Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-10
rpAn5FERs REPRESENTING $751;
ooo FILED FOR RECORD WITH
IN TWO WEEKS.
SEVERAL TRANSACTIONS
AT $3.50 PER ACRE
N any Other Sales Made Around 500,
While Wet and Untitled Lands Bring
From $50 to SIS in Large Tracts -
Well Drained Tract of 200 Acres
Near Latimer Sold For $1e,5oo.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times-Republican.
Hampton, March 10.-County Record
er Will Lane and his able deputy are
kept very busy these days in keeping
up with the rush of work that comes to
that office in the way of deeds and
other instrum ents for the purpose Of
being recorded.
Notwithstanding the diligent service
that they are giving the public and the
fact that they are often compelled to
work overtime, the instruments keep
piled up, and the inflow Of others
seems not to slacken.
The aggregate of the amounts of
consideration in the real estate trans
fers during period Of about two weeks
ending March 3, is the handsome sum
Of over $317,0 900. Below is list of the
more important transfers of Franklin
county farm land during that time,
with the amount of the consideration as
recorded in the office Of the county
recorder:
F. e. Starks, Widower sold to Will
liam H. Lfapple eighty acres in sec
ton 25, Reeve township, for $4,000.
In consideration Of $4,000 James A.
Tebay transfers the title to his 160-
acre farm in section 10, Mott town.
per acre being $40.
Henry r. Meyer has sold to Fred
Lee 200 acres in Hamilton township in
sections 80 and 81, for $4,000. This
land is in the extreme southwest
corner of the township and will all be
benefited by the big ditch that is to be
put thru that part Of the county.
George Arends and wife dispose Of an
interest in four different tracts of land
in sections and 9, Hamilton town
ship, to Ellen j. Amends, for a consid-
Grafton of $s,905.
A. w. Meyer has sold to George w.
Meyer forty acre tract near the town
of Latimer for $4,000. 1t is commonly
known as lot 5, Nut park.
Agnes McMurchy has transferred to
John J.. Rotzler an eighty acre tract in
section 21, Lee township, two miles
from Burdette for a consideration of
$50 per acre.
Louis Lemke has sold to Charley H.
Muhlenbrock $50 acres, the southeast
quarter Of section 13, Scott township.
TiN. price paid was $4,000. about 500
per acre. This farm is very desirable
one, however, as it lies within two
miles Of the town Of Latimer, and a
schoolhouse is only one-half mile from
the place. The Belmond branch just
misses one corner of the farm.
Martha Blackford has sold to Claas
Symens the west half of the northwest
quarter of section 81 in Scott township.
the consideration being $1,000.
The one hundred dollar an acre mark
vas reached when Frank Kopacek
transferred to Boye Boyenga the south
half of the northeast quarter of Sec
ton in Osceola township for $4,000.
The land lies two and one-half miles
northwest Of the town of Faulkner.
Evan Engebretson has sold to I. Bar
ton Robinson eighty acres in section
e and 100 acres in section 10, Ross
being about SIS. Eighteen thousand
eight hundred and forty three dollars
was the amount Of the consideration
The list of transfers disclose that
John w. Marker and wife have trans
ferred to T. v. White three tracts in
section %, forty acres in twenty-five
anG the same in section twenty four
a total Of 240 acres-all in Ingham
township, and that the price averages
81 per acre.
Patrick J. Monahan has sold to W.
L. and T. ]. B. Robinson a part of the
north half of the northwest quarter Of
section in Reeve township, the land
being within two miles Of the court
house and lying close to the Iowa Cen
trail railway. The consideration was
$12000-$150 per acre.
John H. Manifold to r. NJ. Harrison,
120 acres in section 25, Ingham town
ship, the consideration being $4,000
another case of 500 land, and this, too.
is four miles from station-Hansell.I
Louis F. Possehl has sold to Else
Damien 100 acres in section 8, Marion
township, the price recorded being s10,-
500. This tract lies about midway be-
tween Latimer and Chaplin, being about
six miles from each town. The price,
even at this distance from market, was
$50 per acre.
Chris Wilson has transferred to
August Brandt 100 acres two miles
north of this city in section 81, at an
even $4,000.
Mary E. Kibbe has sold to Alfred
Rowe 100 acres in section 20, Ingham
township, within one mile of the town
of Hansell, at a price Of $11,680.
Elvlra I3fller SOLD 10 august Brandt
100 acres in section q, Mott township,
for $10,0SO. This is the second large
tract in the same township that
Brandt has recently purchased.
Mary E. updike transfers to w. J.
Christians 100 acres in section II. West
Fork township at the price Of $4,000.
W. r. Stayner has bought of E. Letz-
ring, geo acres Of land located in sec
lions 26 and q, Marion township, for
s19.500-a price per acre Of $3.50:
This land lies near the Belmond branch
of the Iowa Central railroad, is about
three miles east Of the town Of Latimer
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