Worst snowstorm in 20 years blows into area
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, January 28, 2007
125 years ago
ALTA BOY: The Alta Advertiser contributes a story on precocity, as follows: "Alta has the youngest 'young America' in the northwest. He is scarcely 3 years of age, yet he can dance a jig, smokes from three to six cigars each day and in conversation uses all the pet phrases usually indulged in by the fast young men of the period."
NOVEL SCHOOL: A novel school has been started in the Academy of Music building. A gentleman named Dillon has his headquarters there, who makes a specialty of training book agents. These are drilled in all the arts of smooth-bore and rifle, equipped with sample volumes and entertaining harangues, and then turned loose on a too-confiding public.
OTHER SCHOOL NUMBERS: Prof. Armstrong, principal of the Sioux City schools, says that he has never before since being in this city, known of so great a falling off in attendance. In some of the schools this amounted to 50 per cent. In one school he visited, where there should have been sixty scholars, there are but twenty-five. The light attendance comes of the prevalence in the city of mumps, measles, chicken-pox and about every other known infantile ailment. The cases are nearly all light.
WINNEBAGO NEWS: O.C. Tredway would not be suspected of being a philanthropist by casual acquaintances, but the opinion is hazarded that he is doing more for the Winnebagoes than is the government. He is giving about twenty-five of the men of that tribe work and money for that work, in his woodchopping camp at the old Broughier place. The intention may not be philanthropic, but pure business, but the effect is the same. These dusky laborers are eating bread and bacon earned by honest labor instead of dining at the government free lunch table spread at the agency. This reporter was led to these reflections by seeing at Capt. Murphy's grocery store last evening bout twenty of these laborers investing their earnings in bacon, beans, flour, saleratus and other necessities of civilized life and indigestion.
TAKES YOU BACK: A colony of French Canadians are settling in the Woodlands, southeast of Salix. A gentleman who visited them recently said that it seemed like going back in time a few centuries to see the women spinning wool, and knitting shirts for the men of their families.
100 years ago
GET GROUNDED!: Without a dissenting vote, Alderman Nuessle's amended ordinance relative to the grounding of certain electric wires within a prescribed district, was passed by the city council last night. As amended the ordinance grants five years for the placing of the wires underground and removes the stipulation as to the height of poles in the residence section of the city.
AD: Good for cold weather and will make furs high. We want Skunk and Mink. Want large quantities of them. Write us for prices or send them in while prices are good. Strange Bros. Hide Co., Sioux City, Iowa.
OBJECTION TO JUNK DUMP: Claiming that the granting of a portion of West First street to Strange Bros. Hide company will give rise to a nuisance, three residents of Prospect Hill have sent to the city council a request that it rescind the action at its last meeting, leasing the ground to Strange Bros. for five years at $25 a year. The land lies directly west of the tracks leading to the Combination bridge and abuts Prospect Hill. The citizens fear that the ground is to be used as a dumping ground for bones and other junk, which would cause nauseating smells to find their way up the hill in the summer time.
ELK POINT NEWS: The two youngest children of James Teller of McCook, aged 2 and 5 years, have been taken to the Orphans' home in Sioux Falls ... Daniel Flannery and Peter Peterson have bought the C.M. Pearl farm, one mile west of Elk Point for $13,000. This is the old La Barge homestead, one of the first taken.
BIG WEDDING: At one of the largest weddings ever held in Sioux City, 650 people being in attendance, Louis Kronick and Miss Anna Krozberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Krozberg, were married last Sunday evening in Tuttle hall. It was one of the great social events of orthodox Jewish circles. More than 100 telegrams were received from outside friends.
50 years ago
POLIO STILL AROUND: It isn't enough that parents have their children vaccinated with the Salk vaccine, warns the Woodbury County Medical Society. Most of the recent cases here are occurring in persons 15 years of age and older ... Despite widespread use of the vaccine, Woodbury County had more polio cases in 1956 than in 1955. All the new cases here occurred in non-vaccinated persons.
PEOPLE NEWS: Sioux Cityan Carol Ann Bauer won a $1,000 scholarship award for "outstanding fashion garment" at Make It Yourself with Wool contest in Las Vegas ... D.H. Watt is the new president of the Sioux City Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers ... Robert Keegan has been honored as a distinguished craftsman by the Iowa Chapter, American Institute of Architects ... Sioux City Druggists and Drug Representatives have elected Lyle Zortman as president.
25 years ago
TO CLOSE: Four Sioux City branch libraries will close July 1. But, say library officials, the news isn't as disappointing as it might sound. Drafting long-range goals for the system at its meeting Wednesday night, the board of trustees decided such a move was necessary to make the overall library operation more efficient. The board unanimously voted to shut the North, Leeds, Smith Villa and Riverside branches within six months. Embarking upon a widespread "new main library" campaign, the board ultimately expects to serve the public's needs from an easily accessible main site, its bookmobile, at the Morningside branch library and a service center located somewhere in the northwest part of town, possibly a high traffic area like the Sunset Plaza.
BAD WEATHER: The worst winter snowstorm to hit in 20 years had the Siouxland area in a state of paralysis by midday Friday. The storm had dumped 11 inches of new snow by 1 p.m.-- most of that after 6 a.m.-- and the National Weather Service was predicting a total of more than 12 inches. There was already four inches on the ground when it started. The storm was expected to reach blizzard proportions with the winds reaching 40 miles an hour by nightfall Friday. The current storm appeared to be the worst in terms of snowfall since a similar storm that hit on March 12 and 13, 1962. That storm dumped 17.5 inches of snow on the city in a 24-hour period and snow was drifted by winds of 30 miles per hour ... The Journal published an early edition of the Saturday paper to beat the blizzard, then was stuck with it. It was planned to distribute the paper Saturday afternoon, but the wind continued to whip the snow into drifts and Publisher Dean Krenz decided that Saturday's paper would be
delivered along with Sunday's Journal. A skeleton staff was assembled to produced Sunday's paper and was brought to The Journal plant by Photogapher Ed Porter in his four-wheel drive vehicle.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 22-28, 1882, 1907, 1957 and 1982.
View other From the Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
ALTA BOY: The Alta Advertiser contributes a story on precocity, as follows: "Alta has the youngest 'young America' in the northwest. He is scarcely 3 years of age, yet he can dance a jig, smokes from three to six cigars each day and in conversation uses all the pet phrases usually indulged in by the fast young men of the period."
NOVEL SCHOOL: A novel school has been started in the Academy of Music building. A gentleman named Dillon has his headquarters there, who makes a specialty of training book agents. These are drilled in all the arts of smooth-bore and rifle, equipped with sample volumes and entertaining harangues, and then turned loose on a too-confiding public.
OTHER SCHOOL NUMBERS: Prof. Armstrong, principal of the Sioux City schools, says that he has never before since being in this city, known of so great a falling off in attendance. In some of the schools this amounted to 50 per cent. In one school he visited, where there should have been sixty scholars, there are but twenty-five. The light attendance comes of the prevalence in the city of mumps, measles, chicken-pox and about every other known infantile ailment. The cases are nearly all light.
WINNEBAGO NEWS: O.C. Tredway would not be suspected of being a philanthropist by casual acquaintances, but the opinion is hazarded that he is doing more for the Winnebagoes than is the government. He is giving about twenty-five of the men of that tribe work and money for that work, in his woodchopping camp at the old Broughier place. The intention may not be philanthropic, but pure business, but the effect is the same. These dusky laborers are eating bread and bacon earned by honest labor instead of dining at the government free lunch table spread at the agency. This reporter was led to these reflections by seeing at Capt. Murphy's grocery store last evening bout twenty of these laborers investing their earnings in bacon, beans, flour, saleratus and other necessities of civilized life and indigestion.
TAKES YOU BACK: A colony of French Canadians are settling in the Woodlands, southeast of Salix. A gentleman who visited them recently said that it seemed like going back in time a few centuries to see the women spinning wool, and knitting shirts for the men of their families.
100 years ago
GET GROUNDED!: Without a dissenting vote, Alderman Nuessle's amended ordinance relative to the grounding of certain electric wires within a prescribed district, was passed by the city council last night. As amended the ordinance grants five years for the placing of the wires underground and removes the stipulation as to the height of poles in the residence section of the city.
AD: Good for cold weather and will make furs high. We want Skunk and Mink. Want large quantities of them. Write us for prices or send them in while prices are good. Strange Bros. Hide Co., Sioux City, Iowa.
OBJECTION TO JUNK DUMP: Claiming that the granting of a portion of West First street to Strange Bros. Hide company will give rise to a nuisance, three residents of Prospect Hill have sent to the city council a request that it rescind the action at its last meeting, leasing the ground to Strange Bros. for five years at $25 a year. The land lies directly west of the tracks leading to the Combination bridge and abuts Prospect Hill. The citizens fear that the ground is to be used as a dumping ground for bones and other junk, which would cause nauseating smells to find their way up the hill in the summer time.
ELK POINT NEWS: The two youngest children of James Teller of McCook, aged 2 and 5 years, have been taken to the Orphans' home in Sioux Falls ... Daniel Flannery and Peter Peterson have bought the C.M. Pearl farm, one mile west of Elk Point for $13,000. This is the old La Barge homestead, one of the first taken.
BIG WEDDING: At one of the largest weddings ever held in Sioux City, 650 people being in attendance, Louis Kronick and Miss Anna Krozberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Krozberg, were married last Sunday evening in Tuttle hall. It was one of the great social events of orthodox Jewish circles. More than 100 telegrams were received from outside friends.
50 years ago
POLIO STILL AROUND: It isn't enough that parents have their children vaccinated with the Salk vaccine, warns the Woodbury County Medical Society. Most of the recent cases here are occurring in persons 15 years of age and older ... Despite widespread use of the vaccine, Woodbury County had more polio cases in 1956 than in 1955. All the new cases here occurred in non-vaccinated persons.
PEOPLE NEWS: Sioux Cityan Carol Ann Bauer won a $1,000 scholarship award for "outstanding fashion garment" at Make It Yourself with Wool contest in Las Vegas ... D.H. Watt is the new president of the Sioux City Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers ... Robert Keegan has been honored as a distinguished craftsman by the Iowa Chapter, American Institute of Architects ... Sioux City Druggists and Drug Representatives have elected Lyle Zortman as president.
25 years ago
TO CLOSE: Four Sioux City branch libraries will close July 1. But, say library officials, the news isn't as disappointing as it might sound. Drafting long-range goals for the system at its meeting Wednesday night, the board of trustees decided such a move was necessary to make the overall library operation more efficient. The board unanimously voted to shut the North, Leeds, Smith Villa and Riverside branches within six months. Embarking upon a widespread "new main library" campaign, the board ultimately expects to serve the public's needs from an easily accessible main site, its bookmobile, at the Morningside branch library and a service center located somewhere in the northwest part of town, possibly a high traffic area like the Sunset Plaza.
BAD WEATHER: The worst winter snowstorm to hit in 20 years had the Siouxland area in a state of paralysis by midday Friday. The storm had dumped 11 inches of new snow by 1 p.m.-- most of that after 6 a.m.-- and the National Weather Service was predicting a total of more than 12 inches. There was already four inches on the ground when it started. The storm was expected to reach blizzard proportions with the winds reaching 40 miles an hour by nightfall Friday. The current storm appeared to be the worst in terms of snowfall since a similar storm that hit on March 12 and 13, 1962. That storm dumped 17.5 inches of snow on the city in a 24-hour period and snow was drifted by winds of 30 miles per hour ... The Journal published an early edition of the Saturday paper to beat the blizzard, then was stuck with it. It was planned to distribute the paper Saturday afternoon, but the wind continued to whip the snow into drifts and Publisher Dean Krenz decided that Saturday's paper would be
delivered along with Sunday's Journal. A skeleton staff was assembled to produced Sunday's paper and was brought to The Journal plant by Photogapher Ed Porter in his four-wheel drive vehicle.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 22-28, 1882, 1907, 1957 and 1982.
View other From the Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
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