The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-16
MANILA men
MEAN BUSINESS
Growth of Prosperous Town
Proves Their Wisdom.
Something Of the Institutions That Are
- Contributing to the Welfare Of
s. Manila.

Manila.
Away down in the southwestern part
of Crawford county is the enterprising
city of Manila which from an arid de
sert overgrown with sagebrush, once
the haunts of the whining coyote and
the noisy jackal, has been transformed
through mans genius and in an almost
incredibly short time into land OF
sweet scented flowers and town that
is progressing favorably with the best
In the county. Her business men stand
with their heads erect and the noise of
their progress can be heard for miles
around they are wide awake and thor
.oughly alive to the best interests OF the
town. This beautiful progressive little
town has population of over 1000 in
habitants and is situated 16 miles from
Denison on the main line of the Chicago
Milwaukee and ST Paul R. R. and is
surrounded by the finest agricultural
land in Iowa. The good railroad facil-
ties make it one of the best locations
for large business houses and manufac-
tories. The city has two banks doing
land Office business, six good hotels,
Touring mill, brick yards, machine shops
bottling works. six churches, two good
schools, two elevators, two newspapers,
good fire department, good water works
and at present it has railroads and its
1no no
Great Western has q survey near the
town 1t also has one of the finest little
parks in the county. Thecity sinterests
are carefully guarded by a lot of con
servative business men who take great
pride in keeping the town in an up,to-
date way The Office of mayor is looked
after by w. j. Campbell who is one OF
the leading and prosperous hustler, Mr.
G. A. Sykes is the City Clerk who keeps
hislbooks up right to date and is very
popular in the community. The city
Council is composed of such men as j..
B. Afford, c F G Kehr, J McCracken,
Peter Hoffeins, E Smith and j. b..
Tyron. These men are all we'll known
and very popular and are given credit
for their good judgement i'll city affairs.
Mr.. Henry Shade is the day marshal
and I'll. j. Dyson is the night man, they
carefully guard the citizens from all
harm and see that the law is respected
The city has 4 new business houses
that are being erected and when COM
pleted will be the finest in the state.
Its postoffice also deserves special men
tion as it is beautiful and is finished in
fine style all of which really makes the
city the Colorado Springs of Iowa.
The only exclusive clothing store is
run by w. j. Campbell who does not
take a back seat for anything and he
bears out this statement by keeping in
stock and selling at popular prices the
bests suits made at by eastern mills and
sells everything that men wear from
head to foot at low prices.
The general merchandise stores are
conducted by AL Beckman, c. r. G
Kehr, o. E SCHNEIDER, Dyson & Calvin
and j. Miloslawsky Their stores are
models in neatness and artistic arrange
ments and carry full line of all classes
Of goods These are men with much
business talent, energy, public spirited
and are loyal to their home town.
Mr. c. A. Sykes, Barston and saun-
ders and L. E Anthony are the hard
ware men who are we'll known and have
kept tab on the stepping stones of pro-
gress and at no time have they ever had
better success than at the present time.
They have large stores and are thor
oughly equipped to meet all the de-
mands made by a discriminating trade
They carry full line of hardware,
stoves, ranges etc
Mr.. D. W. Shaw is Vice President
and F. L. Van Slyke is cashier of the
Manila Bank, they are leading, enter
prising. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES men of the
town always ready to help in anything
that will benefit the city. The bank is