Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Hemphill is Rebuilding. [ARTICLE]

Hemphill is Rebuilding.

L. L. Hemphill’s blacksmith and wood shop was burned late 1 Saturday. Monday as soon as the rain had stopped falling he set a large force of men at work dn a new building on the same site, It will be a frame building with iron roof and probably the sides covered with iron. It is to be 40 by 59 in size with the blacksmith shop in front and the wood shop in the rear. He expects to beat all previous Rensselaer building records, and to have everything ready to resume business in, by next Monday, and thus being out of business just one week.