Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1920, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT CENTER STREET. CORNER BOUGHT BY LOCAL GANK One-Story Business Block to Oc- cupy Site Purchased by Na- tional Bank of Commerce Temporarily, ey | Wyoming friends of E., H. Kimban will find much to amuse and interest [them in the following breezy — letter from the south: “St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb, 24, 1920. “To the Kimball Tribe and Friends— This city is splendidly provided with eating facilities, but somehow I am not much stuck on these cafeterias. They |are very fashionable and popular and/ |are thronged with the elite; they are | | neat and clean; the food is well cooked and palatable; the prices are compar. ably reasonable, but still they don’t | seem to strike the fancy of a Wyoming holds on its present location expires, | “Rube.” Guess I was never designed, the National tank of Commerce, | cut out and polished for a society dude. | through a syndicate composed of mem-| They remind ‘me too much of a dehorn- ing chute in the stockyards in South Anticipating the need of greatly en- larged quarters when the lease which it bers “of its directorate yesterday con-| suri a most important deal in the | Omaha, As the dinner hour approaches purch of the lot at the southeast | there is 4 promiscuous roundup on the) corner of Center and Third streets for| sidewalk in front and when the door) the sum of $60,000. opens there is a grand stampede to see, Since, under the law, a national bank | who will get in first. Once inside you cannot own property which it does not| are pushed along, single file, into the} occupy, the title to the property, is|.chute with an iron ailing on your left} vested in a syndicate composed of A, K.|and a counter covered with all kinds ef nice food on your right and waiters T. F. Algeo, H. L. 7 G. 5. Nelson,| lined up behind it. As you enter the} Messimer, Fred] chute you grab a metal tray and a lot) Klink, Thomas: Kenny nd Earl ©.|of gastronomic weapons of warfare and right then and thére the trouble begins. You are pushed and horned} ulong So fast by those in the rear that | you don’t have either time or oppor- tunity to look over the hash department |and select just he kinds of food you} nd before you get half loaded! are suddenly slammed up| Foyle. All are directors or stockholders in the bank, When the five-year lease on its pres- ent quarters expi the bank will pur- chase the property from the syndicate and will erect a bank and office build- ing of five or six stories upon the site, | it isanpounced. In the meantime, that the property may not remain idle, im- peding the progress of the city, the} you and you sp! owners have authorized the erection of | a bric seven 20 by 60 foot store three facing on Center street, and four on} ‘Third The building will cost about ,000 and will be ready for oc- cupancy early in the summer. Plans ire being prepared by Dubois & Good- | cashier’ rich. ‘The store rooms will be leased | Properly and effectually dehorned, and! only for a period of three years, so} you £0 y back and sit down’ on a that there will be nothing to stand in| bench which calls te painful memory the way of the further improvement | the many times when you had to Sit on of corner when the bank is ready | the dunce block when a kid at school, to pr nd you take a visual inventory of your you against a smug spinster in front of ill coffee on her silk | dress and get a curtain lecture entitled structure containing | “manners,” and without any curtain to. up one-story shield you from the heartless throng, | and you get nettled and permit the hash slingers to load your tray up with anything they choose and in a_half- dazed condition you finally reach the "s guillotine where you are treet. i with its plans, The lot, which is known as lot 1,| assets and liabilities on the tray be-| block is 60 by 140 feet in size, It| fore you and you find that you have} was formerly a part of the property| been loaded up with all kinds of nice owned by the Catholic Church on that | food that you don’t relish and didn’t intend to order and that your liabilities | | are something fearful to contemplate if | you ge outside of all of it, so you eat! few bites and grab your lid and sneak | out of the door feeling pessimistic and like you want to do something real mean and onery, and you hope that Wilson will be nominated again so that | you can vote against him, “I much prefer to go into a nice | Three y rs ago, the entire corner was sold by the church for $22, 500 to Burke Bros., who later sold half of the lot to Roy Sample for $15,000. The price paid yesterday of $1,000 a front foot for the remaining half shows the tremendous advance in real estate values in Casper, although the Jot now oceupied by the West Hotel brought the same price, $1,000 a front foot, when sold by the W. C. T. U. two years | roomy restaurant where there are lots | x0. | of little round tables and spick and} ‘Another record of $1,000 a foot for| span waiters: You take a comfortable | business property was established last| seat all by your lonesome in a retired | corner, & ‘GAFETERIAS. IN FLORIDA TOO POPULAR FOR COM HEWARE| SAYS WHOMING MAN, WHO SCORNS MAD RUSH ——— uty and you come to! ; ere FORT of the cartoonist: “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” : But for pure and unadulterated epi- cunanism and rural felicity commend me to the Wyoming range when you have been riding and are tired and hun- ery and you suddenly come upon a roundup wagon just us the cowboys haye unsaddied and are gathering around the festive tail-gate of the Wagon and the cook yells: ‘Come and get it! and you grab atin plate and cup and the roundup cook loads you up with several pounds, of the tender- est and juiciest beef that was ever cut} from the carcass of a Wyoming grass- Ted steer und wtih cowboy bread so delicious that in comparison it would make ange¥ food taste like sour beans an dwith coffee so strong that until diluted with cream and sugar it would bear up a’battleship and you sit cross- legged on the grass and eat until you couldn't force down another mouthful with a ramrod and you stretch out on the ground and look up at God's blue sky and you finally get drowsy and l asleep while listening to the punch- ers tell Sunday school stories. Oh, mummer! “And while I think of it I want to carol a few stanzas concerning Florida and Wyoming road paving and road building in general. This Florida land 1s principally a tract of sand, ‘evidently once the bed of an ocean, Only a few years ago this little county of Pinellas, only thirty-four miles long from north to south and from five to fifteen miles wide from east to west, had few good reads ,or roads that were in fact pass- able at all times and seagons. Its surface is principally exceedingly fine sand. That makes mighty poor roads, Until automobiles came in vogue the settlers here managed to stagger along with teams, but the autos soon ruined he roads, the wheels burrowing out deep ruts until the ‘axles dragged om the ground, Then the people got busy ; and bonded the county for the express Purpose of building payed roads and to- day the little county has 168 miles of paved highways connecting every town with every other town with roads paved with vitrified brick. A day or two since I took oceasion, to yisit and interview | a very intelligent citizen who was born | here some fifty years ago and has lived on the same tract of land ever since. | He has a comfortable house and all necessary outbuildings; an orange and grapefruit grove of 8 acres and a gar- | den of some 3 acres bordering right on | the brick-paved road, the tract easily worth $2,000 an acre. He says that the paving of the county road more than quadrupled the value of ‘his land. “He tells me that the roads are con- } structed as follows: They are first graded up to the proper height and then wet and rolled solid with a three-ton roller, they being from 15 to 20. feet wide. Cement curbing, 6 inches wide, is | then laid, 18 inches deep in the ground, 9 feet apart, and the space between them is ¢hen filled in with vitrified brie’, This really makes a paved tract 10 feet wide. Three feet on either side is hard-surfaced with either sea shell eme it, 80 that a solid road ‘7 made 15 feet wide so that autos can pass each other in safety,’ The brick is shipped in here from Augusta and sunlight feeling that you love every-! body and hate no one and that life is, worth the living after all and you join | the happy throng and stroll down to the beach and watch the blond and brunette mermaids and other maids, all unadorned disporting themselves in the | salt and foamy surf and your blood | suddenly quickens and your spirits be- gin to climb and the thermometor and you feel young again, In the language June when the 30-foot frontage of the) corner and peruse the train schedule White House Cafe and the Burkett Mil-| and select exactly the kinds of food you | linery sold for $30,000. relish and that your appetite craves, Jana you t 2 fresh daily newspaper % | from your hip pocket and read the pro- & - | ceedings of congress and the debates | AND ASK N § 10 lon the peace tr 8 | 5 IN UN | never have peace until there are about ¢ | United States senate and just then your; | order is brought in, accompanied with a | billet duux with some figures. on it, and BOURNEMOUTH, England (By Mail). | stomache’s content and you get up, and —Rathers at this famous holiday re-| jn a lordly manner proceed to the cash- | sort will not be allowed to loiter on| jer’s boudoir and with a millionaire air! coming season, for the corpgration has | gown a dolar bill and receive in ex- drawn up the.following new by-law. } change a few pennies and a thank you ‘When intending to bathe persons are| and a smile and you walk out in the tents or bathing sereens to the wate: und after bathing to return direct with- | out loitering on the sands.” ’ MEN’S BANQUET IS POSTPONE The men’s banquet planned for to-| been postponed ‘The com- mittee. in charge of the banquet has announced t it is impossible to- have and you your order to the waiter | the conclusion that this country will | a dozen first-class funerals in the BE STOPPED IN ENGLAND | you: sit \and eat to your heart’s and the sands or bask in the sun during the} present your please remit and plank to proceed direct from their bungalow: asi A rE night at the Pre ian Church has a banquet at this time. - —_ BLONDY’S TAXI AT YOUR SERVICE Phone 18 New Orleans the largest and most modern cotton warehouse in the world, with a capacity of nearly half a million | bale: RED TAG SALE $50.00 Dresses $23.75 The Leader The ‘Palace Ice Cream Parlor 146 South Center All new up-to-date furnishings. Quality and Service at your command. Fresh Cut Flowers Every Day i PTI LPLALLZLLLALLAL ALAA A LA bd dd dd dh dod dediaddded, other towns in Georgia. What the cost is I am unable to state. “Before leaving home I was not much enthused/over Fred Pattee’s continuous harping in the newspapers about pav- ing with cement the Yellowstone ‘High- way from Cheyenne to the National Park, believing it to be 9. chimerical and impracticable scheme, but I am now fully convinced that it is entirely feas- ible and that it ought to be done as! quickly as possible and regardless of cost. Every acre of land bordering on or contiguous to a cement-paved road will immediately double if not triple in value, “Just before leaving Casper in De- cember I was invited to and did take an auto spin over the five miles of cement pavement last year construct- ed on the Salt Creek road, and the ride to the north end of the pavement and return was'2 convincing one, I don’t know the width of that pavement, but it is wide enough for autos to safely pass each other. It runs through the sand hills, up hill and down, around curves, is perfectly smooth and is as hard as adamant. This trip to Florida has made me as crazy about payed, highways as I formerly thought Fred Pattee to be. Converse and Natrona counties can well afford to spend half their actual valuation’ on paving their roads with cement, as the other half would immediately double in value. “When are you coming home?’ is, a frequent written inquiry. Oh, damfino! April, perhaps. As the Sow Injun would say: ‘“Mepie so, mebbe not so.’ It all depends upon when the walking gets good, ‘When the Spring-Time Comes, Gentle Annie’ if your ever-vigilant guardians of the peace discover a weary, tattered and footsore figure tramping into Glenrock, his only extra raiment consisting of a soiled shirt and pair of socks tied up, in “a bandana handker- chief, please don’t let them throw him in the municipal bat caye, as he would probably follow the usual custom of vags and break out the following night, but give him food and shelter and rai- ment, for you have discovered only the battered and emaciated hulk of what was once the beautiful and sylph-like form of yours truly, “RE, H. KIMBALL.” SEE BEN GROCERY . STORE For Sale: We recom- . mend investigation of this splendid business opportunity. Proper- ty, including housing quarters, goes with business. 109 W 15! ST. PHONE 74 W } | | YRC RE NTE LS TTS AE A RA OE ET DOUBLE PIPE LINE. 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