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

Embracing her Improvement
and Summing up Of her
Commercial Transactions
A Year Of Floods and Partial Fail
ure of Crops, and close None,
| Market, and Yet Ottumwa ha.
Made Grand March T'or,card.
| An unusual amount of business
consequent upon change Of propri.
etors in the COURIER, has delayed thu
compilation of Improvements &C., fol
the year past in Ottumwa. As 1t 10
the time for its preparation is very
brief in order to publish it in oul
next Weekly.
We feel It ought not to be longer
delayed and therefore we shall under.
take to do the very best we can, fear.
ing, however, that the shortness Of
time may cause omissions unavoida.
BILE. Our Iowa readers oil know tina,
we were 80 scourged with wet wealth.
er last season, that our crops were Sc.
riously cut short and hence hard
times and lessening Of improve.
ments and business. We have beer
greatly surprised, however, since We
commenced gathering the statistics
that there has been 90 much money
expended in improvements and 90
prosperous year of business.
BUILDINGS ERECTED, BUSINESS ETC.
Kinsey Jordan, building l6x3H
two stories high, double porch
around one end and one side, lower
story used for wash house, wood
house and other purposes. The up.
per story is divided into two rooms
Is club room and bed room. The
cost was $1,000.
P. q. Ballingall, repairing and en-.
larging Depot Hotel and widening
platforms and sidewalks, 500.
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 most
celebrated in market.
II. G. Chambers, dwelling on Ma.
pie avenue, Mast's addition, one sto.
~ 30x16 with l. in front 16x1S. Cost
500.
DR.. L. E. Rogers, dwelling on Ma.
pie avenue, Mast's addition, story
and half. Cost 500.
Mrs. Coffin, repairing frame dwell.
ling on Second street, $500.
Edward Everett, dwelling on Court
street, 5000.
j. F. Parker, dwelling on Upper
Court street, $500.
p. Hirschauer frame boiler shop
30xbO, corner Main and Marion
streets, cost $500: burned July LIST,
rebuilt OF brick, 2sx5O, in July. Cost
$500.
A. Roemer, shop on Court street,
$50.
Nick Bakers brick business house on
Main street, 20x7O feet, two stories
high, cost $27O0.
Nick Bakers grain house frame,
20x6O, on Samantha street, cost $500.
Nick Bakers repairs on College
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 brick
business house, metal cornice, AxGO,
on Main street, cost $4,000.
j. II. Norton, Second street, be.
tween Cass & Mclean streets, two
story dwelling, 35x45, cost $1,000.
North Missouri railroad, oil and
sand house and repairs on depot,
$3.50.
j. Murphy, brick business house
two stories high on Main street, 22x6O,
cost 81, 800.
p. C. Daum, brick business house
two stories high on Main street, cost
$1,000.
s. II. Worcester, two story brick
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.
DR.. c. C. Warden, head of East
Court street, improvements on dwell
ing including steam heating apparat.
us, barn, &C., $1,000.
Jacob Chiffon, brick dwelling on
Court street two stories high, eight
rooms modern style, cost &, LOCO.
j. d. Ladd, improvements on pack.
ing house, 500.
Ottumwa Independent School Dis.
trict, improvements on Douglass
school house-addition two rooms
and furniture, $500.
Haxtun steam heating apparatus in
Adams school house, 5000.
Improvements on Lincoln school
property, $3.50.
W. E. Chambers stable, $500.
j. L. Chambers, barn on Mclean
street, $500.
Charles F. Blake, improvements on
dwelling on Second street at head OF
Union street, $500.
Conn Lewis, improvements on OPP.
era House, opening new business
room on Commercial street, $1,000
including opening of Commercial
street, $4,000.
Soap Factory in lower part of the
city, addition to main building, 24x8(
feet, $500.
Harvard Base Ball Company, fenc
ing ground, amphitheatre and Other
necessary buildings, $500.
P. G. Ballingall, Improvements or
Ballingall House, water pipes anG
out house in connection with Hotel
Sc, $500.
johnson Ruffler Company and OF
Itumwa Iron Works, new boiler room
Office and other improvements in ma
chinery, SC, $1,000.
/ w. 7. Major, to property on lot No
los, 500.
George A. Brown, on North FIFTH
street two story frame dwelling met
al aud shingle roof complete, cos
$500.
George A. Brown, dwelling OF
Fifth street, 26x36 feet, frame, cos
$1,000.
George A. Brown, dwelling 25x25
ON Albany street, frame, cost $500.
| A. G. & Jas. Leighton, two story
dwelling on Union street, completed
first part Of 1877, double tenement
$500.
Seth Richards, two story brick bus
mess house, 20x7O. en- Main street
cost $4,000.
B. j. Boulton. betterments to build
ings on bridge street, 500.
4 A. c. Leighton, frame dwelling OF
the hill between Cass and McLeal
street above Fourth, including barn
81, 100.
i s. Parks, improvements on corne
of Market and Second streets, $S6.
s. Lilburn, barn and improvement
on dwelling on Fourth street, 81, l0C
Il John Jeps0n, two story tram
dwelling on Main street above Ben
ton, 3Ox32 with L, cost 81, 100.
| j. L. Taylor, to extension and i'm
proyements on building, $500.
w. B. Bonnifield, Main street, bricl
business house 22xa0, two stories high
cost $1,000,