Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — Will Paxton and Wife Occupy Their New Hammond Home. [ARTICLE]

Will Paxton and Wife Occupy Their New Hammond Home.

Will G. Paxton, a former Jasper county boy who has been successfully engaged in the lumber business in Hammond for a number of years, has just about completed his beautiful country residence near Hammond and moved tq it lasft week. The Hammond Times says of the new home: ‘The W. G Paxton home on South Hohman street, probably the finest residence in Lake county, is now occupied, the delightful family having moved in on July 1. "Standing on a five acre tract outside of the city limits, the home neverthless furnishes its occupants every modern convenience. “Running water from an artesian well is piped all over the house and over the acreage. A specially extended gas main supplies gas for light and fuel and service wires provide electricity. The landscape artist ha® been given free hand to devise beautiful effects with trees, flowers and shrubbery. It is the most beautiful subuiban home in the northern part of'the state.”