Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — HOTEL PROJECT IS POSTPONED [ARTICLE]

HOTEL PROJECT IS POSTPONED

Until Next Ydtir on Account of the Latd Start Made. C. P. Moody informs The Democrat that his new hotel project has been temporarilly postponed, for the reason that a late start on the iproject was made and ibe improbability of having the buiid<ng fully completed and ready for occupancy until early winter. There are one or two other reasons tor not going ahead this year. The lease on the old building now occupying the site does not expire for two years and it is difficult for the present tenant to find a new location for his creamery on short notice. Also, Mr. Moody is going to move the dwelling house from a part of the hotel site to the Delos Thompson lot, just north of the lots comprising the Fendig property, 42 feet frontage on Front street, and remodel same and convert It Into a four-apartment flat, and by the time this building was moved, a new location found for the tenant of the corner building and same vacated and gotten out of the way, the season would be too far advanced to go ahead with the hotel proper. He expects to get all these disposed of and be ready to go ahead with the new hotel next season, and ’he does not wish it understood that the building project has been abandoned, for it has not, he states. It is simply a little delay to get other preliminary matters out of the way. » The apartment house, he states, will be 40x42 feet," and in purchasing the Thompson lot it leaves the entire iformer'Fendig ground for the hotel.