The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
TAKE OPTION
ON Balm SITE
Option Signed at Noon
Provides for Market
Square Club House.
PLAN SPLENDID CLUB
Option Is for Eighty Feet of
Frontage Near Corner of
Chicago Street.

A four sorry Susiness block and
club room building combined to be
located on Market Square for the Ke-
nosha knights of Columbus to take
the place of their Main street build
ing sold recently, is to be a reality
soon. Just before noon today Walter
M. Burke, acting for the knights of
Columbus Building association, took
an option on eighty feet of the Balm
warehouse property fronting on Mar
ket Square. The option provides for
the purchase of the property at q rate
of 100000 per front foot or $4,000
for the club house site. In addition
the Knights of Columbus have an
agreement with the Balm company for
the purchase Of the fifty feet between
the proposed site and the corner Of
Chicago street. At the present time
this property was not subject to OPP
ton, but in the agreement signed
with the option the Knights of
Columbus will have an excellent
chance to secure the corner.
It was announced that stockholders
of the association who did not care to
go on with the proposed investment,
would be allowed to withdraw and their
full claims for stock paid, while other
members of the council who have
not been interested in the building
operations will be invited to take
stock in the new venture.
Upper Stories for Club-rooms.
The plan, as explained by one Of
the friends of the project, would be
for the erection Of a building which
w6uld furnish both large and commo-
deus club-rooms for the order on the
third and fourth floors, and also store
rooms and Offices on the first two
floors, which would supply enough
money to pay the upkeep of the build
ing. 1t is declared that such build
ing could be erected for S250,000 and
that rental values for the Offices are
such that it would assure the affair
as self supporting business project
if it did not make money on the
investment.
The site which has been proposed for
the building would make it ideally
located for such purposes. The store
rooms would be in great demand and
the offices would be in the best posi-
bic location for legal offices. 1t would
also be an ideal location for the club
rooms of the order.
Sale Money Is Nucleus.
There is no immediate need for the
Knights Of Columbus to plan the erec-
ton Of new home, but many mem
bers of the order believe that steps
should be taken to crystalize the
movement for securing new home
which has long been underway. The
sale Of the former Knights Of Column
bus building for s130,100 would give
the association the funds necessary
to finance such a building.
Members Of the order this morning
while they admitted that such "a pro-
ject was being talked in the councils
of the order, declared that no definite
steps had yet been taken with the ex-
ception of the securing of an option
on the property. Some of the members
pointed out that with the Elks build
ing already erected here as COM
munity centher, there was little rea-
son for the Knights of Columbus to
erect building which would be ex-
clusively devoted to club purposes.
Would Have Large CIub-rooms.
The plans for the project have, not
gone far enough to secure any blue
prints for a building on the Market
Square site, but architects have ex-
pressed their opinion that beautiful
building combining these purposes
could be erected there. The project
which will be proposed would provide
large auditorium for the meetings
of the order, probably located on the
top floor, with club-rooms and parlors,
amply large enough to provide for the
growth of the organization for many
years on the third floor of the build
ing. It would be modern and up-to-
date in every particular and would
furnish the Kenosha council with one
of theFbest homes in the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Balm and Mr..
ard M,.e nav%a~ K1r4 oAA-1SJ II