Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-08-30
BUILDING NEWS
OF NORTH DAkOT| A
SHOWS INCREASE
SEVERAL NEW SCHOOLS ARE
q GOING UP IN VARIOUS PARTS
#5. OF THE STATE. 3. D. #5.
BIG DEMAND FOR HOUSES HERE
MANY TOWNS ARE GETTING NEW
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= CROPS ARE CAUSE.

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- CROPS ARE CAUSE.
Building operations thruout the
state during the past week have shown
big increase, due, real estate men
say, to the bumper crop now being har- T
vested in North Dakota. While there
has been little doing this week. in new
buildings in Devils Lake, the several
undertakings now under way are being
rushed to completion.
There is an unusual scarcity Of
residences in Devils Lake this year,
and the want Of suitable dwellings, is
being felt by the renting classes. Real
estate men and builders say there is
an unprecedented demand, this fall,
for homes. NV y.,$:s5is $::5i s5
The most important announcements
in the world Of building in Fargo is
that the Children's home which is to
be materially enlarged and that Bow
ers Bros. will put up a three-story
addition for the use of the Hotel Card
Ener: The other building operations in
Fargo are getting along nicely and
many new residences will be complet-
ed in the near future. The nine new
houses now being constructed by
George W.. Poague on the north side
are about finished, the two Olsen
buildings and the new Annex will ali
be finished according to contract time.
All over the state there are new lew
schoolhouses being planned with sew
eral in various degrees Of completion.
FIhes77;people pf :lArdoc chsare preparing: to
erect one, and sone will be erected II
the town of Binford. The site for the
proposed new North Dakota M. =. col.
lege has been selected in the city a.
Bismarck and it is expected that work
viii begin next year. Near Center a
new schooihouse is to be erected IN
district No. 10. At Crosby a new fonr
room schoolhouse is being erected
Bids for the high school at Minot were
considered too high and all were e.
Jected. At Persevere bids win be 70.
ceived for the erection of school,
house in the Eagle Butte district and
there will be two schoolhouses erected
in the Rainy Butte district, with an.
other at Sherwood. 5iss
a four room school is to be erected
at Wild Rose, and hot air furnaces
will be placed in the two schoolh houses
at Williston. Wheelock is also erect
ing new school building. =:55 n.
At Glenaeld work has been started
on a new bank building, and at Me-
Henry bank building has also been
started. At Steele the Loerch Cash
Store Co. has begun the work on q new
block.
Joseph thompson. Fairdale, is erect
| ing new home. AT. Grand Forks i.
q. Lowell is building a two-story frame
residence; Ole G.. Neros is erecting i
one-story cottage, and SO is Charles
LIE Page, while Gus Peterson is putting
up two-story resid dence. y. Residences
are being constructed for Messrs, Hal
vorson an and Beckvo1d at aIcVille.
AT Bismarck they are planning on$
the construction Of Il an auditorium
When VII the bids were opened they we're
all found to be too high. q. The plans
have been modified and now the con
tract will be awarded On an $4,000
basis. NJ
sS At Grand Forks the county win vote
on the question Of a new schoolhonsa.
and an at McHenry bids are being re-
ceived for a new town han. At Al inot NOT
the found alton has been laid for d new MI
Lutheran church, while the building
committee sof the Methodists in the
same town is planning for new house
Of worship.
A $4,000 hospital is being planned
BY physicians at jamestown. and III
Mandan = hort cultural ana agries,ltur.
81 station which has been anthortzadS
by the Iegislature sial be constructed ii
next sprip at u ss,st of about $50 ,is(
Z II rurnored that Otto HaTEfik Win aoon. sa5..
struct q rnller rink a1nsl opera hpsuae tn