Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
VALUE OF REALTY LARGE.
Weeks Market Develops Large Values,
But City Property Is Quiet.

In spite OF volume of business done
that exceeded any week since last
spring. the realty market for the week
ending Monday was quiet. This was
especially true Of the dealings in city
property. II was farm lands and not
town and city property that produced
the volume OF business that made the
week : record look like n unusual one.
This should not he taken 10 mean
that dealing in city property was dull
in the week II was not. -Altho there
was a liberal number Of transactions
there We're none for either properties
OF exceptional value or interest be-
cause Of location. local history. or
promise the transaction contained of
development Of the property.
All classes OF city property were
included in The deals closed Among
the number were one business prop
erty and an interest in manufacture
ing propertw Al Of the rest were out
living buildings. lots and sites and
moderate prlced residences Melrose
Park was featured in the trading for
lots. Electric addition, which has
seldom been missing from each week 5
list, was represented, as was also
.'iilIIIiIsl T al r. d l4'-N''I dOLIIlOIl.
The business property that changed
hands was the two-story brick build
ing and lot at sos south Third avenue.
that Ketchum & CASTOR Company
bought Of Frank Brennecka for g.. coo.
The interest in the manufacturing
property transferred was the former
kreutzer & Wasen mill and lumber
yards, between Fourth and Fifth ave
nues, on East Nevada The transac-
ton was the deciding by Frederick
Wasem to the joyce Lumber Compa ny
Of mis- undivided interest.
One of the several transactions in
farm lands is of unusual interest II
was the purchase by William L.ade-
hoff of Mrs. Martha Wagner and her
children. the eighty-acre farm in
Vienna township left her and her
children by their husband and father.
1.adehoff paid $4,000. OF $3.50 an acre
for the eighty. 1t adjoins the John 3.
Classen farm on the east.
The transactions for the week totaled
S6l,3S9, compared with s52.250 for last
week, s39,560 for the same week of
September, and 1861 for the cor
responding week of August OF the
total. 1885 represented farm lands.
$685. city property. and s3,sSs small
! town property. Albion. Melbourne:
Quarry, and Gilman were included in
the sales of town property other than
in this city. The transfers are:
II. p. Miller to Cornell f, Nodland
lots 21s and 217, Melrose Park addi-
ton. 81. 600
| Burt B. Griggs. of Redwood county
Minnesota. to F. NJ. Kinsey. lots /. 9
! 3. 4. ), s, and 8. block % and lots
II, ., 3, 6, I and 8, block "a. Albion, L.
| 500
I Frank Benneke to Ketchum &, Gas
/ ton Company. two tracts 20xsO and
! 4x2o feet in block 3. Blair's addition
| 1000.
| H. 3. Miller TO W. H. Sloppy. lot
21s. Melrose Park addition. 5000
H. B. Miller to Maggie Sloppy. lots
| 1872 and 215, Merose Park addition
$3.50.
c. A. Buchwaid Lumber Company Il
| Fl. p. Miller. lots 1872 215. 216. 217 and
21s. Melrose Park addition, $500.
Marshall Guam to Maiissa 6. Chap
| in. the south 80 feet of the east one
third of lots ! and 2, block II. Rice's
| addition, s1.700.
A. s. Anderson to Simon Propp, lot: