Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1912 — E. B. Smith Has a Fine Home Good Arrangement and Finish. [ARTICLE]

E. B. Smith Has a Fine Home Good Arrangement and Finish.

Elmer B. Smith, better known’ as “Ben” Smith, who recently moved into his new cement house ndrth of the Brady elevator, has a home that himself and family can well feel proud of. Mr. Smith is a cement contractor and he built his house largely during odd times, finishing it during the winter after his busy season for others was over. There is probably no other house in Rensselaer so well arranged and so finely finished and the home in every respect is modern. The exterior is not completed, the erection of the. front porch haying been deferred until the advent of warm weather. The house consists of eight rooms, bath, pantry, closets, a finished basement and a floored attic. The parlor, -sitting room and dining room are all thrown together, all finished in hard wood, with large colonnades used in the openings. A stairway leads from the parlor and this is also of hard wood and finished in the most pleasing manneh All the woodwork of these rooms was supplied by the Delphi planing mills. The upstairs consists of four bedrooms, from each of which there is a large closet. There is also a commodious bathroom and toilet oil this floor. In the wall of the dining room an attractive china closet has been constructed. The kitchen is conveniently arranged and a large pantry connects with it. The entrance to the basement is from the outside. It is finished into spur large rooms, the furnace and fuel room, the wash room, fruit and vegetable room and a large workshop. The house is heated with an adequate hot water plant. We want you to come to our Tailoring Opening Thursday, March 7th and look over the season’s latest ideas in woolens whether ready to order now or not. Five hundred pure wool samples all 1 1-3 yd. lengths. ROWLES & PARKER.