Twice-A-Week News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
1898

The Kellerton bank, of which W. W. PEASLEY is the cashier, occupies the above handsome and substantial two-story brick building. The structure was erected in 1893 at a cost of $5000. It is 25x50 feet in size with basement under entire building. The front walls are Kansas City pressed brick and all openings have stone sills and caps. The interior is finished in hard pine and southern gum. The banking business is 20x32, the remainder being divided into apartments and occupied by the city council, Kellerton Globe, Miss Plesy REYNOLDS' millinery shop and Mrs. Joe GRAY'S dressmaking rooms. The entire building is heated by hot air.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2010