The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-20

new Lacey hotel on South Market
street and work upon the place will
begin soon
w. Esgen has commenced excavat-
ing the foundation places for three
new cottages on his lots on G. street
between High and First avenues.
The cottages will be FIVE and six
room dwellings and with some of the
modern conveniences, closets, cellars,
etc. The properties will have value
of about $1,000. 90 each. Lou Faulken-
bury will have charge OF the construc-
ton.
Chas. McGlumphy is building a
small cottage home on South Second
street south of the Pendray lots. 1t
is cosy little place of five rooms
and basement and will be worth
about s1200.00
Mrs. Ryan who purchased the Mrs.
8. A. Rice corner at the intersection
of Third street and Third avenue has
the foundation in for one of the two
cottage homes that are to be erected
at this corner. The old house that
has stood on this corner for go many
years has been torn down and in its
stead there will be erected a hand
some new two story residence prop
erty that will cost in the neighbor-
hood of S3500.00 or more.
East on this same avenue, at the
corner of Sixth street, w. E. Richie
has commenced operations upon a
cottage pace of eight rooms and
modern conveniences that will be
fixed up for rent. 1t will cost couple
of thousand of dollars and will add
greatly to that part of the city and
the general excellence of this slightly
avenue.
Mr.. Richie has nearly completed
couple of new houses of somewhat
modest dimensions south of the Rock
Island tracks fronting on 7th Ave.
II. A. Hoover has removed the old
house from his Third avenue lot near
Fifth street and will in it's place erect
seven room residence property
that will be another creditahle addi
ton to the avenue, The house that
stood upon the lot is being removed
to South Second street where 1t will
be repaired and rebuilt into better
ie'idence place,
Work has bsen commenced on the
foundation work for the new cottage
for the Montgomery sisters that is to
be erected on South First street.
James Moore has erected three
cosy cottages.on South Second street
just north of Rock Island avenue.
They are almost completed and it is
understood that all of them have
| been rented.
Herbert Lamb has made arrange
ments to erect cosy cottage home
on First avenue near the site of his
present residence. The new place
will be worth something like $1,000 90.
Lou Mccall will erect residence
at the corner of Eighth avenue and
F street, commencing operations in
, the near future.
Mrs. Nettie E. Green has contract
, ed for pretty cottage home to be
! erected at the corner of Ninth avenue
, and F street. 1t will contain six
, rooms, modern conveniences and
, cost in the neighborhood of 81 800.
Work has been commenced on John
Hiatt's new place on North Third
street.
Another pretentious cottage is to
! be put up at the corner of Ninth
avenue and F street in Green's ad-
dition by Mrs. Frank Gilmore. 1t
will be a dwelling of six or seven
rooms and will be- valued at about
81 500.
Q. P. Sipes has made arrangements
for the remodeling of two rentable
places that will appear in Crookham's
and Gilmore's, additions south of the
Rock leland tracks.
Tom Long will remodel the old house
that stood on the Benjamin Glaze
corner and make another occupied in
this part of town. The work OF pre-
pairing the corner for couple of new
residences has been.commenced.
Work upon the excavation for the
new two STORY brick business build
ing for A. A. Matthews and the Os
kaloosa Drug 90. is progressing
rapidly. 1t will be necessary to under
pin the wall of the Higlin building on
the west as the foundation for the
new place will be much deeper than
that of the Higlin place.
The Elks home has been plastered
and will soon be in the hands of the
carpenters for refitting and finishing.
1t will be a handsome place when
completed.
All of the work is but little sug-
gestion of what is to be done in the
city before the close of the season.
Two things in the treatment Of
nasal catarrh are now fully understoo