Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
A Story and a Half Beer
Storage Building and
Stable.
ON LOT ADJOINING DEPOT
This Is the Immediate Prospect for
ottumwa-Property of the People to
the Value of 100000 to Be Ruthless
ly Ruined-WilI = umwa Stand III


The Courier is pl g z to announce
authoritatively that =. plans have
been received in this 2. 2 for the erec-
ton by the Anheuse, III Brewing
Association of a cold $, 3 establish
ment on the lot opposite Union de-
poi, lat the corner of Main - Washing
ton streets, and which lot Immediately
adjoins the plot of ground that was
given to the people of Ottumwa for
park purposes by the late P. G.. Bal
lingall. We are informed by the archi-
tect that the building to be erected is
to be a STORY AND A HALF structure,
55x8S feet, with deep basement and
that there is to be A STABLE FOR
HORSES ON THE FIRST FLOOR.
There will be business Office and the
building will be used for beer storage.
There are times in the history of
communities just as there are periods
In the lives of individuals that are cru
cial, and fraught with the greatest i'm
portance as to the future of said COM
munities and individuals. Apparently
trifling circumstances decided in the
wrong way or conditions permitted to
exist without protest or change, often
work irretrievable injury to the peo-
pie of a community The old saying,
what is eyerybody's business, is no.
body's business seems unfortunately
to be too true so far as it applies to
municipal affairs and those things
which will be of advantage to all the peo-
pie. The people of Ottumwa today own a
magnificent block of ground between
Main street and the Union depot
This ground is dedicated to all the
people for public purposes, and can be
made into park and flower garden
that will be of inestimable benefit and
untold pleasure to increasing thous-
ands upon thousands of people as the
years pass by. This property is worth
as it stands today, almost, if not quite
100000. Every man. woman and
child in Ottumwa has at least SIS per-
sonal interest in this piece of ground.
Hence the statement which we now
make that the value of this property
is in eminent danger of being almost
entirely destroyed, so far as the people
in general are concerned, should
and we believe will attract the inter-
ested attention of the public. If this
property belonged to individuals no
possible effort would be spared within
the limit of law to save it from practi-
cal confiscation. In this case the peo-
pie are about to see their property
ruthlessly, brutally and everlastingly
destroyed under the juggernaut wheels
of beer, bottles and booze.
The Anheuser-B Busch Brewing Asso.
ground sSx15O feet adjoining the lot
owned by the public and located at the
corner of Main and Washington
streets. When this corporation pur-
chased this lot little over year ago,
the announcement was made that OF
tumwa was to see erected thereon a
magnificent new hotel, in connection
with such cold storage and beer bot
tling establishment as was necessary
to handle the traffic of the business of
the Anheuser people In OttumWa. AT
that time protest went up and two
wealthy citizens of Ottumwa agreed to
advance sufficient money to repurchase
this lot from the Anheuser-Busch
people and hold it for park purposes,
and thus relieve the brewery company
from any loss on their investment.
This offer was refused, the Anheuser
brewery making a counter proposition
to the effect that they should be will
ling to exchange their present holding
for piece Of ground on the east side