El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

the air, which will be conveyed to
other rooms in the house which do not
have fireplaces.
quartersawed oak and will have oak
floors throughout the house, both up
stairs and down There will be five
bathrooms, two in the basement and
three on the second floor. The finish
of the interior, with thef exception of
the downstairs rooms, viii be of white
enamel The three main rooms on the
first floor will be thrown together as
one and paneled in oak.
The contract IS to be let as soon as
location is decided upon and work
will start on it before Sept. 1.
DR.. c. A. Smith Buys Home.
DR.. c. A Smith has bought a home
at SOC Rio Grande. He purchased the
property from the Rio Grande Valley
Bank and Trust company and is h.
ing the house remOdeled in order to
fit 1t up for use as his residence. The
price paid for the property was S4750.
The deal was made through Cassidy &
Build More Bungalows.
The Mayfield Realty company is
completing four bungalows in the $500
block on East Rio Grande street, has
work started on the fifth, which is
for L P Boyce, and will soon COM
mence two others, making seven
houses in the same block, started with
in the last 60 days.
Warehouse Ready for Roof
The last step in the completion of
the city warehouse will occur Mon
day when the roof OF that structure
is poured. The building itself will be
finished and ready for occupancy by
Thursday or Friday of next week
Plan Retaining Wall For Square.
For the purpose of protecting Cleve-
land square from any landSlldeS, and
for the promotion of the growing Of
grass, a concrete retaining wall two
feet high and one foot wide will be
built around the square on Missouri,
Ell PaSo and Franklin streets, accord
ing to park commissioner R. a. Harris.
The square slopes on these streets, and
while it was stated that the wall would
serve as retaining wall, it would also
furnish seats for 500 persons There
will be 125 feet of wall on the lower
end of Missouri street $50 feet on Ell
PasO street, and 250 on Franklin
street The work is expected to start
at an early date.
East Ell PasO House Sold.
A six room house on Bisbee street,
East FL PasO, has been sold by the
FL PasO Lumber company to G. L. and
c. T. Gomez. The sale price of the
house, which is on two lots, was $4,000.
Hawkins brothers made the sale.
Preparing Theater Plans.
The plans for the remodeled and en-
larged WigWam theater have nearly
been completed by frost & frost. and
bids for the work will be called for
September / The new Wigwam viii
now located on San Antonio street and
will be two stories high.
Planning Court House Annex.
The plans for the new annex to the
Las Cruces county court house will
be drawn by frost & frost. The i'm
provements on the building will cost
$4,000 and the architectural work is
now being planned.
Are Drawing Many Plans
frost & frost are drawing the plans
for a new school building at Cham
berinO. New Mexico The building will
cost $4,000 The same firm is also
making plans for residences for DR..
Moran costing $4,000 and J. Mahoney
costing $500 at Deming, New Mex
leo. Plans for the Blind institute which
Is TO be erected at AlamogordO, N NJ,
and costing between SIS. 900 and 500
600, have been made by frost & frost.
Buys Five Lots.
George Rogers, of the Ell Paso office
OF the railway mail service, has pur-