Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-09-20
REALTY ACTIVE
!. IN ALEX. COUNTY
Total of Forty-Eight Trans
fers Recorded During
The Past Week
INCREASE POPULATION
Estimated That 800 Houses Now In
Course of Construction In Coun-
ty and Thirty in Del Ray.


Alexandria County is now expert
encing the greatest activity in all his
tory in the sale of real estate. With
a population estimated at 10000, o
whom about 5000 have located there
Within the past year, conservative
estimate places number of home:
now in course of erection at more thar
300. In the village of Del Ray alone
more than. 80 houses are now in course
of erection and many more are con.
tracted for. There has been forty.
eight transfers of property within the
last week, some of which follows:
Elizabeth F. Smith and husband L
Harry B, Major, lot in Ve;tch
Homer F. Phillips & others to We
non T. Lancaster, lot 100, los and 10
Moore's addition to Clarendon; Mollie
M. Harrison to Edwin P. Goucher.
lots 36 and 81, Harrison's addition to
Dominion Heights; Cora A. Quacken-
busch and husband to j.. Turner, lot
IA, block 9, F. C. Park; N. A. Rees
and wife to Henry P. Balster, south
q9 feet of "a, block, a, Rucker's ad-
dition to Clarendon; Henry c. Nor
ris and wife to X. L. Pennybacker,
lot 5, block 8, section l, Aurora Hills;
H. C. Morris and wife to Fred j..
Peekonen and others. lot 10, block g..
Section l, Aurora Hills; Langley Land
Company to Arthur c. Welch, lots 81
to 81 block l, Courtlantis; James a.
Mcpherson and wife Eunice L., to Al
bert E. Nichols. 21.3127 acres of the
Emma Hume property, located en- the
north line of the present Georgetown
Road; Jane NJ Peake and husband to
Russell F. Kensey, loc q, block 16,
northwest .sAteNandria's Improvement
Company's subdivision; Edward Hart
and others to Claude NJ. Ward, lots
SIT and 57s with. improvements on
lloyd Avenue Del Ray; Harry G.
Laycock to Roger w. Starkwcather.
Lot '23 an dimprovements thereon il
Ock Groves Frank c. Gibson and W;
to Johss Quinn and wife; .ets s 70 q
in Varcoe subdivision; Albert P.
Nichols and wife Caroline L., to James
A. NcPhersoa,:21.al27 acres of the
Ewma Hume Property, located on the
north line OF the present Georgetown
Road; o. C. Beall and wdfesss.. X, to
w. E. Norton, N. v. Clayton, J. W..
Mehraing, WE. Kidwetl, W.. A. Mat
tingly, Arthur Campbell, J. A. G.
Shuster, j., B. Duncan and John R..
Methodist Episcopal Church South G.
Del Ray, Va; lots; 52s and 529 in Del
Ray, subdivision; Samuel H. Howard
to Alfred c., Cobbs and Georgiana f.
Cobbs, lots 81, block l, high view park
Elizabeth H Thompson and husband
Leigh, to James B. Cooley and wife
Jessie P. lots 148 and 149 with i'm
provenents, block D., Ducker's addi'
tion to Clarendon. R. c.. /. Moncure
to Emma Holmes, lots 80 to 33!and At
to 40 Holmes, Subdivision; Mrs. ,Eu-
genia NJ. HowdersheEl has sold to
Harry c. McConhie: lots 233 and 234
in Del Ray on which Mr. McConhle
will erect home; J. C. Ellis real es.
tate dealer of Del Ray has sold foI
Edwin l.. Cockrell of Washington, two
lots ON Carroll Ave., Del Ray to e.
ward Hart. Mr.. Ellis, also reports tn
sale of four lots on the northeS> :
conner of Peytcm and Leslie Avenues
Del Ray for George W. Goodwin
Washington to Priest and Chi.cot'.
/ Inc, of Alexandria. The. purchaser:
!. will erect two six room houses
N on. Mrs. Price Of Del Ray has sold t.
Spalding and Caylor tract contain
ing about eight acres on the scu.l
side of Lloyd's Lane near the railroa
station. The new owners have alread
begun the erection Of several home
on this site and will build 25 or
houses in this locality.