Lumbering in Iowa’s Valley Rivers and Planing Mills
A historical survey of Iowa’s lumber era details logging camps in Wisconsin and Minnesota, rafts on the Mississippi, and how log drives built a vast raft trade. It covers sawmills from pioneer handwork to steam, major Iowa planing mills, and the shift to doors, sash, and furniture, plus regional centers and production figures from 1840 to 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden California
Wisconsin
Minnesota Pineries
Mississippi
Saint Croix
Chippewa River
Muscatine
Dubuque Drawbridge
Winona
Minn
Lansing
Dubuque
Bellevue
Lyons
Clinton
le Claire
Davenport
Burlington
Fort Madison
Keokuk
Iowa
Minnesota
Mississippi River
McGregor
Prairies
Planing Mills
Sash and Door
United States
Local youths injured in city traffic and other notices
Gladys Cisler, 7, suffered bruises after being struck by a car on Eighth Avenue between Second and Third streets west yesterday afternoon. Samuel K. McSpadden sustained a fractured leg when a hay load he rode on overturned this morning. Lew Sarett, poet, canceled a Cedar Rapids engagement with the Business and Professional Women's club due to illness and left for Des Moines. C. R. Newcomer departed yesterday for Havana, Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Cisler
Eighth Avenue
Second
Third Streets
C. R. Newcomer
Havana
Cuba
Samuel K. McSpadden
Lew Sarett
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Sees Six Families Move From Clarinda
Six families head to Cedar Rapids settling homes, including Rufus Lee of Hubbard Ice Co and five of his employees led by John Olson. O. T. Barry elected secretary of Central Iowa Lumber Dealers Association at a Cedar Rapids convention. Mrs E G Douglas leaves for Winter's Texas. Rev Wilbur L Clapp travels to Chicago for International Baptist Young Peoples Union meeting where he serves as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Clarinda
Rufus Lee
Hubbard Ice Company
John O. Olson
F. W. Eddins
W. L. Beard
Fred Beard
Frank Neeley
O. T. Barry
Central Iowa Lumber Dealers Association
E. G. Douglas
Winter’s
Tex
Wilbur L. Clapp
Chicago
International Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Labor Temple Feasibility Committee Appointed
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor appoints Charles Selby Hench A M Warner to a committee to study the advisability of building a labor temple. Mrs. George T. Gadd travels to St Paul due to her mother’s illness. Rev Samuel Conybeare arrives as new Central Park Presbyterian pastor with family and will preach Sunday. Miss Lydia Krippner leaves for Los Angeles California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hench
Charles Selby
A.M. Warner
Cedar Rapids
Vom Bruch Delivers Closing Sermon At Sunshine Mission
Evangelist Harry Vom Bruch called on listeners to bow to God in his closing sermon at Sunshine Mission on Sunday night. He discussed the need for immediate repentance and previewed a Cedar Rapids revival led by Bob Ingersoll, now head of Pacific Garden Mission, beginning April 20. Keys, who donated a ten galllon hat to Vom Bruch, is noted for his own generosity to Christian causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Vom Bruch
Sunshine Mission
Dr. Vom Bruch
Bob” Ingersoll
Pacific Garden Mission
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Second Evangelical Church
Vom Bruch
Bill Keys
Keys
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atlee
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sioux City
the Gazette
Mayflower Nation
Servce
Transfer & Storage CO
J. M. Long
Moen
First Avenue E
Killian
Evelyn Hollingsworth
Iowa State College
Fieldcrest
Cally
Eanee
Heatherlaine
Bemberg
Eas
Rayons
Yard Goods Department
Rose Davis
George Buckingham
High Seas
Hollywood
New Yorker
Syd
Wiss Shears
Killian Company
Jean Joyce
WMT
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