150 years ago: 1875
Fresh Crackers and Snaps: We would advise all who desire something first-class for their tables to call at the Sioux City Cracker Factory and supply themselves with some of the excellent crackers and ginger snaps which they have just manufactured.
Lost in the River: A man by the name of Welch was ducked in the Little Sioux River, in Monona County, Saturday, while crossing that stream on a raft. His valise, containing $500, it is said, was lost. Welch was on a land buying tour.
Destroyed Livestock: The recent big flood in the Floyd was quite destructive to stock. Many dead animals are now lying along the banks of that stream which were drowned during the freshet. A horse has lodged at the iron bridge near Green’s brick yard.
Dog Gone: Aug. W. Schmidt’s large Newfoundland dog has passed in his chips. Some unknown person shot him Sunday night.
125 years ago: 1900
Football Clothes Donned: With the advent of autumn’s crisp, frosty days, interest in football has revived and the lovers of this great game are uneasy and anxious to see the season’s first contest of canvas-clad athletes. Sioux City’s high schoolers are the first to get into line for the sport. They have organized their eleven for the season by electing Harvey Badgerow captain and Henry Fink manager. A call for candidates has been issued and yesterday thirty men were out on the practice grounds at Sixteenth and Pierce streets getting familiar with the rudiments of the game.
Last season was rather disastrous for the high schoolers because of a host of unfortunate things that happened to them. Two or three captains were chosen in succession and the discipline of the eleven was nil. Dissatisfaction cropped out and the team barely hung together long enough to be severely beaten once or twice. There is a determination this year to profit by those experiences and to pull together harmoniously for the glory of the school.
Out at Morning Side College interest in football is also astir and some sort of a team will be put into the field this fall in all probability. Last year there was opposition to athletics from certain quarters of the college faculty, but this opposition is absent this fall and the young men are getting in shape to organize a good eleven.
100 years ago: 1925
Fair Gates Swing Open This Morning: The gates of the big Interstate Fair swing open today.
At 7 a.m. the curtain will rise on one of the finest and most complete expositions ever staged by Sioux City for the benefit of its neighbors and friends.
Famous since the early days of its history as an entertainment and fun center, Sioux City once more is prepared to welcome all visitors and to provide a program of entertainment that will fit all needs. The Interstate Fair is the modern, up-to-date successor of the old Corn Palaces which spread the fame of Sioux City as a host city all over the United States.
Yet, the Interstate Fair, while offering unexcelled facilities for amusement and entertainment, has a serious purpose as its basis. The Interstate Fair has come to be an educational institution. Here the farmer may bring his family for a delightful week’s vacation and go home better prepared and equipped to carry on the work of the next year through the knowledge gained from fellow farmers and stockmen. Here he may see the finest grains and the purest bred swine, cattle and horses and acquire knowledge that will help him in his work.
75 years ago: 1950
Lovely Beverly Johnson Captures 6,000 Hearts and Beauty Crown as New Sioux City Sue: The thrilling career of Sioux City Sue began Saturday night for 18-year-old Beverly Johnson at the end of a two-month contest to select the town’s most beautiful redhead.
Six thousand persons who overflowed the municipal auditorium applauded the choice of bandleader Lou Breese whose task it was to determine the loveliest of 12 lovely red haired misses.
A trip to Hollywood, a new wardrobe and many public appearances await the dimpled, curvaceous lass who represented the Elks Club.
Only minutes after she was crowned she received an invitation to appear in the Skating Vanities of 1951 at the auditorium.
“I’d be delighted,” she managed to gasp as she was hurried away for another appearance onstage.
Four other contestants heavily supported by the audience were chosen attendants to Sioux City Sue by Mr. Breese. In the order of their selection they are:
Miss Patricia Schroaten, Miss Marilyn Baker, Miss Barbara Haines and Miss Patricia Wysong.
War on Gambling: War to the death on gambling in Sioux City has been declared by Mayor Dan J. Conley in an open letter supplied to this newspaper.
He informed this newspaper that he intended to back up trucks and vans in front of the “joints” and to prefer charges against all persons taken in the raids.
The mayor’s program comes after repeated allegations by private citizens that professional gamblers are operating wide open in Sioux City.
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE GAMBLERS: Effective immediately, you will stop your gambling games and devices, either the easy way or the hard way. You are being hard to convince, but you are now being forewarned that the future handling of you will be even more convincing.
I intend to catch you and stop you, using every law and plan available to me, including the arrest of you individually, the removal of your devices, and all equipment we can possibly take, followed by injunctions to padlock your doors closed. I will stop at nothing to rid this town of you.
TO THE PUBLIC: This means business! If you patronize any of their gambling games, or are involved in them in any way, you, too, will be prosecuted to the limit. The raids will include a ride for you, if you’re in the place where gambling is going on. You are taking your own chances!
TO ALL PEACE OFFICIALS: If I have your individual and full co-operation to carry this plan out to the end, then Sioux City will be through with its commercial gambling of any kind or nature, including tickets. I mean business … and if any of you don’t, then the quicker I know it the better. This will give you your full opportunity to prove where you stand.
TO ALL CONCERNED IN HELPING CARRY OUT THIS PROGRAM: If you see gambling in any form, including tickets, in any place, and will notify me immediately, that place will be “taken,” but quick.
I can’t say it any plainer, or mean it any more sincerely.
MAYOR DAN J. CONLEY
50 years ago: 1975
USD’s Hopes for Mini-Dome Remain Alive: University of South Dakota officials have until mid-December to tell the state board of regents whether they will try again to build a domed athletic facility.
The proposed Dakota Dome, a planned multi-purpose athletic and physical education complex, was on shaky ground a month ago when bids came in more than $3 million above the estimated $7.2 million.
But USD President Dr. Richard Bowen said the school thinks it can build a redesigned dome with an air suspension roof for an amount similar tot he engineers’ estimate.
In the meantime, USD is also preparing designs for a more conventional athletic field house.
25 years ago: 2000
Board Says County Has Addressed LEC Problems: Many of the problems listed in an engineering study of the Woodbury County Law Enforcement Center have been or are being addressed, county board members said Tuesday.
Leaks in wastewater and other water pipes are usually fixed within an hour after they are reported. Raw sewage is not dripping into offices. Workers are not in danger, supervisor Larry Clausen said.
“At no time has their health been taken for granted,” Clausen said. “We have done everything that is humanly possible to make sure that building is safe.”
A recent report from West Plains Engineering of Sioux Falls detailed plumbing concerns that included the lack of drain pans in showers in the Woodbury County Jail on the second floor, and failures in cast iron waste piping in the ceiling space above the first floor. Leaking water has permeated air insulation and caused odors and contaminated air, the report said.
Workers in the clerk of court office and in the judicial areas, both located on the LEC’s first floor, have complained in the past about a urine-like smell in the building on hot, humid days.
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