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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1920
Page
6
A fragmented advertising page lists numerous local businesses in the Lake Region area. It includes hotels such as ARnOLDS PARK and GIBSON, restaurants like LAKESIDE CAFR, and services from VICTORY BAKERY to THE LAKESIDE DEPARTMENT STORE. It touches on banks, real estate, lumber, hardware, auto shops, and a cooperative shipping association.
The Orleans hotel in Spirit Lake, operated by Guy Burnside, is praised as a model of Northwestern hospitality. Located on a narrow land strip between Spirit Lake and West Okoboji, it offers comprehensive guest comfort, midday and evening orchestral music, weekend open air concerts, and regular dances. The surrounding waters boast abundant pike, bass, perch, and pickerel, with a full boat house providing bait and tackle.
The Hodge Land company of Spirit Lake is selling lakefront lots along Lake Okoboji on the Es terville road between Spirit Lake and Orleans. The parcels join fronting acreage with oak woods and timber for cottages, plus two farms and a nearby section south of Superior offered on reasonable terms. Burnside manages the Orleans hotel, praised for guests’ growing patronage and a full set of resort amenities.
A real estate notice promotes "Honeymoon Hut" on Hodge Land Company's land along Lake Okoboutl Dickinson County. The prospect offers 50x150 foot plots at $5, Wells $200 cash then two payments over two years with no interest or taxes. Promoter W Hodge touts expertise and protection against losses, urging inquiries for western Minnesota and Dakota buyers.
The Antlers Hotel, Spirit Lake, under manager proprietor W R Neal, remains a prominent lake region hostelry on the European plan with dining, telephones, telegraph, barber, and other services. A fifty room addition is planned soon to modernize and make it the best appointed hotel in the lake region.
Doudna Drug Company advertises its Spirit Lake store under the green DRUGS sign offering a full line of drugs and sundries with a soda fountain and a prescription department run by two registered pharmacists. The firm operates as a co‑partnership of B KR F and Y M Doudia and serves as successor to the long‑standing W. F. Dexhelimier drug business.
A. Woodward of Spirit Lake, long tied to local mercantile and coal ventures, sold his elevator interests last October and moved into the wool business. He supplied coal to Spirit Lake trade and maintained a coal grade well received locally. During six years with the Woodward elevator, he built a substantial and influential standing in the city and surrounding area, aiding his new enterprise.
Rainbow Apartments on Spirit Lake Okoboji shore, owned by P A Gifford, offer six units with modern conveniences, a six to eight person double and two person singles. A nearby garage repair shop serves thirty five, with a six o clock dinner lunch room next door serving 200 to 430 diners daily. Mr. Gifford, a long time lakes booster, bought the frontage and cottages last year and promotes the area as ideal for outings.
The West Side hotel at Spirit Lake, owned by Joe Wanninger for fifteen years, has expanded to thirty rooms and a seven room cottage with 220 feet of lake frontage and a fine bathing beach. Operated on the American plan, it offers home cooking and attentive service at about 3.50 a day. Wanninger, formerly in Maxson City's foundry trade, built a loyal guest list including Roosevelt of Clarion. The Spirit Lake National Bank dominates local finance with 5 percent deposits and a White The Bank that Treats You White motto, led by G. H. Van Steenburg president, G. C. Baylor vice president, H. S. Pierce cashier, and O. W. Parsonay assistant cashier. The bank also runs the Northwest Mortgage Company to aid farmers and stockmen.
C Davis real estate presents Iowa and Minnesota farm lands as highly productive with strong returns. J C Davis, Spirit Lake broker since 1885, operates alone after 1915, listing farms in Iowa and Minnesota and owning several properties including a Lake Okoboji resort site. He offers expert guidance and prompt responses to inquiries.
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