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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1907)
THE SU'DAT OREGOXL4X, PORTLAND, IAfeCH 17, 1907. fffrd sold to B. F. Andre 20 acres in section 22 for $3000. Two acres in sec tion 14. sold by Annie Beers to Alfred J. Stout, brought J200. R. L. Stevens sold two acres and a parcel of land in section 7 to J. W. Gray for $2250. In Powell Valley P. A. Johnson bought seven acres of land adjoining his place of G. A. Anderson for $525. Rose and Isam White sold to Ora L. Adkins 7.18 acres in section 5 and other property for $21,416. Marie B. Dinger sold to John Field house 20. 5J acres in section 9 for $2200. This land is located on the Peninsula near the Columbia boulevard. William and Anna Peterson sold one acre to the Swedish Lutheran Sharon Church in section 11 for $150. The land is located north of Vernon. P. J. Erlckson has sold to Olaf Brandberg seven and one-half acres in section 13 for $385. The land is north of Irvtng ton. Charles Yenke' sold to James F. Watklns a parcel of land in section 20 for $4000. The land is located in the Columbia Slough district. One acre in section 18, Columbia SlouKh, was sold by Gustav Friedwald to L. Moore for $450. MAW NEW ADDITIONS OPENED Strongest Movement of Week Is In Property of This Class. One of the strong movements of the past week in the realty market has been the heavy sales of lots in the residence districts. Not only have lots sold readily In the older sections of the city, but there has been an unusually big sale in districts recently placed upon the market. The week has been characterized by the opening of several large and fine residence tracts that promise soon to be extensively improved with attractive dwellings. Among the additions where numerous sales are reported are Rose City Park, Hartman & Thompson: Waverleigh. H. W. Lemcke & Co.; University Park. F. I. McKenna: Portland Heights, D. E. Keasey & Co.; Belle Crest, Jacobs-Stlne Company and the Spanton Company; Overlook, A. F. Swensson & Co. There have also been many sales. in other ad ditions and tho demand for residence property is especially strong. It is a fact that the greater part of those who are buying residence sites are acquiring them for actual use. Nearly all intend to erect dwellings and the greater portion are for the use of the owners and not to rent. The speculative element Is of secondary importance and the sales are therefore very significant to the wel fare of the city. Scores of purchases have been made each day in the residence districts. Agents who handle this property have been kept busy showing the lots to prospective cus tomers. In the cases of additions that have not yet streetcar connection, the various agencies In many cases are pro viding automobiles for the convenience of customers. Automobiles laden with pros pective investors have attracted no little attention on the street during the week. No one who visits any portion of the suburban residence section will have any doubt as to the rapidity with which the city is growing. New home,s are spring ing up everywhere and excavations are being dug for many more. It is also true that there are very few vacant houses of any kind, showing that the increase of population is keeping pace with the build ing progress. LENTS DISTRICT GROWING REMARKABLE PROGRESS IN RE GION SOUTHEAST OF CITY. One Thousand Dwellings Put Vp in Immediate Vicinity Within the Lust Year. The remarkable growth at and around Lents is attracting general attention. The wonderful feature of this growth Is that practically all the old tracts immediately at Lents have been sold out mainly to home-builders, and only can a lot now and then be picked inside or near the post office from the private owner. O. R. Addlton. who has handled considerable property at and near Lents, says that in addition to home-builders Investments have been made by people in the W11-. lamette Valley, east of the mountains, and one man at work on the Panama Canal bought a block near the postofflce as an investment. Most . of the lots are 50x100 feet, but some are 40x100. There is constant build ing going on. The sawmill near at hand has been kept busy supplying lumber for the cottages under construction, covering over 15 'square miles of territory. The area covered by the settlement extends from the Powell Valley road south over two miles and between Lents and Wood stock. It is estimated that from 3000 to 4W0 houses have been built in this terri tory, and that 1O0O were put up within' the past year. There is no abatement in the building boom, and nothing short of want of lumber will stop It. Foundations of cottages may be seen in all directions under construction. A much better grade of houses are going up all over this dis trict. The annexation movement. If success ful. would probably add 12.000 to the popu lation of the city, outside or Lents. With the Lents district probably 15,000 would come in. In this district are 10 churches, , either built or to be built. Two school houses are to be put up. Fraternal so cieties and other organizations, the same as are found in the heart of the city, have been organized. Also there are well-organized push clubs woaklng for fire protection, better car service and im proved streets, and developing social in terests. Kast of Lents a JO-acre tract is. being cleared off and will be put on the market shortly in lots. There is quite an ex tent of country eastward, following the electric railway, and settlement Is slowly but surely following the electric Tailway toward Grcsham. Home-seekers this far out want acreage tracts. OUTSIDERS REAP RICH PROFIT Cat 11 n & Linn, of Salem, Make $9 000 in One Year on Realty. One of the numerous incidents in which out-of-town men have reaped substantial profits by operating in ' Portland real estate was shown during the past week, when Catlin Linn, a firm of Salem hop dealers, sold a building on the south side of Oak street, between First and Front, for $25,000. It Is a three-story brick structure, occupying a site 25x100. The purchaser is Or. C W. Cornelius. The building was bought March 16 of last year by the Salem firm for 316.000. In the year that they have held it they have cleared $9000. besides receiving good revenue in rentals. Willamette Valley men are coming more and more to appreciate the opportu nities for investment here. Few weeks pass without transactions coming to light in which they are Interested. Many of these purchases are made by Salem and Eugene men, and there is considerable .Eastern Oregon capital in the Portland market. WINTER. SCENES: LAKE CHELAX. Views taken by F. H. Klser in his thrill ing trip through the Chelan country in the dead of Winter are now on exhibit in the Ladies' Lobby, Imperial Hotel. K1SER PHOTO CO. 6cenlo Photos Lobby Imperial Hotel. PIONEER EDUCATOR DEAD JOHN W. BROCK PASSES AWAY AT LENTS. Spent Forty Years In Active School Work Was Long a Resident of Walla Walla. John W. Brock,, for many years an active educator in Washington, but of re cent years a resident of Multnomah County, died at 10 o"clock Friday night from heart failure, after a lingering ill ness. The funeral will be held at 2 P. M. today, from the Evangelical Church, at Lents, and will be conducted by minis ters of the Evangelical and Methodist denominations. The burial service will be under the auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the interment will be in Multnomah CoUnty Cemetery, near Lents. The G. A. R. will furnish honorary pall bearers. Mr. Brock settled in Washington Terri tory in 1378. For a number of years he was ldentifiedi with the schools of Walla Walla, city and county, as well as Whit man Seminary, which grew into Whitman ...... I . i t I Wt its I l The Late John W. Brock. ....... ....... . .... 4 College at Walla Walla. An appointment in the United States Department of Edu cation, in the Indian service, was the only interruption of a continuous resi dence in Walla Walla County for 20 years. On retirement from the Government po sition, Mr. Brock again became City Su perintendent of the Walla Walla public schools. At this time the growth of the city gave opportunity for the grading of the schools, and an extension of the sys tem. Then, on the Republican ticket, he was elected to the office of County School Superintendent. From this time on he served Walla Walla County in several public capacities for 11 years. In 1898, after teaching and administer ing the affairs of schools for 40 years, of which time 20 years was spent in Washington State and Territory, Mr. Brock retired to a farm. He lived in Walla Walla until eight years ago. Desiring to extend his experiments in agriculture to a different climate, Mr. Brock came to Multnomah County about eight years ago; and secured a farm near Portland. He was dividing hts time be tween this place and his wheat farms east of the mountains up to the time that his strength failed, him In his last -sickness. ' Six years ago Mr. Brock purchased a home at Lents, the terminus of the Mt. Scott carline. He selected that location' because it was a settlement of well-to-do retired people occupying five and ten acre tract places. Always in attendance at the Grange meetings, at Multnomah hall, and participating In local affairs, Mr. Brock gained a general personal ac quaintance in the immediate locality of his home. His operations in wheat grow ing in the Walla Walla and Umatilla country, and in farming near Portland, kept him on Intimate terms with agri culturists in several localities. Cordial, plain and straightforward in manner and always sincere and honest in his motives, Mr. Brock enjoyed the con fidence of the many people with whom he came in contact in his 20 years of resi dence in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Brock was born May 22, 1842, in the town of Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. He was the son of Rev. Wesley Brock, a minister of the North Ohio Methodist Conference. At the age of 14 he began to teach school, and continued in this occupation until the age of 22, when he entered the Union Army. After serving the term of his enlistment he matriculated in the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he graduated as a student in classics In 1871. At the age of 27 Mr. Brock married Phoebe M. Daniels. After graduating from the university, he continued in the profession of teaching, serving as princi pal of schools at New London and Celina, O.; Winona, Minn.; Oroville, Cal.; Waits burg and Walla Walla, Wash. The teach ing and supervising of schools in the states mentioned covers 40 years of edu cational work. Mr. Brock leaves a wife and one son, Wilbur F. Brock. The surviving son is a writer and Is cow connected with a Seattle paper. He was at home with his father during the critical period of the latter's illness. Returns From California. Lewis Russell, of the firm of Russell & Blyth, returned last week from a trip of three months through California. Mr. Russell spent much of his time touring the state in an automobile, but was pre vented by frequent rains from enjoy ing this pastime as much as he had plan ned. While away he spent considerable time studying the real estate situation in the California cities and comes back more firmly convinced ' than ever that Portland offers better opportunities for investment than any other city on the Coast. . Court Exceeded Its Power. -- HELENA, Mont. March 16. The Su preme Court today held that the District Oourt of Silver Bow County has exceeded its jurisdiction in sentencing Andrew Fairsraves to the penitentiary for 14 years upon his conviction on the charge of throwing corrosive acid in the face of a woman, on the ground that the verdict of the' jury did not show the act was wilful. He was therefore ordered released from the penitentiary- and will get a jail sentence for a misdemeanor. - Best's Personal Opinion. NEW YORK, March 16. (To the Ed itor.) Charles S. Best has nothing to do with our editorial policy. We re pudiate his interview printed by you March 3, which is his personal opinion only. Kindly print' this. A. M. BEST CO. Newcomers Flock to Christ! 11a Valley Frank Strickxott. a well-known farmer fo Christilla Valley, east of Mount Scott, says that many newcomers are entering that valley and buying up smalt tracts. He cites one tract of 176 acres of land FARMS A N. AG! D Buy property which cannot decrease in value. These tracts become more valuable every year; many are near Portland, and for homes or investment they cannot be beaten. We have hundreds of fine'buys listed, any location or price desired. OUR FIELD IS OREGON, WASHINGTON AND IDAHO ' TERMS STOCK RANCHES TERMS Six ranches, from 10 acres to 1200 acres in size. "We have the finest assortment of this class of property ever listed in Oregon. 1 $ . SOO 160 acres, 10 acres in cultivation, 90 pasture, 150 bearing fruit trees, 50 acres timber. acres, fruit trees ; fine land and plenty of ,, water; an excellent ranch. , 3 S ' 2560 160 acres, 30 acres in cultivation ; good buildings and orchard; fine timber. 4 $ 450O 500 acres, 30 acres in cultivation ; house and barn ; a fine, productive farm. 5 $ 940O 755 acres, 160 acres in cultivation; best soil; 10,000 acres best stock range outside. 6 $J6,000 1260 acres, 200 acres alfalfa; good .buildings and plenty water ; an ideal ranch. TERMS ACREAGE TERMS Six acreage tracts are here shown merely in order to illustrate the wide range of prices and purposes embraced by our list of fine home tracts. - 1 $ 80O 10 acres in Yamhill County, close to town ; fine land but unimproved. 2 $1100 35 acres, 12 acres in cultivation'; fine orchard; an unusual bargain. , - 3 $1750 10 acres, all improved; excellent orchard; fine house and barn. 4 $2000 27 acres, all improved; .nice orchard; good house and barn. 5 $225038 acres, 15 acres in cultivation; young orchard; chickens ; fruit ; good house, etc. 6 $600012 acres near corporate limits of Portland; a snap. TERMS FARMS TERMS Six items from our list of farms, all within 20 miles of Portland. Some next to corporate limits. They are. increasing in value daily. 1 $ 650 One acre near Hillsboro ; 5-room house ; fine little place ; good well, etc. 850 35 acres near Hillsboro; 5 acres in meadow; a little home hard to beat. 4500 217 acres, mostly timberland, near Forest Grove ; good chance for a sawmill. 550O 100 acres good farm land, 50 acres -under culti vation ; fine timber and water. -$12,000 120 acres near Hillsboro, 108 acres cultivated; fine orchard ; water, hops, some timber. 6 $17,000 248 acres, 125 acres cultivated; fruit trees, house, barn and all fine improvements. 2- $ 3- -$ 4- $ TERMS TIMBER, ETC. TERMS Six miscellaneous items, including timber, a site for Summer home, and a couple of fine irrigated tracts in the celebrated Idaho country. ' 1 $ 1000 132 acres in timber, 3 miles from Philomath ; part ly cleared off. 2 $ 1400 280 acres, 4 miles from Philomath; good timber for the price; good land. ' 3 $13,000 450 acres, 200 in cultivation, 100 best beaverdam; 3,000,000 feet lumber. 4 $ 2600 80 acres choice fruit land at "White Salmon, "Wash, j A beautiful home. 5 $1000 5-acre tract near town ;' fine land ; house and all improvements; a home.. 6 $10,000 80 acres irrigated; 65 acres alfalfa, 3 acres orch ard; an elegant money-maker.. L. GATE PHONE EX. 70 226 STARK ST. PORTLAND that was purchased by Captain Hosford, of Portland. He cut the property into six tracts, selling it all. Most of it was unimproved and this part brought S50 an acre. The Improved land, ready for cul tivation 'brings as high as $100 and $160 an acre. "I am glad to see these large farms broken up," said Mr. Strlckrott,. for that means more people, better cultiva tion, better roads and better schools. Our valley is adapted to the production of fruits of all kinds. The climate is most excellent and the soil is rich and produc tive. Our farmers are engaged in spray ing their fruit trees. This is one result of the institute that was held in our valley by Commissioner J. H. Reid last year. His visit acted as a stimulation to the fruit business In this valley, and I look for large increase of production of fruit In our valley in another year." Portland Society (Continued From Pas. 27.) members of the Trinity Church choir: Tenor solo. "Rest Thee. Sad .Heart," J. Gibson; baritone solo, "O Lord of Mercy," F. T. Crowther; duet, "Watchman, What of th Night," Messrs. Gibson and Crow ther. The hours are from 4 to 6 o'clock. It is not a gathering exclusively for members, but all young women are heart ily welcomed and especially those girls who are away from home. It is not a formal religious service, but a good, homelike time on Sunday afternoon. Group gatherings to suit the interests of all: Story group. Drop-In Bible Class, Little Journeys. Those who wlBh to do so sit quietly in the library and read or rest or chat in small groups. Then comes the musical programme and address, and after that the informal supper. . The regular monthly Patton Home tea will be held at the home Tuesday, March 19. " The programme will be under the direction of Mrs. John Logan. Those who will take part are Mrs. William Boyd Hamilton, Mrs. M. Bradshaw, Miss Anne Ditchburn. Mrs. B. E. Miller. Miss Bess Vriedwell, Miss Margaret Taylor, Miss Annie Schisted and Mrs. H. Hepp ner. The ladles who will receive are Mrs. T. N. Stoppenbach, Mrs. Van Dun ning. Mrs. J. T. O'Donnell, Mrs. I C. Henry. Those who will receive in the dining-room are Mrs. W. H. Hair and Mrs. Phillip New. All friends inter ested in the home are invited to be present. George ' Wright Relief Corps sewing circle will meet at the borne of Mrs. Mattie Jaques, 260 East Thirty-fifth street,' Tuesday, March 19, from lo to 4 o clock. Take Mount Scott or Mount Tabor car. ' Portland Circle No. 55, Women of Woodcraft, will give their next whist and dancing party Tuesday evening, March 19, in new Woodmen of the World Hall. ... Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davidson will receive informally Sunday afternoon, at their home, 448 Tenth street, in commem oration of their 30th wedding . anniver sary. . . . A county W. C. T. IT. institute will be held at -the Friends' Church, East Thirty-fifth and East Main streets, Fri day, March ' 15. There win be an all day session, commencing at 10 A. M-, with basket lunch at noon. A verjf interesting programme has been pre pared, and a medal contest will be the, main feature of the evening. A cor dial invitation is extended to all to at tend this institute. SOCIETY PERSONALS. Mrs. Albert Goldman, of Chicago, is visiting Mrs. Louis Rosenblatt. Mrs. A. L.' McCully and daughter Sara are spending the Winter in Boston, Mass. Mr" and Mrs. K. M, Lance have moved to 515 Twentieth street. Portland Heights. Mrs. Charlotte York, member of the George Wright Relief Corps, is visiting her parents in Canada, Mrs. A. B. Manley left Friday for a few weeks' visit in Hood River and Eastern Oregon. M. Marx, of Chicago, who has been wintering in California, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Louis Rosenblatt, on his way home. Theron G. Poston and wife, who have been' visiting In California this Winter, are spending a few iiays with Mrs. Pos ton's mother. Dr. Spencer G. Schaefer and family, of Los Angeles, are in Portland, visiting his parents. Or. Schaefer formerly resided in this city. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Bloch and daugh ters Helen and Florence, of San Fran cisco, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sell ing, 447 West Park. Mrs. Paul Denhart, of Seattle, and Mrs. Grindinger, of . Kansas City, are guests of Mrs. F. W. Swanton, 632 East Morrison street. - Miss Emma DeWert, of Lawrence, Kan., formerly of Portland, Is visiting in the city. She is staying with her brother, B. D. DeWert, 783 Northrup street. Dr. and Mrs. William House, who for the past four years have resided at ML Tabor, will remove this week to 151 North Twenty-second street, where they will be at home after April 1. Mrs. J. B. Hosford, who was operated on for appendicitis last month, has re covered sufficiently to be able to leave the hospital, and is now being cared for at her home, at 412 Bast Ninth street Miss Sophia Derkheimer, worthy matron of Myrtle Chapter, No. 15. Order of the Eastern Star, who has been seriously ill at her home, 30 Seventeenth street, corner Couch, Is now convalescent and able to receive her friends. Mrs. W. C. Puffer left last night for New York, where, she will sail for Italy March 28. Mrs. Puffer will spend the Summer in Norway, Sweden and Russia, in company with Mrs. C. H. Childs, Mrs. H. Rieman and the Misses Rieman, from Portland. Mrs. Ella .Morrison, guard for two years of George Wright Corps, was given a warm reception Friday evening on her Tetarn from Southern California, 'where See Page 32. I she went In December for her health. She returns much improved. Vogue Millinery Shop: Special display of domestic and imported pattern hats Monday afternoon, 409 Wash ington street. Beginning March 19 I will be ready for the Spring trade and will be able to- please my customers in every respect with im ported and domestic hats, also with fine trimmings. The store will be open Satur day nights until July 1. Mrs. A. S. Jorgensen, 400 Washington street. The Bartholomew Company, 392 Wash ington street, is showing lingerie lace and net waists reduced from models of the greatest blouse-makers of France; that are certainly the supreme Spring expres sion of style and loveliness. Mrs. Sherman D. Brown, pupil of Ysaye, has returned from New York and will receive violin pupils at her new music room, 51 North Fourteenth street. Tele phone Main 819. IHve Hundred Party. A very enjoyable St. Patrick's Five Hun dred card party was given by the Auxil iary, Myrtle Chapter, No. 15, O. B. S., on Friday evening, March 15, at the beautiful new home of S. L. Brown, 663 East Stark street, corner Eighteenth. Plants, flowers, Oregon grape and bunting were used in the decorations with effect? The color scheme was green. The prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs. Runyan, Mr. Witter rendered' a cornet solo and Miss BITIe Johnson entertained with a. solo; both were accompanied by Misa Munger. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. S. L Brown, Mr.- and Mrs. Runyan. Mr. and Mrs. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. George Hartness, Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland, Miss Kuntz, Mrs. Ball Miss Ball, Mrs. Brock enbrough, Mr. and Mrs. Nau, Mrs. Peter Nealond, Mrs. Mathews, Miss Mathews, Mrs. 'James G. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Lutke, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Farmer, Mr. and Mrs. Harr, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. McDaniel, Mr. and Mrs. Leavy, Mrs. Rosenthal and many others. At the Women's TJnion. Miss Edna L. Gibbons spent last Sunday at her home at Barton. Miss Emily McElroy, from Sandy, was here over last Saturday night. Mrs. H. A. Sewell, from San Francisco, came this week for an indefinite stay. Miss Martha Kloninger is spending to day with her family at Washougal. Wash. Mrs. B. W. Barker, of Coos Bay. left on the steamer Thursday night for her home, after a residence of several months. Miss Georgie McKinnon, who has been spending two weeks at Jier home at Cas cade Locks, returned on Monday. Miss Julia Cowperthwalte returned this week, and is again domiciled here. The Misses Ethel and Harriet Water house, of Clatsop, were the guests of Misa Cornwall at dinner on Wednesday evening. A Skin of Beamy is a Joy Forever TX&. T. FELIX COURACD'S ORIENTAL CREAM OR MAGICAL BEACTIFIER Be-more. 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Strikingly Beautiful, and Wholly Exclusive and Authentic Models, at Most Attractive Prices Monday and Tuesday SUIT DEPARTMENT SPECIALS TAILORED SUITS of Panamas, flu-riots and English Suitings, In mew tripes and checks, this season cleverest ideas la Etoas, Poays 07 C and Prince Chap models, all new spring colorings) Talne $45.00.. WAIST DEPARTMENT SPECIALS KET Vi'AISTS A very ehlc model. In Arab and White over China Silk, trimmed with Valeaclenaes laces, . Filet medallloaa aad fine d7 Cfh tuck 1 valne S12.S0 q.OU FINE MESSAMNE WAISTS Beautifully trimmed with German Valen ciennes on front, back and sleeves, finished with yoke of em- d7 fl broldered net) value flS.50 - I.JV i MtGERIE WAISTS Sl.SO. S2.00. 83. OO and S4.00 WASHINGTON STREET, BETWEEN PARK! AND SEVENTH