Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-09-27
TWO MORE FARMS
FIND READY SALE
ALSO RESIDENCE
o. p. Hyder, r. H. Millard and
S. w. Rose All Sell Their
Farm Homes.

This week we have to report tht
closing of three more land sales ir
this section, which mean the addition
of three families to our county popu-
lation and the bringing here about
$4,000 in new capital.
O.P.Hyder, who lives at the Bentley
place has sold his small frame resi-
dence and six acres of land to Mr.
and Mrs. S. B. Shields, of Gernt, Fent.
ress county for $1,000 Mr.. Hyder is
to give possession in few weeks. He
is arranging to build a neat bungalow
on property near the residence of his
father, Joseph Hyder, few rods from
his former home. Ground may be
broken for the building before this
reaches our readers. Mr.. Hyder also
plans to remodel the home of his
father to some extent by building a
new kitchen to the present residence
The new bungalow will contain SIX
rooms. The Shields family consists
of the father, mother and son I4
years of age.
r. H. Millard Sells.
r. H. >Millard, Dorton has sold his
8o-acre farm to Ease Swafford, of
Litton, for $1,000. He also sold his
stock, crops and farm tools and the
entire consideration is around $4,000.
Besides there being 80 acres of cleared
land ther are three 7-room houses on
the property. Mr.. Millard had sew
eral acres in crops on another farm
near by, all of which is included in
the trade.
Mr.. Millard is undecided just what
he will do at this time. He may buy
another farm near town or he may go
to Huntsville, Scott county, anu en-
gage in the mercantile business with
his father-in-law, Judge Potter. He is
to give possession in few weeks or
as soon as he is able to determine as
to his next business move.
Mr.. Swafford has been living in
|Sequatchie valley near Litton for sew
eral years and owned 2oO-acre farm
there, which he recently sold for
around $4,000 or $1,000. He will re-
main there for some weeks to take
care of his crop but his wife and
daughter are expected to move to their
new purchase at Dorton in short
time. The farm purchased from Mr..
Millard by Mr.. Swafford was formerly
owned by ]. E. Rich.
S. w. Rose Sells.
Some months ago S. w. Rose bought
I66 acres of what is known as the
Bentley Meadow tract, laying mile
and a half north of Crossville. OF this
he sold 50 acres to w. H. Derrick
who is not erecting a good barn on il
and is also arranging to build rest
dence. In addition to that Mr.. Rose
sold I6 acres on the extreme north side
of the tract to J. J. Moore, who is
now developing it. On the remaining
100 acres Mr.. Rose erected neat g.
room bungalow and cleared I2 acres
/ Last week Mr.. Rose closed out the
100 acres to ]. l.. Cooke, Madisonville
Union county for $3.50. Mr.. Cooke
has a wife and two sons. They will
move here as soon as he is able tc
dispose of his crop at his home in East
Tennessee.
The tract secured by Mr.. Cooke il
one of the incest in the county and i:
a very valuable piece of property be-
cause of its smoothness, close prox
unity to Crossville and the furthel
fact that it contains twenty or more
acres of meadow land of excellent
quality. Mr.. Cooke is a brother-in
law of our townsman ]. N. Dyer.
Everyone will recognize that Mr.
Rose has performed distinctive ser
vice to Our county by developing .
tract of land that was in the woods
to a point where it became attractive
to a homeseeker from distance. A:
we have repeatedly mentioned, one o.
the most effective ways to secure th'
location Of desireable people here Il
to build a comfortable residence ans
clear a few acres Of land so that
prospective homeseeker will have al
Opening for a start. Until that Is dom
more universally than now our thous
ands of acres Of fine. level land WI.
be slow in finding purchasers who viii
develop from it the splendid farm
that are easily possible. :.
Mr.. Rose plans to 90 to Florida u
a short time to pass the winter, but n
will return in the spring and buy ant
develop other property with the viev
Ito locating other hemeseekers.