Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-05
BIG LAND SALES N
HARDIN AND GRUNDY
RECORD BREAKING TRANsAc.
TIoNs IN FARM LANDS AND
OTHER REALTY.
ONE HARDIN COUNTY FARM
BRINGS TOTAL OF 100000
Governor Boies Sells Half Section in
Grundy For ooo-Prices on the
Increase and Expected to Go Still
Hisher-some of the Larger Tran
sactions.
Special to Times-Republican.

Eldera, March 5.-Some of the big
gest real estate deals in the history OF
Hardin county are now being recorded
in the office of the country recorder.
March 1 and 2 were record breaking
days in that office. Recorder Kennedy
! has one extra man and-is making every
effort to accommodate the people. AT
this season of the year the office work
is heaviest and many expressions of
praise for the way Recorder Kennedy
completes the record and the dispatch
with which he returns the papers are
being heard from the bankers, at
torneys and real estate men who have
business with that office which de-
| lnards haste.
| Rochard Gruelicll sold to Sheriff
Thomas Walsh and Thomas Kennedy
| $50 acres i'll Jackson township for
| SIG, 500.
/ Wesley Crossan sold to f. p. Davis
sixty acres in Eldora township at S.
! 400.
Robert Schwartz sold 100 acres in Ell
dora township to. Henry Schwartz at
$4,000.
The highest price noted is the sale
| Of; Eldora, by Mary Ellen Sayer to j.
II. Smith at a price of $157.50 per acre
T. Hanson sold to William Lettow
eighty acres in Buckeye township for
$S,776.
Charles Hankey sold eighty acres in
Grant township to Fred Blom at 3d.
$50.
Enelie Witthuhn sold 800 acres in
Grant township to Gustav Dubberke,
price $4,000.
Lee Van Patter sold 100 acres in
Upton township to Carl Marono, price
$4,000.
! Preston w. Riley sold eighty acres
in Ellis township to James S. Lake for
/ Sc 400.
! The largest transfer is that of H. n.
| Peckham, q stock man of Union, of his
! $50 acres located just south of Union
price 100000. The land was purchased
by j. e. Johnson of Jasper county.
This is one of the finest improved
farms in Hardin county.
c. n. Schwartz sold 100 acres in FL
dora township to Robert e. Modlin for
$4,000 There are no improvements on
this land.
Derrick r. Clark sold to l.. NJ. and
A. j. Dewitt 169 acres in Providence
township for S14,3bo.
C. H. Carter sold to j. c. Jackson
800 acres in Hardin township for $2S.-
900.
j. T. Greenawalt. a banker of Mill
edgeville, I'LL, sold to George w. Rich
ards, of Eldora. 24O acres in jackson
township, for $12.240.
J. F. Walker sold to Fred Doll 119
acres in Eldora township. for $14,S75.
-T,11 n fu1, r.
man township TO A. o. Olson for S34,-
900.
Rufus A. and Daniel c. Johnson sold
172 acres in Upton township to Adolph
Blom at $4,000.
w. w. Walker sold to Charles O.
Ryan and G. E. Albrook $50 acres in
Eldora township for s2O,SOe.
w. f. Nichols. a merchant of Lake
Park, sold $50 acres located one and
one-half miles north of the corporation
of Iowa Falls to Charles o. Ryan ana
C. E, Albrook for $4,000.
Willis Gilmore. of F'reeport, ILL.,, sold
24o acres of land in Ellis township to
f. d. Peet ct AL, for $4,000
Charles O. Ryan sold 24O acres in
Ellis township;'to G.. w. Arrasmith foc
$26. 200.
C. w. iFoosler sold 16O acres in Buck
eye township for $1,000
Charles O. Ryan sold l46 acres IN
Buckeye township to Fred Rieks, OF
Hubbard, for $11,2O0
Frank d. Peet, cashier of the State
National Bank of Iowa Falls, sold 100
acres in Hardin township at slo2 per
acre.
G. w. .Nrrasmith sold eighty acres in
Grant township to Charles Hankey for
$4,000. ~ 9
L, f. Hubbard sold to Allen p. Riley
100 acres in Pleasant township for Slo'-
500
These are only small part of the
transfers of Hardin county lands mace
March / ofathis year and the people are
talking higher prices for lands ana
there are scores of farms which are not
for sale at any price.