ated a feed mill built by a Mr. Lehman, located south of the tracks on the east side of Sycamore Street. This building was finally dismantled, as were the old lumber sheds and icehouse.
About 1924 a group of men built a cement block blacksmith shop on the north side of the T. P. & W. tracks at Cherry Street, leasing it to J. J. Kauth of Lexington who had worked in another El Paso shop. He took over the building in 1927, and although he shoes few horses, it is still a busy place today. Between tasks, Jake cares for hundreds of young pheasants in pens southwest of his shop, which the Sportsmen's Club releases on farms in the community.
W. T. Andrews built a cement block building on Cherry Street in 1919 for his dry cleaning business. Harry Wilson built a woodworking, shop on Route 24 in 1949. The Owens Phosphate Co. built phosphate storage bins on the east Y in 1949, and added another in 1951. There had been a previous farmers group which erected two large silos south of Route 24 on the east Y about 1919 for the storage and cooperative spreading of phosphate. The company was headed by Robert Mayne and George Shuman, and was ahead of its day, for the plant was finally sold to C. C. Kingdon who dismantled it and sold it to a Bloomington firm.
A large storage tank for anhydrous ammonia was erected on the south end of the east Y in 1953 which will begin distribution in 1954.
LEMON'S ICE POND. Once a fine winter recreational area of much popularity, as noted before, Mr. Lemon finally purchased the first building owned by the Christian Church and moved it to the pond for the storage of ice. The icehouse burned, and the last one built in 1927 and operated by John Pleasants also burned, and today only the pond remains. It was first supplied with water from the city well, but after two years of reduced rainfall, the council refused to continue to fill the pond, and a well 265 feet deep was drilled for the purpose. In mild winters, natural ice was shipped in from Wisconsin and stored in the icehouse. The pond was condemned by health authorities in 1910 for ice purposes, and with the advent of artificial ice it became useless.
FARM IMPLEMENTS. In 1945 the building formerly occupied by J. W. Pleasants for coal office was dismantled and the lumber used to erect a new shop and display room on the site, which was rented to the Heller Farm Store. In 1953 the Heller company purchased the quonset type warehouse erected in 1946 on Route 24 by the Pfister Associated Growers and added display rooms and an office. They then moved to their new location, using the first building only as a warehouse.
In 1947 the Zehr Farm Supply moved from Front Street to a larger building on Route 24 just east of its intersection with 51. The El Paso Implement Company erected its showrooms and shop in 1948 south of the T. P. & W. tracks opposite Front Street block 42. Ernest Stimpert moved his implement business from Secor following a fire,
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