Sioux city directory, 1924, Part 1

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WELLS COAL CO. FUEL Auto 4981 lowa 80

S ECURIT NATIONAL BANK

Capital and Surplus, $700,000

W. P. MANLEY, Chairman of the Board A. B. DARLING, President

V. C. BONESTEEL, Vice President L. R. Manley, Cashier GEO. O. CALL, Vice President R. E. BROWN, Asst. Cashier

st NATIONAL BANK SIOUX CITY

N. W. Corner Fifth and Pierce Sts. Capital, Surplus and Profits $800,000.00

Hanfords

Manufacturers of

High Grade Creamery Butter and Ice

Cream

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C. A. KNEEDLER AGENCY

1st Floor Grain Exchange Bldg. 700 Pierce St.

We Write Insurance to Cover Every Hazard In All American Companies. C. A. Kneedler, Mgr. J. Watt Wooldridge, Asst, Mgr. C. E. Freeto, Mgr. Engineering and Rating Dept.

WEST'S FUNERAL HOME

1309 NEBRASKA ST. Auto 57631 "We Never Close"

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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01402 9307

THOMPSON YARDS

INCORPORATED

LUMBER

COAL AND

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Thompson Yards INCORPORATED

Auto 84691 Bell 118

Kennard Coal Co.

COAL, WOOD, HAY and FEED

216 West Seventh Street

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Poultry Feed

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R. L. POLK & CO.'S Sioux City Directory 1924

Embracing a Complete Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens ; a Miscellaneous Directory of City and County Officials, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Banks, Asylums, Hospitals and Homes, Commercial Bodies, Secret Societies, Street and Avenue Guide, Etc., a

"BUYERS' GUIDE"

and a Complete

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND NUMERICAL STREET DIRECTORY

" The DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER AND SELLER'

a& folks

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Office and Library 515-516-517 UNITED BANK BUILDING, SIOUX CITY, IOWA Telephone Automatic 1254

Members Association of North American Directory Publishers

INTRODUCTION

In presenting their 1924 edition of the Sioux City Directory to its many patrons the publishers are confident that they have produced a work that is complete and com- prehensive and that will be commended by patrons and the general public as meeting their needs and requirements for a modern City Directory.

The Directory is recognized as a great social and busi- ness necessity and a valuable asset to a community. It is not only a book of names, addresses and occupations, it is an encyclopedia of accurate data concerning the people of a community and their various activities. It is the only accu- rate history of what the community was yesterday. It presents it in the concrete today and is a reliable index of what it may be tomorrow. Its pages point unerringly to the progress and development of the industrial life of the community.

The Directory is compiled in several essential depart- ments as follows :

THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, pages 11 to 27 contains information concerning state, county and city officials, buildings, blocks and halls, churches, cemeteries, clubs, homes and hospitals, libraries, fraternal and benevo- lent societies, and miscellaneous organizations.

THE BUYERS' GUIDE occupies pages 47 to 158. This section of the Directory, printed on tinted paper, includes numerous advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Sioux City. They have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under classified headings and otherwise in various parts of the Directory. A casual perusal of these advertisements will picture many interesting phases of the city's activities. They are not display advertisements, primarily, however, but rather are reference advertising at its best. The pur- pose of a Directory is to direct. In a bustling, commercial and manufacturing city like Sioux City the need for this kind of information readily at hand is very great, and the general appreciation of this need is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in many and varied lines of trade.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens, business concerns and corporations in Sioux City is em- braced in pages 159 to 711.

THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE covers pages 712 to 827; the streets and avenues are compiled in alpha- betical order, the numbers on each street and avenue being arranged in numerical order, the names of the householders and business concerns are placed opposite the appropriate numbers.

INTRODUCTION

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is in- cluded in pages 828 to 918, and shows the various manu- facturing, mercantile and professional occupations compiled under headings appropriate to the class of business pursued. This department will be appreciated as a special trade directory. The directory is the common intermediary be- tween the buyer and the seller.

POPULATION

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There are 38,476 individual names in the Directory indicating a population in the territory covered of 86,571 which is an increase of 2,346 over the estimate of last year. This result is arrived at by multiplying the number of names by 21/4, to allow for the number of women and children whose names are not in the Directory. In canvassing for the names and information the geographical confines of the city were not arbitrarily observed. Small sections of terri- tory immediately adjacent, which are parts of the city as far as business and social life are concerned, were included.

SIOUX CITY

"At the Frontier of the World's Greatest Market."

OVED 4 THE ARY

A Paved Highway Into Sioux City

Sioux City is the metropolis of the northwest where the farmer, the rancher and the captain of industry join hands to make a market for the world's greatest agricultural re- gion. The city has a population of 86,000, over 96 per cent of whom are white. The foreign element, composed for the

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most part of Scandinavians and British subjects, form a stable class of citizens-hard working and thrifty. Perhaps no other city the size of Sioux City has so few undesirables. The industrial section of the city lies along the north shore of the Missouri river and extends northward along the valleys of the Floyd river and Perry creek. The business section is at the base of this U-shaped valley. Spreading out in fan formation to the north, east and west is the beau- tiful residence part of the city, divided into three major sections by these valleys. The average elevation of Sioux City above sea level is 1,158 feet. The mean annual temper- ature over a period of 30 years is 48 degrees. Winters are cold and snappy, but not wet and slushy as it is a little farther south. The summers get hot, but the nights usually bring cool breezes, making sleep a pleasure. Sioux City is large enough to enjoy all the advantages of a big city and yet small enough to enjoy the congenial community spirit.

Sioux City leads Iowa in manufacturing, jobbing, pack- ing and as a grain market, a live stock market and as a butter center. The natural location of the city coupled with the progressiveness and foresight of Sioux City business men accounts for the marvelous growth of the city and the rapid expansion of trading radius. Sioux City has little competition in western Iowa, southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska from the trading standpoint.

In the middle of the last century, the spot on which Sioux City now stands was a prairie. The country for hundreds of miles around on the north, south, east and west, lay in its primeval state with no signs of civilization. The red man was unmolested in his rich hunting grounds. The wild buffalo roamed at will over the beautiful plateaus and valleys. Few realized then that this spot at the junction of the Sioux and the Missouri would some day be the site of one of the most progressive industrial centers of the northwest.

In 1854 the first permanent settlement was made by Dr. J. K. Cook, a surveyor in the employment of the govern- ment. He realized the natural advantages afforded for a city by the location and with his followers located claims and began laying out a city. Sioux City can be said to be a city that was founded not on chance or by luck but because of its location. From the founding of the city to the present time has been a period of rapid growth and expansion. Each year adds a little more to the progress of this western city. With the start of 1855, two log cabins constituted the town. A tavern, a real estate office, grocery store and the United States land office appeared before the end of the year. It soon became an important trading center for the Indians who were the only inhabitants.

The banking business opened in Sioux City in 1856 when Weare & Allison, with a dry goods box for a counter

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and a tin box for a safe, opened their banking house with a capital of $1,000. Contrast this with the 20 banks and trust companies here now with capitalizations of over four million and resources of nearly 50 million. The progressive- ness of the banks and bankers have played no small part in the building of the industries and business institutions of the city. Although the city ranks 98th in population it stays with the first 50 in business transactions.

For a few years after the founding of the city, it was contented to be a retail center but soon the more progressive men saw that Sioux City was destined to be more than a retail center and set about making it a manufacturing and jobbing center which it is today. The year 1867 marks the beginning of manufacturing. The city has now outgrown many cities that at that time were considered manufactur- ing centers of great possibilities. The first manufacturing plant was a flour mill run by water power. A few barrels a day was then considered a tremendous output, but today the mills have a capacity of over 2,000 barrels a day. In addition there are several cereal manufacturing plants. The next 10 years will see Sioux City a cereal manufacturing center of the west.

The greatest industry of today had its beginning in 1871 as the result of an accident. A steamboat coming up the river sprang a leak and sank just opposite the city. The boat was filled with wheat which was sold for salvage at a very low price. James E. Booge bought this wheat which was good only for feeding hogs. He purchased enough hogs to consume the wheat and found a large supply of porkers on his hands with no ready market. In order to realize a profit he conceived the idea of butchering the hogs and selling the dressed meat. Thus was started an industry which now means the livelihood of nearly a third of the pop- ulation of the city. Sioux City ranks sixth in the country as a live stock and packing center

The city is a logical center for a live stock market. It is in the center of the greatest grain producing section of America and at the gateway to the vast grazing plains of the west. The production of pure breds had been urged by the stockmen of the local market until today Sioux City is one of the world's largest pure bred live stock markets.

The greatest development of the city has come within the last 20 years. From a population of 33,000 at that time it has grown to over 86,000 at the present time and is still going. Bank clearings jumped from 60 million to nearly one-half billion and trade increased in like propor- tions. Hundreds of jobbing houses have sprung up and taken their places in the industrial life of the city.

The history of Sioux City as a grain market comes within this last score of years. The last five years would in reality catch the high points of the grain business. It

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was within these last few years that the government through the Interstate Commerce Commission recognized that it was a grain center and granted rates that made it possible to send grain here and realize as much for it as to send it to Chicago. Following this the giant reinforced con- crete elevators were built and grain began to pour in.

Missouri River Bridge at Sioux City

The story of Sioux City as a jobbing center reads as an Arabian Night's story. Situated as it is on the convex side of the Missouri river, on its first great bend north of Kansas City, the waters of this territory seemed to flow always toward the city. In a like manner business, traffic and com- merce flowed to Sioux City. No other city in the United States has so large a trade territory without a single rival as a jobbing center. Practically all lines of commodities are handled here. The great size of the territory has been the cause of some unusually large wholesale houses locating here, all of which have met success.

One of the foremost industries of today in this city is the dairy product business. With the largest creamery in the world here and with two others of huge proportions the city turned out 28 million pounds of butter in 1922, as well as millions of gallons of ice cream. This goes to all parts of the country and carries the name of Sioux City into thou- sands of homes. The result of these plants has been the stimulation of dairying in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska.

The automobile industry is in its infancy in the United States, but Sioux City has its share. In addition to jobbing practically every standard car, numerous articles such as tools, tires, radiators, bodies and other accessories are man- ufactured and distributed to the world from here.

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River Road to Stone Park

THE SIOUX CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The Sioux City.Chamber of Commerce is a live organi- zation which has had much to do with the progress of the city and is responsible for many of its more modern tenden- cies. It is a representative of the commercial, professional and manufacturing interests of the city and had its incep- tion in a desire to promote their growth in home building, in manufacturing industries, in civic improvement and in com- mercial importance.

MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY Advertising Sioux City

An important function of the Directory is to set forth the characteristics and advantages of the city as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. The Directory acts as a mirror, reflecting all that is noteworthy in the city in the above respects. In order to spread this information regarding the city broadcast over the country the publishers place copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries which are maintained in all the larger cities of the country, where they are readily available for reference use by the public. There they serve a sperpetual advertisements of Sioux City, for businss men the country over realize that the City Direc- tory represents the community as it really is.

The publishers take this opportunity of thanking the citizens for valuable assistance rendered in the way of furnishing information concerning themselves for this Directory, and also the public-spirited and progressive busi- ness and professional men for support given in the way of patronage.

R. L. POLK & CO., Compilers and Publishers.

In Memoriam

RALPH LANE POLK Founder of R. L. Polk & Co. Born September 12th, 1849. Died August 21st, 1923 (Biographical sketch follows)

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Ralph Lane Polk

(From the Detroit News)

Ralph Lane Polk, whose picture appears on the preceding page and whose name was familiar to Detroiters as the publisher of the city directory, but who was equally well known for similar endeav- ors by residents of every large city in the United States and Canada, died Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn., of pneumonia. He had been stricken while taking a business trip to the northwest by boat, having left here only a few days ago.

Monday, the condition of the veteran publisher, who was within a few days of his seventy-fourth birthday, became alarming and his son, R. L. Polk, Jr., who is general manager of the business founded by his father, was summoned to the bedside, but arrived too late. Mrs. Polk, Sr., and a granddaughter, Miss Dorothy Kemp, were with husband and grandfather when the end came.

Mr. Polk had just completed the last consolidation of his pub- lishing business, which will be his monument, by obtaining the directory of the city of Chicago, and thus putting the final touch to the vast business which had such modest beginnings.

A Vast Business

Today his company, in addition to the directories of practically every large American and Canadian city of any importance, pub- lishes state gazetteers and directories of industries and professions -in all, around 500.

He was born in Bellefontaine, O., September 12th, 1849, the son of the Rev. David and Mary Charlotte (Warner) Polk, and was educated in the common schools at Trenton, N. J., and at the Pen- nington, N. J., Seminary.

His first job was on a farm, and when the Civil War was in its second year he was selling newspapers in Trenton. In succes- sion, he was clerk in a grocery store, manager of an ice business in Trenton, and at the age of 15 enlisted as a musician in Co. G, 40th New York Volunteers, and remained in service eight months. He was mustered out at Hall's Hill, Va., in August, 1865.

Learned Accuracy

Four years later he went to Indianapolis and made his first start in the directory business. learning the lessons for accuracy, patience and detail, which were to lead to his later success.

In 1870 he came to Detroit and here he made his home ever since, organizing the firm of R. L, Polk & Co., directory publishers. In 1877 he married Amelia Frances Hopkins, the family home being for the last several years at 223 Ferry avenue east.

The street directory section, now a feature of all standard directories, was introduced to this country by Mr. Polk. and Detroit was the first city to have that facility. Later he added cities such as New York, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Wilmington,

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Jersey City, Milwaukee, Toledo, Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Duluth, Houston, Sacramento, Jacksonville and scores upca scores of others to his list. His employees, more than 4,000, are scat- tered from Hawaii to Alaska.

Original Features

In 1886 he published his first national list of architects and builders. Since then there have been regular issues of directories of physicians, banks, dentists, real estate men and others.

Mr. Polk's hobby was his business, and his business was his hobby. To the eve of his death he took an active interest in it.

A Friend's Tribute

What Mr. James E. Scripps, publisher of the Detroit News, thought of Mr. Polk is shown in a faded yellow clipping from The Evening News, published in August, 1878, and treasured dearly by Mrs. Polk in a scrap book which she has personally gathered over the years. The article written by Mr. Scripps may well be repro- duced here:

"About eight years ago, a gentlemanly but rather diffident young man, an entire stranger in Detroit, entered a leading printing office in this city with the manuscript of a book he wished to have printed. He had put a great deal of work upon it, but had no money wherewith to pay for the printing. He wanted credit till the book could be delivered to subscribers.

"His manner pleased the manager of the office, and though the job was comparatively a large one, and a few months would elapse before anything would be realized on it, such was the confidence awakened that the job was undertaken. The book was a business directory of the towns on the Detroit & Milwaukee Railway, and the enterprising young publisher was Mr. Ralph L. Polk. The inci- dent of his getting credit here at the critical point in his career without doubt had its influence in inducing him to make Detroit his headquarters. A larger work was undertaken in a gazetteer 'and business director of the whole state. It was ably prepared, proved popular, and was the foundation stone of an immense busi- ness

"Today the firm of R. L. Polk & Co. are the publishers of regular biennial state gazetteers in nine different state, including Michigan, Illincis, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia. The Illinois work, published recently, made 1,716 large octavo pages and is probably the most extensive work. of the kind ever printed in the United States. The Kansas Gazetteer for 1878 is just pub- lished, and the Minnesota book is now in press. The fourth issue of the Michigan Gazetteer will be begun this fall. Besides these large enterprises the same firm publishes regular city directories for the following cities: Indianpolis, Toledo, Grand Rapids, Sag- inaw, East Saginaw, Bay City, Jackson, Port Huron, Fort Wayne, Ind., and London, Ont., and under a different firm name (J. W. Weeks & Co.), the partners being the same, they also publish the Detroit City Directory, than which no city in the country can boost a better. The larger share of the printing of all these various pub- lications is done in Detroit and contributes many thousands of dol-

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lars a year to the business of our job offices. Both for this reason and for the intrinsically high business character, the firm merit the utmost confidence and most liberal patronage of the citizens of Detroit."

Headed Publishers

Mr. Polk was honored later by being elected president of the Association of the American Directory Publishers for three years.

In politics he was a Republican, while his religious affiliations were with the Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Detroit Post, G. A. R., and the Detroit Club. He was also a prom- inent Mason, was a member of Corinthian Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M., had taken the 32nd degree in Masonry, and was a member of the Old Guard of the Detroit Commandery, Knights Templar.

His family consists of his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Francis P. Kemp; a son, Ralph L., Jr., and three grandchildren, Amy and Dor. othy Kemp, and Ralph Lane Polk, III.

GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

159

Index to Advertisements.

17- 19

Introduction

Miscellaneous Information

20- 46

Street and Avenue Guide

34- 45

Street Directory (numerical)

712-828

INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Page

GOVERNMENT

City

20-21

County

State

21-23

United States

ASYLUMS, HOSPITALS AND HOMES 23

BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS

23-24

BANK AND BANKERS

BLOCKS, BUILDINGS, HALLS,

ETC

24-26

CEMETERIES 26

CHURCHES

Adventist 26

Baptist

Catholic

Christian

Christian Science

Congregational

Episcopal

Jewish

Latter Day Saints 1 1

Methodist

Mission

Nazarene

Orthodox

Presbyterian

Reformed

Salvation Army

Unitarian

CLUBS

27-28

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS

28-29

COMMERCIAL BODIES

EXPRESS COMPANIES

FAIR ASSOCIATIONS

LIBRARIES

29-30

NEWS BUREAUS

NEWSPAPERS

PARKS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS_30-31

POST OFFICE

RAILROADS

RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE

SOCIETIES

Benevolent, Charitable and Re-

ligious

Medical

Miscellaneous

Secret

32-34

STREET RAILWAYS

STREETS AND AVENUES

34-45

Lutheran

26-27

TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE

COMPANIES

THEATERS

PRECINCTS AND BOUNDARIES_45-46

WAR

VETERANS ORGANIZA-

TIONS AND AUXILIARIES __ 34

Page

Alphabetical List of Names

160-711

Biography Mr. R. L. Polk

12- 15

Buyers Guide

47-158

Classified Business Directory

829-917 |

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Acme Chili Parlor

Acme Hay & Mill Feed Co

97 and 860

Akron Milling Co

Day Coal Co The __ back cover and

Albertson & Co.

Dougherty & Bryant Co

back paster and 153

American Auto Bath Parlor

American Colonization Co

143

American Letter & Advertising Co __

opp 166

American

Monument Co

-right side lines and

125

Anderson Monument Works

126

Andrews R J Insurance Agency __ 104

Anthony Trunk Factory

155

Art Temple Studio

132

Artificial Ice Co_

104

Atlantic Seafoods Co

Auto Hospital The

Auto Specialists (Inc)

right side lines and

Barish

Bros

Motor

Barney-Bennett Co

854

Everist L G (Inc)

Baron, Ryan & Baron 119

Bastian W H Printing

138

Beede Mrs Jennie

Bekins Van & Storage Co

2 and .152

Berry J A

Bierman Engraving Co

left bottom corner cards and 97

Big Sioux Furnace Co

Bill and Al's Welding &

Machine

Works

157

Blue Valley Creamery Co

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Sioux city directory, 1924, Part 1

Author: Publication date: Publisher: Sioux City, Iowa : R.L. Polk & Co., 1924 Number of Pages: 938

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Publisher: Sioux City, Iowa : R.L. Polk & Co., 1924
Number of Pages: 938