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1913
From Bloomingpedia
| Years: | 1910 1911 1912 – 1913 – 1914 1915 1916 |
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Significant events from 1913.
January
February
March
- 6th - Three pharmacists, W. A. Brissenden, Thomas Huff,
and Enos DeMoss, are raided by the State Board of Pharmacy for the sale of liquor.
C.C. Smallwood and Byron Smallwood rent the John Dressel Building and open a wholesale grocery there.
Ellis Shaw buys the Fashion Shoe Store on north Walnut Street from Edward Hall.
April
May
June
July
- The dam on University Lake is raised. The contractors are Blair & Kerr.
- A utility tunnel, large enough to walk through, is planned to run between Science Hall and the new biology bulding.
- Water pipe is laid from the Leonard's Mill and East springs into the Weimer dam, in hopes of relieving the city water shortage. Nearly a mile of pipe needed to be laid.
- The Alexander King Stone Company of Galesburg, Ill. takes over the Ellettsville Eclipse stone mill.
- Charles Bivins and A. H. Pauley sell the Crescent Theater on north College Avenue to the Switow Amusement Company of Louisville.
- A fire at 4th Street and Walnut Street does $25,000 in damage. The Home Glove & Mitten Factory, Family Park Theatre, and Bollenbacher House, all owned by Len S. Field, are destroyed.
August
Bloomington Dye Works purchases the lot of their location on Kirkwood Avenue from Frank Gentry for $6800.
Wade Eaton and Mrs. Julia Eaton buy the Rector Restaurant on North Walnut Street.
September
- Mack Hurst commits suicide by blowing himself with dynamite. Three daughters are also killed in the blast.
