Waterworks and town growth mark Janesville 1926 progress
Janesville Iowa reports 1926 progress with a bonded $16,000 waterworks loan the first since incorporation. The system includes 7000 feet of mains a 35 foot tank fire protection and 60 customer connections. A new Tyne tank design reduces frost issues and storage increases. The Royer Hawkeye road maintainer and concrete mixers boost local industry. Population rises about 20 percent from 1920 as housing demand grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtes
Janesville
Tyne
Royer Manufacturing Company
Waterloo
Hazleton Opens New School Auditorium Gym
Hazleton Iowa voters approved a new school gymnasium in March and the facility was opened for school use in November. The 21 foot ceiling allows a three sided balcony and pillars-free floor, seating 600 for plays and 350 for basketball. The $20,000 addition includes a large stage, a top notch floor, and a high quality band program with 115 students. The gym spurs expanded drama, debate, and civics activities while walls display engravings and portraits of U S figures and scientists.
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Courier Epecial Service
Hazleton
Iowa
Alrready
Aurora
United States
Town City
Lyrin
Jarass
Oclwein
Paren Veacher Association
Upper Iowa University on Threshold of New Era
Upper Iowa University, founded 1857, in Fayette Iowa, moves into a new era after 1928. The college has grown from two church supported years to an independent nonsectarian Christian college with a $300000 fundraising goal by June 20 1929. Dr J W Dickman predicts a bright future. The campus features the limestone hall and 1920 gymnasium with a possible theater conversion and a modern pool. Freshman enrollment rose last fall.
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Upper Iowa University
College Hall
Fayette
Courier Special Service
Pioneer Educational Institution
Iowa
J. W. Dickman
Upper Iowa
Butler Co Town Supplies Grabs for Iowa Roads
Clarksville Iowa December 31 Enlarged market for sand and gravel spurs a major investment in plant and equipment by Concrete Material Corp boosting local jobs to about 30 and output to 3500 carloads. Water plant upgrades cost 1000 while school and warehouse renovations run 700 and 860 respectively. Road work includes new crossings sidewalks grading and a white on black aviator guide atop Landes garage. Creamery boosts year round employment, and new residence construction plus numerous repairs mark a busy year in Clarksville.
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Courier Special Service
Clarksville
Concrete Material Corporation
Lmits
Supt
B. M. Smith
Cresco
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
Landes
Chicago Great Western Railway
G. W. Gough
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
F. D. Merrill
Iowa Public Service
Bell Telephone
Creamery
White Swan Bakery
Clarence Nissen
Sumner, Allison and Packard
Julius Buchholz
Pleasant Valley
B. Stevenson
John McElhaney
Ernest Hahn
Henry Wedeking
Henry
Sarah Lowe
Ackley Ends 1923 With Record of Progress and Growth
Ackley closes 1923 with strong progress in building and public works. New power plant upgrades cost about 75 000 to 109 000 dollars and the electric system shifts to alternating current. The telephone system gains 15 000 to 18 000 dollars in improvements. Churches receive substantial upgrades, and the town notes 70 000 to 75 000 spent by Marshall Canning for the canning plant. Ackley's prosperity extends to farmers with new residences and large barns, keeping builders busy as the town looks to 1929 with optimism.
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Courier Special Service
George F. Althouse
Ackley
Cnt
Tull Public
I+linois Central
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. John's Evangelical Church
Marshall Canning Company
Iowa
Nead Ered
Rock Island to Build Track Sheds at Des Moines Station
Des Moines reports Rock Island lines will spend about 36000 dollars on new track sheds at the Des Moines station. The project aims to improve maintenance, with funding allocated for facility upgrades and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Rock Island Lines
Brant Birdpopulation Surges Along Hatteras Coast
Ocracoke North Carolina December 31 AP Brant a wild waterfowl species long puzzling ornithologists is reported by Capt Bill Gaskill a longtime guide to be more plentiful this year than in fifty years of observation The birds migration patterns remain poorly understood with spring movements toward Labrador and fall sightings confined to Pamlico Sound vicinity near Hatteras to within a few miles of shore.
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Ocracoke
N. C
Brant
Bill Gaskill
Altho
Labrador
Pamlico Sound
Hatteras, Wngs
Long Island Sound
Casebeer Heights Shows 26 Per Cent Gain in Residences
Casebeer Heights east of Waterloo on the Raymond road reports a 26 percent rise in dwellings in 1928 with eight new year round homes. Builders include R E Seery B Bachtell N J Tiedemann Ed Hess Wayne F Shick W R Dumire and L F Hutchison. Total occupied residences reach 39 on Cedar river bluff as electric and soon telephone service arrive. Casebeer Heights remains unincorporated under the sole control of Jack Casebeer who retired from the Waterloo restaurant trade and lives in one of the permanent houses.
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Casebeer Heights
Waterloo
Raymond Road
R. E. Seery
B. Bachtell
N. J. Tiedemann
Ed Hess
Wayne F
Jack” Casebeer
Casebeer
Improvements Spent By Iowa Railway in Local Vicinity
Iowa Railway Light Co spent about 450000 dollars on improvements in the Marshalltown area during the past year.
Anita General Service Co moves to new quarters
Anita IA December 31 The Anita General Service Co has moved to new quarters in the G M DeCamp building on Main street.
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First Bondaout
B. HE. Mitchell
Charles Bye
George R. Shepard
Bremer
Black Hawk
Masonic Lodge
Rebekah Lodge
W. A
American Legion and
the Legion Auxiliary
P T. A. Association
M. E. Church
Danesvile
Washington Township
Black Benk County
Henderson Memorial Library
David B. Henderson
Butler CO
Ed Holland
Howard Clark
James Cook
Henry Ediker
Frank Ralsty
Muller & Brockman Elevator Co
Bergen Lumber Company
Telephone Company
Hatteras
the Heights
Photo By
Seehawk
Jack Casebeer
Waterloo Real Estate
Waterloos
Lester W. Miller
Pioneer Bank
Ewing & Crozier
Sweeney Company
THE
Sweeney CO
Armstrong All Steel
India
Los Angeles
Harrisburg, Penn
Armstron
Mfg.co
Waterloo, Iowa,u.s.a
Sena
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