Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
r. N. McElroy Adds a New Departs
ment to His Business.
HAS FITTED UP THE SECOND FLOOR
Five Single Rooms and One Double
Room Furnished for Transient
Guests Who Are Regular Patrons of
the Restaurant.


come synonymous with everything
that is appetizing to eat by reason of
he excellent reputation attained in
the past years by McElroy's chop
mouse and restaurant, has recently
made an addition to his already large
business by furnishing and fitting up
number Of guest rooms on the sec
ond floor over his present place of bus
mess at 100 and Ill South Market
street, for the use of the travelling
public and transients.
Ihere are many people who do not
care to go to hotels, especially those
who come to the city from the country
and nearby towns for day or two's
visit. They prefer to get room and
eat when they feel like it, and it is for
these people that Mr. McElroy has
provided. The second floor over the
restaurant has been divided off and
fitted up in a handsome manner, max
ing five single rooms and one double
room. After the interior mad been new
ly papered and painted Mr.. McElroy
proceeded to furnish them in the best
possible manner. Fine carpets were
placed on the floors, iron beds with
Turkish box springs, dressers and
chairs We're placed in the rooms, al
together furnishing them as fine as
those in any first class hotel Combin-
alton electric light and gas fixtures
are in each room, and the linen used
will be changed daily. In fact, Mr..
McElroy has determined that his guest
rooms shall be as satisfactory and
pleasing to his many customers as the
cuisine of his excellent restaurant,
with which everyone is familiar.
These rooms will be assigned to guests
at any time and at the price of fifty
cents per occupant, the guests to apply
for them during the day or night to the
clerk in the restaurant below.
There is no doubt that Mr.. NOEL
roy's guest rooms will become popular
and in demand among his many friends
and patrons. His restaurant and reg
ular meal service, which he opened
about a year ago in connection with
his chop house, at the same time NOV
ing to larger quarters at 100 and Ill
South Market street, have certainly
proven a success and great accom-
mediation to the many people who take
their meals in the city, either rart or
all of them. Since the restaurant has
been opened the trade has largely in
creased, and the regular dinner feature
at noon has been especially appreciat-
ed and largely patronized by the bus
mess men, clerks and others who can.
not take time to go to their homes for
dinner. The homelike atmosphere of
the place, it's cleanliness, excellent
cooking and service have made it a
place much sought after and literally
patronized. The chop house or short
order department should not be forgot
ten in this connection. 1t was with
this department that Mr.. McElroy
built up his present business. Lunches
between meals at all hours either day
or night, is the feature here. 1t is a
place where one can go at any time and
have any desired dish prepared to or
der promptly. There are many people
who do not eat their meals regularly
and at the McElroy chop house you
can get the best of everything, at any
time, cooked to order in the most ap-
petizing way.
1t can be said without fear of con
|tradiction that Mr.. McElroy's establish
lishment is by far the most popular
and largest .patronized institution of
its kind in the city, and it has reached
this standard by careful attention to
the wants of it's patrons, under the
personal supervision of Mr.. McElroy,
and by giving first class service in
every particular. Mr.. McElroy prom
ises the same attention to details and
comfort in the management of the new
guest rooms and they will no doubt
become fully as much in demand in a
short time.