The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-03-13
GREATER OSKALOOSA
Notes From the Field in I'm
provements of the City.

Among the notable improvements
: that have been made in the business
rooms of the city this early in the
season is that at the 1. w. Clendenon
& Co.'S. shoe store, in the Lacey build
ing on High avenue west. The entire
room has been given a treatment of
paint and is now neat and very at
tractive and pretty with white and
gold, and prettier business room is
not to be found in the city. In ad-
dition TO this Mr.. Clendenonthas in
stalled a lot of new furniture such as
setees and chairs and these add great
ly to the appearance of the room. A
new idea is being carried out in the
store. A handsome library table is
placed at the front of the store and
upon this are placed the local papers
and the current Chicago dailies and
also the magazine literature of the
day. This is to the front of the store
and Immediately back are the seats
for the customers. Chairs are con-
venient and persons accompanying a
customer finds it an easy matter to
wait while the customer is waited up
on or fitted with pair of shoes. Or
If all of the clerks are engaged for
the moment waiting for your turn is
no longer an annoyance. The APP
pearance of the store Is made more
than usually attractive by the addi-
ton of PAINS placed here and there
about the store. The improvements
have been in progress for some little
time and the cost of the same will
foot up a couple of hundred dollars.
Merchants never lose anything by
making their business places attract
i've and handsome places of trade and
the Oskaloosa merchants are away up
at the front in this respect
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LIMA Ellis has commenced the
erection of a large two-story house on
Fifth avenue west just west of his
Market street home place. The house
is to contain nine rooms and is to be
modern in every respect with furnace
made heat and hot and cold water
with bath room and closets, and large
basement and all that sort of thing.
The foundation has been completed
and the carpenters are at work upon
the frame and are making things
lively. Henry j. Parker has charge
of the work and he will get the place
under roof in short order. The place
will be worth between So, 800 and s4,-
OC0, AS soon as the work upon this
place is completed Mr.. Parker will
commence the remodeling of his
home place on Market street. He
will make the house full two stories
with all advantage that modern con-
venience can give. He will add about
elk rooms to the house and the cost
will go into the cash to the extent of
a couple of thousand dollars.
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Weldon & Symons have been max
ing some very notable Improvements
in their drug store at the corner of
High avenue and First street. The
interior of the store presents quite
changed appearance from the former
arrangement of the store fixtures.
The office and the prescription cases
have been removed to the west side
of the store in place of across the end
as before. This gives opportunity of
having the wall paper room in the
rear of the prescription department
in place of the samples being shown
in the front of the store as before. A
west door gives a fine light that
makes the room the equal of any in
the city for the purpose of showing
the stock. Other improvements are
to follow in the course of few weeks
and these will completely transform
the store. A new soda fountain OF
the Twentieth Century make will be
installed at the front of the store that
will attract the attention of every one.
Oskaloosa business houses are moth
ing il not progressive these days and
the Weldon & symons firm are away
out of the skirmish line.
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