Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-06
Vote Unanimously Friday Night
to Purchase Abell Lots For
Building
WILL ERECT $4,000 BUILDING
East Main Street Site Promises to Have
Modern Three Story Building Before
Snow Flies - Building Committees
Report Adopted, and Finance Com
mittee Named.

One of the most magnificent I'M
provements in the building line to be
done this summer was definitely as
sured Friday night, when Marshall
lodge, No. 312, B. P. o. E., unani-
mously voted to buy the Abel property
on East Main street between Second
and Third avenues, on which will be
erected a fine modern three-story
building, to be used as q club house
and lodge home.
On May Is the lodge appointed
committee composed of Mayor o. L.
Ingledue, Charles j. McCombs, and
Marion F. Gard, to investigate prop
osition to purchase property and build
a lodge home. This committee has
taken options on several building sites,
as well as properties that could be pur-
chased and remodeled into quarters
suitable for lodge purposes. and made
its report Friday night. recommending
the Abel site. That there was not
dissenting vote on the favorable adop.
ton of the report, indicates the senti-
ment Of the lodge in endorsing the
business judgment of the committee.
Buys Land Cheap.
That the committee, in securing Its
option from B. T. Byrnes, of Moscow,
Idaho, for the old Abel property, made
a good deal, Is shown from the fact
that the lodge pays for the six business
lots, Main street frontage Of 100 feet
and $50 feet deep, the sum Of $3.50.
In addition the commission Of 800 is
tackled to the total cost, but off of the
total will come between $400 and $500
that the lodge will doubtless realize
from the sale Of the present buildings
on the land. The deal was closed by
wire at 10 O'clock Friday night, or
the hour set for the option to expire.
This same land, which adjodns the
Let's, Fletcher property on the east,
and extends to the alley, was held at
$4,000 ten years ago, when the Let's.
Fletcher Company purchased sixty feet
Of the land, on the Second avenue cor
ner, for $1,000. The property that the
Elks have acquired is estimated by
men of good judgment to be easily
worth $4,000, in comparison to the
way property is selling in Marshall
town at the present time.
Will Build This Summer.
The work Of the committee on build
ing did not end with the adoption OF
it's report on the land purchase Friday
night. The committee will continue in
charge of the active work Of building,
which will commence just as soon as
Is possible. A finance committee will
go to work at once to get the money
of stock subscriptions In sight, and
when the sum of $4,000 is subscribed
ground will be broken and the building
begun. The lodge paid cash for its
land, and two members Of the lodge
have already agreed to subscribe for
$500 in stock each, and one will in
crease his to $4,000 If necessary.
General Plan of Building.
While no plans have as yet been
prepared, the committee has general,
idea Of what the building will be like.
The structure will be essentially a
lodge home and club. The lower story
will be divided into four thirty foot
store rooms instead Of six ordinary
rooms Of twenty feet in width. Three
Of these rooms will be fitted up for
business tenants, and the one on the
alley will be made into a swell front
club, with cafe. The second and. third
floors will be for the occupancy of
the lodge, with parlors. reception, and
club rooms on the second floor, and
lodge rooms on the third floor.
Finance Committee Named.
To take charge Of the stock. sub
scriptions Exalted Ruler Lloyd r.
Maxwell appointed a finance committee
Of ten members, Of which ]. r. Bin
ford Is chairman The other members
Of this committee are Charles e.
Hatcher, F. e. Northup, Anthony
Psenicka, d. S. Good, A. P. Strub, and
]. e. Swingley, Of this city; Mayor
Max Patton, Of State Center; Mr.. Rust
Of Grinnell. and Mr.. Bennesch. of To-
ledo.
The building committee, before sig
nifying to an architect their ideas Of
plans, will visit a few Of the Iowa cit
les having Elks' homes. The cities that
the committee will visit will probably |
include Des Moines, Davenport, Coun-
ell Bluffs, Sioux City, Fort Dodge and
Webster City.