Board mulls school closing options
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, February 04, 2007
125 years ago
JESSE JAMES GANG SIGHTED: A correspondent writes from Richland township, Lyon county, that two suspicious looking peddlars have been through that settlement recently, and that the people up that way supposed them to be the James brothers.
SHIPPING FRUIT: A new departure in the tropical fruit line has been started by Crowell & Martin. They have ordered a full carload of lemons and oranges shipped in a refrigerated car from New York to Sioux City. Should the experiment prove a success, it will not only lessen the cost but improve the grade of the fruit.
TRIPLETS BORN: The Maple Valley Era reports that Mrs. Foster, living near Oto, recently gave birth to triplets, weighing four, four and one half, and five pounds, all girls. Dr. Miller of Correctionville was in attendance and says they all have a good chance for life.
MERE MENTIONS: About the best patronized institution in town these days is the skating rink ... George Miller, fireman for the paint works engine, was before Justice Conniff yesterday, charged with slapping Rudolph Moy. He pled guilty and was fined $5 and costs.
100 years ago
PROPERTY MOVING: F.W. Estabrook, vice president of the Sioux City Stock Yards company and a multimillionaire banker, has just concluded the purchase of the controlling interest in the Mondamin and Garretson hotels and the New Grand theater building and an entire interest in nearly 500 lots in Sioux City, including the old Franz brewery. The property is worth $500,000, although the purchase price was something less than that.
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS: With the arrival of the class of 1911, numbering 104 ambitious, but verdant, freshmen, the Sioux City high school now has the largest enrollment in its history, 775.
FATAL FIGHT: While in Mexico City on a tour through the southwest Mr. and Mrs. G.N. Sweetser, 2927 Jackson Street, saw one of the most skillful and popular matadors in the republic, a man named Montez, gored to death in the arena by an angry bull, while thousands looked on from the amphitheater.
LOOP PLANNED IN RIVERSIDE: For the purpose of more rapidly and conveniently handling the crowds of pleasure seekers at Riverside park, the Sioux City Traction company proposes to put in a loop just south of the Riverside station, to be ready for the use at the beginning of the season this spring. Cars pulling trailers will be able to continue around the loop and back into the city on the right side of the double track.
ICE GORGE AND FLOOD: The big ice gorge in the Missouri river, near Vermillion, S.D., has grown the river. The distance from bank to bank is about six miles, in places, extending from hills on the Dakota side to the hills on the Nebraska side. The river has risen fifteen feet during the flood. Hundreds of sightseers flock to the scene daily.
THE ROOSEVELT BEARS ABROAD: The original "Teddy Bears," familiarly known as TED.DY-B and TEDDY-G who a year ago made their tour of the United States from Colorado to Washington, are now off on another sightseeing expedition: this time across the Atlantic. All their interesting happenings will be told in jolly jingle and richly illustrated with amusing pictures beginning in The Sioux City Journal next week.
50 years ago
SALE OF APARTMENTS: The sale of the Carroll Apartments and Annex, 11th and Jackson streets, to the D.A. Levich Building Investors of Sioux City for $200,000 was annouced by F.A. Martin Co. The building was bought from a St. Paul syndicate which purchased it from a federal receivership for $126,000.
GRADUATION TIME: Dr. Harry H. Kalas, president of Westmar College, Le Mars, Iowa, was the commencement speaker for the 90 members of Central High School's mid-year graduating class. Fifty East High School pupils received diplomas at commencement exercises. Patricia A. Asmus was valedictorian.
GROCERY SPECIALS: Sioux City grocery stores advertised weekly specials that included: Standing rib roast, lb. 59 cents; chuck roast, lb. 39 cents; t-bone steaks, lb., 69 cents; bacon, lb. 39 cents; picnic hams, lb. 29 cents; ground beef, 3 lbs for $1; beaded shrimp, lb. 59 lb.; navel oranges, dozen, 39 cents; grapefruit, dozen, 39 cents; winesap apples, 3 lbs. for 49 cents; cauliflower, head, 29 cents.
25 years ago
VULNERABLE SCHOOLS: If Sioux City public school closings were like horse races, chances are the "winners" would be Sloan, Franklin and Hayworth. At least that's how it looks judging from an administrative report which lists 40 possible closing plans. Sloan is named in 25 of those plans and Franklin in 13. Factors stacked against the three schools range from building conditions and busing to the number of students disrupted by closing. But public opinion also will carry weight in the board's decision.
POLICE PROBE DEATH: A 25-year-old man became Sioux City's third homicide victim in three months early Thursday. The body of Leon Frederick Irvin, 25, was discovered by police about 4:40 a.m. Thursday following reports of a gunshot and an injured party in the 500 block of W. Ninth Street. Irvin's body was found on the sidewalk in front of a house at 513 W. Ninth St. He had been shot once in the chest with a shotgun. Irvin is the third person to be murdered in Sioux City in slightly more than three months. Robert Mallow as found in his apartment Oct. 22, 1981 with a puncture wound in the left chest. Raymond Smith was found dead in his Sioux City home the evening of Nov. 10. He had been stabbed 31 times and severely beaten. Both murders also remain unsolved.
IT'S BANCROFT-ROSALIE: Bancroft-Rosalie Community School was the name chosen for the recent consolidated school during a meeting of the new school board.
SHOPLIFTERS FEAR DAKOTA COUNTY: If you're a shoplifter, you might want to think twice before testing your skills in South Sioux City. "The word is out. South Sioux City is a tough mark for shoplifters," Police Lt. John Sanders says. Dakota County also has earned a reputation as being tough in prosecuting shoplifting cases. Recently one of two shoplifting seminars for area merchants and their employees in South Sioux City was held. The seminars were sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
These items appeared in The Journal Jan. 29- Feb. 4, 1882, 1907, 1957 and 1982.
View other From The Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
JESSE JAMES GANG SIGHTED: A correspondent writes from Richland township, Lyon county, that two suspicious looking peddlars have been through that settlement recently, and that the people up that way supposed them to be the James brothers.
SHIPPING FRUIT: A new departure in the tropical fruit line has been started by Crowell & Martin. They have ordered a full carload of lemons and oranges shipped in a refrigerated car from New York to Sioux City. Should the experiment prove a success, it will not only lessen the cost but improve the grade of the fruit.
TRIPLETS BORN: The Maple Valley Era reports that Mrs. Foster, living near Oto, recently gave birth to triplets, weighing four, four and one half, and five pounds, all girls. Dr. Miller of Correctionville was in attendance and says they all have a good chance for life.
MERE MENTIONS: About the best patronized institution in town these days is the skating rink ... George Miller, fireman for the paint works engine, was before Justice Conniff yesterday, charged with slapping Rudolph Moy. He pled guilty and was fined $5 and costs.
100 years ago
PROPERTY MOVING: F.W. Estabrook, vice president of the Sioux City Stock Yards company and a multimillionaire banker, has just concluded the purchase of the controlling interest in the Mondamin and Garretson hotels and the New Grand theater building and an entire interest in nearly 500 lots in Sioux City, including the old Franz brewery. The property is worth $500,000, although the purchase price was something less than that.
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS: With the arrival of the class of 1911, numbering 104 ambitious, but verdant, freshmen, the Sioux City high school now has the largest enrollment in its history, 775.
FATAL FIGHT: While in Mexico City on a tour through the southwest Mr. and Mrs. G.N. Sweetser, 2927 Jackson Street, saw one of the most skillful and popular matadors in the republic, a man named Montez, gored to death in the arena by an angry bull, while thousands looked on from the amphitheater.
LOOP PLANNED IN RIVERSIDE: For the purpose of more rapidly and conveniently handling the crowds of pleasure seekers at Riverside park, the Sioux City Traction company proposes to put in a loop just south of the Riverside station, to be ready for the use at the beginning of the season this spring. Cars pulling trailers will be able to continue around the loop and back into the city on the right side of the double track.
ICE GORGE AND FLOOD: The big ice gorge in the Missouri river, near Vermillion, S.D., has grown the river. The distance from bank to bank is about six miles, in places, extending from hills on the Dakota side to the hills on the Nebraska side. The river has risen fifteen feet during the flood. Hundreds of sightseers flock to the scene daily.
THE ROOSEVELT BEARS ABROAD: The original "Teddy Bears," familiarly known as TED.DY-B and TEDDY-G who a year ago made their tour of the United States from Colorado to Washington, are now off on another sightseeing expedition: this time across the Atlantic. All their interesting happenings will be told in jolly jingle and richly illustrated with amusing pictures beginning in The Sioux City Journal next week.
50 years ago
SALE OF APARTMENTS: The sale of the Carroll Apartments and Annex, 11th and Jackson streets, to the D.A. Levich Building Investors of Sioux City for $200,000 was annouced by F.A. Martin Co. The building was bought from a St. Paul syndicate which purchased it from a federal receivership for $126,000.
GRADUATION TIME: Dr. Harry H. Kalas, president of Westmar College, Le Mars, Iowa, was the commencement speaker for the 90 members of Central High School's mid-year graduating class. Fifty East High School pupils received diplomas at commencement exercises. Patricia A. Asmus was valedictorian.
GROCERY SPECIALS: Sioux City grocery stores advertised weekly specials that included: Standing rib roast, lb. 59 cents; chuck roast, lb. 39 cents; t-bone steaks, lb., 69 cents; bacon, lb. 39 cents; picnic hams, lb. 29 cents; ground beef, 3 lbs for $1; beaded shrimp, lb. 59 lb.; navel oranges, dozen, 39 cents; grapefruit, dozen, 39 cents; winesap apples, 3 lbs. for 49 cents; cauliflower, head, 29 cents.
25 years ago
VULNERABLE SCHOOLS: If Sioux City public school closings were like horse races, chances are the "winners" would be Sloan, Franklin and Hayworth. At least that's how it looks judging from an administrative report which lists 40 possible closing plans. Sloan is named in 25 of those plans and Franklin in 13. Factors stacked against the three schools range from building conditions and busing to the number of students disrupted by closing. But public opinion also will carry weight in the board's decision.
POLICE PROBE DEATH: A 25-year-old man became Sioux City's third homicide victim in three months early Thursday. The body of Leon Frederick Irvin, 25, was discovered by police about 4:40 a.m. Thursday following reports of a gunshot and an injured party in the 500 block of W. Ninth Street. Irvin's body was found on the sidewalk in front of a house at 513 W. Ninth St. He had been shot once in the chest with a shotgun. Irvin is the third person to be murdered in Sioux City in slightly more than three months. Robert Mallow as found in his apartment Oct. 22, 1981 with a puncture wound in the left chest. Raymond Smith was found dead in his Sioux City home the evening of Nov. 10. He had been stabbed 31 times and severely beaten. Both murders also remain unsolved.
IT'S BANCROFT-ROSALIE: Bancroft-Rosalie Community School was the name chosen for the recent consolidated school during a meeting of the new school board.
SHOPLIFTERS FEAR DAKOTA COUNTY: If you're a shoplifter, you might want to think twice before testing your skills in South Sioux City. "The word is out. South Sioux City is a tough mark for shoplifters," Police Lt. John Sanders says. Dakota County also has earned a reputation as being tough in prosecuting shoplifting cases. Recently one of two shoplifting seminars for area merchants and their employees in South Sioux City was held. The seminars were sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
These items appeared in The Journal Jan. 29- Feb. 4, 1882, 1907, 1957 and 1982.
View other From The Archives columns at www.siouxcityjournal.com.
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