Real Estate in
City Transfers
> Totals $256,758
Transactions Last Week Num
bered 37 of More
Than $4,000 •
Each.
Real estate, deals of $4,000 or more
each recorded last week In the of
fice of the register of deed* totaled
$*256,73S. There were 37 *ueh trans
action*.
Following: are the properties trans
ferred and the district* in which they
are located:
Hanerom Perk.
Ren Harrison to Mabel Roy re, 2929
Smith Thirty-second avenue. $9,500.
Northwest.
Roy Hansen to W. H. Rail, northwest
mrnor Forty-eighth *n«l Pratt street.*,
$4,400.
T. W. Metcalfe to M. A. Lean, 4216
Corby street. $4,750.
T \V. Met* wife fo Roy Hansen, 4.IS 1
I.a rlmor* a i cnui\> $3,400.
T. \V. Metcalfe to O. J. Pierson. 4220
Cot by afreet. $t,7n0.
John Hansen to F. .1. Pavelec, south
west miner Forty-fourth and Emmet
| streets, $4,H00.
South Omaha.
Fiank Heines to .1. V. Rnsmajsil, 1311
Ai'her avenue. $4,
Sophie Katzman to Geerae laell, on Q
afreet between Thirty-ninth and Forty
first streets, $v.3«»".
Centrnl.
Harney Oiliiisky m Standard Oil com
pa ii>, ::i"4 Leavenworth mi reel and .
South 'I'h11 t>-first toll eel. $1U,000.
Minnie Gobletem to Standard Cli com
pnn>. 3 10s l.eavemvorth s;reet. $H.50u.
Amelia J. Swanson i<> Lee Clark, 2S:;
3 v Miport street. $5,250.
ilogers Jt. K. company to ,M. L. Sugut
in it. 1202-4 GoUgls* street. $40,000,
G. It. Crocker fo T. \V. .Metcalfe, 277.
y x ' «un a l rev I. $4.50o.
.■... C. M. Uaivey i.» A. F. Jones. 116 South
p Thirty-first avenue. $M.u00.
Nort liable.
If. A. McCaffrey to Evelyn M. Blum
2vi;Ohio street. $6,391.
Birdie R. Stimson to C. B. Tryon, 141
KitiiiiFt street. $6.6»>0.
olive J. Hart to Samunl Forman. 221
She ib.in avenue. $4,850.
‘l-;i:.e u. Golden to T. W. Metcalfe
53 , \nrth 'i wenty-fifth avenue. $4,7f>'».
F. G Jones to C. C. Blackmore. 521?
N'-itli Twenty-seventh street, $4,950.
H. L. Cassell to H. A. Givens, 300*
Miami street. $4,400.
Clalrmont.
G. A. Bright to Southern Mortagsg'
iind Finance company, 4524 i’arker street.
$4,150.
linxel K. Young to Anna Westergatd
2721 North Forty-eighth ctreet, $6,100.
Southeast.
Antonio Rlmare to Gluseppa Basse
$14 Pierre street. $6,004).
Owen Slaven to c’uiainelo Mnngiameli
1709 South Tenth street. $4,000.
8. L. Julln to Joseph Kozak, 171 i
South Tenth street. $4,250.
Mary Drozds to S. L. Julln, 907
Hickory afreet. $6,800.
South.
Otto Schneldewlnd to William N.
Leshovsky, 1542 South Twenty-Sixth
street. $5,500.
F. J. Yore to Otto Schneldewlnd. 3 542 ;
South Twenty-sixth street, $4,000.
Cathedral.
F. 8. Parmeles to Margaretta Baker.
421 North Fortieth street. $10,000.
Minne Loaa.
F. W. Gilbert to Anna V. Vlller, 2557 ;
Ida street, $6,250.
F. W. Gilbert to Anna V. Ollier, *5<l !
Ida street. $$.250.
I. S. Andersen to Southern Mortgage
and Finance company, 2108 Mary street,
96.950.
M. C. Collins to Margaret C. Flak, on
Whitmore avenue between Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth streets, 95,817.
West leaven worth.
Dorothy M. Nicholson to H. A. Bichel.
on Kees streets between Fifty-eighth and
Sixtieth streets. 99,900.
T. W. Metcalfe to M. E. Moyer. C«lf>
Briggs strest. $7,150.
Lillian F. Haworth to R. B. Klfrlnk on
Leavenworth street between Happy Hol
low boulevard and Fifty-eight street.
$8,650.
Dundee.
^ , 'Hazel Hherdeman to V, 1). Benedict,
‘8 Burt street. $9.5<50.
Real Estate Study
Course Is Offered
Chicago Man Will Be Here
This Week to Organize
Clas®.
Plan* will lie put under way this
week for Omaha realtor* to give their
salesmen the educational course In
real estate and real estate dealing*
prepared by the .National Association
of Heal Kstate Hoards.
Herbert IT, Nelson of Chicago, ex
ecutive secretary of the national as
asoclatlon, will tie In Omaha AVednea
day night to explain this course and
begin the organization of a class.
He will talk at a real Estate ban
quet to he given at 6:30 AVednesday
at the Rome hotel.
The course of study covers all
branches of the real estate business
and has been prepared by practical
experts.
he educational committee of the
Omaha Real Kstate board, which
will be In charge of organizing the
class locally, consists of I Shuler,
chairman; A\'. T. Grnhsm,, George T.
Morton and F. I,. Ileyen.
“AH the lessons and text books
In this course have l»-en prepared by
men who are successful In the real
estate business,' said Mr. Shuler. The
course Is not mere theory. It repre
sents the practical experience of men
have been and are marked suc
( esses In their various cities.
"AVs know the teachings are good
because they have been tried out by
the men that wrote them.”
OMAHANS GO TO
LINCOLN ON BILL
Members of the legislative commit
tee of the Omaha Real Kstate hoard
will go to Lincoln Monday afternoon
to appear before the state senate com
mittee, which Is considering the street
/ railway franchise hill. They will be
accompanied by the committee's at
torney, John Breen, who has drafted
an amendment to the UnhlmanTAm
bert hill.
The amendment will define a street
railway as u system of transportation
running oil rills and streets; the
amendment will not say that a street
railway company I* a bus system.
This amendment will also provide that
the company may supplement It*
street railway service with hits serv
ice, hut probably will Include a pro
vision that tbe street railway service
may not he supplanted with or super
ceded by busses.
The board's legislative committee
consists of Charles L. Saunders, chair
man; AV. T. Graham, vice chairman;
Byron R. Hastings, tf. P. Dodge, Sen
ator John AV. Robbins and Represen
tative Lad Tetsr. Senator Robbins
^esand Representative Teaar are mem
bers of the present legislature.
Ventilate, ventilate—
Office man;
Make the air circulate
All that you can;
Far people can't hibernate
Like raccoons can;
Ventilate, ventilate—
• office man.
Workers Still Busy on Firesafe Home, Despite Groundhog
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I»> Wil l. M. MAIT1V i
Well, Ol' Mr. Groundhog said a
mouthful when he came out and saw
his shadow
“Ms for the warm burrow for six
weeks longer."
That's why there Is bo much delay
In the progress of that new home out
in the beautiful Happy Hollow dis
trict. When.lt was too blooming cold
to work 1n ’mortar there was tooj
much snow to deliver material. And
when It was warm enough to work
In mortar It was so muddy that the!
delivery men couldn't get close to the]
site. l
But despite all these difficulties
and hindrances the work has not!
been entirely suspended. Now andi
then the workmen could put another,
block in place, so that now the lmse-j
ment walls are practically completed,
and the steel basement window,
frames placed.
Must explain a bit about those steel,
basement windows. They will not|
only add to the flresafety, but also!
to safety against burglars. Not that!
I expect to keep anything very valu-,
able In the basement, nor anything
liable to subject me to search and
seizure. But I may have something
almost valuable upslalrs. and I don't
want burglars crawling through a
basement window.
Here's My Picture.
Just to prove that I am building a
flresafe house I am showing you a
picture. That's me pointing. The
other man Is my architect, Charley
Kosenberry. I am not pointing out
something to kick about. Just point
ing to something. Probably to the.
waterproof concrete blocks made by
the Besser process at the Omaha]
factory of the Diamond Concrete;
Products Co. I selected them after|
mighty careful consideration. You,
see. a fellow can’t be too careful,
about the foundation of his new.
home. Charley told me they were all j
right, too. These blocks are of the!
three-hole type, with 4n per cent air
space. That air space Is mighty Im
portant, If you only knew It. Makes
a sort of thermos bottle of your
house—warmer In winter and cooler
In summer.
With any sort of good luck we ll
have the basement walls completed
In a day or two, and then you will
In- able to see progress. Jf has been
pretty slow to date. But that doesn t
master. We could have crowded
things a bit, but J wanted the build
ers to fake their time and not run
any chances because of the cold
weather.
Everything Worth Having.
Of course I want this home to have
everything worth having to make It
comfortable snd convenient, so I
have decided to equip it with n
Wayne water softener. I have sever
al reasons for this, the rthlef one lin
ing that it will greatly please Bottle
Clifford to have soft water available
for laundry and ablution purposes.
Another reason Is that soft water will
add to the life of the plumbing Hard
water Is hard on the pipes Still an
other reaaon 1* that I like to use
soft water In shaving. The Wayne
water softener Is a simple mechani
cal device employing a natural min
eral for removing lime and magneto
him from hard water. The mineral Is
easily recharged. It Is called zeolite.
It works, too. I saw It tested before
I contraeted for It.
There's one thing about Ibis bouse
that T am proud of, behave me.
Everything possible that goes Into
It Is pro,bleed right here In Omaha,
mill some that Is not produced In
* India Is produced In Nebraska. The
[cinei-ele block* are made right here.
.Made from Nebraska sand and Ne
braska cement, ton. The steel win
dow frames and the steel reinforcing
rods sre made In Omaha. All Ihe
mlllwork Is being made In Omaha far
torlea by Omaha workmen. If glass
were mad* In Omaha I'd uae It. By
the way. Is there any reason why
gtaaa ran not h* made In Omaha, or
somewhere In Nebraska? ,
Wife's Hobbles.
There are two things about a home
that the wife Is Interested In most,
the kitchen snd the closet* Pretty
n*ar lost patience with Bolllo 4'Ilf
ford over the rloset question. W*
discussed the plan* unlll 1 was just
....,..„ __
a hit peeved and remarked in my
best sarcastic vein:
■you draw the plan of the closets
you want and then I’ll have Charley
Uosenberry draw the plans of a
house around ’em.”
But that didn't "feaze” her a little
bit. She is going to get the closets
she wants. Then, just to show that
I couldn't remain peeved with her
wery long at one time, I decided to
put in the "klnerator.” That's the
thing that burns up all the trash
that accumulates every day. That's
a lot, too, lit a house that Is ns full
of ,luety youngsters as my rresent
home is, and as my new home is go
ing to he, praise goodness! There is
an opening In the chimney on both
hoors. and we'il just dump the trash
through those openings, and it
scoots to the klnerator in the base
meat. There it is dried out by the
! y-pass feature, and every now and
then you Just go down in tire base
ment and touch a match to it. Pufl.
and it's all gone.
I
Visitors Ihsirni.
Hat e you heen out to the site of |
my new home? If you haven't, I i
wish you would go out there during ]
the coming week. If I'm not there I
to answer questions, do not be afraid
to ask the w orkmen. 'J hat * a part
of their Job. It'* easy tg get there
l y street ear If you haven't an auto
mobile. I go out on the street car
when Charley Is too busy to take me
out. Several times I’ve worked him
for a free auto ride by convincing
him that ho really ought to go out
and explain something to me. I'm
afraid, however, that Charley 1s get
ting wise to my scheme. Take a
Dundee car to the place where It
ends, near Brownell hall, right there
by the old Happy Hollow club house.
Then a block north, a short block
west, and a block north again to
where you see the piles of concrete
blocks, and where I hope you'll see
busy workmen on the Job.
I am hoping that next Sunday 1,
can fix the ' ite for laying the cor
nerstone. Jt'et us soon as I can fix
the date I am going to invite every
one t" help me In the ceremonies
It s going to be a great day.
Bultonlc plague Is a terrible disease.
Acquired by man from the rat and
his fleas:
If we d rat proof our houses, our
stables and bins,
Bubonic fleas wouldn't punctura our
skins.
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—deserve the best in mill work
Since 1856, it has been the
pride of the M. A. Disbrow
organization to complete
the job so that the stamp of
“Disbrow” might always be
a guarantee of first grade.
When Inspecting the
Ideal Firesafe Home of
The Omaha Bee, look
over the doors, sash,
screens, mouldings snd
all the interior wood
work. It is Disbrow
product, installed in this
home at our usual rea
sonable prices, common
surate with the cost of
the entire house.
Anderson White Pine Frames
“Perfection” High Grade Oak Flooring
M. A. DISBROW & CO.
EfltabKflhed 18.56.
Office and Warehouses, 12th and Nicholas Sts.
Clinton. Iowa. Omaha, Neb. Ch.,.nn., W,n.
PLUMBING
Has kept pace with modem building snd today all
, through your house, sanitation, utility, and beauty, may j
be had in every bit of the plumbing equipment.
•'RODSTROM'’ installation is the guarantee of quality
work throughout the Ideal Firesafe Home.
C. L. RODSTROM
Plumbing and Heating Contractor
Furnace Coil* and Ga» Henters Inatallrd.
Twenty-fourth and Fort KE. 1236
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Metcalfe Company
Observes Date of
First Anniversary
•
Officials Proud of Firm's
Record; Recount Faith in
Omaha ahd Confidence
in Future.
February 15 Is the close of Metcalfe
company's first year, and Saturday
was the day of celebration at the com
pany's office, 105 South Nineteenth
street.
Incidentally, It was recalled that it
was exactly 38 years ago yesterday—
St. Valentine's day, 1887—that Rich
ard L. Metcalfe arrived In Omaha.
The last year has been a success
ful one for Metcalfe company, 125
newr homes having been built and sold
besides many old houses and proper
ties. During the year this company
has bought and developed an addition
of 40 acres, which Is now well-known
as Crestwood and lying Immediately
east of Sixtieth street and south of
Pacific.
Theodore \V. Metcalfe, secretary
and treasurer, soys:
"Everyone connected with Metcalfe
company Is grateful for the wonderful
year Just closed. There is every rea
son to believe that the new year will
be even more prosperous. Some of
our friends smiled very broadly one
year ago when we announced our In
tention of building 100 rew homas.
"They said'we wouldn't be able to
do It. We havr'eltceeded our promised
| number by 25 and every one of them
have been sold to well satisfied home
owners. .
"We expect during the coming year
lo double our last year's business.
In our opinion, Omaha Is all right,
the new year will be the best year of
nil, and there are, In our lexicon, no
such words as ‘pessimism’ or ‘dis
couragement.’
"We know that all we need to do Is
lo ‘git up and git,’ and w# will reap
the benefits of Omaha's advantageous
situation and conditions and the nat
ural prosperity which Is knocking at
the door of Omaha."
BUILDERS OFFER
SCHOOL BOARD AID
The advisory committee of the
Building Owners’ and Managers’ as
soclatlon has offered Its service to the
board of education In connection with
the planning of the new school build
in* to be erected.
The committee has waived usual
charges on account of the public na-j
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ture of this work
The local committee consists of W.
J. Palmer, chairman; E. H. Benner,
John N. Crawford, Alfred C. Krn<
nedy, Howard Q. Loomis and Franll
P. Manchester,
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for Tha Omaha Baa Home
ia all being supplied by ua.
Tha reason's tha same one
that sells all our custom
ers—Quality plus Service,
at a Fair Price.
“Just Lumbering Along”
ARCHITECTURE
•
When the moment comes to bring your dreams
of a home into reality—be it large or small—
you desire that house constructed in a manner
that will obtain for you in actuality all of the
things whic)i your dreams of the past have en
visioned. •
Architecture is an art and a science and in your
community there are recognized architects on
whom you can depend to obtain for you in
this home everything possible.
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Drawing plans and supervision of
construction are just as essential
in a home for you and your fam
ily as in the building of a business
block.
— Consult an Architect
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A Masterpiece
in Construction!
A well built home contains more than
merely a design, building n: terial, and a
certain amount of labor.
Somewhere, in fact, everywhere,
throughout the construction of every real
, home, there is skilled workmanship, pride of
Estimates —■ achievement, and integrity.
We are please^ at any These things make a home of long
time to be allowed to »nd h*PP? *»*• *5* dreams of the
, . .. .. owner and the skill and advice of the archi
make construction esti- tect
mate. In planning your
home, we solicit the op- We are proud that our reputation is
portunity to figure its such that we were selected to build the Ideal
cost with you. Firesafe Home for The Omaha Bee.
DAVE E. JOHNSON
Contractor
4137 Lake St. WA. 0932
WATERPROOF CONCRETE BLOCKS
You Can Drop One in a Barrel of W ater—At the end of 48 hours it will
show not more than 4^ water absorption. These same blocks will not
crush at an average of less than 17 0,000 pounds pressure.
It’s because they are BESSER process.scientifically manufactured THREE
HOLE concrete blocks.
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The making of DIAMOND BRAND CON- The new plant of Diamond Concrete Products
CRETE BLOCKS it a scientific process—the w*» designed, built and equipped by Frank
# g . . . . . Whipp? rinitn. In it he has one of the finest
results of year, of experiments and tests. plapPf in thf Unitel, states, ^uipped with
TL D |Uf.,( o. Minute care In the selection of materials. BESSER machines to make 3-hole concrete
1 ne Beit wall for dtUCCO their careful mixing in exact quantities while blocks.
We are apeclaliata on CON- dry and the addition of water in such quantity concrete kilna are where these
CRETE MASONRY HOUSES. that every particle of cement and sand is uni- WockT are .team cure£ Twenty-light d,ya
with Portland Cement Stucco. formly coated with water, are all a part of „{ ajr drying follow this process to make a
warm V Xt.r th* W* "taking of block.. perfect block,
no repair*.
the Ideal Firesafe Home ^. _y
mi fy 90% of the concrete block* made
W fl I today are of the new and progres
sive three-hole type.
50% more strength.
Four cross webs instead of three.
Do not require keying.
Are perfectly balanced.
Easy for the Mason to lay.
No trouble about fractions.
Perfect circulation of air, both horizontal and
perpendicular throughout your entire wall.
Allows plastering directly upon the w’all.
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We make CONCRETE CHIMNEY BLOCKS, FIRE CLAY FLUE LINING, PORCH PIERS, WALL
COPINGS, SILLS, LINTELS, LAWN AND GARDEN FURNITURE.
Mr. Harry R. Rnesslf. head of our construction department, w ill be pleased to five you the cost on any kind of concrete work.
DIAMOND CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO.
Office and Plant, 42d and Parkar Stc. Pkona WA Inut 6773
FRANK WHIPPFRMAN, Mtr.—Talapkonc KE 0401
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