The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-02-11
CHANGES At EXCHANGE
Telephone Co. Needs More Office
Room. Other improvements.

Work has been started at the Home
Telephone building on North Market
street in the matter of their office
changes. These changes involve the
using OF the front portion of the
present rest room for the telephone
girls. on the second floor, for the
auditing or accounting department,
so the room will be divided, the girls
using the part nearest to the oper-
ating room. This change will ne:
cessitate the cutting of a. large square
hole through the: floor with sufficient
head room, for stairway As the
building and floors are of reinforced
concrete construction, this is going to
be hard and tedious piece of work.
The, floor panel is about six inches
thick and on this between wooden
stripping is some two inches of, ash,
cinder and. on the stripping is laid
the maple floor. The concrete was
put IN very solid and was thoroughly
reinforced with cross Orders and
large mesh steel expanded metal, thus
making an almost impregnable mass
to penetrate. The more detailed. part
of the Office work, that which deals
more closely with the general public,
willzstih be kept as at present on the
first hoofs Under 1.-The conditions that
exist the work will take some time to
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Improvements and changes are be.
ing worked out at the court house.
The square blocks Of floor thing are
hninU 1G 4
uneven In various places. The mems
toilet rooms in the basement are also
being 0Verhauled and changes made.
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The Rhinehart building at 1O2 First
avenue east is being remodeled for
the Vanderzee. Jewelry Co. Two
wide plate glass windows and q side
entrance. door have been put in on
the South Market street side, and the
other changes and alterations needed
are being worked out on the interior.
The manufacturing department will
occupy the rear and the sales depart
ment the front and quite a change,
new floors and new
show windows, will be effected before
completion.
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]. B. Doll, of 113 High avenue west.
has made incidental repairs to a large
plate glass window in the front of
his restaurant. New mouldings were
set against the glass on the interior
and the glass where damaged was
made secure.
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DR.. B. G. Williams. of the Mercy
Hospital on North Market street, has
erected a new frame garage at the
rear of the hospital lot. 1t is a neat
and compact little structure. ..,
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The new garage improvements in
the r. K. Davis building on High
avenue east are about completed, and
Messrs. Lamberson and Hunt have
moved in. The changes have result
I'd in a fine new display room in mis-
sion finish and new hard wood floors
N the front of the building, with two
large and wide plate glass display
windows on both sides of a center
doorway. On the west side of the
building is the entrance for autos,
md this passes back to a large open
'oom for the display and keeping of
autos. Back Of the display room in
ront, is the general office and access
8 also secured through double doors
With the garage proper. A large
'tore room is also placed back of the
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