Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1921-11-10
COOKEVILLE'S
RAPID GROWTH
The 1921 Building Program ConstI-
tutes A Record.

Despite the general cry OF hard
times" which has been heard from
all parts of the country for the past
twelve months, the town Of Cooke.
vile has been steadily forging ahead,
making record for herself and her
citizens in numbers of business lines,
and especially is this true with re-
gard to material grown and prepa-
ration for housing a population which
has increased at least fifty percent
since the 1920 census. While num-
Der of our neighboring towns and cit
les have been agitating the building
III more houses. Cookeville has been
building them, until today there are
something like Is new structures
which have been erected and are
now under the course of cOnstruc-
tion since Jan. 1, 1921, and more
sites are being selected for this same
purpose every week that rolls around.
The real estate business is still BOOM
ing, and any good building site can
be sold at good, Substantial price, for
there is every indication that even a
bigger program will be carried thru
during the next twelve months. We
have had no real business depression,
and If our people keep up the spirit
with which they have been imbued
there will be none in this section of
the country, than which there is a
no more favored spot in all this land
of ours.
The following list Of new home
builders has been cimpiled, and it is
possible that one or two names have
escaped:
New Residences Built.
Cookeville Building 90. IA, Bood
Chote /, John Walker 1, William
Sloan /, Lee Huddleston I, D. B.
Burgess /, Geo. B. Halle A, Bedford
Webb /, A. P. Cole I, Cooper LOFTS
/, Prof. Chas. McClannahan 1, 8. H.
Young 1, c. S. Jenkins 1, Norman
Massa 2, ]. w. Chulcutt 2, A. B.
Wright ], Hermann Gentry 1, Chas.
Daniels 1, D. E. Patten1, Nathan
Gooper 1, vancesDvwees I, A. e. Ma
theney 1, T. O. Apple 1, Jos. F. Scott
1, W. H. Barr Il Marshall Ray 1, H.
S. Hargis 1, S. N. Jared l, Q. Dyer 1,
Will Morris 1, T. H. Jackson i, Geo.
Young l, M. A. Gentry, /, Ray Malo-
ney /, Henry Sparks 1, Bailey Jones
/.
Other New Buildings.
The Howard Hospital, Just east OF
Public Square; Standard Oil Co.
plant on West Broad St.; brick busi-
ness house built by Joseph F. Scott
on Cedar st.; also a brick building
now nearing completion on Cedar St.,
erected by NJ H. Ellis & Som; store
house by ]. M. Lofts near T. P. I.
campus; also one store house west |
of r. P. l., by H. l.. Bilyeu.
Just outside the corporation, the
new houses have been
built: G. w. Masters 2, A. M. john
son /, Pete Henry l, Maxyell Bros,
Grocery Co., /.
The following residences have been
remodeled and practically made new:
Whtson & Womack have rebuilt the
old Baker residence. on Spring St.;
the homes of ]. G. McDearman, H.
NJ. Hughes, Robt. Ray. Ed Burton, D.
B. Burgess and Allison Mitchen
have been remodeled and very ma
teriaily improved. Judge Edwards
has also had his home on East Broad
st. remodeled
Additions To School and Glass Rooms
The old Moore corner OF the Pun.
ic Square has been remodeled for
class rooms by G. b.
Wilson who now owns this block.
There has also been considerable
additions made to the r. p. l., plant
~ the building of fine dairy barn,
md anew steel fireproof structure
'or the housing of machinery has
,een built, and another is now under
,ourse of construction.
As soon as bids can be received in
lue form, the State will build new
lormitory at T. p. L., and enlarge the
present administration building by
ldding large auditorium and other ,
wings to same. The expenditure will
'e 100000, which is the Polytech-
tic Institutes share of the bonds
ecently sold II
With all the building which has
'een done, there is still great need