Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1915-08-05

also putting up a splendid residence
in that section, as is Prof. R. L. Hunt
superintendent Of the Dawson County
High school. The residence of Clerk
of Court F. A. Parrett is nearly com
pleted as is also the new home of Mrs
Hail. the matron of the County Hos
pital, both of these structures being
located on Kendrick avenue. Besides
this there is very pretty home being
built on Kendrick avenue for F. NJ.
Nicodeme, one of the High School fac
ulty.
Two pretentious duplex houses are
also being built by Mrs. Jordan on up
per Meade Avenue, which will be used
for rental purposes when completed
These structures will cost approx
mately $4,000 each and will add much
to the attractiveness of the city as a
place of residence.
The Hitchcock duplex is still in EN-.
bryo, although Mr.. Hitchcock is in
town and recently told the Monitor
man that the building would be ready
for occupancy early this fall
Another valuable addition to the
city's commercial activity was the
stage addition and the enlarged audit.
orium of the New Orpheum theatre
on South Merrill avenue, upon which
improvements Manager Lloyd w.
Lamb spent upwards of $4,000, max
ing the Cozy Playhouse one of the
largest and most comfortable moving
picture and vaudeville theatres east of
Billings.
Since the first of the year the new
City hall, costing $4,000; the Leonard
building containing the rooms of the
Dawson County club and built at an
approximate cost of $4,000; and the
new garage of the Lahr Motor Sales
Co.. costing nearly So 900 were finish
ed and occupied, thereby adding i'm
mensely to the appearance and the
commercial standing of the city.
Other Building Work
Bob Lowrey has just started to re-
model his residence on upper Meade
avenue and will also erect new gar
age and put in the retaining wall for
the building of which he recently Sc
cured permission from the city coun-
Gil.
In the Prospect Heights addition
the new residence of Robert Hender-
son is almost ready for occupancy and
work on the new homes of Messrs. M.
G. Mcdowell, Albert Peterson and
Charles F. Rainey has already begun.
Mrs. Brown has just closed a con-
tract with w. T. Perham for the erec-
ton of a one thousand dollar addition
to the rear of the present blacksmith
shop occupied by L. w. Curtiss, which
new structure will be rented and oc-
cupied by the county for the storage
of machinery, road implements and
the like.
Mr.. Perham has also completed
$500 worth of work in Bachman's
Pastime Billiard Parlor in the Dion
block, remodeling the interior and ad-
ding large balcony.
New Exhibit Building
The latest contract in the building
line has just been awarded by the
Chamber of Commerce to Mr.. Perham
for the erection of an IL by 81 II
stucco building for agricultural ex-
hibition purposes, the new structure
to occupy part of the railroad park
near the present railroad lunch room.
The railroad lease has been received
and work on the building will begin
this week. The building. when com
pletely finished and furnished, Will
cost in the neighborhood of $1,5OO.
Besides the contractors, the plumb
ers have been kept busy all summer
installing new fixtures in old houses
as we'll as putting in new work 10 the
buildings put up this year. The con
crete men and also the stone ano
brick masons have also had busy
season and altogether this year can
truIy be said to have far exceeded any
similar period in building activity II
the history of the city.
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