Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — USE FOR THE OLD MATERIAL [ARTICLE]

USE FOR THE OLD MATERIAL

Second-Hand Lumber and Other Building Necessaries Can Be Picked Up for Little Money. One of the most interesting and profitable ways in which one who contemplates building a house and wants to economize in doing it can spend an hour or more is in one of the establishments devoted to the buying and selling of second-hand building materials. , r , There is one which Is particularly inviting to. “prowlers.” It faces on two streets in an out-of-the-way part of the city and consists of a number of old buildings with yards between, in which there is an overflow of old statues, columns of porches, metal spouting, garden seats and other “junk.” One could pick up many a thing here that could be incorporated in a new-old house, but inside the buildings there is a greater wealth to choose from. Here one may find hardwood floors, as good as new, taken from houses that have Been torn down to make way for larger and more modern structures. Here are beautifully carved mantels of marble and«wood, some of-them having cost hundreds of dollars, which can be purchased as cheaply as a commonplace one that was turned out from the factory yesterday. There are doors and casings of beautiful wood, bookshelves with glass doors, ceilings, cabinets of all kinds, sideboards, windows, bath tubs and all bathroom fittings; sinks, tubs and all the paraphernalia for the kitchen. It is hard to think of anything that is needed in the construction of a house that is not here or of anything that is here which would not fit in some kind of house.