Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1910 — “Pesky Bill” Holderness to Erect Fine Residence at Oak Park. [ARTICLE]

“Pesky Bill” Holderness to Erect Fine Residence at Oak Park.

T" „ William Holderness, now of Oak Park, 111., has accepted plans for the building of a fine new house, to contain all modern improvements and be erected of the very best material, with oak finish throughout and hardwood floors. Mr. Holderness will be remembered in Rensselaer as a school teacher during the nineties. He is a brother of Mrs. Anson Cox and Mr. Cox has been engaged to go to Oak Park and superintend the construction of the building. Mr. Holderness served with Dr. I. M. Washburn In the First Illinois regiment during-the Spanish-American war. He devised the open faced envelopes and is now at the head of the Outlook Envelope Co., and making plenty of money, He is quite well known here under the soubriquet of “Pesky Bill,” which title was conferred on him by some of his pupils and which was used by the public generally in a very friendly manner. Mr. Cox does not expect to begin the construction until about the first of December.