Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-11-24
Three Business Buildings Under
Construction and More Houses
Than For Several Years
PLANT OF THE AMERICAN
REFRACTORIES COMPANY
NOW BEING OPERATED
This Imrovement Costs Almost
Quarter of a Million Capacity
500 Tons a Day

Baraboo is experiencing a greater
building boom that for number OF
years-since the days before the war.
Both the Deppe Lumber & Produce
company and the Stewart-Alexander
Lumber company report greater de-
mand for building material tnan 1or
some time and the hardware firms
state trade Is active.
The largest piece of construction
the past year was the new plant or
the American Refractories company,
about a mile east of Devils lake. The
plant is outside of the Devils Lake
State park limits but some or the
track is within the boundary. The firm
has moved all of it's property from
the shore Of Devils lake and has be-
gun operations at the new location.
The plant has q capacity Of 500 tons
Of rock and many car loads OF broken
and crushed stone can be shipped IN
one day for fire brick, road building
or other purposds. The state paid
$4,000 for the old location but the
new plant has cost the concern well
on to quarter of million dollars.
Three Business Buildings
The foundation is in for the Dono-
van & Demo building on Oak street
and the wall is almost complete for
the w. M. Allen building adjoining.
The Donovan & Demo drug store will
be moved early in the spring for the
Bank of Baraboo may erect new
block next year. Plans for the bank
building have been drawn for some
time. Preliminary work has been
done for the E. B. Trimpey building
on Fourth avenue.
Other Improvements
Among the other improvements in
Baraboo and vicinity completed dur
ing the past summer are now under
way are the following; !
Henry Starr, Mound street, new
residence.
Adolph Platt, Third street, addition.
A. K. Bassett, Ski-Hi Fruit farm,
new residence.
Deppe Lumber & Produce company,
new residence on Third avenue.
f. E. Morey, Barber house adjoining
his home on Second avenue, rebuilt.
E. E. Kingsley, two residences on
Third street.
M. S. Marty, new residence on Ash
street.
Mrs. Cora Jones, East street, new
bungalow.
Albert Blanck, Third street, new
porch.
Jesse Cook, Warren Park addition,
house enlarged.
Benjamin DotV, building on Ash
street used as vulcanizing plant, en-
larged.
Capener Brother, sporting goods
store on Ash street, enlarged.
Ed. Schneider, AS Eighth street,
addition.
E. M House, garage and addition
to house.
w. H Cline, Seventh avenue, foun-
dation in for paint shop.
Gilbert CONAN Sixth and West,
house remodeled.
Claude Newell, 7O6 Fourth avenue,
addition.
Roy Pryne, Second avenue, house
remodeled.
Agnes Rooney, Ala Fourth street,
remodeling.
Charles slezak, South street, re-
modelling and garage.
Orick Watkins, remodeling Stecken-
bauer house on Ridge street.
Jud Howard, Island, house remod
eled.
Charles Poison, 31S Fifth avenue
house remodeled.
August Better, Merrimack road re
modelling.
Harvey OFT, addition to house.
Fisher Brothers, Glenville, new
barn.
Filling station. Broadway and Fifth
avenue.
Albert Halwig, new house on farm
Theodore Kessler, new house Or
farm east of Crawford's crossing.
Joe Koberstein, 426 Maxwell, remod
cling.
Dennis Lenihan, new addition.
John Meier, house in country re
modelled.
George Palmer, Lake street, remod
cling. --
William Pierce, store on Walnu
street, remodeled
Ed Payne, house remodeled.
The Misses Gattiker, 107 Sevent