Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-29

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! With the approach of March l farm
lands became the predominant factor
in the real estate market that swelled
the trading and value of property
bought and sold TO huge proportions
during the week ending Monday. In
the week the first OF the annual turn
over rush of farm NEGOTIATIONS began.
1t will reach an apex this week or
next, and then gradually decline
Thus. for the time being, farm deals
overshadow all else in the local real
estate market the trading in city prop
erty offering only very small percentage
Offering only very small percentage
of the total value of all the real estate
sold.
Many Large Deals.
The opening week OF the rush sea-
son developed d seemingly unusual
number Of large transactions Sales
of farms of value of s313.442 were
made of record in the week. A great
many Of these deals are for $4,000 or
more, and most OF them show a per
acre value that is high.
The total value of property sold IN
the week was s326,442, of which s4,o5o
represented city property and $3.50
small town property.
The largest single transaction of the
week that became OF record was the
sale of the Mundy[& Scott farm in
! Liberty township to T. E. Lockard and
Mrs. Sara Rueghley, a transaction for
315 acres for total consideration Of
s63, at a per acre valuation of se0e.
Other Large Transactions. a.
Other large transactions included
the sale of the W. o. Van VOORHEES,
farm west of Lisconb to ClaEG G..
LeFever for a consideration in cash,
mortgages ard land traded in of
$4,000.
A 200-acre deal in Jefferson town
ship was closed by Charles Pothast.
who sold his farm to George j. Meier,
Of Jasper county. for $4,000. The
land is three miles southwest OF
Haverhili. H.r -.f.
Still another good sized farm sale
in the southern part of the county
was the purchase by Gustave II.
Wehrman of a quarter section three
and one-half miles southwest OF Van
cIeve for $4,000. The farm belonging
to George Wehrman. The price is at
the rate of $50 an acre.
Turning to the northern part Of the.
county the sale by Mrs. Martha A.
Wilder. of Los Angeles. to Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Klein, of 16o acres in
the northern part Of Vienna township
disclosed a transaction for $4,000 an6
per acre value Of Sis.
Good values were represented in the
private sale of the Jones estate land
IN Minerva township to Louis G. Jones
ard F. z. Frickc for a total of s24,2+2.
Real Estate Transfers.
The transfers for the week were:
William Springer, Jr.. to Georgia.
Wheat. tract in north Marshall
$1,000.
Andrew l.. Condor to John A. Small.
lots and S. block /. of Lscomb, 81 eco.
william CIenons to G. VI. Toler. the
north sixty feet of lot :. block 4.
Westlakes second addition, 81,
Elv:ra H. Ware, er al. to A. L.
Rohrer. lots 4. 3 and 6, block II. Mel
bourne. $1,000.
H. A Hlcreth to JOHN, Breunig
part Of lots IS ard "A. block 10.
Rhodes addition. $1,000. 49, 81.
Henry Hamelan to o. y. Evans, lot
8. block IS. Rabcock & Tnompson's
addition. State Center. $i,450.
d. ". Dobson. OF Osi.aloosa. to Louis
Wiese. lot IS, Melrose Park 81
Louis Wiese 20 J. A. Weiter. lot IS
Melrose Park, $3.50.
A J. Haas 20 Hollis T. Phillips. lots
3 and 4. block 4, Rhodes addition to
Edenville. $500. ..
]. H. Augustine to Willis Kirk. lots
=, s and 9. block 2. Clemons Grove
$500. .l." @.
| Mary A. Wilder Of Los Angeles to
/ Martha l. Klein, so acres In Vienna
township. sl.4Oo- .'-lh ,.,-.t
Mary A. Wilder, of Los Angeles. to
Martha L. Klein. so acres in Vienna
township. $4,000. rs -, .. .-
NJ. L. Mundy and R. w. Scott to n.
f. Lockard and Sarah T. .Bueshly. els
acres in Liberty township, ss4500.
! Henry T. Clark to trustees Of the
State Center Cemetery Association.
one acre in State Center township. 81.
f; Frank Neuroth to John .Staebler,
sixty acres in Jefferson township,
1900 '-~
w. A. sandoe to H. J. AlIard, land
in Anson's third subdivision, 81
W. o. Van VOORHEES, to Claude c.
LeFever, 1913 acres in Liscomb town
ship s25, 600. Il
+. Bernard H. Kopel to Hilda Jansen.
| 100 acres in Timber Creek township.
$4,000. sg.f -
Harry W. Bright to Carl ]. Ander-
son, 100 acres in Marietta township.
$1,000
John H. Rubenbauer to Joseph
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