The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-20
THE MAKING OE A CITY
improvements That Are Pushing
Oskaloosa to the Front.

city are somewhat less than they
were last year, which, by the way was
an exceptional year, but Oskaloosa is
still building The slack season" is
thought to be on account Of the very
high prices of material and labor.
Many new houses are going up and
considerable activity is noted in the
business part Of the town. The fact
that Oskaloosa is having more build
ing this season than any other town
Of its size in the entire state speaks
volumes for it's worth as city of the
best class.
Second Ward.
One Of the best improvements of
the season is the remodeling of the
Golden Eagle store of the oppenhei-
-Beeson-Morse Company, now in
progress. Several thousand dollars
worth of changes and alterations are
to be made.
The finishing work on the Carnegie
library on South Market street is
getting we'll along and the building
will very soon be turned over to the
building committee. The wood work
is almost done and there will be only
the placing Of the furniture and the
cases and the laying of the tile floors
to make the building and the prop
erty complete. Some little time will
pass, however, before the building
will be given to the public, as the IL
brarian has a task of no mean pro-
portions in classifying the books and
to get them in place. Superintend-
ent John Byers has done excellent
work on the building for Contractor
Geier and his services are now de-
sired by the contractor on a new
school building at Malcolm. Mr.. By
ers will go to that place as soon as
he completes the building of q new
house for Taylor Jackson on A ave-
nue. west, which he will commence
Immediately. ~.
Good work has been done on the
addition AMI improvements to the Ley
Brothers furniture factory on High
avenue west The added convent
ence and room means the employ
me Mt Of more men and machinery
by the company and the consequent
turning out Of moro goods.
S. B. Sinclair ha completed the
Improvement to his planning mill and
carpenter shop on South c street and
now has q lot of new woodworking
machinery on the road and some
pieces in the shop ready to be set up.
The entire shop has been overhauled
and the added facilities of the place
for fine work will mean steady work
for d number of additional employees.
G. c. Oryis has made substantial
Improvement on his home, 927 South
d street, by the addition Of new
roof .... ...
W. S. Tredick, 618 South A street,
has built a new barn on his property
recently,
Bun England has purchased the old
church of the Free Methodist organ
ization and is tearing the same down
for the lumber that is to be saved
from the ancient building. The house
was recently occupied by the Second
Baptist church, colored. The organ
ization was unable to make the neces-
sary payments on the building and
the property reverted to the Method
lists. Mr.. England will utilize the ma
teriaI saved in making an addition
to his residence place on the lot
south Of the church.
A Vyvi1IarI ig orootinn n nOcv civ
room, story and half residence on
Eighth avenue near Market street.
1t has a basement and some convent
ences. The owner is directing the
work, assisted by force Of compe-
tent workmen. f.....
Andy Stanton has commenced the
erection Of a fve-room cottage resi-
dence on South B street near the 10
cation Of his other properties. John
Mickey has the contract for the build
ing Of the place. These two new res
licences going up in the same locality
make things lively for this part CT the
ward. .-- ,.... ......
ALI @. Wooster Is making a big I'm
provcmcnt on his home, 400 South 4
street. He has built story and a
half addition on the south side Of the
house, adding five rooms. Consider
able remodeing has been done and a
new porch has been built. The Gel
lar has been enlarged and now ex-
tends under the whole house. The
new addition is 16x18 feet and besides
making much moro room adds greatly
to the appearance Of tho place.
The Frank Glaze new home on
South Market is very near completion
and is one of the handsomest and
cosiest residence places to be found
in the city.