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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1914)
it t TIMFI Y PVftl. FQTiTF f.ftIP PRESIDENT OF AMRICAN associa. Few Suggestions for the New Home nun ur iiiLiti War Does Not Affect Activity of the Real Estate Market Here. Very Convenient Bung alow by Everett I. Dodds LOCAL PRICES ARE STEADY Coa.tilerahle Artlilty Shown la Rirlnt null Selllnsr of Small llomf" Demand for Prop erty I Ciood. r You Can Borrow Trin OMAHA SFiM'AY HKK: ATTniTNT oO, TTTT. i i While the prices of almost every com modity In the way of food stuffs has taken sme big Jump since the war has been in progress, real estate is still what the live stock dealer calls "steady." It Is selling at a good steady figure. The only way the war can affect real estate in Omaha Is by tightening up the money market so tight that no one can get a loan. This condition has not yet been brought about. For a tLme, when the war started, there was some tightening of the money market. The bankers got a little frigh tened and the men whose money the bankers handle got correspondingly frightened for a few days. That was largely because the news came over that the Bank of England had raised its rate of interest to 10 per cent. That threw a scare Into all of them. All bankers knew what that meant. Most conserva tive and the business men knew what that meant Bank Loosens I'p. Soon came the. news that the Bank of England had loosened up a bit and had let down the bars to a considerable ex tent on the matter of interest require ment. So things began to flow on pretty much In the usual channels In American banking. Loan companies arc a little more care ful about loaning large sums than they were a few months ago. That is only a good precautionary move. That moans that the man who wants to borrow large sums on real estate is given some whole some advloe to go slow, and maybe is turned away gently to return again later, Homes Change Hand. There Is a gcod demand for moderate slued homes. A number of these are changing hands dally. Some of the real estate firms in the city have had the same word to say in the last three weeks, respectively, "We had a better week than last." The transfers are not confined to homes alone. Some big deals are In the air. A few deals for apartment houses and other prope'rty Involving as much as $30,000 are in a state of negotiation at this mo ment, and are likely to be closed in a day or two. Heal estate men and specu lators have about decided that Omaha is not to suffer siege by the allied forces within the next six week.-i, and' that Omaha real estate is therefore still a good investment. With the enormous crop In - Nebraska there is likely to be some good business In the state this year. Omaha being the metropolis and the market for the han dling of crops, as well as the live stock, is a mighty good place to own real es tate. More and more people are realizing that. It Is a good place to make profits on the advance In ground values. Any one who don't believe this can get some Information from a man who has been trying to buy a home from a man who got it for almost nothing a few years go. Selling. Dairy Farm. Hastings & Heyden are beginning to sell acre tracts of the old Post dairy farm they bought some months ago, one half mile west of thenar line In Benson. During the last week they have sold four of these for cash. The acres are selling for around l,00O. This tract la known now as Benson Gardens. The com pany expects to move about 10,000 yards of dirt at one corner of the tract to briog It more even with the rest and give a better effect to the whole. Addition to Ope. Eight blocks of vacant ground between Davenport and California, and west of Forty-third street, have Just been sold by the Poppleton estate. The deal was made through Armstrong & Walsh, Shuler & Cary purchasing the ground. They expect to develop It and put on a build ing restriction that they say will lnsur the building of good substantial homes. Landmark Going,. One of the oldest landmarks in the city, the Clifford Patrick home between Eleventh and Twelfth on Jackson street, Is now being torn down. It is fifty-seven years old. It was built by Clifford Pat rick. Tom Herrlngton, clerk in the city health department ts tearing it down. Ha has lived in the house forty-four years. He recently sold the property, but re tard possession of the house. , l&r2 Ail rv- i -JLa l.,- ffWv4 hum m "i; Vi UJNJCj Ui Lf.flJUlflU llllxD jir..n Ai - - mw--. - T -:yW f F I CONVENTION. JZ3 y : - A r 'TTr1 1 I JKy 9 i L.j..r.jL.ji.;i:.'P:-; rp JP-h N to m mmammmmm . rmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmL TITLE MEN HERE MONDAY American Association to Convention at Rome. Hold The design shown herewith Is one of the most modern of bungalows, with two sleeping porches In the front on the sec ond floor. There Is everything in this plan that the average person wants for a small family. The porch extends across the entire front of the house and enters the living room without a vestibule. The living room and dining room are sepa rated only by a large pedestal opening nnd are practically the same as one room. They both havo beamed ceilliiKB ami lots of good windows, in the dining room l.i a built-in buffet which is very attractive. A new feature is the fireplace In the den, which Is off of the living room. This don may also be used for a spare bedroom. SESSIONS FOR THREE DAYS After Bnslnesa Meetlnga Dnrlna; the Day, Visitors Will Be Enter tained at Clubs and The aters In livening. Bumper Crop Makes Demand for Farms All Over the State No man who wants to continue farming is going to sell his Nebraska farm this winter. The man, however, who has long wanted to retire from the farm, and has been Just waiting for one more big all around bumper crop before selling and moving to the city, will certainly be getting hia farm on the market this fall and winter. For the big bumper erop Is upon mm. M.,rh of it. the small grain, ha already has In the granaries, if Indeed he has not sold It and has the money In the bank. The corn crop alone remains to be gath ered, when the man who has long wanted to retire, can retire with a sack full of nd the feeling that his career as a Nebraska farmer has been rounded out with one of the best an rouna tru tbe state has ever raised. HASTINGS & HEYDEN REPORT SEVERAL. SALES Hastings & Heyden report the following sales for the week: Ossle V. Middaugh purchased a lot In r..tehton Heights addition for $2,400. Chris Johnaonu purchased a tract In TCnaon Xcree for Agnes C. Lindsay purchased lot In Mystic Park addition lor saw. Mr. Richmond purchased a lot In Rich i.nd Acres for mars. Alice and Frank W. Harrel of Gibbon, Neb., purchased a tract in our new Dn son Gardens additions for $1,200. v.mHt Cateron purchased a Acre Gardens addition for $ MRS SCHALLER IS ROBBED TWICE WITHIN ONE WEEK Mrs. Ellen Schaller of $003 Davenport street, was robbed for the second time in one week when burglars returned to her home Friday night and stole three rings of value, a fold watch and chain, a revol ver a silver carving knife and a doien silver forks and sP1"""- Quite an array of title men and ab stracters are expected in Omaha Monday and the next three days. The occasion Is the eighth annual convention of the American Association of Title Men. It is looked forward to by the confraternity as tbe most Important convention the as sociation has ever held, and It Is ex pected It will be the largest in point of attendance, The program covers a wide range of Interesting subjects and features that are of importance to title men. It is to be an educational program from the standpoint of title men and abstractors. A plan la to be presented for bringing the association closely Into the practical work of the abstracters, returning a tan gible dividend to the member for the time and money he spends on his mem bership In the organization. More decisive effort than ever before will be made to make the Influence of the association a positive force, for progress and protection In abstract and title work. Slorchead to Speak. The convention is to be called to order by President M. P. Uouslog at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Addresses of welcome are to be made by Governor Morehead, Mayor Dahlman and others. F. H. Myers, president of the Omaha Real Estate ex change, appears on the program of the first day for a discussion, of the subject. "Abstracters and Title Examiners from the Real Estate Man's Standpoint." On Monday evening the crowd is to be entertained and Initiated at Ak-Sar-Ben Den. Special cars will leave the Hotel Rome for the Den at 7:30 In the evening while at t o'clock the women are to have a theater party at the Orpheum. After a strenuous day of business on TusBday, the men and women are to be entertained in the evening at the Field club by music and dancing at 8 o'clock. Prior to that there is to be an auto trip about the city for half an hour. lot in HAPPY HOLLOW STREET LIGHTS ARE TURNED ON The eighty-four big diffused lights on the eighty-four new bronze light posts along the boulevard at Happy Hollow were turned on all at once Friday even tng for the first time. The occasion was a kind of formal opening of the mag nificent residence addition by George A do., which company has In the last year done a vast amount of development work In that locality. The chains of lights winding In and out along the boulevard present a magnificent picture at night especially when viewed from the hills of Fair Acres. Lovelace Sees a Normal Corn Crop on Inspection Trip R. W. Lovelace, assistant In the immi gration department of the Burlington, is back from three weeks spent In Ne braska and Wyoming and returns con vinced that the corn crop of this state will be but little, if any, below the normal. Throughout central and western Ne braska Mr. Lovtlace paid espeolal at- tentlon to the corn crop. He travelled considerable by automobile and went Into numerous fields, gathering samples. In almost every Instance he found the com well eared and out of the way of frosts. In some localities he discovered thst the plant had been Injured to some extent by the hot winds, but the areas where damage had occurred were limited. With the high prices that are expected to maintain, Mr. Lovelace Is of the opin ion that Nebraska farmers will realize more money out of their 1SH corn crop than out of the bumper crops of past years when prices have been low. REV. AND MRS. W. F. BOOTS CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Itev. and Mrs. W. r. llolts. 2522 Drnnt street, celebrated their twenty-fifth anni versary at their home Friday night, when about S00 persons from the 7,lon Baptist congregation, of which Rev. Mr. Botts is pastor, sssembled and made merry. The ceienrants were married at Excelsior Springs, Mo., August 28, 18S9, IRISH TO DISCUSS AID FOR VOLUNTEERS TUESDAY The Nebraska branch of the provisional committee to aid the Irish volunteers will hold a mass meeting at the Boyd theater on Tuesday night. All Irishmen and all those In sympathy with the cause of liberty are urged to lay nMe all other plans for that evening and be present, also to bring with them their friends, ladles and gentlemen. A splendid program of speakers from Nebraska and Iowa will be had, and all are assured of a rousing evening. Dr. W. J. McCrann will be the chairman of the evening. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. William S. Boyd, secretary and treas urer of the Western Association of Elec trical Inspectors, Is in the city In the capacity of a member of a committee of the national board of fire underwriters. L J. Davis I safe r.ioiEn Heavy Hauling I 1212 Farnam PHONE DOUGLAS 353 Lot Us Move. Pack. Storo or Ship Your Household Goods or Pianos Unexcelled Service The kitchen Is directly off of the dining room and Is supplied with built-in cup boards, broom closets and cabinets. A nice feature of the plan Is the wsy that the. stair works In, with a separate stair from the kitchen, the don and the living room. On the second floor thore ra two bedrooms and each one has a separate sleeping porch, also two closets. The bath room Is off the hall and Is accessible to the bedrooms. As a whole, the exterior and Interior are entirely harmonious and show not only a most economical handling of space, but the plan Is well adapted to the average, family where two or three bedrooms are sufficient to meet their re quirements. This rlan. Is from the of fices of Everett B. Dodds, architect, 612-13-14-15 Paxton block, Omaha, Neb. STORAGE GO. moos Our rate are moderate, our service of high quality. Our special representative will be glad to call and give you full information without charge. OMAHA VAN & STORAGE CO. 804 South Sixteenth St. Per Cent Interest Am Plus Builders' Prof its, phi Safety, la what makes Home Dullders Guar anteed 7 Preferred Shares la growing demand. C'anh and real estate necuritles make up Home builders' re sources not real entale bought for improvement and re-sale. This means that your money when put out by us Is secured by mortgages on good homes which we build for the home owner who has invested his money ahead of yours and who will par back your money with interest. This means that Home Dullders makes a builders' profit on every contract to build, employing your money to finance the Job. This means that we get 7 interest on your money while out hpuidps builders' nrofit. which amounted to 11 V4 to share hold ers for 1913. Prospects are gooa for better rates for 1914. Many new investors are securing Home Builders' shares why not you? Send for our free booklet, the "New Way." GEE Amsrtoaa enrtty Co., risoal Arts. On Improved Omaha and South Omaha Residence Properties for Ten Years at 6 under the NEW HOME PURCHASE PLAN OF THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 0 ASSETS DECEMBER 31, 1913, $525,315,619 The mortgage is protected by LIFE In surance in the same amount as the loan, at a small additional charge. The princi pal and interest of the loan and cost of Life Insurance is payable in monthly in stallments. IN CASE OF DEATH OF THE BOR ROWER the Life Insurance pays off the - loan in full and Balance Goes to His Estate. In case of FIRE or TORNADO You are Protected. This Plan is Sure to Interest You. Come In and Let Us Explain. W. Farnam Smith & Co. AGENTS. 1320 FARNAM ST. TEL. DOUGLAS 1064. ri Furnaces TTiat Heat Srsp Ov?r'-t Famacos. Wsls Gas and Soot Oonauialag . rnrnaoss. Everett S. Dodds Architect Phone, D-2981 612 Paxton Block Por Prices and Information, Call o. o. joxxrgoir, ' 4037 Blooey Bt. BOSTON, XUDOXFM I1UIH, 718 Bo. Btatb at. Iim KODEHBUBO, 3168 Bo. 15th Bt. FAJINaM 8T. UMHIIT UXTAX. I'll, 8763 Farnam Bt. BE&M STSIM BB.EST MXTA.X. WKI, 1914 C amine St. B, M BAD, aiioa Military Ave. BABTOBD WSIOHT, Beta, and Antes. O. W. Florsnoe, Ben, JOB. . XOBHABj, Bo. Omaha, BTsb. VBLBON TIT fe FVmWAOE Oenaell Bluffs, la, W. B. 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