The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 1

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LIFE SMITH CONOCO SERVICE Model Home Project Is Nearly Complete A model home, built from plans published in the Belter and Garden Magazine, is nearing completion at 1313 Prairie Park Ave. It is the project of Austenfeld-Stevenson Inc. and Howard Thomas, an Emporian who operates a lumber yard at Hartford. The house, which will be offered for sale, is in the interior finishing stage. Construction also is under way by the same builders for a new house across ihe street on Lot 5, Prairie Park Lane.

The tract there was bought by Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Weaver from the Messrs, and Mesdames Austenfeld- Stevenson and Thomas. Be a Last Nighter! last night for the season.

3 BIG ATTRACTIONS In Early Out Early First show starts 6:00 p. in. 50-S Drive In Theater 928 Com'l DI 24751 MOVING? oall BAILEY Moving Storage Co. (501 West 6th 01 2-0192 Emporia, KMMU Completa itaflonwlda- service. Expert picking.

Fully modern Safe, modern AOBNT Allied Van DIAL DI 2-1517 New radio equipped trucks for faster, more economical plumbing service for you. EMPORIA PLUMBING A HEATING CO. INC. New Location West Highway 50 Headquarters For Quality CARPETING Hundreds of Patterns and Colon by Famous Makers FEATURING DuPont Continuous 501 Filament NYLON CARPET. Expert Installation Free Your Dealer for HOOVER Vacuum SWEEPERS I pricht and cannister models.

Floor scrubbers-polishers, acces tools STEPHENS ITKMTTRE INC Sielem Sell Apartment Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Sielert have Bold their six-unit apartment building at 402 Constitution St.

to Clarence L. Baysinger. The Sieleru will move soon to a new home they are building in Country Chib Heights. The sale arranged by the Dick Flott Agency. Mr.

and Mrs. Horace Witey have moved 'to the Newton Errett farm home. Mr. Wiley is an oil pumper for the'William Rogers Oil Company. RECEIVES TWO INCH overpass over the Santa Fe tracks on East Sixth Avenue is in the process of receiving a two-inch overlay of asphalt.

The overlay, which covers the chuck-hole scarred overpass, now is approxi- mately three-fourthf completed. Traffic was flowing over the overpass this morning as usual except a small bump on the north side where work was halted Friday. Cold night-time temperatures have slowed the resurfacing. New Projects Are Under Way Apartment Construction Booming Here Residential construction in Emporia at present centers more on multiple unit housing than on single family homes. This is in line with an urbanization trend developed earlier in many larger cities.

Biggest single building in the Emporia surge of apartment construction is in the 1100 block on Merchant Street. The Markowitz Buflders, the 'general contractor, is making good progress on the initial work on the 36mnit structure. It is being built for Merchant Street Apartments, of whkh Ralph J. Hahn of Emporia is secretary. Financing arrangements were made through the Anchor Savings Association, Kansas City.

Permit Issued for Elementary School Emporia construction permits issued the first five days of November by Golden Hollar, City Building inspector, totaled $475,400 the highest here for several months. Biggest permit, one for $350,000, was secured by the N. F. English Construction Company for the new Emporia elementary school building along West Fifteenth Avenue west of Prairie Ave. Six permits for $20,000 each for sixplexes were issued to the Hahn Real Estate Company, headed by- Ralph J.

Hahn. They will be constructed in the 1000 block along Mary Street in the new Eastwood addition. Contractor George Dean secured a $5,000 permit for an addition to the William C. Clay home at 733 Arundel and C. Lauderack is expanding a garage at 807 West Sixth under a $400 permit.

Citizens Bank Has Gas Heating System The five-story building of the Citizens National Bank, Sixth Avenue and Commercial Street, which was finished and occupied in 1925, now is heated by natural gas. For many years the bank had had a fuel oil-fired plant. The Matson Plumbing, Heating and Electric Company has installed a gas burner with a 1,250,000 BTU capacity, a four-inch gas line from the alley and electronic controls on the boiler. Recent modernialion work in the Citizens Building also includes installation of heavier electric conduits inri extensive rewiring which is approximately three fourths complete. The work is being done by the Ted Radig Electric Company.

Earlier this tall a new rail in the bank's lobby was completed and chairs provided for patrons. Ralph J. Hahn and associates also scheduled to start next week on construction of six more sixplexes in the new Eastwood addition on the northeast side of Emporia, south of Twelfth Avenue and southeast of the Burlingame road center. The Eastwood project along either Mary or Michelle streets includes 12 apartment buildings. Four were finished for occupancy in September and two others are nearlng completion.

For the firm directed by Mr. Hahn, Builder Dick Miller is supervising the gen- New Floor Level Built at Grace Methodist Church Remondeling work is underway in the former auditorium-gymnasium area of the Grace Methodist Church at South Avenue and Neosho Street. Contracts for the job total nearly $41,000. Plans prepared by Architect Buck and Lewis call for two floor levels instead of the previous single one in the southeast wing of the building along South Avenue. A new ceiling-floor across the middle of the soace from the old balcony level will provide five new classrooms and office space on the lower level.

Four of the classrooms have dividers permitting conversion to two larger classrooms. The second or ground- floor level will provide space for a new kitchen and dinine room, three new classrooms with folding doors off the dining area, and a new church parlor on the west. The modernization also will three new restrooms, a new flight of stairs from the main entrance on the west to the dining area, and a new couWe-doored south entrance. The kitchen will replace two former classrooms, une of which formerly was used as a branch for the Emporia Public Library. The modernization also includes air-conditioning.

Completion is expected befcre March 1st. Contractors include Teall Construction Company, Wichita. general construction; Robert air conditioning, elec- i trical installations and heating: F.mnoria Plumbing and Heating Company, plumbing. The Rev. Neil Heidrick, pastor the church, reported men of the congregation will do the painting and lay the flooring tile.

PHONE US NOW FOR A FREE ESTIMATE! WINDOWS and DOORS ''Combination" Pay for themselves in a short NEW A tC time by lowering heating costs IMPROVED 7" eliminates FOR jour regular 149 Up 34 by Size 'Slight eitrx for Inctallatiftti nntsiik; normal delivery Emporia Tent Awning Co. Merchant RALPH E. HAHN Di 2-223fi eral construction work. Other Emporia firms on the Job include Buratp Brothers. plumbing; Thompson Electric Company, electric wiring and fixtures, and Groh and Sons, heating.

At Seventh Avenue and Market Street, close to downtown Emporia, Ralph J. Hahn is pleting an Anchor-financed three- level, 12-unit apartment building. Eleven units will have two bedrooms, and the other a single bedrfiom. The installations, arrangements and location are expected to appeal to retired persons or employed couples working downtown. The apartments, scheduled for occupancy next month, are partly furnished and most of the floors are carpeted.

(See Construction, pg. six) Three Property Deals Announced by Agency Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hollar, who will live in Arizona, have sold their 300-acre farm, one mile east of Reading, to Mr.

and Mrs. Holland C. Kelley, of Wichita, and Ethel Kelley of Burlington. A home at 630 Lakeview was bought by Mr. and Mrs.

Charles (Kit) Carson of Hartford from Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith of Wichita.

Ira A. Cowan, of 801 Exchange is the new owner of the residence at 310 South Mechanic was bought from Sallie Sattler of Americus. The three sales were negotiated by the Scott Mouse Real Estate Company. 725 Com'l MI'S "NEW VITALITY" INSTANT DOG FOOD NUTRENA DOG FOOD IB 25 and 50-Ib. Bags PEAK Feed Seed Co.

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