The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-01
- NEWS FROM HANCOCK :


crete blocks to be occupied when
completed by C. A. Frimodig as a gen.
eral store Mrs. A. NJ. York is having
new residence built on her proper
~ In Ripley, which will be built of
concrete blocks and will contain nine
rooms.
WORK has recently been started on
the foundations OF the new buildings
10 be erected by the local socialists
ana TO be known as the PEOPLES
Home. The structure will be of brick.
and will occupy the corner site at the
Junction OF Tezcuco and White
streets. The plans for this building
were made long ago by II. II. Liebert
OF Hancock. but II was not until this
iast summer that actual work was
authorized. The building will cost
some fifteen or eighteen thousand dol
lars and will be used as club house
and meeting place for the Finnish
socialists of Hancock and vicinity.
The ground floor VIII be devoted TO
club rooms, library. ladies parlor,
mems smoking rooms, assembly rooms,
kitchen and dining room, while on the
second floor there will be large as
sembly hall equipped as a theatre for
the holding of mass meetings and the
presentation OF plays. This hall will
be about fifty by seventy feet, and
will be equipped with a wide and deep
stage, provided with dressing rooms
at either side. and gallery will ex-
tend around the sides and rear of the
room.
Business Blocks RemodeIed
Several old business blocks have
been remodeled to make them more up
to date and to transform them into
modern commercial omporlums. Tho
entire front of the Scott block has
been changed by the installation OF
handsome front OF plate glass and
metal, with prism glass. tiled door.
ways, and ornamental woodwork IN
the windows, making II one OF tho
rooms formerly used by the Metz
Cloak company and the mems furn-
ishings departments of the Metz
clothing store, have been thrown into
one big room, by the tearing down OF
the partitions. Workmen are now
painting the exterior, and new shelly.
ing and fixtures OF the most modern
type have been ordered by Mr.. Metz,
who will use the whole space for his
clothing and mems furnishings de-
partments. The remodelng of the
store was done by Contractor Erik
the Wausau Furniture and Fixture
of which c. p. Ulrich is the
local representative, and the floors
and walks are now being decorated
by William Hecker and his force OF
painters. The opening will take place
on September II, when one of the
finest stores in the county will DO
open to the public for their
Another transformation of note has
been effected in the old Pearce build
ing at the corner of Qul'oy 1ez-
CutO StItclS HOW OCCuDitu ny lHN IL
quor store OF A. L. Levy. The build
ing was raised about seven feet and
an entire new front built of glass and
metal. besides with the interior was
altered and materially changed by |
the installation of new partitions, |
steel ceiling and ornamental gallery |
in corner I'm the rear where an or
chestra can be stationed on occasions
of special Importance. The work Of
raising the building was done by Will
liam Wallace and the new front in |
stalled by Contractor Anderson.
Other Store Changes
Mr. Anderson has force of men |
engaged at the present time in re-
the interior of the store In |
the Germania building formerly used |
by the Cafe du Nord, and which will |
be used in the course of n month or |
so by M. r. Corbett's Fair store, now
located IN the Mason building. New
shelving is being built, new counters
erected. and a stairway has been built |
directly I'm the center of the store |
leading into the basement, which VIII
also be used by Mr.. Corbett for the
storage of goods, the stock of which
will be greatly increased by the ad
nitlon of consignment purchased re-
Gently in Chicago fly Mr.. Corbett.
Another enlarged establishment is
that of Daniel Crowley's grocery
store, on Quincy street, which has re-
Gently annexed the adjoining store
occupied by the Nelson bak-
cry. and which Mr.. Crowley Will use |.
for handling baked goods of various
kinds, a connecting passageway hav-
ing been cut to provide an access 10
the annex from the old store. Mr.
Nelson recently discontinued his up
,ou,n store and now has his retail |