The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1891-11-26
THE PEOPLES BANK
Completes its New Home and is now
CHARTERED therein and Ready for
Business on u Smooth Basis.

CHARTERED therein and Ready for
Business on Smooth Basis.
The Peoples Bank removed into
its new home last week, built on the
site of the old bank building de-
stroyed by fire last spring; and
though incomplete, busy men are fast
arranging and completing facilities
second to no banking house in the
northwest. In tact the building is
the most handsome, inside and out,
of any banking house northwest of
the twin cities. though certainly not
the largest.
The building is two stories high,
the foundation walls being composed
Of arch brick laid in Portland cement.
From foundation is used NIenomonee
sand mould red brick, the best in the
market, with an inside course of hol-
low tile brick to afford ventilation
and dryness inside the building. The
| first floor is laid of oak and finished
in two coats Of oil, while the upper
floor is laid of Georgia pine-both
floors being double. Is completed
down stairs in sycamore quarter
sawed in natural finish including
outside and inside doors. And the
counters and furniture being of
sycamore wood, made to order by
A. II. Andrews & Co. of Chicago,
this feature including two magnlfi-
cent sycamore mantel pieces with TIL
ing and finished to match, at once
presents Il most elegantly appointed
banking house. The north and east
front has plate glass windows more
than eight feet square, affording
perfect light throughout the business
portion of the house. In fact all the
windows in the building contain fine
plate glass. And pretty feature in
the construction is the fact that the
door and window caps are made of
red sand stone from Lake Superior,
while the door sills and steps are
made of Sioux Falls jasper. In the
front door cap is beautifully carved
L. L. French, 1891.
The second floor is divided into
three apartments, finished in gum
wood, natural color, oiled with
mantel in one room, finished in this
handsome wood and in every way
made to conform beautifully with the
rooms of this floor.
Judge w. S. Lauder will occupy
the large front room on the second
floor rs an office, which will indeed
make him superb quarters; while the
centre room on this floor will he
occupied by the Farmers Loan and
Trust Co. The rear room though
handsome, containing the mantel,
not yet having been leased.
Water pipes are laid all over the
building, affording fine water service
to every room therein.
| Thus, we find President French
and his banking force in the midst of
large business even yet surrounded
by mechanics putting the last touches
upon the inside of the buildings
furnishings and banking counters.
the force having been frozen out Of
the temporary quarters taken pend.
ing the completion of the new building.
Obviously, President French has
done himself proud in the erection
of such a building as this-including
the handsome furnishings, Il building
in which every man in Wahpeton
and in the county-for that matter,
will take pride. The officers of the
banking corporation are: President,
T. L. French; vice.president, w. E..
Purcell; cashier, w. d. Henry, with
Robert 1. Barber assistant, and Willie
Farnsworth all round hustler.
May success in the largest sense
attend this institution in it's new
home. as undoubtedly will be the
case. 1t may be depended upon that
every man connected with the house
will do his whole duty by the public
and bY the business.