Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — NOWELS HOUSE CHANGES OWNERS AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

NOWELS HOUSE CHANGES OWNERS AGAIN.

The owner of the Nowels House, who resides in Illinois, has traded the property for a tract of land in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, and the new owner, J. F. Lachenmyer of Champaign, IH , was here this week looking over the property. There is some prospeot that he will' thoroughly remodel the hotel, and move the office down stairs to the room now oocupied by R. P. Benjamin’s piano and sewing machine business, although he made a proposition to Mrs. August Rosenbadm to lease the entire building to her —with the exceptions of the room occupied by the barber shop—in it’s present shape. Tne is a great scarcity of hotel room here at present, and this would oertainly be an ideal opening for Mrs. Rosenbaum, it would appear. The entire lower room could be used as a restaurant and the upper rooms—of which there could be about 30 fixed up with little expense—used for sleeping rooms. It is really hoped that sometthing will be done to re-open the place soon, as it is greatly needed to accomodate the transient and boarding public with sleeping quarters at least.