Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-12
Chester Pointers.

VIC suoseaAGial progress the village
has made since our visit there in Feb
ruary, manifest in all parts of the
town. j. +. Nichols is building an
elegant residence in modern style,
which is nearly completed, and when
done will compare favorably with any
in this city. g. Essington is putting
up a good sized cottage nearly en-
closed. Bradrind g. Marshall have
built goodsized building for their
line of machinery and farm imple-
tnents. H. B. Nichols is building q
residence which will be occupied by
Louis l.. Iaun the cashier OF Chester,s
newly organized bank as soon as it is
completed.
The Chester House is having an ad
dition built on the north side 24xe4,
Two full stories in height. The work
is being done by the Lents and An
drew Halliday, an assurance that it
will be we'll done, The House in it's
meals and the attention given to its
guests has a good reputation that it
has we'll earned.
jerome Roper has the foundation
in for store which he will occupy as
soon completed. 1t will be 24x4S. one
story. Since our visit in February he
has put up a building of the same
size which Is occupied by meat
market and with his present stock of
| goods.
Bradley Chapin has had good
substantial foundation put in by Mr..
Thos. Conklin. for the new bank
building. 1t is 22X40 and will be two
stories, the upper one being for a
Masonic hall and for other societies
organized there. G. G. Lake and
lver Zacharus are doing the work
above the foundation.
| Charles Dennis has built this spring
tasty residence on the south side.
which he now occupies.
The contract for the new school
building has been awarded to Frank
Kingsley and George Rutherford at
$4,000. The structure will be 2Sx5O.
posts "a feet. 1t is designed for two
departments, will have basement.
the school board contemplating heat
lug with o furnace, though stoves
may be used the first year. The build
is to be ready for the district the LIST
of September.
Nichols Il Hale are putting in a
stock of pumps and windmills and
Will be on the street north from Eek
STEMS drug store. They have the
reputation of having the best goods
and underselling other dealers and
are building up good trade.
w. A. Murry the new man in the
harness trade has sold twenty-six set
OF double harnesses this spring and
seems to have worked up a good
trade. He carries good stock of all
that pertains to the trade.
The Geraty & Terry Company
have opened very fine and
complete stock of clothing and gents
furnishings at Chester, with L. e.
Glass as manager. This very desir.
able enterprise for the people who
frequent Chester, as a market place
the growing Importance of which
may be partially seen through the
article elsewhere showing shipments
of grain, seeds, hogs, cattle, and
butter. and considering the large
number of farmers who must neces.
sarlly make that place their market
town from its volume of business
which shows it to De, judged by this,
the second place in the county.
The shipments of grain from the
station has been for H. b. Nichols,
eighty-one carloads, all but one car
going to e. 2. Bacon g. Co., OF Mil
llee. From the Hunting Elevator, at
Chester, 10 cars of grain and seeds
have been shipped making total of
one hundred and sixty cars upon
which the railroad has received as
freight $40 car, making and aggre-
gate of $6,400. The shipments of
cattle and hogs has been three
hundred and fifty-four cars, an indi-
cation that Carter & Courtney and
Jerome Roper have done consider
able hustling among the farmers.
The average railroad freight paid on
these cars has been $40, making a
total paid on stock shipped out, Sta
100. The shipment of butter FROM
the creamery amounts to about $4,000
pounds week, end as the Saratoga
creamery will ship from Chester will
swell the quantity considerably.
The shipments to Chester amounts
to about $1,000 a month for freight
charges, beside 1GS cars of lumber
shipped in the freight on that averag-
ing about $32 per car, an aggregate
of $5,376, beside what the railroad
is paid from passenger fare from
Chester it receives from the place for
the business done $4a, a,530, without
counting the freight on butter
shipments.
Frank Hansen, the Chester Station
Agent, is a gentleman in whom the
10. M. y st. p, may take pride, as do