Logging on the Rum River stretched from Mille Lacs to Anoka, and the last log drive on the river occurred in the 1890's when the timber was depleted and the lumber industry's huge influence waned. The Anoka Board of Trade then worked to bring other businesses to the city, including flour mills, a potato starch factory, bottling works, a poultry farm, a dry milk factory, and a shoe factory, creating new employment opportunities. Industry brought people to Anoka to work and live, and the logging, lumber, and flour milling industries employed hundreds of people in as many as five sawmills and two flour mills in the last years of the 19th century. A fire devastated much of downtown Anoka in 1884, but rebuilding began almost immediately, with local brick used extensively in buildings on Main Street. Modern amenities arrived with the City Water Works and Electric Light and Power Company in 1889, followed by the sewer system, electric streetcars, and a telephone exchange. Community efforts secured funding for a Carnegie library in 1904, improving on a lending library established about 40 years earlier above a store on Main Street. An outdoor theatre opened in 1914 and the City Parks Department was formally established in 1919. In 1920, city leaders began a Halloween Celebration in hopes of reducing nuisance property damage and public safety dangers, and Anoka quickly became known as the Halloween Capital of the World.