Republic Airlines plans to end service in Sioux City
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, November 23, 2008
125 years ago
FOR THEIR HARD WORK: F.C. Thompson gave the twenty-two men who carried the first bucket of water to the fire in Dr. Rassegiu's drug store an oyster supper Thursday night. Mr. Thompson owns the block in which the fire started.
FOR THE BIRDS: D.H. Talbot yesterday received from R.G. Fairchild of Onawa, a magnificent golden eagle, which the latter gentleman had shot. This species of eagle is usually found only after very cold weather, their home being in the far north, and seldom killed in this section so early in the season.
TAKING CARE OF RODENTS: Strange Bros. yesterday received by express from Chicago four ferrets. They much resemble weasels, excepting that the tips of the hair is dark brown and near the skin white. They are quite tame and allow themselves to be handled, in fact enjoy, in a bashful, school girl way, the caresses bestowed on them. They cost $9 per pair, and were bought to clean the rats out of the firm's hide-house.
100 years ago
CITY HAS BRIGHT FUTURE: The man with the new directory will call around tomorrow. The book will contain 25,604 names, Johnsons, Andersons, Smiths and a few others, which indicate a population of 64,010. The continued growth of the city and the corresponding increase in the size of the directory has made it necessary to arrange a large amount of the data in different ways in order that the same facts may be contained in the directory without making the work too bulky and unwieldy for convenience.
HAVE PARK ON EAST SIDE: Members of the park commission yesterday announced for the first time that a new park is to be established this spring on the East Side for the benefit of people living in the stock yards district and east of the viaduct. The new city pleasure ground will be situated in the Floyd valley north of Fourth street. It is a tract of level ground well wooded, and with an artificial lake of considerable proportions, boating will be one of the pleasures afforded. For reason known to themselves the commissioners are withholding the exact location of the tract.
ONE FOR THE MEN: Bachelors are to receive "distinguished consideration" from Frank J. Donohoe, proprietor of the West hotel, who announced yesterday that the entire fourth or top floor of the West hotel annex is to be consecrated to the use of those who prefer single blessedness. For the first time Sioux City is to have bachelor apartments. No woman will be allowed above the third floor of the building.
50 years ago
ONE TICKET TOO MANY: Some 100 overtime parking summonses issued Veterans Day-- a source of heated controversy on that day -- were dismissed on order of Municipal Judge Berry J. Sisk. When people asked Sisk whether Nov. 11 should have been considered a legal holiday, he referred them to the city legal department for a ruling. He later dismissed the summonses saying that overtime parkers did not knowingly commit the offense for which they were charged. At the same time, Municipal Judge George M. Paradise hit the city ordinance which does not include Veterans Day as a legal holiday, and declared the ordinance is contrary to state law and is of no force or effect.
FOOTBALL: The Heelan Crusaders, completing their first undefeated season in the 20-year life of the school, are Siouxland's high school football champions of 1958.
25 years ago
A CLASSIC MOVIE: A tribute to the original, traditional, 100 percent, all-American Christmas - "A Christmas Story, starring Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley - will start tomorrow at the Plaza Theaters.
SHEENA, KENNY, LIONEL AND MORE: Giving it all they've got on both album and cassette: Daryl Hall and John Oats, Rock 'n Soul Part 1; Kenny Rogers, Twenty Greatest Hits; Linda Ronstadt, What's New; Lionel Richie, Can't Slow Down; John Cougar Mellencamp, Uh-huh; Robert Plant, The Principal of Moments; Quiet Riot, Metal Health; Billy Joel, An Innocent Man; Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart; Heart, Passionworks; Talking Heads; Speaking in Tongues; and Sheena Easton, Best Kept Secret. All for $5.99 -$6.99 at Target.
AIRLINE PULLS OUT: Sioux City officials have been notified that Republic Airlines will terminate all service to Sioux City effective Feb. 1. The airline will no longer be able to continue its four daily flights connecting Sioux City with the Twin Cities and Kansas City and Omaha.
These items appeared in the Journal Nov. 17-23, 1883, 1908, 1958 and 1983.
FOR THEIR HARD WORK: F.C. Thompson gave the twenty-two men who carried the first bucket of water to the fire in Dr. Rassegiu's drug store an oyster supper Thursday night. Mr. Thompson owns the block in which the fire started.
FOR THE BIRDS: D.H. Talbot yesterday received from R.G. Fairchild of Onawa, a magnificent golden eagle, which the latter gentleman had shot. This species of eagle is usually found only after very cold weather, their home being in the far north, and seldom killed in this section so early in the season.
TAKING CARE OF RODENTS: Strange Bros. yesterday received by express from Chicago four ferrets. They much resemble weasels, excepting that the tips of the hair is dark brown and near the skin white. They are quite tame and allow themselves to be handled, in fact enjoy, in a bashful, school girl way, the caresses bestowed on them. They cost $9 per pair, and were bought to clean the rats out of the firm's hide-house.
100 years ago
CITY HAS BRIGHT FUTURE: The man with the new directory will call around tomorrow. The book will contain 25,604 names, Johnsons, Andersons, Smiths and a few others, which indicate a population of 64,010. The continued growth of the city and the corresponding increase in the size of the directory has made it necessary to arrange a large amount of the data in different ways in order that the same facts may be contained in the directory without making the work too bulky and unwieldy for convenience.
HAVE PARK ON EAST SIDE: Members of the park commission yesterday announced for the first time that a new park is to be established this spring on the East Side for the benefit of people living in the stock yards district and east of the viaduct. The new city pleasure ground will be situated in the Floyd valley north of Fourth street. It is a tract of level ground well wooded, and with an artificial lake of considerable proportions, boating will be one of the pleasures afforded. For reason known to themselves the commissioners are withholding the exact location of the tract.
ONE FOR THE MEN: Bachelors are to receive "distinguished consideration" from Frank J. Donohoe, proprietor of the West hotel, who announced yesterday that the entire fourth or top floor of the West hotel annex is to be consecrated to the use of those who prefer single blessedness. For the first time Sioux City is to have bachelor apartments. No woman will be allowed above the third floor of the building.
50 years ago
ONE TICKET TOO MANY: Some 100 overtime parking summonses issued Veterans Day-- a source of heated controversy on that day -- were dismissed on order of Municipal Judge Berry J. Sisk. When people asked Sisk whether Nov. 11 should have been considered a legal holiday, he referred them to the city legal department for a ruling. He later dismissed the summonses saying that overtime parkers did not knowingly commit the offense for which they were charged. At the same time, Municipal Judge George M. Paradise hit the city ordinance which does not include Veterans Day as a legal holiday, and declared the ordinance is contrary to state law and is of no force or effect.
FOOTBALL: The Heelan Crusaders, completing their first undefeated season in the 20-year life of the school, are Siouxland's high school football champions of 1958.
25 years ago
A CLASSIC MOVIE: A tribute to the original, traditional, 100 percent, all-American Christmas - "A Christmas Story, starring Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley - will start tomorrow at the Plaza Theaters.
SHEENA, KENNY, LIONEL AND MORE: Giving it all they've got on both album and cassette: Daryl Hall and John Oats, Rock 'n Soul Part 1; Kenny Rogers, Twenty Greatest Hits; Linda Ronstadt, What's New; Lionel Richie, Can't Slow Down; John Cougar Mellencamp, Uh-huh; Robert Plant, The Principal of Moments; Quiet Riot, Metal Health; Billy Joel, An Innocent Man; Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart; Heart, Passionworks; Talking Heads; Speaking in Tongues; and Sheena Easton, Best Kept Secret. All for $5.99 -$6.99 at Target.
AIRLINE PULLS OUT: Sioux City officials have been notified that Republic Airlines will terminate all service to Sioux City effective Feb. 1. The airline will no longer be able to continue its four daily flights connecting Sioux City with the Twin Cities and Kansas City and Omaha.
These items appeared in the Journal Nov. 17-23, 1883, 1908, 1958 and 1983.
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