Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-15
MANY NEW HOMES
FOR WEST SHORE
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the buildings are finished each man
will own one of the houses for the ma
terial ne has put into the eight build
ings. 1t is understood that another
operation along the same lines will be
started in the near future in another
section of the West Shore and included
In this will be about sixteen houses.
The Cooper tract, In Camp Hill, be-
ing developed by Baer & Rice, who
conduct the West Shore Realty Com
pany, will be the scene of building
operations also during the year, and
more homes will be built on the Dale
tract, adjoining the borough. On the
Cooper tract homes are being built or
will be built by W, f. Bushey, j. w.
Reichley, of Paxtang, George j. Bricker
and DIR. G.. NJ. Eager. On the Dale
tract DIR. NJ. r.. FL. Shelton is building
two homes on Long street.
Apartments and Office
In Lemoyne. along the Carlisle pike,
G. w. Enck is finishing a three-story
building, the first floor of which will
be used as a printing office The
upper floors will 5e used for apart
ments. On Hummel avenue, Lemoyne,
Fl. L. Miller is finishing handsome
two-story residence. Raymond Saw
yer is planning the erection of big
double house and Frank Lichtenberger
is getting ready to build q home on
Herman avenue. George Wagner has
secured a plot of ground just south of
the Philadelphia and Reading tracks
and will build a residence there.
George w. Palmer is making some
big Improvements to his property on
Rossmoyne street. The two-story
frame building is being raised and a
deep cellar is being built beneath. The
building will be enlarged and will con-
tain apartments. storerooms and a
poolroom. The basement will be fitted
up as q bowling alley. A printery will
also take up a part of the building.
The structure when completed will be
about los feet long. A. c. Fickes will
conduct the bowling alley and pool
room in the building.
West Shore Bakery
The other big operation in Lemoyne
is the building which will house the
West Shore Bakery, conducted by L..
M. Bricker. The structure is q NAM
moth brick affair and is equipped with
the most modern machinery and ovens
used in bread, cake and pie baking.
The building is two stories in height
and on each story the floor space will
be about 1877 feet by 160 feet. The
plant is one of the largest in Central
Pennsylvania and will employ about
sixty people. The bakery has q ca
pacity of $4,000 loaves of bread daily.
Mr.. Bricker expects to be in the new
building within the next month or six
weeks
Another big building along the West
Shore nearing completion is the town
hall and firehouse in Wormleysburg.
The building is already under roof and
men are engaged in finishing the in
terror. 1t is expected that the struc-
uure will be completed within a month
and plans are already under way for
the dedicatory exercises.
Wormleysburg will also have num-
ber of new homes erected during the
summer. The dwellings will be built
in the northern end of the town and
the majority of them will be con-
structed on Front street. In addition
to the new homes it is understood that
improvements are to be made to q
number of others, the improvements
to consist of porches and outkitchens,
mostly.
In Camp Hill borough C. A. Hemp,
q councilman, will erect a stucco
bungalow on tract of land which he
owns along Chestnut street Ignatz
Farber of Harrisburg, is completing Il
pair of brick houses along Trindle road
and they will be ready for occupancy
within short time.
Building in New Cumberland
New Cumberland will come in for its
share of new buildings, too, during the
summer and already a number of
homes are under way. Others will be
started as soon as the weather be-
comes settled. Jacob Bentzel is erect
ing new home on Bridge street, near
Ninth, and j. r. Richenbach is getting
ready to break ground on Tenth street,
in Brandt's new extension. N. S. Kirk
patrick is building three new dwell
ings on Eleventh street and James
Peterman is completing a new brick
house at Ninth and Bridge streets,
which he will occupy in the near
future.
In Enola and West Fairview there
will be some buildings, also, and in the
latter town improvements will be made
TO number of houses, Ira e. Shaull,
of West Fairview, has purchased a row
of six houses near the West Fairview
schoolhouse and is making improve
ments to them. In Enola Mr.. Shaull
is developing tract known as Shaulls
Addition to Enola and on this plot a
row of six houses. double house and
bungalow will be erected during the
summer months. Every house in
Enola is occupied at the present time
and inasmuch as the Enola Realty
Company has announced that 1t will
not build any more homes in the town,
individuals are becoming active and
making arrangements to erect houses.
If the present demand for houses in
Enola continues, it is quite likely that
Enola will be the scene of another big
building boom during this year.
Business Men to Organize
And then in addition to all of the
new buildings which will be erected
during the next few months business
men on the West Shore are planning
TO organize and improve conditions
in every part of the territory. Lead
ers in this movement are H. II. Rice
and w. G. Baer. members of the West
Shore Realty Company.
Mr.. Baer in discussing the propo-
sition said that the object of the or
ganization was to promote the business
and social interests of the community.
He declared that he had spoken to
about fifty of the business men in the
West Shore towns betwene Enola and
Camp Hill and that they were all
favorable to a plan to boost West
Shore interests.
Mr.. Baer's plan is to first talk to all
of the hundred or more men engaged
in business in the 'cross-riVer towns
and after getting their sentiment issue
a call for meeting for the purpose of
organizing a West Shore Business
Mems Association. The object of the
organization is to. have ali of the COM
munity's business men work for the
uplift of. the territory and do anything
which will tend to benefit the COM
munity in general.
One of the schemes which Mr.. Baer
wants 10 see carried out is a system
of advertising "There are many peo-
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