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1 1 mmmm mSm TOPEKA BUILDING NEWS BRICK tile and marble from T. G. Smith Son. O. C.

Olney is doiag the plastering and Louis Van Dorp the steel ceiling work. We carry in stock and can make prompt deliveries of Common Brick Fire Brick Face Brick (ail kinds) Bonner Portland Cement Mantel Brick (all shades) Wall Ties Lime Sewer Pipe Mellow Building Tile Fire Clay Drain Pipe Mortar Colors (any shade) Flue Lining Drain Tile Another 10 Story Building. Topeka is to have another large office building. The Southwestern Bell Telephone is making preliminary plans to build a structure ten or eleven stories high at a cost of from $750,000 to $800,000 on lots near their present building between Eighth and Ninth streets on Jackson street. Construction work will not be started before 1920 it is announced as war conditions will make it impossible to start in 1919.

E. F. Carter, of Topeka is general manager. THE CAPITAL CITY VITRIFIED BRICK PAVING CO. African M.

E. Church. Contractor S. P. Hawkins says he will not complete the $16,000 church he is building at Seventh and Topeka avenue at the present.

The trustees of the church have come to this decision. The building will be roofed with shingles but the interior will not be completed until some later date. L. M. Wood is the architect.

Mr. Hawkins has let all contracts for material and labor. met BMf. Toptka, Ku. nu sw C.

R. COOK PAINT CO. PAINTS THAT WEAR WRITE US Remodel Store. The store building at 609 Kansas Avenue formerly occupied by the Capital City Candy Co. is being remodelled and will be occupied by the United Cigars Stores and the Rigby Candy Co.

The work is being done by day labor. New partitions, and a new store front constitute the bulk of the work. The lumber was purchased from the J. Thomas Lumber Co. the millwork ffom Curtis, Towle Paine Co.

the Kansas City, Me. 1107 Broadway Waits on Plasterers. Contractors Lundgren Carlson are delayed on both the $35,000 Knights Ladies of Security Home and the Swedish Baptist church job at Fourth and Filmore streets by the plasterers. It is hoped to start the interior finishing in the Home job next month. AVOID INFRINGEMENT NO DATE SET ON LEAVENWORTH JOB REX FERRO CONCRETE STAIRS and PRESSED STEEL STAIRS are covered by U.

S. patents Get the ermine They cost no more. Kansas, to build a college building to cost from $85,000 to $100,000, at its regular meeting which is being held todajr; If a permit is granted by the state board and later by the War Industries Board at Washington work will be started very soon. Plans were completed by Architect Wm. Mampe of Kansas City, quite a while ago and everything is in readiness for receiving bids as soon as the government permit is received.

Board Will Beadvertise for Bids Soon on $90,000 Community Building. THE CAPITAL IRON WORKS CO. TOPEKA. KANSAS Will You Do It? Will you remember to mention The Construction News" in writing to any of the firms advertising in this paper? It helps a lot. a Because of a legal technically, discovered at the last minute, the board of education at Leavenworth has found it necessary to readvertise for bids on the construction of a community building in that city and a new date for receiving and opening bids will be set at once.

Next week's issue of this paper will probably contain the new dates. There is no lack of bids on the work, as thirteen contractors in this vicinity have asked the architects Thos. W. Williamson Co. of Topeka, for plans that they might submit bids.

F. D. Bolman, is clerk ot the board of education. A government permit has been issued for this work so that nothing will interfere with the work once a contract is awarded. Established 1876 If Quality Counts, We Win.

FOB SALE. Elevator for sale Electric elevator in good running condition, all complete with metal cab, alternating current, speed 120 feet to minute, up to a four story building. Delivered within thirty days. Size about 5 feet square. Answer Box 646, Parsons, Kansas.

I I I I COOK COOK HILLSBORO COLLEGE UP TODAY. i i i i Wichita, Kansas Are Making Low Rates on Surety Bonds State Council of Defense Will Consider $100,000 Project This Afternoon. Building Flour Mill. Business Association at Nashville, Kansas, is building a $5000 flour mill. The American Mill Co.

furnished the plans for the work which was started July 15th. A government penmit wfhs granted to this firm altho no permit is necessary now. It is being erected by day work. and i i a i a a The State Council of Defense will pass on the project of granting a permit to Tabor College at Hillsboro, Liability Insurance Call Loo Distance Phillips on the wire well get whet me want Salina Tile and Mantel Co. lent Salina, Kansas Anything in Tile Road Building Equipnu Contractors Machinery Trucks, Trailers, Loaders Phillips Please let us figure that Job i WILLIAM GRIMMETT Grading Tools Hand Carts Hauling Breading Wagons Holsts Loading Machinery Molting Kettles Mixers, concrete Paving Mixers Plows Pumps, all kinds Quarry Equipment Rook Crushers Saw Bigs Scrapers Trucks and Trailers Wagons Wheel harrows Asphalt and cement tools Backfillers Block machines Brick Clamps BuUdin Mixers Centrifugal Pumps Compressors Concrete Casts Concrete Mixers Crushers Culvert Forms Curb and Gutter Forms Derricks Drills Dump Wagons Engines all types Form Clamps Contractor and Shipper of CUT STONE OR ROUGH STONE Get Our Prices EMPORIA, KANSAS iminN pmmww wp mmmm mm 7th and Delaware Sta.

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