THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 23, 1913.
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TV0 MEN OF SAME
NAME BUY REAL
ESTATEJIOMAIIA
xPayne Investment Company
Engineers the Sales; Trans-
actions for February
i Amount to $67,650.
i' Eleven salei this month by the
i Payne Investment company, man-
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acu vy vv. iv. uiusuii, luiaicu u(
J Included in this list, are two
' sales to men named "R. McKenzie,"
noin irom omer ernes, not reiaiea,
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ana wno oougnt on me same day.
Both bought homes, and both came
to Omaha to rent.
Roy McKenzie, of Grand Island,
, who bought a home at 2344 South
Thirty-fifth street for $4,300 front
J. A. Roundy, purchased on the ad-
vice of a friend, H. L. Luke, who
lived next door.
, Robert McKenzie, of Topeka,
Kan., bought a home at 2409 Lauret
avenue, for $3,400. He looked at
the place once, went down to the
agent and paid for it. .
Another of these transactions was
an exchange of seven and a half
ai-ics in ivuugias coumy, Dy ut.
Paul Ellis, for a half section in
Scotsbluff county, .from L. C. Tay
lor, valued at $24,000. Mr Taylor
will move to Omaha.
Some others in this list:
WtlllHin llllMpl to Xohn Welsh. 2101
Grant street, 11.700.
H. U 0en to Elmer V. Pels plane, 1112
North Thirty-uih street, H.S00.
Margaret)) foramen to Joseph O'Keefe,
2014 Manderson, 13,200.
Catherine W Walsh to Clayton Vr.
Mead. 5420 Pierce, 2,000.
And four other deals.
Omaha Real Estate Firms
Report Sales of Past Week
,.' Hastings & Heyden announce the fol
lowing list of sales nude recently:
II. Ernest Bait bought homo at 1344
South Thirty-third street for 13,600.
Nicholas t'herek bought lots 13S and
,,. 137, South Side acres addition for S50.
Joseph A. Toung purchased 134 South
.. Thlrty-elghth avenue for 14,750.
Ida C. Lindeman purchased 1817 Spsncsr
, street for 3,!00.
, Maurice Ptrsht bought lot 149, Benson
, Gardens, for 11,376,
'William GI11H bought lot , North
Side acres, S460,
Patrick J Maue bought the flats at
S813-2SJ5 Jackson street for IO00.
Janins Hughe, bought flats at 2817-2819
, 'Jacksoft street for 18,000.
Olger A. Roaengren bought a house at
157 Plnkney street for 14,000.
George Krels bought lot U, block 5,
' Mellas addition, for 1235.
Httiim N. Way bought a home, (001
f Underwood avenue, for $3,650.
Raymond J, Mayer bought a home at
. 3424 Poppleton avenue for S4,00.
Patrick J. Rlnn purchased a home at
, 2873 Davenport etreet.
E. A Landers purchased a home at 4103
North Twenty-second .street for $4,500.
,0. O, Dergstrom purchased a home at
2C14 Mason street for $4,000.
' Kdgsr L. Sullivan purchasod lot 13,
South Side acres addition, for $860.
Clover & Spain, realtors, report
the following six sales of homes, to
taling $24,600.
O. M. Smith to H. O. Cennlson, JS17
vard, $6,600
H. G. Den'lson to J. B, Nlckerson, lt
Toppleton avenue, $4,500.
P. O. Mlttelbach, 5003 Davenport street,
to John Van Dohren, $7,000.
To K. J. Doran, cottage, at 2751 Burt
street, $!.50O.
p-j.-ti . C Baum- from rr. r, - K" atton,
, KI2 Newport avenue, $5,000.
..r M- Ol'bert to J. c. McManuS,
5u PlnHney, $3,100. .
Two Omaha Real Estate
Men Buy Residence Property
. Two sales have been made within
;the last week to men actually en
gaged in the real estate business:
Hiram S. Manville, salesman for
Hastings & Heyden, bought a home
at 2428 Fontenelle boulevard from
Paul Epeneter of Des Moines, la.
Raymond J. Mayer, of Benson &
Myers, bought a home at 3424 Pop
pleton avenua through Hastings &
Heyden from C. B. Horton of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
'Real estate men realize what the
demand for homes is at present and
"VIRTUOUS WIVES" 5 ffiSa
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Kitty Lightbody came i.i, puffing
and red, making such a racket as
she passed the tables, that the lec
turer on the news of the week, a
thin, grayish woman in a poke bon
net, momentarily interrupted her
flowing nasal comments.
"Thought I'd never get here,
dear," said Kitty loudly, embracing
first Irrna and then Amy. "Eleven
o'clock's like a dawn tea." She set
tled into her seat, rose again to
shed a brilliant topax sweater coat,
and, oblivious of the waiting audi
ence, resumed her whispering. "I'm
just crazy about the idea, aren't you?
I wish she'd read the new books and
magazines for us. Has anything ex
citing happened last week?"
"At home, as you probably all
know," took up the lecturer, "the
week in congress has been an event
ful one."
In the pleasant music room of the
Chilton Yacht elub, two score 'of
women were scattered in groups of
twos and threes, giving a paintul at
tention to the light, gliding phrases
of the lecturer, who, fy $3 a ticket,
relieved them of the fatiguing daily
search of the newspapers by these
fashionable Monday mornings, felici
tously named "Half-Hours With the
World." The windows were open to
the blue flash of water and the . ... ;
of white sails hung against a glow
ing June sky. From outside came the
call of the players on the tennis
courts and the'subdued sounds of a
phonograph, where, at the further
end of the veranda, a group had be
gun to dance.
"My Lord, that new fox-trot !s
catchy." continued Mrs. Lightbody,
with a sigh. "It's too distracting,
and I must listen. It's so instructive,
isn't it?"
, A girl in white flannels, swinging
on the sill of the open window, half
in the room and half out, was listen
ing by fits and starts, snickering with
a younf fellow who, from the ver
anda, was trying to upset her
gravitv.
"At Washington, the terms of the
new Federal Reserve Bank law have
been generally discussed," said the
voice of the lecturer, "but I won't
trouble you with such dry details"
"Excuse me," said a large, square
woman, militantly, "but that's just
what I do want to know."
"Yes; please do tell us," said a
piping voice up front. "I can't make
hearl or tail out of it."
"The Fedcrel Reserve Mik law
can best be explained in this way"
began the lecturer.
"Absurd to waste time on such
subjects," said Kitty wearily. She
turned to -Irrna. "Has she said any
thing about that Newport scandal
yet? My dear, he wasn't a count after
all!"
"Be quiet, Kitty," said Mrs. Della
barre, with a frown, as there came a
sudden impatient craning of heads
in the direction-of the disturbance.
Mrs. Lightbody's china eyes mo
mentarily fixed themselves in a sol
emn contractionAt this moment,
Jap Laracy wandering in, in search
of amusement, installed himself be
hind Amy.
"Fine day for the trip. Monte s
coming up to the dock now."
Amv danced at her wrist im
patientlythere were still 10 min-(
utes -to be spent instructively.
"In England, the tension between
the Irish Nationalists and Ulster has
become exceedingly acute " ,
"Jap, dear,? who is our vice-president?"
said Mrs. Lightbody. relax
ing. "I tried to remember, but do
you know? I couldn't to save my
life."
"William Jennings Bryan," said
Laracy solemnly.
"Of course." She looked at him a
moment suspiciously and then ap
pealed to Amy.
"Abroad a rather" important bit of
news is announced in the mcrning's
papers," continued the monotonous
tones on the quiet June morning. "At
Sarajevo the Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria is rumored to have been
assassinated."'
There was a stir of surprise. A
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that you thought too much trouble in summer.
Don't step too long on the starter.
Release your clutch before you try to
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Watch your ammeter to be sure your bat
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a month. Better to do this than take chances
on a frostbitten battery.
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woman's voice was heard exclaiming,
"I read the papers, but I didn't
notice that!"
"Now, that is exciting," said Kitty
Lightbody, sitting tip She frowned
on the incorrigible Jap, and sai-l.
with an admonitory shake of her
head. "Behave, Jap; we must con
centrate!" But Laracy was not so easily sub
dued. A salad of pink- and preen
trimmings on a platter of a hat in
front of him had caught hs eye.
"It excites all the little birdies on
the bonnets," he said, in a whisper.
"Look look, how they're trying to
reach it!"
Mrs. Lightbody forgot the trivial
ity of another assassinated archduke
and began to giggle at this banality.
Thus encouraged, Laracy rnssed the
audience in review, according to his
own peculiar style of wit. Amy
glanced again at her watch A year
ago, she would have shared Kitrv's
amusement. "Today, she scarcely
gave ear. The antics of the household
pets had no longer their first charm.
She had passed beyond playing with
children into the mora, dangerous
need of stronser emotions. Dav, zc
Pardee, and Laracy and their kind
were still useful, but only to fill in
At length, with a sigh of relief
sprang up. The lecture was o....
"Goodness, what awful names they
select! Sara Sara I shall never get
it," said Kitty Lightbody. She turned
to Amy, who was chatting to a
group, "Amy dear, what news of
friend husband?"
"Down in Mexico, of course," said
Mrs. Forrester, lightly. She turned
on the brilliant red parasol, which
she held from her to give length to
her arm and free the line f her
graceful body, and, knowing that the
pose was becoming, she held it a lit
tle longer while exclaiming to the
group of women whose eyes de
voured greedily the Gainsborough
hat and the flowing line of her new
gray taffeta dress. "Oh, I'm getting
used to the role of a neglected v ife.
We all cofne to it, don't we?"
But suddenlv remembering her en
gagement, she freed herself from the
trroup and linked arms with Mrs.
Dellabarre.
"Irrna, really, can't you arrange to
come?" she said, in final entreatv.
"I would if I could, my dear," said
Irrna, shaking her head. "It's quite
impossible for me to leave the house
today. I must be there when the doc
tor comes to see Doris."
"It'll be gorgeous running back in
the moonlight."
"I know don't make it harder."
"But that leaves us with an ex
tra man, said Amv, frowning.
"Don't worry; Kitty'll take care
of two," said Irrna, with a smi'e.
"She won't go because I've tal-cn
Monte away from her." thought
Amy, noticing the smile. Aloud, she
said: "It's not a twos-ing party at
all. We keep together!" She turned
to Mrs. Lightbody, "Well, if we're
going to make New York for lunch,
we must be off. All the same," she
thought, as they passed into the
glare of the sun and made their way
down the dock, "it's going to be a
bore having an extra man." The extra
man, of course, was Tody Dawson.
"I don't believe Doris is ill ai all,"
said Kittv. linking arms with her,
"Nor L"
"She's done it on purpose,' saiJ
Mrs. Lightbody, with a convinced
nod. "Unless unless it's a question
of Rudy. He's been in a dreadful
state lately, have you noticed?"
"I've a mind to leave Tody be
hind," said Amy pensively.
"Oh, my dear, it would break the
poor boy's heart I" said Kitty in
stantly. "H!snose is out of ioi-.it as
it is."
"He's going to be dreadfully in
the way. You will have to look -after
him." (
"Don't worry, my dear; I knew
my role!" said Kitty, laughing.
At this moment, Dawson, as
though divining her thoughts, came
up.
"I say, Amy, if Irrna s backed ovt,
I'll walk the plank if you say the
word."
"Poor boy, he's still dreaJful'y in
love with me," she thought, and
aloud she added, "No, indeed. Tody;
wouldn't leave you out for the
world."
At the smile with which 'he fa
vored him, his face lighted vp. A
moment before, the sky was tum
bling down. Now, just to be near
her, to watch her covertly from a
distance, to hear the sound of her
voice and fill his eyes with her loveli
ness, changed the face of the world.
'By George, you are a trump, you
are!" he said incoherentlv.'and he
went hastily up the dock. He adored
her as a pagan worships, with his
head to the soil. No woman could be
so angelic, no woman!
Monte Bracken, in white flannels,
was at the gangway of the speedy
little motor-yacht that had its red-and-white
awnings out. The next
moment, they were lounging in lazy,
cushioned chairs, the sprSy curling
whitely at their sides, rushing across
the mackerel waters to New York.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Seat Covers.
Seat covers inevitably get dirty af
ter they have been in service for
some time, and it is sometimes dif
ficult to know just how to clean
them. The best way is simply to
remove them and scrub them clean
on a scrubbing board, using non
alkaline soap and warm water.
Ill FAVOR OF LAW
TO CHECK CURB
STONEAGEflT
Nebraska Realty Association
Wants More Stringent Laws
Governing Safe of Real .
. Estate.
Officers of the Nebraska Realty
association and the Omaha Real Es
tate board spent considerable time
last week on a proposed law which
they believe will protect the pub
lic against unscrupulous and curb
stone agents.
This proposed law would make it
illegal for any man to sell or oiler
for sale any real estate unless he has
a written contract. Under existing
laws curb-stoners and other un
ethical dealers frequently demand
commissions from sales if thev have
merely held a conversation with the
owner or purchaser.
This practice will be made unlaw
ful by the proposed measure. John
J. Strunk of Indianola, president of
the State Realty association, Secre
tary G. J. Mauel, and Attorney C. E.
Matson of Lincoln conferred for two
hours with the Omaha board
Wednesday on this matter.
A committee of the Omaha board
including President McFarland, P.
W. Kuhns, F. W. Shotwell, C. J.
Baird, Ray Stevenson and Leo Bo
zell met the state officers in Lincoln
last week on this same proposal. )
Both the Omaha board and the
state association are co-operating to
better conditions in the real estate
fraternity.
,
Real Estate Men Predict
Increase in Flat Rentals
There will probably be a raise in
rental rates this spring on detached
houses and duplex flats.
The contemplated raise is from
10 to 20 per cent.
Members of the Building Owners
and Managers association in con
templating expenses of upkeep on
this of rental property, find that it
has increased from 40 to 100 per
cent.
Owners are not receiving enough
to pay them 6 per cent on their in
vestments, with the increased ex
pense of upkeep, While no raise has
been decided upon, there is much
talk of it.
Since prices increased, detached
houses and duplex flats are the
only kind of residence property on
which rates have not been raised.
To Erect Two Apartment
Houses on Jones Street
A 97 Mi foot lot on Jones street,
between Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth,
which was offered two
years ago for $3,000. was sold last
week to William B. Drake for $5,000.
Mr. Drake bought the ground from
Mel I-hi, senior, represented by
Dean Glover.
Two apartment houses will be
erected on this ground. Excava
tions for them arc now in progress.
Each house will be three stories
high and each will contain 36 apart
ments of one and two-room capacity.
Hughes Buys Flats. I
Hastings & Heyden and the H. A.!
Wolf company sold the flats at
2S13-281S-2817-2819 Jackson street ,
to Patrick J. Maue and James 1
Hughes. These were bought for S
$12,000 for an investment. i
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