The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-13
A Bazooits Makes an In
spection of the Hotel
Mitchell at Nevada,
Brief Sketch Of One Of the
Most Complete Hostleries
in Missouri.
A. Handsome Monument to the
energy and Enterprise
Of ita Owner.

Among the principal, If not the chief
want, yea more, the necessity and the de-
msnd of prosperous, growing city, is .
well appointed and we'll conducted hotel.
An establishment of this description is not
only necessary in the ordinary transaction
of business in the city in which il is located,
but il is demanded, that Q favorable i'm
preston may be made upon the stranger
within her gates, be he either on business
or pleasure bent. From It's hotels q town
or city receives, more favorable and COM
pIimentary, notice or more adverse eriti-
cIsm and even abuse, as the case may be,
than from any her sou.ce. The impress
sions thus received are impaired to those
with wnum The traveller comes In contact
and thus good or bad impression
is conveyed to the businass man seeking
location or TO the capitalist looking for
an Investment. These facts have always
been recngniz d and appreciated by the
enterprising citizens of Nevada, and by
none more ihan Capt. Harry Mitchell,
THE POPULAR CATERER,
Of the Gem City, who is 80 well and fav-
orsbly known to the travelling pubic and
wacse rane is q synonym for hospitality
and coed cheer.
The Captain has been engaged in the ho-
tel bGsine in Nevada, for the past eight
years, having moved 10 that city from Sc
daiis. where he was the popular proprietor
Oh the Iigeo house. First as landlord of
the Nevada House aud subsequently of the
lockwood House, He not only maintain
I'd a reputation as imam Who knows how
to KEEP hotel" but added much to the
grosth and material prosperity Of the
furnishing little city with whom he had al
lied his fortune.
The Gem City has ever kept firm and
lively step to the inspiring strains
OF the music of
PRCGRRSs AND PROSPERITY
and is to day, thanks to public spirited cit
liens, like Hsrry Mitchell, in the front rank
of the procession. Old fogies and unhappy
misses, who cause their wrists to ache BY
the tight grip they keep on their pocket
books, might have said, had they lived in
Nevada, "Oh, our hotels are good enough.
What is the use of INDUCING in such sin
full extravsgance?' Fortunately. however,
for the happiness aud prosperity of her
citizens, this spirit does not exist to any
extent in Nevada and certainly fluids no
Judgement in the breast of the genial and
and progressive Harry Mitchell At once
recognizing the practical benefits to accrue
to the city from . hotel commensurate
with her demands as an important
commercial center, be conceived the idea
of erecting such hostelrie, and lost no
time in putting his plans into execution.
The result is the
NEW HOTEL MITCHELL,
Al establishment so handsome and COM
plete in all its appointments, as to COM
pare with any hotel in the state,
outside of the metropolitan cities,
ami to cause its enterprising proprietor and
the good citizens of Nevada to feel o
thrill of exultant, but pardonable pride.
The new hotel is q handsome, substsn-
t;sl three story brick structure, 50xlS5 feet.
In point of architecture it is real orna-
meut to the city, and rejecting credit alike
q pon its designer and builder. IL is located
on the corner OF Cherry and Washington
streets, the main entrance being on the
former and the ladies entrance on the lat.
er nsmed stseets. The building contains
fifty large, airy ard comfortable sleeping
ROOMS, snd the house is newly and hand.
somely furnished throughout.
THE HANDSOME FURNITURE
in the sleeping rooms is worthy of especial
note, being Of ash and cherry and elegantly
finished. 1t was purchased from the Kent
Manufacturing company Of Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
On the first floor is located the Office,
cigar and billiard room, kitchen, dining
room and
THE SAMPLE ROOMS,
three in number. These rooms are furnished
with every convenience imaginable
and a glance at their complete appoint
ment, caused the festive drummer to
wreaIhe his hard featured COUNT ance In
the sunniest of smiles.
THE KITCHEN,
that inner and mysterious portion of the
hotel, is q model of neatness and convent.
euce, being furnished with an extensive
range and all other modern improvements.
THE DINING ROOM
where the numerous guests of the house,
have the wants of the inner man supplied,
in the tempting viands at the hands of an
efficient steward and ascorps OF courteous
walters, is handsome room, large, airy
and cheerful, ceilings handsomely decorat-
ed, and the walls adorned with handsome
works of art. Two of the large sample
rooms adjoining the dining room, are so
arranged that whenever it is desired the
portable portions can be removed and the
three rooms thrown into one spacious as
sembly or ball room.
THE PARLOR
is located on the second floor. It is
luxuriously carpeted, containing among
piana. The walls are ornsmentsd with foe
oil paintings, the most of which as we'll as
work OF Mrs. Mitchell, the accomplished
wife of the proprietor OF the house. Ad.
joining the parlor is handsome and cosy
retiring room for ladies.
Moaf of the aleenin0 rooms ara ronnacfad