Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-09
SOME RECENT DEALS IN COUNTY
LAND CLOSED AT MORE THAN
5000 AN ACRE.
FAIR PRICES FOUND
TO BE MOST COMMON
Marietta Township Eighty Changes
Hands For $21s.75 an Acre-TayIor
Township Small Farm Sold For $201
an Acre-Iist Of Recent Transfers Of
Farm Lands and City Property.

| One or two good, vet not exceptional
| prices, but more average values are
| contained in recent sales OF farms in
| the county A few of the sales referred
to We're negotiated for more than 5000.
! but most of them were below that
! mark.
| The war tax makes it no longer pos
i sible for seller and buyer to conceal the
| prices at which lands are bought and
/ sold. This adds much to the public
interest in these negotiations.
! Among the higher prices of the re-
Aria Buck paid for eighty acres in
Marietta township owned by Jesse P.
Newly
| Robert D. Holt, who moved from
Taylor township to this city, got s2ol
an acre for his ninety-seYen acre farm
Harry NJ. Graves bought it.
| a. r. Estel, of this city, has bought
| of Tory Button, III acres in Taylor
i township for $3.50 an acre. Button only
recently got deed for the land from
Jackson Smith, OF Los Angeles, for
| s1S3 an acre.
| Some Recent Sales.
I! These and other recent transfers OF
farm lands and city property are in the
/ following list:
| John H. Beck to James Borton, eighty
acres in Minerva township, $4,000.
Henry Bussan to Henry Oetker. $50
acres in Washington township. $4,000.
| ]. n. Hurto to Charles G. Johnson.
l2O acres in Greencastle township.
s21.0Oo.
Mike CLEAR to Dora McKibben, land
in LeGrand township, s12.7O0.
! Carl S. Benson to Arthur Brennecke,
| 100 acres in Timber Creek township.
$4,000.
Charles H. Conover, executor of the
estate of Della L. B. Conover, of Chi
cago, to ]. H. Beck. 160 acres in Minerva
township. $4,000.
7. H. Montgomery to j. L. blessing,
ten acres in Marion township, 1880.
William H. Jacobs, OF Allegheny
county, Pennsylvania, to Alfred G.
Lehman. eighty acres in Liscomb
township. $4,000.
| City National Bank 70 Robert 3.
Roberts sixty acres in Marion town.
ship, $500.
A. P. Anderson to Mary Anderson. Of
Polk county. fifty acres in Marion
township. $3.50.
Jesse P. Newly to Aria Buck. eighty
acres in Marietta township. $17,500.
C. F. Durham to George Wesley
Fouch, forty acres in Timber Greek
township, 81.
F. G. Houghton to Frank Dawson,
jackson Smith, of Los Angeles, to
Tory Button, III acres In Taylor town
ship, s21,445.
Tory Button and A. F. Estel, same
III acres as next above, $22.230.
Robert D. Holt to Harry NJ. Graves
ninety-seven acres in Taylor township
$4,000.
s. w. Elliott to H. Isabella Elliott
lots and 2, block 16, Trip and Bcyd's
addition, 81.
William H. Wikel to Roy H. Spratt
lot Z, block 8, Riverside addition, s2.400
Henry L. Lee to Attic Nolta, the cas-
half of lot 8, block 13, State Center
J $4,000.
Ralph W. Hill to Rhoda NJ. Hobbs
lot 6, block -, Rice's addition, $4,000
]. w. Crosby to James R. Borton, 10
9, block 10, ST. Anthony, s475.
Ethel NJ. Ward to Ruth E. Pagan 10
] 10, block Al, Gilman, $1,000.
William G. Mersner to A. r. Hoffman
lots ] and 6, block 3, Industrial add
J ton, 81.
George c. Reynolds to Mark Y
s Thomas, lot II, block 2, Woods add
ton, $1,000.
Pearl o. Condit to Orvi'le NJ. Doane
lots % and "a, block 16. Gilman, $1,000.
: Martha A. Richey to Cyrus o. Coli
son, the south part 70 feet of lot 8. blocl
3, Albion. 81.
Igerna NJ. Getz to DR.. p. r. Hanssr
the south go feet of lot l., block
: Rice's addition, 81.
Willet Moore to Christine v. Nobl
lot s, block 3, Clemens third addition
} s17O.
Tryphena Stricken to Harry I
Beatty, the south so feet of lot 1:
} block 9 Beebe's addition, $4,000.
! Leota B. Pitcher to John w. RAM
lot 4, block 2, Westlake's fourth addi
ton, s1,5cO.
William A. sandoe to Roy c. War
ring. lot 9, block 8, Electric addition
} $3.50.
) Roy c. Warning to c. F. Johnson, 10
9, block 3. Electric addition, s4Oo.
Freda K Bohen and husband to Mr.!
! Emma Ware, lot i, block 2, Cumming:
third addition, 1920.
H. Keller to Edward J. Hennamar
} lots and 5, block IS, Babcock an
Thompson's addition, $500.
Fred Gard to G.. A. Carr, the cas-
. fifty-seven feet of lot 9, block 1, Web
ster's fourth addition, $4,000.
Louis Halter to G. Schneider lots
} 4, 5, 6, Z, 8, 9, 10. II and II, book
! Hobbies addition, $1,000.
Hilda C. Christensen to Frank Ed
ward Naumann. lot 4, block IS. Rice
! addition and part Of lot 8, block
Anson's addition, $500.
Fred Myers ct al. to A. H. Thoma
! the undivided seven ninths of lots
and 2, block 8, Green Mountain, 1894