Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-08
REALTY is LESS ACTIVE.
Market Shows Falling OF in Business
New Addition Added to City.

A rather featureless real estate
market. which shows a falling off in
the total volume of business done.
characterized the dealings for the
week up TO the close Of business Mon
day evening. Although without
furnishing any deals of unusual In
terest. there are a number of features
of the weeks market that are at
tractive. Chief among these was the
adding TO the city of Walnut Park
addition, plated by LennoN Furnace
Company, and the activity of small
town property. Sales III the City were
slow and farm transfers numbered
only one.
Property of a total value of s27, 1872
was sold during the week, compared
with s36940 last week and s33,O1o. TWO
weeks ago OF the total $4,000 worth
Of city property changed hands and
1882 Of town property was trans
terred.
Walnut Park addition is tract
es4x1.073 feet lying south of the Len
nox Furnace Company's new factory.
The plat, which provides for forty
eight lots 60xlso feet, and for streets
and alleys was accepted Monday by
the city council, except as to curb and
grade lines. Linn and Boone streets
pass thru the addition from east to
west Twelfth avenue bounds the adj
dition on the west. The addition gets
the name of Walnut Park from the
fact that the company will plant
great many walnut trees in it next
fall.
The dealings in small town property
is of more than ordinary interest,
State Center, Lamoille, Rhodes and
Melbourne We're represented in the
weeks trading. Included in it was me
sale by DR.. l. D. Kaufman, to his
partners. DR. Theodore Engle and DR..
A. D. Woods. of his one-third interest
in the firms business property for
81 900.
County Auditor A. w. Dobson APP
pears as one Of the purchasers of city
property. He bought of j. c. Hedges.
of johnson county, the property al
gil West Church street for $4,000. The
lot is 90xl74 feet and is improved with
a good dwelling.
!. B. Klingaman. formerly Of this
city. but now of Clinton, has sold to
]. H. Runner. of this city, the prop
eTtv a. 40 North Second avenue for
s., 900. Other transactions mentioned
earlier and closed during the week
was the purchase by Fred E. Otte. OF
what was formerly the Rev. Jesse Cole
property at 1905 West State street and
the purchase by A. P. Pratt of the
Charles C. Urine property at sos West
State street.
Other transfers are:
John A. Coulter to Hans Erickson,
lots l and ., block 4. Lamoilie, s662.50.
John ". Steward to Martin Ander-
son. the east eighty feet of the south
forty feet Of lot 8. and the east eighty
feet of the north ten feet Of lot~4, block
8, Riverside addition, SIPS.
Clara E. Wing to Fred E. Otte, lot 16,
block 5, Electric addition, ST.
l. D. Kaufman 20 Theodore Engle
and A. D. Woods, an undivided one
third vi lots and 6, block 1s, in State
Center, $4,000.
ollie Luttenken to G. E. McCord, the
north fifty three feet of lot g. block H..
Rhodes addition to Edenville, $500.
J. H. Witt to John Doerr. lots II and
II, block 8, Melbourne, s1.s75.
Helen K Brock to Sene Anderson.
lot l. block /, Sutton & Evans second
addition, 81.
William A. sandoe to William Mar
quis, lot 8, block 4, Click & Willigrod's
addition, $1,000.
Orson Shannon to Peter Lathrop, the
north one-half of lots Q and 10, block 2,
Woods addition, $1,000.
Charles c. Urine to A. P. Bratt, lot 3,
block I, Jerome's addition, $1,000.
Wealthy A. Woodward to Elizabeth
NJ. Middaugh, e, al, lots g. 4, 5. and Z,
block 16. Babcock & Thompson's addi-
| ton to State Center, 81.
S. S. Hanson, referee, to George, l.
NJ. Good, of Story county, $50 acres lin
Eden township. $500.
| w. L. Peckham to H. J. Macka
man, lot in west Marshall. 81.
c. H. Van Law, referee, to Elizabeth