Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-15
RISES FROM ASHES
Eddyville People Building on
Burned District,
MANY IMPROVEMENTS UNDER WAY

Business Buildings Will Be Construct
ed of Brick-Many Residences Un
Z der mplation-Electric Light
( Plant Will Be Welcome Addition.
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Eddyville, April 12.-(SpeciaD-
From present indications the building
boom which struck Eddyville afte,
the two fires of last summer will not
relapse to any apparent extent this
season. Aside from the electric light
plant which will be installed here, the
coming autumn will see the compile
iop of at least four or five store
buildings and an equal number of
residences. Although the cost of 6
few of these improvements has not
been fully decided upon, it is safe to
say that, should all decide to build
who are thinking earnestly of doing
sd the amount will reach $4,000.
u Will Be Substantial.
All Of the business blocks will con-
form to the fire ordinance and will be
built Of brick, except that stone will
be substituted for brick in part of one
bnilding. 1t is a noticeable fact that
all the buildings, with perhaps one ex-
ception, will be one story high, the
people who are making the improve
ments probably thinking that Eddy
willie has suficiency of upstairs Of
fee rooms. BY autumn there will be
probably a solid half block of brick
buildings on the first burned district,
so that it will be entirely rebuilt. All
of these, including those which were
erected last summer and fall, will be
only one story in height. Business
improvements will be as follows:
Business Houses.
Grant Cowley, one-story store build
ing, 22x66 feet in size, on the, second
dot east of the postoffice, which Mr..
CoWley purchased of the S. Stroud
heirs some months ago. Front and
back will be of stone and walls of
brick. The contract for the stone
work has been let. Excavations for
cellar are now being made. The build
ing will be completed about July l.
and will cost Mr.. Cowley about 50 900
will be occupied by w. S. Shinn, who
moved from Abba to the ]. S. Oldham
residence on South Third street re-
Gently. The old frame building which
was located on Mr.. Cowley's lot and
occupied as a shoe repair shop, has
been moved to lot of Roy Lofferty's,
near the marble works.
J. Harper & Co. will erect a fine
one-story brick building, 32x1OO feet
in size, on lots purchased last autumn
of ]. J. Roberts and lying just across
the alley east of the H. G. True block
in the burned district The contract
has not yet been let, but eXcavating
will probably begin Monday. 1t will
be completed about August 1 and will
cost about $4,000. This building will
have a double front and may alst
have balcony. On it's completion the
firm will move from their present loca
ton in the L. A. Rowe buildings, {
block further west, to their new
block.
Mrs. Agnes Cawley, one-story brick
store building, size 22x66, on her lot
gust across the alley east of the post
office, and adjoining the Cowley i'm,
provements on the west. Excavations
will begin soon and the building will
E be completed about July 1; will cost
6 about $1,000. This building will be
occupied by Hawke & Evans. The
frame building on this lot will be riz
ed.
B. B. Heki is thinking strongly OF
erecting one-story brick building
aSx16 feet in size, on his lot on the
burned district. Should Mr.. Heki de
eide to Build he will endeavor to com
plete the same by July 1, and the
building will be for lease
Mr.. Ramsey of Ottumwa holds 6
fwenty-day option on the two lots of
nlNr T.ofp vi nct {IN ~
Walnut and North Third streets, in
the second burned district This op
kion closes April 20, and should MI
Ramsey decide to close the deal h
will erect double brick building 44X6
feet in dimensions on these lots
Work would begin at once and woul,
be completed about July 1, and same
would be built, to lease.
THE city council holds an indefinite
option on a lot belonging to John M
Fish, between the old @Star" mill an,
the c., R. i. & P. railway, and jus
+ south of the c.. R. l. & p depot, and
4 the new electric light plant may be
I located there although the council has
I another location in view
n Residences.
All of the residences being built ant
4 to be built here during the coming
summer will be of frame Residence
I improvements now being made and tt
E be made will aggregate between 81,
Il boo and $4,000, and are as follows:
Frank Heard, residence near the end
of South Third street, now in course
of construction. Will be 26x30, one
and one-half stories high, and viii
cost about $780,
Mayor c. L. Funk, residence nov
under course of construction. Locat
ed on north Fourth street, on lot pur
chased some weeks ago of H. j. Wing
adjoining the mayors present home
will be two stories in height, will con
tain seven rooms, will be handsomely
designed, similar to the M. E. parsop
age, and will be completed in about
two months at a cost of about $1,400.
Clyde A. Riggs, one and one-hal
n story, six-room residence on NORTH
Il Third street, on lot purchased sons
time ago, and known as the Mrs A
El;Templeton property, located across