Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — LAFAYETTE TO HAVE NEW $500,000 HOTEL [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE TO HAVE NEW $500,000 HOTEL

Option Taken on Valuable Properties by Indianapolis Parties— Much Heeded Hostelry. William Holt and C. W. Marshall, of Indianapolis, have taken an option on the Behm and Byers properties at Pouth and Ferry streets, Lafayette, and plan the construction of a $500,000 hotel, which is greatly needed in that city- The plan is to build a 200 room fire-proof building and to furnish and equip it in every modem way. Thos. Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks are connected with the proposition, which assures that adequate provision will be made for barroom. The Lahr house is also undergoing some extensive Improvements and it is expected that the erection of a new hotel will precipitate a merry hotel war in that city.

Mr. and Mrs. John Baughman, who have been living on a ranch near Bloomfield, Mont., for the past .three years, and who have been visiting relatives at Medaryville, came here today and are visiting his nephew, Emery Baughman and family, in Barkley township. Mr, Baughman is quite well pleased with his Montana claim and says that the great majority of his neighbors are former Hoosiers and many of them from this part of the state. A new railroad will run within 8 miles of his home, but be has heretofore been 23 miles from a road.