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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
Attending Patriarchs Militant En-.
campment,

Atty. E. w. Cutting and family
and DR.. A. C. Vernon and wife left
Saturday for Clear Lake to attend
the 9th annual encampment of the
Patriarchs Militant the highest de-
gree of Oddfellowship. The meeting
is from July "a to Aug. 2. The
Patriarchs Militant has Ia acres of
ground at the lake. with fine build
ings, and it is worth around $780,
600. Mr.. Cutting is one of the trus-
tees. They have about 1900 men,
bers in Iowa and most all attend the
encampment, besides many Odd Eel
lows and Rebekahs from all over the
state. The Decorahians expect to re
main there the entire week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
terested in the subject to attend the
meeting and express their views.
This Guy Stopped His Pauer.

A man who stopped his home
paper few weeks ago to save ex-
penses," sent dollar to man who
advertised to tell how to make
dollar bill go as far as ten" and re-
ceived a postal card telling him to
send them both by mail"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
Gard of Thanks.

The undersigned wish to extend
their heartfelt thanks to the many
kind friends and neighbors for their
assistance, sympathy and floral of
ferinss during tie illness, death and
burial of our beloved son and bro
Their and we wish to especially thank
the Red Cross for their help and
kindness.
Mrs. T. A. Nessett and family.
.pd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
+. Nj. Hughes Elected City Clerk.

OIty
At "a meeting of the City Council
last Wednesday evening the resig-
nation of M. d. Wells as city clerk
was accepted, to take effect about
Aug. Is. The same evening, a new
city clerk, Mr.. F. NJ. Hughes was
elected. Mr.. Hughes was a former
city clerk of DEBORAH for a number
of years and naturally knows the ma
ture OF the Office and will give good
service. For sometime past he has
held the position of bookkeeper for
Bernatz Bros. in their mill here. Mr..
Hughes will take charge of the Office
on Aug. 10.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28

J A business education is incom-
plete without the full business and
the full shorthand course. This COM
bined course is given at Valdez Col
lege, DEBORAH. Iowa. ten months for
$92. Most business colleges charge
$50 for six months course either
in business or shorthand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
1925 GAS AT A LOSS.
Anamosa Forces shutdown. Water.
loo Up Against 1t Also.

The Anamosa gas plant. following
permission by the city fathers last
summer to raise gas rates from 81 80
to $2.25, finds itself in still EN-.
barrassing situation, on account of
increasing costs. The city is faced
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28
Father and Son Buried Same Day.

! Erick NJ. Twedt, a well known
farmer living west of Calmar died
Monday July 10, and on Tuesday
morning the body of his soldier son,
William Twedt, arrived from France
where he died from wounds received
in action. The double funeral was
held on Thursday afternoon and
father and son were placed side by
side in the same grave.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-07-28

A laboring man knows the value of
a dollar, and shopping woman
knows the value of ninety-eight
cents. lgl.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Demand for Architects
Indicates Building Boom
Columbia School Has Received
Many Requests for
Trained Nen

The demand for practical architects
is an evident portent of the coming
boom in building, says Columbia
University announcement Requests
for the services of graduate students
are continually being received by the
School of Architecture William A
Boring, director, attributes this de-
mand to the public's recognition Of
the need of practically trained archi-
tects.
Columbia has definitely met this de-
mand, it is said, and her students are
drilled in the practical, as well as the
artistic problems of the profession.
The war showed that men could be
trained in theory and practice at the
same time in an intensive way, accord
ing to the Columbia authorities. The
architectural school has adopted many
Of these army systems OF training The
courses in construction mechanical
equipment of buildings and structural
design are taught by an ex-army officer.
The traditional student of archi-
lecture who could paint pictures of
monuments but could not construct d
simple building is a thing of the past
at Columbia
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
More Money Going for
ShO,Us Than Houses

More money was spent for amuse-
ment in New York during January
and February than in building new
houses. During the two months
$14,795,181 was paid out for theater
tickets, while only S10,935,1OO was
appropriated for the building of
apartments, dwellings,, hotels and
dormitories in Greater New York.
The difference in favor of show
tickets is s3,s60,0S1.
According to statistics compiled
by the F. w. Dodge Company, con-
tracts for building improvements
were let in Greater New York dur
ing 1919 amounting to $279,551 900.
About 48 per cent of this amount, or
$133,764,530, was spent for housing
accommodations
In the first four months of 1920
contracts were let in Greater New
York to the amount Of $119,455,O5O
The amount apportioned to housing
was $38,602, 400, or 80 per cent of the
total. The housing program has
fallen behind the general building
program.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
East and West Side Flats
Bought by Investors
Trading Reported Confined to
Smaller Type of Apart
menf Houses

John Frck sold $50 West Fifty-frst
Street, tive-story apartment, 27x1OO,
for Charles A. Work: 1T West 114th
Street, five-story apartment, 27x1OO,
for the estate of AnnieI. Fuerth: 122
West Eighty-fourth Street, a five-story
apartment, 3Ox1OO, for the estate of J.
II. Westheimer, and 232 West Seventy
tirst Street, a four-story apartment,
2Ox1O0, for Mrs. Catherine J. Roberts.
The Amer Realty Company, ]. F..
Mautner, president, purchased 66 East
l2lst Street. a five-storv fiat, 25.6x1OO;
also $50 st. Nicholas Avenue, five-story
double fiat, 25NIO0; also 204 St. Mich
olas Avenue, a five-story fiat, 29x1O3x
irregular, held at $4,000; also sold 1O8
and ITO East 109th Street, two four
story single flats, 19x1OO each.
George w. Brettell sold for Searles
Babbltt the four-story fiat, 20x1OO, at
100 East 123d Street, southeast corner
Of Park Avenue, to a Mrs. Bristal
Slawson & Hobbs sold for Mrs. D. S.
kenney the three story two-family
nc house S26 West Nineteenth Street,
William VOLTS Son sold for Andrew
Gill the fivestory flat 243 East Seventy
first Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Walk-Over Shoe Co.
To Spend $4,000
On Broadway Cor.

The WalkOver Shoe Company, 179
Broadway, has awarded the contract
for altering the building at Broadway
and Fortieth Street, according to
Browns Letters, Inc, Construction Re-
ports, to H. H. Odds, IL East Forty
fourth Street. The building will be
used for store and offices and the ap-
proximate cost of the alterations is
$4,000. Rouse & Goldstone are the
architects.
From plans prepared by George B.
Post e. Sons, 101 Park Avenue, the
Amsterdam Building Company, 14O
West Forty-second Street, will con-
struct the addition and alterations to
the Could Manufacturing Company
office building at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
The building will be of fireproof con-
struction, two stories and basement,
and will measure 136x53. The approx
mate cost of the work involved is
S275,0OO.
Warren Moore & Co., Inc, BAT Mad
lson Avenue, have been awarded the
contract for the construction of new
factory on Lister Avenue, Newark. for
the General Lead Batteries COMPANY.
l23 West Fifty-sixth Street, according
to Browns Letters, inc, Construction
Reports. The building will be of brick
and steel construction, two stories and
basement, 60x180. The plans were pre-
pared by Timmis g. Chapman, 315 Fifth
Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Seven Blocks of Broadway Realty Owned
BY lnterborough To Be Sold at Auction

The promise made months ago by
the lnterborough Rapid Transit Off
clals to those who advanced the money
TOR the company to meet the January
l, 1920, interest on it's bonds will be
fulfilled on May 25. On that day in
the Nesey Street salesroom it will dis
pose of unused real estate along its
transit system for the best price that
the public will pay. 1t will be the first
tune IN the history of the company
that it has been forced to liquidate SO
valuable an asset
According to the transit officials
and Joseph P; Day, who will sell tie
property for the company, the disposal
OF the real estate is a real sacrifice,
as the company had planned from the
outset to reap handsome profits from
this investment. 1t invested heavily
IN property while extending its sys-
TEN, expecting at future date to par
eel on this treasure at prices that
would bring a fabulous return.
The properties listed for sale include
some Of the choicest in the companys
control and on the real estate value
map of the city. They are in and ad-
Jacent to upper Broadway, in Manhat-
tan and the Bronx, blocks and blocks
adjacent to the 215th, 238th and 242nd
Street subway stations; also at and
adjacent to the Jackson Avenue
(Queensboro subway station in the
old-e established Hunters Point indus
trial and business section of Long
Island City.
Another interesting offering-one
for which, it is expected, the specula-
lively inclined investor will compete
with all his vigor-is the three story
Greensboro subway station, store and
office building, 41.Sx98.9, at 1868 East
Forty-second Street, near Lexington
avenue, the foundations of which are
strong enough to carry three addi-
tional stories, and in which the steel
for an elevator has been erected.
1t IS the view of Mr.. Day that the
sale IS opportune, coming as it does
just at the time when the clamor for
apartments is louder than ever before.
fall within the demand of builders of
apartments.
II am firm in my belief" Mr.. Day
said, that the Broadway lots, located
just north of 21oth Street and on the
west side of Broadway, between 238th
and 242d streets, are among the best
and most promising.
"As for the Long Island CITY prop
critics to be Sold some are improved
and others unimproved. The improved
properties are largely located in the
immediate vicinity of the Jackson Ave
nue. station and the Vernon Avenue VIA
duct, one of the busiest sections of the
old Hunters Point district.
ut is great pity that the Inter
borough Company could not have held
all these many valuable properties
until building had been resumed on
anything like q normal scale Rut
there was a more important issue to
be met, and the only alternative was
to sacrifice the company's unused real
estate for whatever it would bring
The !nterborough's necessity is tie
public's opportunity"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

$4,000. The statement made by real
estate men and builders too that 2b
per cent Of the price in cash would be
satisfactory does not hold in Freeport
or at any rate In the cheaper grade
houses because as was stated builder
will not turn over the key to any
$500 house until $2500 in cash has
been paid over. There Is reason to be-
lieve that $4,000 in cash will be suffi-
cient money to buy the most expensive
of the new structures. The cash de-
manded for older homes available Is
very much mo1e. One real estate man
said that go per cent cash was re-
quired to acquire a number of houses
which he had on his books. Though
the terms may be easier in other cases,
the tendency Is to ask for a larger
initial cash payment on an old house
than new one.
The obvious reason for these de-
mands is that the house owner does
not want tot axe back a mortgage, while
the builder usually Is willing to as
sumo second line on house for a
fixed period. The house owner in SELL
ing wishes to be relieved Of all interest
IN the house as soon as he has signed
sale contract.
The banks have not been liberal, and
as most Of the mortgages on properties
IN Freeport which have been standing
for several years are based on pre-war
values, the difference between the lien
aud the selling price presents usually
a fair size sum of money.
Many Old Houses Are To Be Had
There are sixty-flve dwellings of all
types, conditions and prices in the
Freeport market. Most of them are of
substantial construction. Prices in the
older grade of homes range from SIS 900
to $4,000. They are scattered about
the town; some are in the Bay View
section, others in the northeast dis
trlct nd some more in Randall Park
The range of choice is not extensive
when it is considered that Freeport is
town Of 10000 souls. Folks who had
houses in the market several weeks
ago have withdrawn them, giving up
the idea of taking advantage of the
housing shortage and rent distracted
folks from the city to get good price
for their homes They have learned
that in the event of sale they would
be part and parcel of the army which
is rushing into every little settlement
for miles and miles about the city in
search of roofs to live under.
Prices Comparatively Low
It can be said of many houses in the
market that they could not be produced
to-day at the prices asked for them.
There is a house on Long Beach ave-
nue. corner, with ample grounds, fine
porch and ten large rooms, which can
not be built to-day at the rpice which
the owner is asking for it. His case
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
No Embargo
Here ON Money
+ Or II e atty
Action of Chicago Bank.
Surprises Local Banker.
Who Cannot Account for
Objections to Lendipy
Profiteering Is Charged
Western Institutions VIII
Not Enter Field Until
Things Are Normal

New York real estate men nesd h,..
no fear that the local banks. wb,
have been lending on real estate W.
follow the action of the Chicago bank.
and refuse to support realty project;
Chicago banks have announced tbs,
until conditions in the real estate sel
become normal they will not give fnar.
cial support to any project The CLAIM
was made that there was profteering
real estate, that labor in the buidlnr
fields is dissatisfied and that materis
prices are far above what they Shout
be. In other words. the Chicago bank
ers fear the market and the chang
which will cone in real estate becauss
of the protiteering practiced and tie
expect reprisals VIII be made which wi
undermine investments.
The action of the Chicago banks is
not part of a concerted plan by banker.
throughout the country to embarrass
zeal estate. The stand taken in Ch
cago was prompted by local condition,
the nature of which has not becOms
known here
Officers Tell Conditions
Talks with officers OF several of the
large institutions which lend on res
estate show clearly that New Yor,
rea estate men need not fear that 10.
cal sources viii be damned againsI
them. The comptroller OF one inst
tion expressed surprise at the actloT
of the Chicago banks. He said ths.
his bank saw no reason Tor taking
different stand to THAI which it ha.
taken toward real estate. He an
others said that money would continut
available for real estate investmen,
but on the conservative basis whiea
has regulated loans or real properi.
since the armistice.
Just at the moment there is not
great deal of money in these banks fo-
real estate Or any other insestmens L
was explained that there would b
some soon, and it was pointed out ais.
that the amount, perhaps, would b.
large because deposits are steadily II
creasing, the war time thrift prop
g&nda having laid foundation @.
economy.
An official of the Dry Dock Saving
Bank said that their investments Il
real estate since the first of the yes
were considerably above those OF cor
responding periods. He saw no res
son here, he said, Tor local banks tsA
ing stand similar 10 that taken i
Chicago. Every one spoken to on th'
subject was firm in his statement tn'
New York real estate would not be a'
MED financial help on the conserVs'"
basis now DrpVailInp
Though these men do not know 'n'
reason for the Chicago embarg
against real estate, they thought
was because the Windy City" is sju'
beginning to feel the shortage OF a.
commodations and that real estate ne
are capitalizing the situation: ins'
are approaching Il condition which "
are slowly passing through, it was
planned -.
Every one gave assurance that oa
cago's action would not have any
fiueLce on the local real estate NOR
gage market.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

is similar to number in Freeport-
he wishes to locate elsewhere. Those
who persist In holding their homes in
the market are doing 30 because they
have plans for leaving the town or
else building new homes.
Three Houses ut $4,000 Each
There are just three houses Of the
$4,000 grade for sale. They are moth
ing more than shelters, as there are
no improvements of any character in
them. They were. built when plumbing
was not so we'll advanced and only
the finest homes could have water
piped into the house. They have six
and seven rooms and are in lower
part of the town, in Bay View Avenue.
cash payment of $1,000 will buy
these houses.
There are, perhaps, eight houses that
may be purchased at $500 each.
There is at least one house that can
be purchased for $500. Ii IS in At
lantlc Avenue. Fifteen houses are
held at $500 to $500. Some of thee
houses have seven rooms, four of
which are bedrooms. From $4,000 to
$4,000 the choice is broader, as there
are as many as twenty homes offered
at prices between thee extremes.
The number held at $4,000 to
$4,000 is even greater, there being
thirty houses in these grades. In this
group will be found houses we'll worth
the prices asked. The newer houses
are of six, seven and more rooms and
are scattered about the town.
There were three on Long Beach
Avenue on the market last week held
by one builder. He was asking s13 900
tor the corner home and s10,5O0 for
for each of the inside parcels. There
are many homes under construction in
the town but there are not far the
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Buyers Select Colonial
Homes i'm Westchester

Fish & Marvin sold for Mrs Sydney
NJ. Kodama her Colonial house on Cliff
Avenue at Pelham Heights to M. J.
Smith, of Pelham. The property was
held at S45 5000. The same brokers sold
for the John 7. Brook Company
new Colonial house on Highland Ave
nue. at Pelham Manor, to Dudley Rich,
of this city. The purchase price was
S24, 900.
Mrs. Nettie Purdy has sold her resi-
dence, 55 Barker Avenue, White Plains,
to I. Y. Hobby, curator of the Metro
politan Museum of Art, of this city.
The property was held at $50, 900.
Prince & Ripley, Inc, were the brokers.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Old Long Island To Always Could Take Care of
seekers Until Sources of Supply Dried Up-Only Ten
New Houses This Spring Builders Ask Large
Cash Payments Some Old Houses
More Reasonable

Freepoxt has lost the esteemed repu-
tation of being haven for homeseek-
ers. In the days Of old, that Is, before
the war, never q one who stepped out
Of the city and into the suburbs failed
to ind at Freeport o home that would
meet his desires and financial possibili-
ties. The latitude of class extended
from pretention to extreme simplicity
and in the matter Of money from a
little to much. But conditions have
changed In Freeport as in other places.
Houses are to be had in the substantial
Nassau County town, but not SO many
as in former days. and what Is more,
little money will not do now even
in buying little house.
To become a resident, q freeholder
of Freeport, a man must have at least
$4,000 to invest. Folks came to Free
port last Sunday with $1,000 and $4,000
to pay down on homes, but builders
could not be tempted by these amounts
nor were the supplications of the home
seekers successful, and they had to
come back to the city greatly disap-
pointed that Freeport had failed them.
Things Were Different In Olden Days
When they travelled to Freeport these
people had in mind the days when $500
would place q family in possession of
many house in the town, and there
were builders who competed in making
terms attractive for the homeseeker.
So
sale in Freeport. 1t is not likely that
he supply will be supplemented unless
the building material market improves
very rapidly. Not only are builders
troubled by unstaple prices, but they
cannot get material, even though will
ing to pay the top price.
The story is told of one builder in
Freeport who needed some cement to
complete three houses which he was
anxious to get on the market. There
was non to be hade in his town. He
telephoned to ewtney- eight supply deal
ers on the Island and was able to secure
a little from each. Motor trucks were
sent for the cement. His transporta-
ton bill, including the cost of broken
axle, derricking truck out of mud and
the like, totaled $24O. This, of course
was in addition to the cost of the
cement.
Another builder had to remove the
entire plumbing fixtures in a new
house because he could not secure
certain parts. This expense was affixed
10 the house. These houses have been
sold and ut prices which included all
these extra charges and a substantial
profit in addition for the builders.
The ten new houses that were on the
market yesterday ranged in cost from
$7500 to $4,000. OF the cheapest grade
houses four were for sale The other
six were held in prices ranging up to
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Three Apartment Houses
In Evergreen Ave. Sold
Ely Disposed of Holding of
American Real Estate Co.;
Other Bronx Sales

Horace S. Ely & Co. sold for the
American Real Estate Company 1910,
1214 and 1926 Evergreen Avenue, 120x
100, three five story apartments, to Il
client of Samuel Cowen.
William VOLTS Son sold 1420-22
wilkins avenue, two four-story bust
ness properties, for the Ella Realty
Company.
Fred Oppenheimer sold the five
story apartment 2085 Tiebout Avenue,
northwest corner of East 1SOth Street,
25x1Q0 to Wilhelm Sturn.
Walter E. Brown sold for William
Rankin the vacant plot northeast cor
ner Of Grant Avenue and East 165th
Street, improvements with stores.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

en- in the name of the 1867 Broadway
Company. The owners of the land will
receive 100000 a year clear for the
use of the property, the lessee paying
all taxes and other charges
A feature Of the structure will be
great marble columns fo ur stories
high running from the fifteenth to the
twentieth floor. The first floor will
be twenty-one feet high, while TIL sec
ond floor, which also is to be devoted
to stores, will be fourteen feet. Car
rere & Hastings and r. H. Shrcve de-
signed the monumental structure.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Plan Extensive Changes
For Lenox Hill Block
Much Activity in 8lst Street
Since Announcement of Pro-
posed improvements

Through the efforts of NJ. Morgen-
thau Jr. Company plans are under way
and architects retained for improving
the dwellings and apartment houses on
the southerly side Of East Eighty first
Street between Lexington and Park
Avenues in keeping with the structures
on the opposite side Of the street.
The proposed improvements undoubt-
edly have been responsible for the re-
cent activity on the block Among
sales last week were the houses at 112,
ia and 116 East Eighty first Street,
to the Seimor Homes Corporation. Each
of these houses has a frontage of
twentv feet. The houses at III, 127 and
129 East Eighty-first Street also
figured in recent sales.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
History Addition for
]. M. Cidding & Co.
Building TO Be Erected in
10th Street and Adjoining
,Oth Avenue Store

The j. NJ. Gidding Company, at 564
to 568 Fifth Avenue, at the 46th Forty
sixth Street corner, will Immediately
start the construction of an additional
building at 3 West Forty-sixth Street.
This new building will be twelve
stories. 1t will connect with the Fifth
Avenue building on all floors and will
provide for several new departments.
Benjamin W. Levitan, the architect,
estimates the cost at $150,O00. 1t is ex-
pected to have the building ready for
occupancy by January l next.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
John ID. Rockefeller Rents
House Near His Own Hon,

Douglas, Gibbons & Co. and William
A. White & Sons leased for John D..
Rockefeller ID West Forty-fourth Stree
Street, modern e-story American
basement dwelling, for long term CT
years to Stephen Peabody, who recently
leased his dwelling at the southwest
corner of Madison Avenue and Fifty
fourth Street