Library won't be moving into Warrior
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008
125 years ago
SNOW BLOCKADE: The snow blockade now prevailing on the east and west roads north of this city furnishes the argument of the new Defiance project of the Milwaukee. As it is now the company's lines in Dakota, which are not blocked, are shut off from an eastern outlet by the snow blockade in northwestern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota. With the line between this city and Defiance built and the connecting links filled in the Jim river line, Milwaukee trains could not be running between Chicago and central Dakota. ... The cure: During previous winters if any railroad in these parts was suffering from a snow blockade it might be safely asserted that trains were not running on the road between this city and St. Paul. Yet while all the tracks around it are either blockaded or bothered by snow, the trains on the Sioux City division of the road have been got through almost on time. This has not been the result of luck, but of foresight. The snow fences have been strengthened, lengthened and
heightened. When the snow had drifted even with the tops of these fences they were reinforced by building walls with blocks cut from the snowdrifts. The section men who at this season can do little or nothing in repairing track, are kept busy building these snow-walls. It is found cheaper to keep the snow out of the cuts than to shovel it out.
MERE MENTIONS: The Wayne Herald denies that there was free liquor in Wayne on the day of the county-seat election as alleged in a letter published in the Journal ... On February 1 the Sioux City brewers propose to advance the price of beer to $9 per barrel, which is $1 more than the present rate. The high price of hop, $1.15 per pound, is the reason for the raise. Usually hops sell for 25 cents per pound.
100 years ago
LABOR MEN: To pass upon the by-laws to govern a cooperative store, which union labor men of Sioux City propose to establish, a meeting was held last night in the Labor temple. The bylaws are similar to those in use in England. Ample provision is made in the constitution for dealing in general merchandise, buying and selling of real estate, building and remodeling store buildings. The society will be known as the Sioux City Co-operative company, limited and its main office will be in Sioux City. At the outset it will engage in the retail grocery business. Share representing a value of $5 will be sold to any reputable wage earner.
WORTHY INSTITUTION: At the close of its first year in the new building at 28th street, the reports of the officers of the board of the Florence Crittenton Home at the annual meting yesterday all showed an increase in responsibilities, as well as facilities, and indicated the multiplied usefulness of the institution by reason of its superior working equipment. Mrs. W.P. Manley, re-elected president, said "We may congratulate ourselves that the new feature of our work, the private hospital, promises by its first year's results to be a successful venture. We are justified in saying that we have the most completely equipped and up to date maternity and sterilizing rooms of any hospital in the city."
LIFE GUNS NEEDED: The "life gun" similar to those successfully used at a big fire in a skyscraper building in New York city some ten days ago will probably soon become a part of the equipment of the Sioux City fire department. City Electrician A.J. Pruvot is of the opinion that he can make one of the guns, and he has been instructed by Chief George M. Kellogg, who for several months has been considering installing one, to "get busy." A "life gun" resembles a cavalry carbine in shape, and carries a cartridge slightly larger than a 38-caliber gun. The "arrow" is held in the barrel of the gun. To it is attached a long silk cord, and when the cord is caught by persons to be rescued a rope can be attached and hauled up the burning building. This rope forms the means of escape.
50 years ago
GROCERIES: This week's grocery prices: Eggs, dozen, $.29; pork roast, lb. $.39; ground beef, 3 lbs, $1.29; Swift's premium bacon, lb. $.59; sirloin steak, lb. $.59; beef roast, lb. $.59; T-bone steak, lb. $.98; pork chops, lb. $.39; head of lettuce, $.10; 10 lbs of potatoes, $.49; 4 grapefruit, $.25; and ice cream, half gallon, $.59.
CHAMBER ON THE MOVE: The Sioux City Chamber of Commerce will move from the 12th floor of the Badgerow Building to new quarters in the Sheraton-Warrior Hotel Feb. 1, according to J.W. Crobett, executive secretary of the Chamber. Joining the Chamber in the move will be the Sioux City Traffic Bureau which is managed by P.R. Wigton, commissioner.
ARMY SITE: The Federal government will condemn the site of a proposed $300,000 Army Reserve training center near the Floyd Monument to completely clear the title, said Robert Hoisington, out-going city manager, following a meeting between city officials and the Army Engineers. However he said, when actual construction will start was not discussed.
25 years ago
AKRON CONSUMERS PAY POWER HIKE: Part of an increase in the cost of supplemental power will be passed along to Akron city customers, a city councilman said Thursday night. The supplemental power, about 14 percent of the total used by the city last year, is supplied under long-term contract by Heartland Consumers Power District of Madison, S.D. As of Jan. 1, Heartland increased its rate 37.5 percent. The increase brought screams of anguish from the city, amid demands to do something. A special meeting was called with Wendell Garwood of Madison, Heartland general manager. Garwood went over the terms of the 40-year contract signed by the city in 1976, to supply power needed beyond the amount supplied by federal dams in South Dakota, and sold by the Western Area Power Association. When he had finished, both sides agreed the contract is air-tight. Akron has only one option: if on Jan. 1, 1991, Heartland is operating at full capacity and would have to build in order to meet Akron's demand,
Akron may withdraw from the contract. Otherwise the city is stuck for the duration.
AT THE MOVIES: The wildest, funniest, action thriller of the year: "48 hrs," starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, is playing at the Plaza theater; "Tootsie" starring Dustin Hoffman is playing at the Riviera; Sylvester Stallone in "First Blood" is at the Southern Hills Mall and "An Officer and a Gentleman" is at the Cameo.
LIBRARY WON'T RELOCATE TO WARRIOR HOTEL: The Sioux City Board of Library Trustees was told by an architect Friday that the former Warrior Hotel building is not an appropriate place to relocate the city's public library.
BOMB THREAT: A bomb scare forced the evacuation of 40 prisoners from the Woodbury County Jail in downtown Sioux City Monday afternoon. No bomb was found and the inmates were led back to the jail on the third floor of the Municipal Building one hour after the threat was made. Authorities said it was the first time anyone has phoned in a bomb scare to the Municipal Building.
IN SPORTS: Donna Stewart isn't ungrateful, but she sure wishes she had a solid 600 series a couple of weeks ago. She bowled a 274 game in the King & Queen League recently. That effort was the highest in a metropolitan Sioux City league by a woman his season, taking out Terry Christensen's 266. But that big game was the second in a 589 series and that number was disappointing for Mrs. Stewart. "I just wish I had a good high 600 to go with it (the 274)," she says.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 14-20, 1883, 1908, 1958, 1983.
SNOW BLOCKADE: The snow blockade now prevailing on the east and west roads north of this city furnishes the argument of the new Defiance project of the Milwaukee. As it is now the company's lines in Dakota, which are not blocked, are shut off from an eastern outlet by the snow blockade in northwestern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota. With the line between this city and Defiance built and the connecting links filled in the Jim river line, Milwaukee trains could not be running between Chicago and central Dakota. ... The cure: During previous winters if any railroad in these parts was suffering from a snow blockade it might be safely asserted that trains were not running on the road between this city and St. Paul. Yet while all the tracks around it are either blockaded or bothered by snow, the trains on the Sioux City division of the road have been got through almost on time. This has not been the result of luck, but of foresight. The snow fences have been strengthened, lengthened and
heightened. When the snow had drifted even with the tops of these fences they were reinforced by building walls with blocks cut from the snowdrifts. The section men who at this season can do little or nothing in repairing track, are kept busy building these snow-walls. It is found cheaper to keep the snow out of the cuts than to shovel it out.
MERE MENTIONS: The Wayne Herald denies that there was free liquor in Wayne on the day of the county-seat election as alleged in a letter published in the Journal ... On February 1 the Sioux City brewers propose to advance the price of beer to $9 per barrel, which is $1 more than the present rate. The high price of hop, $1.15 per pound, is the reason for the raise. Usually hops sell for 25 cents per pound.
100 years ago
LABOR MEN: To pass upon the by-laws to govern a cooperative store, which union labor men of Sioux City propose to establish, a meeting was held last night in the Labor temple. The bylaws are similar to those in use in England. Ample provision is made in the constitution for dealing in general merchandise, buying and selling of real estate, building and remodeling store buildings. The society will be known as the Sioux City Co-operative company, limited and its main office will be in Sioux City. At the outset it will engage in the retail grocery business. Share representing a value of $5 will be sold to any reputable wage earner.
WORTHY INSTITUTION: At the close of its first year in the new building at 28th street, the reports of the officers of the board of the Florence Crittenton Home at the annual meting yesterday all showed an increase in responsibilities, as well as facilities, and indicated the multiplied usefulness of the institution by reason of its superior working equipment. Mrs. W.P. Manley, re-elected president, said "We may congratulate ourselves that the new feature of our work, the private hospital, promises by its first year's results to be a successful venture. We are justified in saying that we have the most completely equipped and up to date maternity and sterilizing rooms of any hospital in the city."
LIFE GUNS NEEDED: The "life gun" similar to those successfully used at a big fire in a skyscraper building in New York city some ten days ago will probably soon become a part of the equipment of the Sioux City fire department. City Electrician A.J. Pruvot is of the opinion that he can make one of the guns, and he has been instructed by Chief George M. Kellogg, who for several months has been considering installing one, to "get busy." A "life gun" resembles a cavalry carbine in shape, and carries a cartridge slightly larger than a 38-caliber gun. The "arrow" is held in the barrel of the gun. To it is attached a long silk cord, and when the cord is caught by persons to be rescued a rope can be attached and hauled up the burning building. This rope forms the means of escape.
50 years ago
GROCERIES: This week's grocery prices: Eggs, dozen, $.29; pork roast, lb. $.39; ground beef, 3 lbs, $1.29; Swift's premium bacon, lb. $.59; sirloin steak, lb. $.59; beef roast, lb. $.59; T-bone steak, lb. $.98; pork chops, lb. $.39; head of lettuce, $.10; 10 lbs of potatoes, $.49; 4 grapefruit, $.25; and ice cream, half gallon, $.59.
CHAMBER ON THE MOVE: The Sioux City Chamber of Commerce will move from the 12th floor of the Badgerow Building to new quarters in the Sheraton-Warrior Hotel Feb. 1, according to J.W. Crobett, executive secretary of the Chamber. Joining the Chamber in the move will be the Sioux City Traffic Bureau which is managed by P.R. Wigton, commissioner.
ARMY SITE: The Federal government will condemn the site of a proposed $300,000 Army Reserve training center near the Floyd Monument to completely clear the title, said Robert Hoisington, out-going city manager, following a meeting between city officials and the Army Engineers. However he said, when actual construction will start was not discussed.
25 years ago
AKRON CONSUMERS PAY POWER HIKE: Part of an increase in the cost of supplemental power will be passed along to Akron city customers, a city councilman said Thursday night. The supplemental power, about 14 percent of the total used by the city last year, is supplied under long-term contract by Heartland Consumers Power District of Madison, S.D. As of Jan. 1, Heartland increased its rate 37.5 percent. The increase brought screams of anguish from the city, amid demands to do something. A special meeting was called with Wendell Garwood of Madison, Heartland general manager. Garwood went over the terms of the 40-year contract signed by the city in 1976, to supply power needed beyond the amount supplied by federal dams in South Dakota, and sold by the Western Area Power Association. When he had finished, both sides agreed the contract is air-tight. Akron has only one option: if on Jan. 1, 1991, Heartland is operating at full capacity and would have to build in order to meet Akron's demand,
Akron may withdraw from the contract. Otherwise the city is stuck for the duration.
AT THE MOVIES: The wildest, funniest, action thriller of the year: "48 hrs," starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, is playing at the Plaza theater; "Tootsie" starring Dustin Hoffman is playing at the Riviera; Sylvester Stallone in "First Blood" is at the Southern Hills Mall and "An Officer and a Gentleman" is at the Cameo.
LIBRARY WON'T RELOCATE TO WARRIOR HOTEL: The Sioux City Board of Library Trustees was told by an architect Friday that the former Warrior Hotel building is not an appropriate place to relocate the city's public library.
BOMB THREAT: A bomb scare forced the evacuation of 40 prisoners from the Woodbury County Jail in downtown Sioux City Monday afternoon. No bomb was found and the inmates were led back to the jail on the third floor of the Municipal Building one hour after the threat was made. Authorities said it was the first time anyone has phoned in a bomb scare to the Municipal Building.
IN SPORTS: Donna Stewart isn't ungrateful, but she sure wishes she had a solid 600 series a couple of weeks ago. She bowled a 274 game in the King & Queen League recently. That effort was the highest in a metropolitan Sioux City league by a woman his season, taking out Terry Christensen's 266. But that big game was the second in a 589 series and that number was disappointing for Mrs. Stewart. "I just wish I had a good high 600 to go with it (the 274)," she says.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 14-20, 1883, 1908, 1958, 1983.
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