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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1927
Page
36
Northeast Iowa plans four to five million dollars in road work across nine counties for 1928, aiming to pave eighty three miles including routes to Algona and Dubuque. District engineer J A Paulsen notes most counties have approved bonds enabling a historic expansion, with contracts let for six miles of paving and more miles to follow in winter.
Native timber from trees on Cedar Heights sites will be cut and sawn into dimension lumber for two bungalows planned by CG F Glockner at 523 Campbell Avenue in 1828. Each house will cost 5000 dollars. one is a colonial with six rooms, the other a six room California type. Lumber will be stuccoed and claimed warmer than brick.
County Engineer W I Johnston reports 118 457 spent on Black Hawk county roads in 1927 for grading graveling and bridges. Bridges 56000 graveling 25056 grading 37401 gravel surfacing covered 17.6 miles with 12.2 miles brought to standard grade and 40 bridges and culverts built including two T beam structures. Eighty miles of the 124 miles of county road are graded and grav eled with 44 miles remaining to be improved. Johnston notes Black Hawk was early to surface primary roads.
Waterloo Chautauqua, a 35 year old local institution, has faltered after losing its Cedar River park coliseum to fire and suffering low attendance at Hippodrome shows. The 1928 program is unsettled. John K Lear Company may arrange a summer event. A deficit around 700 dollars was covered by the loan company, and time alone will tell if the tradition dies.
The James Black Dry Goods Co plans a major annex doubling as a meeting space across six to seventh floors to house new departments and extensions. Ground bought from George Lichty spans 70 by 100 feet with demolition set after tenants vacate March 1928. Estimated cost about 406000, with eight floor tearoom expansion and alignment with nearby Tangney & McGinn hotel work.
Raymond Laterman manager of Lauerman Bros. department store shares optimism for Waterloo in 1928. He cites improved highways attracting rural shoppers, farmers in better financial health, and bank reports of repayment over borrowing. He predicts higher sales, quicker turnover, and notable gains over 1927 as industries tied to farming prosper.
Waterloo park commissioners forecast a record season in 1928 after adopting a pay plan in 1927 that funded a park supervisor and weeded out undesirables. The system charges 40 cents daily for park use, improving tourist quality and protection, with park improvements including a new tennis court at Gates Park and upgrades along Fourth Street. The golf course yielded nearly 20,000 paying visitors at about 55,000 dollars in fees, while other enhancements and tree plantings modernized Highland and Cedar River areas.
Morris Motor Co extends parking and garage facilities along Fifth and Sixth streets in Waterloo. The expansion adds space for over 200 cars with new access from Fifth Street and a Sixth Street entrance, replacing an old landmark with a larger secure facility.
Established in 1886 the Waterloo Broom Works serves northern Towal with brooms for homes and commercial spaces. In 1927 output rose 20 percent from the prior year as a new push broom entered stores and large arenas while raw broom corn came from Temuls, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
Dairy Cattle Congress reports 17020.87 in permanent improvements over the past year amid weather-related lower receipts. Major work includes two large barns, a cattle and horse barn, exhibit hall upgrades, sewer and water extensions, steel fencing, and dressing rooms. The organization owns most ground totaling about 35 acres, with a four-acre lease and authorized capital stock of 200000 with 74180 sold.
The Bryant Paving Company of Waterloo constructed 64 miles and 19.6 percent of 425 miles of hard surfaced roads built in the town in 1927. Sixteen contractors shared in projects by the Iowa State Highway Commission. The local firm laid 32 miles in Benton, 22 in Tama, and 10 in Bremer counties, with первые two projects on the Lincoln Highway route. By year end the company had 22 miles in Delaware and Buchanan counties and 19 miles in Buller County under 1928 contracts, aiming to create a continuous paving belt to Chicago. The firm set records for most paving in a day, 1,310 feet, and most miles laid by one outfit, 21 miles. The operation employed 680 men and 150 trucks during the year. It holds the town’s first federal aid road between Mason City and Clear Lake and is closing its twentieth Waterloo year.
In Paris a designer presents dancing mannequins that move their feet in complex steps to display dresses. Prospective buyers view clothing as it appears in dramatic lighting and under demanding conditions of a fashion showcase.
Waterloo’s 120 acre air port with 2500 foot runways, steel hangar and GE lighting aims to join a north south air mail line through Moline and Omaha. Local Kiwanis backed project seeks funding and city option. endorsements came from Clarence Chamberlin and aviation leaders. Destination potential includes passenger service linking Waterloo to Los Angeles and other states as aviation grows.
Sely manufacturers of artificial pearls once used Baltic fish scale essence now buy via Hamburg importers. They pay a pound but are dissatisfied with current product and seek an American supplier of alloy to improve quality.
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