Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — REAL ESTATE IS SHOWING ACTIVITY [ARTICLE]

REAL ESTATE IS SHOWING ACTIVITY

Sveral Sales of Small Land Tracts and Town Lots and Cansider- , able Building Going On.

A number of real estate sales have place during the past few days, by which small tracts of land near Rensselaer have changed hands. The most important, probably, was the sale by Mayor Geo. P. Meyers of the 22-acre tract he bought three years-ago of the Chicago Training School, a part of the Cordelia Monnett estate, just south of the Monnett Home, on College road. The purchasers were Augustus and Fred Phillips and the price was S2OO per acre. The land will be cultivated this year but it is eventually expected to plat it into lots and thus make an important addition to the city and to the Fair View addition which Fred Phillips platted last year. Another sale of acre property was made by I. N. Warren,'who sold to Charles W- Platt and daughter, Agnes, 2 acres at. the east edge of Rensselaer. The price paid for this was $250 per acre. Mr. Warren bought ten acres of Geo. E. Marshall, about six years ago, at this time paying $205 per acre for it. He since sold 114 acres to M. L. Hemphill and retains 214 acres, which is on the market. Leslie Clark bought of Postmaster Clark, of Morocco, two Jots on South Weston street. Mr. Clark had owned them for several years. Barber Frank Haskell broke into the real estate business and made the sale. Mr. Clark will put the lots on the market, as he bought them simply for speculation. G. J. Jessen, the jeweler, made the most important real estate purchase of the week, having bought of H. O. and E. T. Harris, the former bank building on Washington street. The building will be remodeled to suit the needs of his jewelry business and he will*occupy it as soon as the alterations are made. B* N. Fendig, the shoe man, will then occupy all of the room now shared with Mr. Jessen. The price paid for this building is understood to have been $5,000. The building has 'been leased by and refinished for the Farmers’ State Bank, which was not started when the deal for the purchase of the First National went through. The two new garages are being hustled right along: The Shafer building at the corner of Cullen and Cornelia streets, will be rushed with all haste and will probably be completed and occupied by the time the automobiles begin passing through for the big 500-mile race at the Indianapolis course on Decoration Day. The foundation is being built, the brick are on the ground and the steel has beep promised. The Kurrie garage, which J. L. Willis is to lease, is also showing much activity, and will be pushed to completion. The foundation is being made for the cottage Mrs. Laura Michael is to build on North Cullen street, and Mustard & Otterberg will rush this job along. house belonging to Mrs. Ezra Clark on South Weston street has been turned half about and moved slightly to the north and two new rooms are being erected in front of it and a neat cottage made, which Ilarve Robinson, of The Republican office, will occupy and which he

expects to buy. Squire C. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township; the expert home mover, did the job of moving and turned it around without moving it from the ground on which it always stood. Charlie has spent a lifetime at this business and is an expert in his line. He takes any job on a guarantee to leave the building in as good a shape as it was before being placed in his hands, and in case any plastering is displaced he replaces it at his own expense. W. J. Wright has sold his former undertaking building near the river bridge to Don P. Wright, son of C. P. Wright. Don paid .SBOO for the building and has already been offered $1,200 for it, but is holding it for a higher price. Snyder Bros, have just completed a large sleeping porch for C. G. Spitler, the porch being 26x10; feet in dimensions and above a first floor porch, extending beyond the lower porch. Wilson Schafer is making extensive improvements to his house at the corner of Forest and Vine streets. A new cement porch is being built in front, a new frame porch and one additional room in the rear and about 240 feet of cement walks. Mr. Schafer expects to make the house one of the most attractive in Rensselaer, and the premises already show great improvement. Orlie Clouseexpects to begin the erection of a six-room story and a hall house in Fred Phillips’ Fair View addition, as soon as the sewer is completed, probably within a week. Louie Muster will build his house, which will be the first in that addition. There is considerable talk by others who have pur«hased lots there, including S. C. li*win, Earle Reynolds and Leonard lihoades. J. F. Hardman, at the corner of Cullen and Rutsen streets, is erecting a porch fronting his residence.