The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
KANSAS NEWS.
Bel0it is Having Splendid
Building Boom.
Dozens of Fine Houses Are in
Process of Erection.
WHOLESALE MARKET.
Merchants Supply Much Of the
Adjacent Territory.
New Daily Paper Seems to Be in
Prosperous Way.

Beloit, Oct 23-Lutz Bros, commits
sion merchants of this place, have han
died since the opening of the season
over go car loads of Colorado and North
ern potatoes and cabbages, of which 40
car loads have been handled in the past
thirty days This firm is Beloit en-
terprise, having been engaged in trade
here for years. They supply much OF
the Missouri Pacific country west of Be
lott.
Modern residences have been built in
Beloit this season by H. C. AMMAN, J. L.
Burkhart, U. H. Branch. w. F. Kent
and w. E. Lang, at a cost of $500 to
$1,000 each Dozens of other residences
have been completed here this summer
and fall at a cost of from $1,000 to $1,000
each. The modern and finely finished
home of H c. Amman, erected at a cost
of not less than $1,000, is a beauty, its
design and finish inside and outside be-
ing perfect. Mr., Amman is one of the
largest and most successful business
men of the town.
The new court house for Mitchell
county is SO near completed that the
date for the celebration of the event
will take place November 26. 1t grows
prettier as the work nearS completion:
If there has been kick from anybody
on account of this or that way the work
has been performed or that by any
change it could be improved, no one has
heard it. Credit is given Cuthbert &
Sargent, the Topeka contractors, for
their efforts to give BelOit and Mitchell
county a court house they will never be
ashamed of.
Beloit's new daily publication, the Call,
is meeting with deserved favor. 1t goes
along with a good run of advertising,
showing that Beloit business men know
a good thing when they see it. Jones &
Chubbic, the publishers, promise their
patrons that the Daily Call has come to
stay.
John A. Nelson, of Topeka, Of the firm
of Nelson & Tulien, contractors and
builders, is here carefully superintend-
which they are building. Mr.. Nelson
has % men now on the pay rolls, and if
the weather continues good he will have
the structure under roof before
the 1st of January. next. Work was
commenced the church in October
1900, and during July and August his
men were laid off to go into the harvest
fields. Over 1000 cords of stone will be
used in the building, which has all been
furnished by the Mitchell county quar-
ries except the trimmings, each of the
granite columns, eight of them in the
interior of the building weigh about =
200 pounds. They came from Maine,
and are ornamented with the Bedford,
Indiana, carved capitals. Mr.. Nelson is
doing a splendid job, as many of the
subs tantial structures in Topeka which
this firm have built will attest. When
completed the Catholic church of Beloit
will cost about sos, 900.
No town in this section of Kansas has
grown more substantially during the
year than Beloit. Many other improve
ments, aggregating in the thousands of
dollars, include the additions to the grist
mill and electric light plant. The re-
modelling of the old Bank of Beloit build
ing and its enlargement, to be occupied
by the Bunch Drug Co. is a substantial
improvement, and when completed will
be occupied by one of the largest and
most attractive drug houses west of the
Missouri river. Many other improve
ments and building will be made this
winter and next year.