Milford chronicle., 1918-11-22
REAL ESTATE SALES IN
MILFORD and VICINITY
Many Valuable Pieces Of Property
Change Owners. Farmers Largest
Investors In Land

Recently there has been activity in
the real estate market ABOUT MliIoru
and those interested are people who
know the earning capacity OF real es-
tate as an investment. Several have
fouud il impossible to rent prOpeEty
and these have bought homes in and
around Milford which are convenient
10 the ship yards and other Industries.
William Maloney Of Milford Neck
has purchased from George Kineer the
small ten-acre farm near the north
eastern boundary of Milford, which
was formerly part of the RuddeH
Farm. He paid $1,000 cash Tor the
home and will move to it at an early
date.
Charles Windsor last week sold the
farm of 120 acres which he recently
bought from Fred Harrington to Ben
iamin B. Vinyard for $4,000. Mr.. Vim
ward owns other valuable real estate
in lower Kent county and also has
the largest milk route supplying the
town of Milford.
Clarence Emory has bought the
dwelling on East Front street, near
Fisher Avenue, from Short & Hall.
The price paid was $1,000.
Charles Hobbs has bought the dwell
ing at the corner of McColley and
Carlisle streets, in South Milford, from
Short & Hall for $1,000 cash.
Charles NJ. Hammond has bought
the house and lot on the Kings High
way. near the Presbyterian graveyard,
for 81 500. 1t overlOOks the lake and
is well located for a dwelling place.
He bought it as a business speculation.
Phillip E. Lewes of Lincoln City,
Del, has bought from Short & Hall the
homestead dwelling and Is acres OF
land located half-mile southwest from
Milford on the Shawnee Road, immed-
lately along the DUPONT Boulevard He
paid $1,000 for the place. He is brick
layer by trade and works in Milford
principally.
Herman Sharp has bought from
Short & Hall the five acre tract of land
near Fort Salisbury on the Cedar
Beach road for $500 cash. This land
is known as the Sam Draper tract and
is susceptible to a high state of culti-
walton.
The William n Pierce homestead
and 100 acres of land attached, located
at the south side of the town of HOus-
ton, Del, was sold this week by Short
& Hall, of Milford, who bought it only
one week ago from Mrs. Pierce. to
Eugene Sharp, a prominent farmer
and land owner who now resides near
the McCauley Mills. The price paid
is private, but is, or must be, about
or over $4,000, as this is a well locat-
ed farm and the land is kind TO any
crop planted.
Robert J. Clendaniel of Glendale
haS houpht the "MorrisOn Farm" of
100 acres, located on the road leading
from Milford to Georgetown just south
of Lincoln, from Short & Hall for
$500 He also bought from the same
parties the 200 acre tract of timber
adjoining the above farm for the sum
of $4,000 This farm thirty years ago
was the show tract of that section,
but for many years it was held by par
ties who took all off and returned
nothing to either buildings or land and
for that reason it became an eyesore
to that section until it was bought by
Short & Hall over two years ago.
They built outbuildings and straight
ened up the farm and so Mr.. Glen
daniel took it over with the timber
tract.
Mr.. NJ. Zimmerman from Maryland
has bought the 65 acre farm located
two miles west from Lincoln City
from Short G. Hall for $4,000. 1t is a
truck enterprise and in a section where
fruit and truck is largely grown.
1t will be noted with one exception
that the buyers in each case of the
above mentioned property are people
who reside nearby and who know the
real value of property.