Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1919 — WILL IMPROVE MAKEEVER HOUSE [ARTICLE]

WILL IMPROVE MAKEEVER HOUSE

OWNER CONTEMPLATES EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR HOTEL. T ~ ■ Jay W. Stockton, owner and now in charge of the Makeever Hotel of this city, is making some temporary repairs, but he plans to make some extensive improvements in the; very near future. If his present plans are carried out an electric elevator will be installed, a number of suites,will be furnished with baths and private toilet. The office is-now being redeeorated and it will also be equipped with up-to-date furniture. Many other changes are to be made all over the building. Hot and cold 7 water will be put into most of the rooms and the house will be made modern and up-to-date. The appearance of the outside of the building is to be improved. Many favorable expressions have already been heard in reference to the* table service being given by the new management. This is a splendid hotel town and Mr. Stockton is very anxious to give the public the very best service possible. He has moved his family into the hotel and will be very ably assisted by his lyife. John Stockton will assist his father in the office. With our hotel made strictly up to the minute, with a brick highway through the county and a fine big coliseum in this city that will furnish a suitable place in which farmers can exhibit their fine stock and in which large and important gatherings can be held, Rensselaer will became a city in fact as well as in name. Let everybody boost. All pull together for the best town underneath heaven’s dome.