Evening star., 1937-10-16
FAIRFAX REPORTS
REALTY UPSW|NG
Total of $780, 900 in Property
Changes Hands in Last
Week.
Special Drspatcn to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, October 16.-An up
swing in real estate activity in Fairfax
County during the past week was in
dicated on the basis Of records in the
ONCE Of the county clerk.
Real estate changing hands carried
An approximate valuation Of 100000.
No large tracts were included in the
deeds recorded. Among the trans
actions were the following:
Peoples National Bank Of Leesburg
conveyed an acre lot and hall. formerly
owned by the Cavaliers of Virginia, to
the county school board. The property
adjoins the present elementary school
In the town of Fairfax, and served as
the town school before the building
now IN use was constructed. For the
present the building is being used to
provide for the overflow of pupils from
the main building.
Also in the town of Fairfax the
National Bank of Fairfax has sold its
old bank building to John S. Barbour,
local attorney. The building at present
houses on the second floor the law
Offices of Barbour, Garnett and Pickett.
At 1ngleside, Mount Vernon district,
Mrs. Anna Boal Wickes has sold 6.87
acres to Mr.. and Mrs. Carson A.
Bowers, and in Mount Vernon Hills,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred E. Kroker have
sold lot to Buford B. Arthur, and
IN Engleside Subdivision, NJ D. Cooper
and Arbutus R. Cooper have purchased
lot from Mr.. and Mrs. Kroker.
A. E. Canfield has purchased a lot
In the town Of Herndon from Mr.. and
Mrs. w. v. Terry. In the town of
Falls Church Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P.
Brown have conveyed lot r. Sher-
wood Subdivision to Lawrence P.
Brown. Two lots at Chesterbrook, be-
longing to the late Clara Virginia
Pearson, have been sold to Edward ".
Schottroffe.
A house and lot on Columbia street
extended. town of Falls Church, has
been conveyed to Annie Bowsf1eld by
Bessie Y. Copeland On the George
town pike at Langley in Providence
district, a house and approximately
1854 acres have been sold to Henry
Alonzo Storm by Langley Land Co.
Mrs. Luella Schreiner has purchased
a lot at Dunn Loring from Mr.. and
Mrs. Ara j. Petty, and four lots in
West Mclean have been sold to Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer L. Seaton by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas James Goode Three
lots in River View Subdivision have
been sold to Vernon NJ. Cooper by
Mount Vernon Boulevard Develop
ment Co., Inc.
A tract of 20 acres on a branch of
SCOTS Run in Providence district has
been sold to Bernard o. Smyth by
Mr.. and Mrs. Stacy T. holland. Mr..
and Mrs. B. M. Smith have sold a lot
in Mount Pleasant to Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Lee, and lot on the Washing
ton-Richmond Highway in Mount Ver-
non district belonging to Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert w. Walker has been sold to
Mr.. and Mrs. John P Leisner. Jessie
R. Harlow has purchased a lot on
Little River pike, Falls Church district,
from Mr.. and Mrs. Richard M. Owens,
and approximately 1.6 acres on the
North Run OF Pohick, part of the
South Run tract has been sold to
George r. and Sara Fay Wait by
Thomas F. and Delta o. Colvin. A
house and two lots in Cameron Villa
Farms on the Franconia road, Mount
Vernon district, has been sold to Mr..
and Mrs. Harrison B. Gray by Mr..
and Mrs HanSford Sullivan Tuo 1ote
IN Beverly Manor and 10 lots in
Kings Manor have been sold to Mary
Winslette by Beverly Manor Land Co.