Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-09
RETROSPECTIVE
How the Year Has Told In
Ottunwa.
Embracing her Improvements
and q Summing up Of her
Commercial Transactions

Embracing her Improvement
and q Summing up Of her
Commercial Transactions
A Year Of Floods and Partial Fail
ure Of Crops, and a close None
l Market, and Yet Ottun,ava ha
Made Grand March Forward.
An unusual amount of bushes
consequent upon change Of propri
etors in the COURIER, has delayed tn
compilation of improvements &C., TO
the year past in Ottumwa. As 1t il
the time for its preparation is yer,
brief in order to publish 1t in on
next Weekly.
i We feel It ought not to be lonRe
delayed and therefore we shall under
take to do the very best we can, fear
ling, however, that the shortness o
time may cause omissions unavoida
BILE. Our Iowa readers al know tina
we were 80 scourged with wet wealth
er last season, that our crops were sc
riously cut short and hence hare
times and q lesscning Of improve
ments and business. We have beef
greatly surprised, however, since ",
commenced gathering the statistics
that there has been 20 much none,
depended in improvements and 81
prosperous q year of business.
BUILDINGS ERECTED, BUSINESS ETC.
| Kinsey Jordan, building 1913.
two stories high, double porcl
around one end and one side, lowe,
story used for wash house, Woo
house and other purposes. The up
per story Is divided into two room
la club room and bed room. TIL,
cost was $1,000.
| p. g. Ballingall, repairing and en-
larging Depot Hotel and widening
| platforms and sidewalks, 500.
i The Farmers Mills" G. w. Bow
en- & Co., commenced business imme
diately after harvest. Business bet
ter, perhaps. than it has been for sew
eral years. Run principally ON mer
chant work. Wheat generally from
Kansas and Northwestern Iowa
Their brands Of -four are the mos
celebrated in market.
| II. G. Chambers, dwelling on Ma
pie avenue, Mast's addition, one sto
ry 30x16 with L in front l6x18. Cos
$7OO.
DR.. L. f. Rogers, dwelling on Ma
pie avenue, Mast's addition, stor,
and half. Cost 500.
i Mrs. Coffin, repairing frame dwell
ling on Second street, $500.
| Edward Everett, dwelling on Cour
street, 5000.
J. F. Parker, dwelling on Upper
Court street, $500.
| p. Hirschauer frame boiler sho]
3Ox6O, corner Main and Marion
streets, cost $500: burned July LIST
rebuilt of brick, 2sx5O, in July. Cos
$500.
| A. Roemer, shop on Court street
$50.
Nick Bakers brick business house o,
Main street, 2Ox70 feet, two stories
high, cost $27OO.
Nick Bakers grain house frame
20x6O, on Samantha street, cost $500
Nick Bakers repairs on Colleg,
street property, 5000.
P. Hicklin, Blakes addition, raising
house one-half story and building ad
dition, $500.
Fred Roseen, cottage in Blakes ad
dition, cost 500.
/ W. B. Armstrong, two story bricl
business house, metal cornice, 4x6O
on Main street, cost $4,000.
j. ii. Norton, Second street, be
tween Cass & Mclean streets, two
story dwelling, 35x45, cost $4,000.
North Missouri railroad, oil anl
sand house and repairs on depot
$3.50.
J. Murphy, brick business hous,
two stories high on Main street, 22x6O
cost $500.
| P. C. Daum, brick business hous'
two stories high on Main street, cos
$1,000.
| s. H. Worcester, two story bricl
business house on Main street, 26x7O
cost $500.
w. r. Daum, addition to dwelling
$3.50.
A. f. Moore, addition to DWELLING
$3.50.
Wellington Stevenson's cottage
Majors addition, $500.
| Colored Baptist Church on Center
Avenue, 5000.
4 DIR. c. c. Warden, head of Eas
Court street, improvements on dwell
ing including steam heating apparat
US, barn, &C., $1,000.
Jacob Chiffon, brick dwelling OF
Court street two stories high, eigh
rooms modern style, cost $4,000.
/ j. ID. Ladd, improvements on pack
ing house, 500.
Ottumwa Independent School Dis
trict, improvements on Douglass
school house-addition two room
and furniture, $500.
| Haxtun steam heating apparatus il
Adams school house, $1,000.
Improvements on Lincoln schoo
property, $3.50.
W. E. Chambers stable, $500.
| J. L. Chambers, barn on McLeal
street, $500.
Charles F. Blake, improvements Of
dwelling on Second street at head o
Union street, $500.
Conn Lewis, improvements on Op
era House, opening new bushes
room on Commercial street, 81 COX
including opening Of Commercia
street, $4,000.
Il Soap Factory in lower part of tn
city, addition to main building, 24x8
feet, $500.
Harvard Base Ball Company, fene
ing ground, amphitheatre and othe
necessary buildings, $500.
P. G. Ballingall, improvements o.
Ballingall House, water pipes an
.. out house in connection with Hote
&c, $500.
johnson Ruff1er Company and Oh
tumwa Iron Works, new boiler roor
Office and other improvements in ms
chinery, &C., $1,000.
Il w. I. Major, to property on lot NJ
los, 500.
George A. Brown, on North FIT
street two story frame dwelling met
al aud single roof complete, cos
$500.
: George A. Brown, dwelling o
( Fifth street, 26x36 feet, frame, COZ
$1,000.
George A. Brown, dwelling 25x2I
ON Albany street, frame, cost $500.
A. C. & Jas. Leighton, two stor
dwelling on Union street, complete
first part Of 1877, double tenemen
81, 500.
Seth Richards, two story brick bui
mess house, 20x70. en- Main stree
Ecost 5000.
B. j. Boulton. betterments to bnild
ings on bridge street, 500.
!, A. G. Leighton, frame dwelling o
I the hill between Cass and McLea
. street above Fourth, including bari
100.
8. Parks, improvements on corne
of Market and Second streets, $50.
s. Lilburn, barn and improvement
: on dwelling on Fourth street, $l,lO
John Jeps0n, two story tram
dwelling on Main street above Bel
ton, 3Ox32 with L, cost $l,1OO.
j. L. Taylor, to extension and in
!. proyements ON building, $500.
w. B. Bonnifield, Main street, brio
!. business house 22x80, two stories higl
cost $4,000.
y First National Rank imnrOyemen