The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-11-22
POSTEN BUILDING SOLD.
William Wilmington Buys Col.
Posten's Business Block.
Eighteen Thousand Dollars the Price
Charles A. Goodwin Deserves Credit
for the sale Other big real estate deals
Made In Morgantoun Recently Large
Lot of Big Transfers.

for the sale Other big real estate deals
Made In Morgantown Recently Large
Lot of Big Transfers.
The transfers for the Posten build
ing were made on Monday morning
and the property is now owned by
William Wilmington who bought it
of Col. S. A. Posten Tor $4,000. The
sale was made by Attorney Charles
A. Goodwin who deserves all the
credit for the sale of the property
having had very lively time OF it
getting all the details arranged.
The sale has been in the air for
several days but the parties inter
ested did not get everything fixed up
until Monday when it was finally
settled definitely. Possession vii
be given on December first.
The property which fronts on
Main and Walnut streets and con
sists of four stories and basement is
one of the best if not the best block
in town from a business standpoint.
Wilmington the shoe man who has
become its owner has been occupy
ing the first floor as shoe store for
several months.
In addition to the sale of this
block several other very important
real estate deals have been made in
this place in the past few weeks and
it may be interesting to note what
they have been. The first of these
was the sale of the Hotel Peabody at
judicial sale. 1t brought $20,S00
and was bought by Attorney E. B.
Stewart for s. K burr, of Pittsburg.
The sale OF the Moreland property
on the corner of Main and Peasants
streets to Aaron Carlow, Henry L.
Cox, Frank Cox and W. E. Glass
cock for SIC, 900 is another important
deal.
MADEIRA Brothers have entered the
lists rather strongly and have made
the sale of their property to G. and
w. E. Price at the same time buy
ing the Franklin Hotel from G. W.
Finnell. The sale brought them
$4,000 and the purchase took ST.
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Among the transactions that have
taken place within the past few
weeks is also the sale of the Miller
block on Main street by Aaron Gar
low to Cox q Baker for $4,000.
This had been bought a short time
previous from j. r. Miller by Mr..
Carlow.
The sale of the interest of Frank
Cox, w. f. Glasscock and Geo. c. Ba
ker who disposed Of their interest in
the addition in the rear of the Pres
byterian graveyard to |. G. Lazzelle
who has formed an arrangement with
the real estate agent j. W. Wiles for
its disposition to people who desire
to invest or build homes over there.
The letting of the contract for the
three new buildings at the Universe
ty to Caldwell & Drake, of Parkers-
burg, will also place lot of money
in circulation and is one of the lar
gest deals ever made in the town.
The transaction is on the part of the
state but it will result in great
deal of profit to the town.
Another deal that involves a large
real estate movement is the contract
for the new Morgantown and Green
mont bridge by DR.. S. S. Wade, R.
r. Chrisman, Frank Brown, of
Wheeling, /. G. Lazzelle and Huston
Il Domain. The price to be paid for
the bridge is $4,000.
All these deals show the faith that
is held in the future of the town by
the leading business men of the
place. They have shown their faith
by their works and that they will
not be proven mistaken is shown by
the progress of the city within the
past decade. The prices paid are
very liberal for the most part but
they cannot be purchased for the
same figures in any instance. The
purchasers would not now take wnat
they have paid out for their bar
gains.
Morgantown has great future
ahead of it and these important
deals indicate in unmistakable tones
even to the croakers and mossbacks
that this is true. The day of the
yawper is past and that interest had
better prepare to get off the earth as
far as Morgantown is concerned.