1410 Bever saw a lot of turnover

  The earliest reference I found to 1410 Bever Avenue was a 1903 City Directory listing for Arthur and Alice Warner. Arthur was an engineer for the CRI&P (Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific). But by 1904, it was listed as the address for George and Effie Smith. George was a buyer for Churchill Drug Co. By 1908, Joseph and Hettie Whitmore lived there, but only for a short time, because an item in the Sept. 29, 1909, Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette reported on this meeting of the  YWCA's Business Women's Bible club:

    A very pleasant meeting of the Business Women's Bible club was held last evening at the home of Miss Myrtle Stubblefield, 1410 Bever avenue. An inviting supper was served, after which followed a business session during which four new members were taken into the club. Then followed the Bible lessson.

   Following the meeting of the Business Women's Bible club, the Personal Workers class held a session to which a large number remained. This meeting was intensely interesting.

The home was shared for a few years by Mrs. Mary Stubblefield, the widow of James W., Miss Gail Stubblefield, an assistant librarian at the Public Library, and Miss Myrtle Stubblefield, a clerk at Ludy & Taylor Co.

The home became available for rent on April 1, 1912, advertised in The Evening Gazette as a "modern, seven-room house."

The occupancy of the house saw the same sort of turnover in the ensuing years, either being rented out as a complete house or offering rooms for boarders. For instance, in 1921, Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Smith rented the house out, fully furnished, for the first three months of the year while they traveled through the South.

By 1925, an officer of the law showed up at 1410 Bever. Le Roy Barber, a deputy county sheriff, and his wife, Esther, a clerk for the county treasurer, lived there. But even they didn't stay long.