Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-24
loWA,s TWIN CITIES.
The Vigorous Young Giants o HI
Northwest.

Culy y lew years ago, 81. fuuI was
. healthy young City and Minneapolis
was nothing but farming land. Now
Minneapolis has grown from nothing
until she has become the equal of her
elder sister and the two are the match
less twins of the upper Mississippi.
l.eMars and Sioux City are to West
ern Iowa what st. Paul and Minneap-
oils are to Northeastern Minnesota.
The time has come now when they
may properly be known us luwa's twin
cities.
Sioux City is the older and has the
best start. but LcMars is as vigorous
and about US large Us Sioux City was ut
the same age.
Sioux City has the great" railroad
facilit es, but LeMArs is wei supplied
and has more better farming country
Immediately tributary, aud u better
outside retail trade.
Both cities are we'll located for man
ufacturing or for Wholesale business.
I.eMars eAempts manufacturers and
wholesale dealers from taXat on for ten
years.
The best of feelings exists between
these two cities. Both appreciate the
fact that o cordial cooperation in
business enterprises will result to their
mutual advantage and that spiteful
Quarrels arc expensive and detrimental.
LeMars is twenty-five miles from
Sioux City, Just far enough away to be
entirely independent and near enough
so that the two cities can work together
Tor the good of themselves and North
Western Iowa.
In ordinary course of a fair bust.
hess growth as matters are now sit
uated, LeMars will have TO- 900 inhabi,;
tants in five years from to-day and co..
coo in ten years. From less than 1860
inhabitants in 1850, l.eMars increased
to l,046 in 1880, and to day the popula-
ton has almost reached 5000.
Within the last sixty days $50 sepa-
rate city lots have been sold and the de-
mand is more active to-day than ever.
Eight fine brick blocks ON Main
Street have now been definitely ar
ranged for and Jour more are contem-
plated this summer
Large forces of men are already at
work on five of these substantial s1ruct-
mres. The roofs will be on all of them
long before frost comes.
Fifty residences are now under way
in different stages of completion and
that in spite of the bad weather for
the last six weeks. Conservative men
predict that at least IL hundred more
houses will be built this summer.
but the GROWING glory of all is the
magnificent new Normal School build
ing that will be completed in time for
use in the fall term of school. This
building. of pressed brick and cut stone
in the center of its beautiful campus
upon which six to ten men have been.
at work for the past month. under an
experienced landscape gardener, laying
out the broad Avenucs with graceful
sweeping r setting out thousands
of evergrecns and constructing mounds
and walks, will be wol:h $40. 900 to $780,
900 when completed in September. The
school which under the able lca!er-'
ship of Prof. A. W.. Rich has reached
the attendance of 1860 and will have
300 students this fall with these added
facilities.
All these things arc impressed upon
the mind by the eye OF the most in
crcdulous observer.
ter of one of the largest and richest
counties in the state: that there are no
rival towns nearer than Sioux City,
tw. nty-tive miles away: and that in
tie other directions it is thirty-tive to
sixty miles to competing towns of
1000 to $500 Inhabitants: proves hat
1T will not be many years until LcMars
will have 1000 people. Waterworks,
gas works, electric lights, fourteen
churches, four banks, twelve hotels,
normal school. splendid public schools,
largest Touring mills in Iowa, Twelve
daily passenger trains are among the
advantages that make LeMars u dcsir-
able place in which to reside.
A prominent officer of one of the
largest investment companies of this
country. in LeMars recently, gave his
opinion that residence property was
actually worth twenty per cent. and
business property TWENTY-FIVE per cent.
more than it was six ~monthsfagO. a
greater rise is predicted fer the next
six months 1t is a steady healthy rise
that comes from appreciation.
One of the strongest reasons for the
growth and future greatness of Le-
Mars is the fact that the available va
cant property is owned by LeMars
men. The I.eMars Normal School AS
sociasion owns the land south and tho
recently purchased the lands surround
ing the town on the other three sides.
LeMars has grown in the past in
spite of the hide-bound condition pro-
duccd by having the property owned
by non-rcsidents. These two compan-
les are interested just as much as any
other. citizens and will always be found
ready to take hold and cooperate with
the other citizens in u liberal spirit in
every worthy public enterprise.
The twelve passengers trains that
now run between LeMars aud Sioux
City will probably soon be supple
mented by q special service of two
more trains each way daily.
Hail to Sioux City and LeMars tho
twin cities of Iowa.
PLAIN fmcts tor Pretty Girls.
It is very bad form to address an on.
vclope crosswise.
A card left or sent to an afternoon tea
discharges the obligation.
Women of refined tastes do not use
fancy note paper.
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