Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — STARTING OUT WELL. [ARTICLE]

STARTING OUT WELL.

Is The Present Building Season in Rensselaer. Considering that the first day of May has not yet arrived, bmlding operations in Rensselaer this season have made fine progress.- A list of the more important new buildings now in progress or contemplated at an earLy date is here given: B. Forsythe’s big two story and basement brick businesss block, corner Washington and Van Rensselaer street, has made great progress, and the brickwork will be nearly or quite completed this week. The building will be not only one of the largest but one of the best constructed buildings in town. On Van Rensselaer, St. partly on the site of the old Halloran stable, Walter White has a large livery barn far towards completion. It is a frame building sided and roofed with steel. On this same Yan Rensselaer street, but near its north end, four good residence buildings are being erected. E. H. Morlan is building one of them, and which wiil be occupied by Prof. Sanders. J. H. Cox is building another, for himself a residence.

Another is being erected by Mrs. Charlotte Benjamin, for renting purposes. The fourth is being built by Mrs. J. J. Gross, for a residence. On the same Van Rensselaer Street, but south of Washington, Matt Worden is ,building a residence on the site of the old Worden homestead. Still on the same street, a little further south, and on the east side of the street, Allen Catt has got a new residence under way. Monroe Banes is starting a good residence in Thompson’s Addition; having sold his house'in the northeast part of town to Capt. Wasson. Capt. Wasson is himself building another tenant house, in Leopold’s Addition. Burgess Dillion is building a good residence, in Weston’s Addition. Chris Sack ia preparing to build a house in Leopold’s Addition. Squire J. ML Troxell has three hofises underway or contracted for in Leopold’s Addition, for renting purposes. Theodore Smith has moved a new barn upon lots in the east side of Leopold’s Addition and remodled it into a residence. Sheriff Hanley has begun work on his proposed residence on Division streetj north of - Washington. It will be a good building.————_—; John Makeever has a large tenant house almost finished, on Division street, south of Washington. Joseph Rowen has a house well along, north of the railroad.

John McColly has a residence very near completed, north of the railroad. Mrs. Henry Adams has remodled and much improved her residence, south of the new ischoM house. J. L. Foster is putting an addition, on his residence, on Main street. W. 11. Coover, the county clerk, has bought lots on Weston street, just north of John Paxton’s new house, and contemplates building a good residence this season. In the same block, just south of Mr. Paxton’s place, Cbas. W. Porter is preparing to build a handsome house. Charley has no present personal need of a house, bat that condition of affairs is not likely to last always. J.,F. Warren contemplates building a tenant house, near his own residence on Cullen street. Uncle Jesse Osborne, one of Gil lam Township’s solid old citizens, has bought two blocks north of the railroad, and intends building a residence and moving to town, forthwith. A. Lewis, the cigar manufacturer, has bought a fine lot in Thompson’s Addition, and will build a brick residence, it is said. Wm. Bennet, of Barkley Tp., is also said to be contemplating the building of a residence in town this year on lots he has in Weston’s Addition, with the intention of moving into Rensselaer. iI • • Ferguson A Wilson furnish money on the B A L plan at the lowest rate. Only $1.40 per month.