Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-19
REAL ESTATE MEN
FORM ASSOCIATION
AT GATHERING HERE
WILLIAM JAMt:ON OF OTTAWA IS
ELECTED TEMPORARY Ctihli7.
MAN OF NEW BOhRD-~HOl.D
MEETING IN COURT HOUSE,


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bankers IT. IN all par.s Of The cunt;
gathered in (traw. yr.trr..av after.
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Stltuiion OF the state organization was
ad0pted and tcnlpyraTy officers chosen
to u,,b. .,.,p,,,.,,.ot. f,, ,,,,.,,,
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" ''' VI ~ s'""H ia. ''i'' u"ti Jan
y, We pUslnes session and bah
GHct viii he Acld and permanent Oh
GERS elected
Nllli2m 5amisOn oi this ci, =, was
chosen temporary resident of the o.
gani&Atiun, William 1ulWpll tenn
pofa!. vice president, +. N. Higgins.
secretary, and Al +. Sch0ch. treas
urcr. Nj Jamis0A viii pom, com.
mittee OF five to draw up a sct Of By.
laws
The meeting was scheduled to take
place at - 81 O'Clock. but ON account
cf the late arrival of A. G. Collman 1f
Gale burg. who was to assist VITA the
organizing, II was not started uatil (
O'Clock.
N'iliam Co,well pres ided He intro.
duced Mr. Coltman. who spobc for q
few minutes, explaining the mature
and the purposes Of the organization.
He told the men that it was for bank.
ers, lawyers and real estate dealers.
He declared thai the latter profesSi 1a
was the NEST important business in
the United Sta;es but during the past
few years it had become chaotic H.
Sald hat the dealers Of Ottawa could
not help overlapping each others busi
ness interests Wniie they we're unOr
eanized and that q board would do
much to eliminate these business dis.
agreements; that this could not he
done II Ottawa was organized and the
cities around hc- were not. The way
to eliminate possibility Of thi, was
10 organize the entire county
tie declared mat /. the real estate
dealers all over the state and the
nlted states were organized they
could soon get protective IeGlh. alton
ana get IN" business whore It BE-.
IohSed. He stated thal the real es-.
ta'e dealers could accomplish nor
Sood tor Gown than men OF any other
profession.
he explained the workings Ot a
board pI appraisers which Is CompoA
"d ol tlrE" members, telling how
theJ would 80 out and appraiHo real
estate, charging a nominal fee for
iheir work, ana then do expert testify
lhG whenever 1t was necessary Tor a
fedt eSta'" dealer 20 30 INTO cputi and
TX the value OF property.
Inc state board, ne informed them,
would not lntcrl"r" with any of their
business and the va Sale County men
would be SeIi-goNernlnG The on.y
,h'ng local men would be called upon
To do was to sign the STATE code of
elhlcS
he warned the dealers against Ic.-
tng personalities enter into their or.
Hanihatlon, ana not to bar any man
from joining them because they at
not IKE MN personally or bcralIS"
thoy considered his business doaI>
questionable, blG urged them to make
llm Join, sign their rules and live up
to them. In case they refused to live
up to the code governing th" organiza
ton they were then TO be put out
NV 'N'lii't'' '"l'I'' INV N'dI'IN W ''
jumped AZ chance to make killing,
telling them that TINS work would mn
them ont of business every time. lie
informed them that they might ron
some poor old fellow, charging him an
eAhorhitant Tee, nut that 1t would dam
age them He urged upon them tn"
necessity OF Keeping their clion'apc
year after year, as the real estate buS.
ness was always new, Art1 a pioc"
OF property was sold one tim" IT was
ready to be sold again, and was not
/ IKE IA stock OF merchandise. Whc""
/ when the goods lett the Shelf they
were gone for all time.
He explained the value OF the ap.
praisement board and the methods