated that the Pomeroy News is about to be removed to Le Mars, Plymouth county. Mr. Bandon's people all reside there, and he is uneasy and dissatisfied when away from them."
MERE MENTIONS: Eddie Beller, a boy aged 8 years, living in the east part of the city, had his arm broken by a fall from a horse on Sunday. The other boy who was riding on the horse with Eddie fell on his head, which did not break.
MAPLE VALLEY NEWS: Maple valley is having a "boom" from one end to the other. Mapleton, Danbury, Battle Creek and Ida Grove are rapidly growing. Of these Mapleton and Ida Grove have the lead, but Danbury and Battle Creek keep well up in sight of them. They have just completed a pretty little Methodist church in Danbury. Battle Creek is following closely with what they claim will be a finer church costing less money. At Ida Grove they are erecting one of the best, most substantial and most sightly brick school buildings to be found in northern Iowa. Mapleton has a fine new school building also.
100 years ago
MAYOR DEFENDS POLICEMEN: Mayor Sears may take the floor in the meeting of the council tonight to explain to the aldermen the difficulty encountered by the police in apprehending saloon keepers who violate the Sunday closing regulations. "The declaration of some of the aldermen that only those saloonkeepers are arrested whom the police have it in for is not sound," said the mayor.
HE HAS FAITH IN THE PRESIDENT: Rev. Dr. J.C. Reid, the new pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, spoke to a large audience Sunday evening. He devoted much of his time to President Roosevelt's recent act in discharging a battalion of colored soldiers without honor. He said in part: "I cannot believe that the president would deliberately destroy his 'square deal' policy in this act which appears to be overt. The power of his personality and brilliant past achievements denote courage undaunted. Such qualities cannot be relegated to nothingness because the people fail to understand his reaction for such a radical action. Mr. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a providential president." Criticism should be withheld.
TRUANTS MAY HAVE SCHOOL: To care for boys and girls who refuse to go to school, and who are in danger of becoming incorrigibles, and to fill the gap between the public schools and the reformatories, a separate building for truants is being urged upon the school board by Judge David Mould and Truant Officer H.H. Wilder. From twenty-five to fifty children in Sioux City are in need of such a school, where they would receive a rigid discipline and special training. Many of these boys are little better than incipient criminals. They loaf about the pool halls and commit petty crimes.
50 years ago
MAN OF THE YEAR: Dr. Robert Ashby, former head of Morningside College's livestock marketing department, has been honored as Man of the Year by national terminal livestock markets and the land grant colleges for his "many years of outstanding contributions to livestock marketing."
BOARD TAKES ACTION: The Board of Education has taken action toward meeting the overcrowding in the city schools by naming William Beuttler as architect for the Emerson School addition and the new grade school to be erected in Country Club, and Robert D. Hecker as architect for the new grade school to be constructed in southeast Morningside.
NEW IN BUSINESS: A $300,000 expansion program by Wilson Trailer Co. involving construction of a new plant on Highway 75 three miles south of Sioux City has been announced ... One of the major business expansions here is completed with work in the closing stages on new quarters for Missouri Valley Machinery, 5001 Gordon Drive.
25 years ago
MISSOURI MAN RECEIVES VICTIM'S LIVER: Transplant of the liver of a Sergeant Bluff boy, killed in an accidental shooting, has been received at Pittsburgh by Curtis Hardin, 42, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. After the death of Scott Smith, 12, at Marian Health Center Monday, his parents, Leary and Joyce Smith, decided to donate his organs to science. Dr. Thomas Starzl, a Le Mars, Iowa native, one of only three physicians in the nation performing liver transplants, came by jet Tuesday to Sioux City and returned by jet to Pittsburgh immediately after obtaining the liver. Starzl is a pioneer in liver transplants and performs about two-thirds of the world's liver transplants.
BIG YEAR FOR BRIDGES: This has been a big year for Missouri River bridges in Sioux City. Another chapter was written Friday. Last summer, the old landmark combination bridge hit the water in a cloud of dust. Then Friday Burlington Northern Railroad opened a new $14 million bridge which put its old bridge out of commission after 93 years of traffic.
AD: Miss America, 1982, Elizabeth Ward, will be at Younkers to add sparkle and glamour to two fashion presentations on Wednesday, Dec. 9. You'll enjoy her singing and participation in our Christmas Fashion shows. Downtown: 2 p.m. and Southern Hills Mall: 7:30 p.m.
These items appeared in The Journal Dec. 4-10, 1881, 1906, 1956 and 1981.
Read more From the Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
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