Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-05
Northern Io1Ua Items

! for a campaign to secure licensed sa-
| looms in South Sioux City, Neb., at the
! election in April. The question or
| whether South Sioux City should IL
cense saloons will be put up to the
| voters next spring. An effort was made
| last spring to secure saloons for South
Sioux City, but the voters defeated
| the plan. The saloon interests and the
| prohibition forces are expected to en-
| gage in bitter campaign at South
! Sioux City. The breweries are anxious
10 secure the saloon for South Sioux
| City in order to care for Sioux City's
i thirst trade.
Cedar Falls.
The city lays claim to being the most
! prosperous of it's size, 500 population
in Iowa. During the last year i'm
provements here have totaled $685.
] 600. They are distributed as follows:
Private residences, $336,000; munich
pal improvements. $175,0O0; religious.
institutions $4,000; State Teachers
College, 100000; private corpora
tons, $4,000; independent school dis
tricts, $4,000; public service corpora
tions, $4,000; miscellaneous, $150,OoO.
The nine factories of the city have
! been running at full time turnout the
|
months have been running two shifts
to keep up with orders. During 1916
a new bridge will be erected across
! the Cedar river, new vocational
| building will be constructed and
| number of fine homes built.
Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids suffered an actual loss
of 21,S2625 from fire during the year
which closed Friday. The loss is the
| largest that local property owners have
| been called on to shoulder in many
years from this cause. Several disas-
| trous fires occurred during 1915, par
| ticularly the Boyson pharmacy fire. the
Keuhl- hammers elevator fire, the First
Baptist church fire, and the destruction
of three buildings in First street. The
/ total value Of buildings destroyed or
damaged by fire during the year was
s1,S69,775, of which $1,076,350 was for
buildings and $793,425 the-value of the
contents. The insurance carried on
buildings destroyed or damaged totaled
! s563,050, and on contents $52S,2S0, or
/ total Of $1,075,350 on both buildings
and contents,
. Maquoketa.
| Several business changes were
/ uSnereQ IN WITH LHe new year, OWlIS
partly to the discontinuance Of the
saloon business. The buildings which
have been used heretofore for this
purpose being vacated gives oppor-
tunity for the incoming Of new inter-
! ests The Ely block. corner CO Main
and Pleasant streets, formerly occu-
pied by Fred Rutenheck as thirst
parlor, will be overhauled and has
been leased by Buchner & Son, who
| will open undertaking and embalming
1 parlors therein. The Jacobsen build
1 ing, in which the French saloon has
| been located, will, after being COM
/ pletely remodeled, be leased by firm
/ from Galesburg, ILL.,, who will open
| model candy kitchen and CONNECTION
i store. The firm Of Geisel & Kirchoff.
coal dealers, will hereafter read Kirch-
off & Rutenbeck, Fred Rutenbeck
having purchased the interest of Mr..
/ Geisel Elmer Ely, the barber, has va
Gated the Stevens building on West
Plat street, which will also be reno
waited and occupied by Smith & SAT-
ford as tonsorial parlor, while Mr..
!! !! Ely mas joined hands with A. Hutcnins
at the latter's old stand on North Main
street.