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THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAX, PORTLiAXD, OCTOBER 18, 1914.
PERMITS IN DAY
TOTAL $155,000
Dock Warehouse for City Will
Cost $30,600 and School
Unit About $55,000
CATHOLICS TO START WORK
I'ast Side Bank. Announces Plan for
$45,000 Home In Spring and
Other Projects Indicate Re
vival of Realty Activity.
An unusual indication of activity in
the local building market was apparent
last Wednesday, . when applications
were entered for permission . to con
struct four buildings aggregating
$155,000.
The day following a permit was Is
sued for one of these buildings, a
single-story warehouse to be erected
by the city under the direction of the
Dock Commission. It will be located
on Front street between Fifteenth and
Seventeenth streets, -where Municipal
Dock No. 1 stands. The warehouse will
be 230 by 206 feet and will cost about
$30,600. A-nton Teller has the con
tract. The School Board asked authority to
erect a final unit to the Ulchmond
School, according to plans anu speci
fications drawn by T. J. Jones, formerly
school architect for the district. This
proposed structure will be 2 stories
or reinforced concrete construction and
will cost about $55,000. It will be 47
by 170 feet. The plans have been ap
proved by the School Board and the
work ordered done as soon as possible.
As soon as Building Inspector Plum
mer approves plans completed last
week by Bridges & Webber, George W.
Strong will order the construction of
a. three-story building on the irregular
plot of ground on the east side of Tenth
street between Oak and Burnside
streets. As previously announced the
building will be leased to an automo
bile tire firm. The rooms will be di
vided for salesroom and warehouse
needs and brick and mill materials will
be used.
Catholic School to Go I p.
The fourth application made Wednes
day calls for erection of a Catholic
school as the first unit of a group of
church buildings to be built on the
block bounded by Seventeenth. Eigh
teenth, Couch and Davis streets. The
school is to cost about $35,000. The
heating contract has been let to J. T
Shea and the plumbing work to Wack
row & Woodhouse. The general work
will be done by day labor, under the
direction of D. K. Campbell.
Banlc Plans Announced.
Definite announcement was made
last week by N. U. Carpenter, presi
dent of the Citizens Bank, now located
at 120 Grand avenue, that the bank
would erect a four-story bank and of
fice building on property Just pur
chased at the northeast corner of
Grand avenue and East Alder street,
directly opposite the present location
of the bank. About $45,000 was paid
for the corner, 100 feet square, and
$30,000 will -be spent on the structure,
which is to be built early next Spring.
It will cover only half the corner. The
lower floor will be divided into bark
ing and storerooms and the upper
floors into offices. The architect has
not been chosen.
"Taxpayers" To Go l'p,
E. J. Daly, a Portland real estate
man, and George F. Rodgers. ex-Mayor
of Salem, who own 50 by 100 feet at
the northeast corner of Thirteenth and
Washington streets, have directed
Architects MacXaughton & Raymond to
design a one-story brick store building
to replace the present wood buildings
located on the corner. The building,
which Is to be in the nature of a
"taxpayer," will provide four stores on
Washington street and two on Thir
teenth street. It will cost about $6500.
The contract has been let for wreck
ing the old buildings, and it is ex
pected that the plans for the new build
ing will be ready for figures within a
woek.
a.tOOO Contract Let.
J. A. Coon has awarded a contract
to Klamt & Niner for the construction
of a six-room bungalow at 208 Floral
avenue, in Laurelhurst. The bulk of
the residence will be of wood material,
but clinker brick will enter largely
into the exterior design. The contract
price is $3000. The plans were drawn
by P. Chappelle Brown.
Work to Stnrt on a.VlOO Church.
The L. R. Bailey Company will com
mence work immediately" on the erec
tion of the one-story frame church for
the congregation of the Rose City Park
Methodist Episcopal Church on the Ala
meda, between East Fifty-eighth and
East Fifty-ninth streets. The exca
vation. 60 by 75 feet in dimensions, has
already been completed. The church
will cost about $5000.
Bids Brlns Received.
Stokes & Zellar have completed plans
and are receiving bids for the erection
cf a 60 by 100-foot concrete building
for Karl Kellar at Vancouver avenue
and Ivy street. The building will be
used for a blacksmith shop.
Postofflce Bids Due Soon.
Upon his return from Washington
D. C. last week. Postmaster Myers
announced that bids for the construc
tion of the $1,000,000 Portland post
office will be advertised for about De
cember 1. It is expected that actual
construction work will begin In Febru
aiy. The plans are in charge of Lewis
Hobart, a San Francisco architect, and
trie supervising architects at Washing
ton.
Big Door Contract Let.
B. L. Yost, of the Columbia River
Door Company, of Rainier, has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
sashes and frames for the $1,250,000
Meier & Frank department store build
ing now under construction. The award
is one of the largest of its kind given
in Portland recently.
Mr. Lombard to Build Store.
" Bids are now being received by archi
tects Lawrence & Holford for the con
struction or a one-story brick store
building. 60 by 60 feet, for B. M. Lom
bard, . at Twenty-ninth and Bryce
streets. A hot air heating plant will
De installed in the building.
S250O Home Begun.
orK has been commenced on the
erection of a one-story frame residence'
at 1315 Sandy boulevard, in Rose City
Park, for S. Hernst- E. W. Reder has
taken the contract for $2500.
Repair Permits Issued. -"
The Portland Electric Ice Company
received permission last week to make
alterations to the Ice plant in ice hippo,
drome now nearlng completion on Mar
shall street, between Twentieth and
Twenty-first streets. The contract has
been given to a Los Angeles firm for
$5000. The Spokane. Portland & Seattle
Railway Company has taken out a per
mit to make repairs to its two-story
dork, located on Front street, between
Eleventh and Fourteenth streets. The
work will cost $2000.
- The seoond apartment-house erected
by E. Sasnrussen on his tract on
Irving, between East Twenty-third and
East Twenty-fourth streets, has been
completed. It is three stories high and
cost about $25,000. Every room is well
lighted and ventilated, a court being in
the center. It has an exterior concrete
finish. The other building stands at
Bast Twenty-third and Irving streets,
and is of the same type.
O. n. Stubbs Gets 13,000 Permit.
O. B. Stubbs. of the Stubbs Electric
Company, obtained a building permit
last week for the construction of a
two-and-one-half-story frame residence
on the northeast corner of East
Twenty-third and Stephens streets. In
Colonial Heights. The residence will
cost $15,000 and the garage $1000. The
plans were drawn by Whitehouse &
Fouilhoux and the contract have been
awarded to W. D. Walker.
C. GIBSOX SHAKES . SALES
Itlvervle-vr Homeslte, Farm and Town
Home Handled in Two Weeks.
Joseph C. Gibson, a Portland real es
tate man, reports active inquiries from
bona fide purchasers, most of whom
have cash ready to close deals. During
the past two weeks he has sold a river
view homeslte of two and one-fifth
acres on the Rlsley donation claim for
M. T. Duffy to A. E. King for $6500.
Mr. Duffy accepted two lots In York
Addition as part payment at a valua
tion of $4000 and a mortgage and cash
to balance. The new owner of the
acreage. Mr. King, plans to erect a
fine home.
A 40-acre farm, partly improved, in
PROPOSED TEMPLE, PROBABLY FIRST WEST OP ROCKIES,
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the Macksburg district. Clackamas
County, for J. H. Hamilton was sold
to Matthew Gibson, of Sllverton. The
consideration was $3500 cash. Mr. Gib
son is the owner of a 120-acre farm in
the Sllverton district.
A highly improved town home of
six and one-half acres close to the
depot at Brooks, eight miles north of
Salem, was sold 'for Oeorge W. Brown
to W. P. Gilbert, of Aumsville. The
place is producing loganberries, black
berries, raspberries, strawberries, ap
ples, pears, peaches, prunes, cherries
and other fruits, vegetables and other
plants in profusion. It brought $3500
cash.
BONDS MADE AVAILABLE
ROSEBl'RG I S S I E OK 500,000 IS AU
THORIZED FOR LINE TO COAST.
Good Roads Association of Snohomlsn
County Wants Voters to Ap
t ho rise $1,500,000 Sale.
At the recent city election in Rose-
burg the- proposal to issue bonds in
the sum of $500,000 to finance the con
struction of a railroad to Coos Bay
carried. This bond issue provides that
the railroad must be built from Rose-
burg to Coos bay before the bonds are
available. The company accepting the
contract to build the road will be re
quired to furnish approved securities
of $500,000 as evidence of good faith
before the bonds are issued. The com
missioners who are to construct the
road are now making arrangements for
the improvement.
9100,000 Sale Arranged.
Ellensburg. Wash. The Cascade ir
rigation district has arranged for the
sale of $100,000 worth of bonds suffi
cient to replace every foot of wooden
flume with new steel flume, and it
was announced that the work would
be done between now and April 1, to
taling approximately $138,000.
Dallas to Have Sewer.
Dallas. Or. Bids will be received by
the City Anuditor, Charles Gregory, un
til October 26 at 6:30 F. M., for the
purchase of $7500 worth of sewage dis
posal plant bonds of the City of Dallas.
Said bonds will be 75 tn number of
$100 each, payable 10 years from date,
and will bear 6 per cent interest. Bids
must be accompanied by a certified
check for 10 per cent of bid.
Bids Still Receivable.
Boise. Idaho. Bids will be received
by the trustees of the Boise Railroad
Company, Limited, until 12 M. Octo
ber 21, for the purchase of $5764.32 at
a price not exceeding 105 and accrued
Interest. Preference will be given by
trustees to bonds offered at the lowest
price. -
Highway Bonds Ordered.
Idaho City, Idaho. The Garden Val
ley Highway District has voted to is
sue bonds in the sum of $12,000 for
the purpose of constructing a road in
the district. Said bonds bear 6 per
cent interest. Bids for the bonds will
be received by the secretary of the
Board of Highway Commissioners. Gar
den Valley Highway District, until 10
A. M. October 20.
1,300,000 Issue Probable.
Everett. Wash. It is probable that
the voters of Snohomish County will
be asked to vote upon the proposition
of bonding the county for $1,500,000
for road purposes. The Snohomish
County Good Roads Association has
decided to lay the proposition before
the County Commissioners.
ai400 Purchase Is Up.
Prosser, Wash. Bids will be received
by Earl R. Harper, County Treasurer,
until October 22 at 10 A. M., for the
purchase of $1400 worth of bonds of
School District No. 34. of Benton
Cbunty, bonds V De issued in denomi
nations of $100 each. The bonds shall
not bear more than 6 per cent Interest.
$40,000 Trade Made at Pendleton.
Property Including the Alta House
at Pendleton has been traded by E. T.
Wade as part payment for a large
stock ranch in Grant County formerly
operated by Fred Senn. The two par
cels are understood to b valued at
about $10,000.
0 DISTRICTS PUSH
CLUB HOE PLANS
Public Meeting at Sunnyside
School Awaits Report of
24-Member Committee.
EAST SIDE BUILDINGS RISE
Foundation of Latter-Day Saints
Church lie gun Roof Bandstand
on River Fire Station Progress
ing Under Chief Holden.
A special committee of three mem
bers from eight school districts on the
East Side, with Sunnyside as a center
and Mrs. R. E. Bondurant as chairman,
making a total of 24 members repre-
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senting the Sunnyside Improvement
Club and the Sunnyside Parent-Teacher
Association, has been formed to con
sider ways and means for .securing a
$30,000 community house in or adja
cent to Laurelhurst Park.
Two propositions are before this
committee. One is to have the build
ing erected In the park and the other
is to accept the offer of the Laurel
hurst Company to take and use block
95, bounded by East Oak, East Stark,
East Thirty-seventh and East Thirty
ninth streets, as the site of the build
ing. The conditions provide that the
city use the block five years, paying
the taxes and street Improvements and
at the end of that time purchase it for
$70,000.
Commissioner Brewster has stated
that an assessment district might be
formed for securing this block and
erecting a $30,000 community-house so
that the burden would be comparative
ly light on the individual property.
He has made it plain that no large
sum of money can be spent in one park
at present, and for some time to come,
but that the territory embraced by the
eight school districts might organize a
disLi-ict to take care of the iost of the
purchase of the block and 4nake the
improvements required.
Project Requires $100,0O0.
The total sum to be raised would be
approximately $100,000. This sum would
pay for the block and put up the build
ing. Mr. Brewster suggested that the
park department could take care of 20
per cent of the cost, which would ab
sorb the cost of taxes and street im
provements. The committee has under considera
tion all these propositions, including
the one from the Laurelhurst Company.
Orje of the conditions of the lease Is
that the building cost $30,000 should
It be built. The advantage urged in
favor of purchasing block 95 is that
there would be ample space for a ball
ground. As soon as the committee is
ready to make its report a public
meeting will be called at the Sunny
side schoolhouse.
There is much opposition to any de
parture from the original plans for the
development of Laurelhurst Park,
which does not include playgrounds or
a community building.
Church Building Is Rising.
Work was started last week on the
foundation of the new church building
for the Latter-Day Saints, at the south
east corner of East Madison and East
Twenty-fifth streets. It Is not the in
tention to let any general contract, but
all the construction will proceed under
the superlntendency of Rev. M. J. Bal
lard, the pastor. However some of the
minor work may be done by contract.
The building will be of brick and con
crete, and the cost will reach about
$25,000. The auditorium will seat 500
people and in the basement provision
will be made for the Sunday school.
Work on Factory Progresses.
Work on the factory of the Western
Cooperage Company, at the Portland
Dry Dock, St. Johns, is progressing.
Considerable filling and dredging are
being done preparatory to the erection
of the factory building. St. Johns is
completing a roadway, from Willamette
boulevard to the site of the factory to
give access to the factory. The grad
ing has been finished, and the surfac
ing has been started.
St- Johns built this roadway to th
factory on agreement of the company
to locate Its factory In St- Johns. It
will cost St. Johns about $6000, with
some assistance from the Port of Port
land. The factory company is investing, it
is announced, about $30,000 in the nlant.
which will provide1 employment for a
number of men.
St. Jokns Home Purchased.
J. Carson, of Grants Pass, has pur
chased from M. G. Bailey, a six-room
house and lot 75 by 100 feet in St.
Johns for $2000. Mrs. Russell pur
chased a lot from H. G. Barron In
South St. Johns. J. F. Gilmore made
these transfers.-
St. Johns Church Is Finished.
The new St. Johns Seventh-Day Ad
ventist Church, on. Central avenue. St.
Johns, Is completed. It is 30 by 46 feet,
and the cost was $1500. A. R. Folken
berg was the architect. The church
was built on a site donated by Mrs.
J. C. Scott, a pioneer of St. Johns. The
church, about to be abandoned, was
built 29 years ago.
Cnnncry Bulldlna Near Completion.
The new building for the Gresham
Fruit Growers' Association near the
Mount Hood Railway is being com-
pleted. It will cost completed between
$3500 and $4000.
The building will be occupied next
year for canning purposes, - and until
then the association will use It for
shipping. It is planned to hold a meet
ing of fruit growers in this cannery Oc
tober 24. when addresses will be de
livered by specialists .from Portland
and the Oregon Agricultural College.
O. W. H. at K. Clubhouse Completed.
The $5000 clubhouse of the O. W. R.
& N. Company at Knott and Delay
streets, has been completed and occu
pied. It is located just north of the
new general offices of the company. The
Clubhouse is a neat bungalow building,
with wide veranda on the north side.
Inside are reading, billiard and recep
tion rooms, besides the kitchen at the
rear. It is convenient to the terminal
yards.
Gilbert Builds Schoolhoose.
Gilbert district. Just east of Lents, is
erecting a new schoolhouse in the east
ern part of that district. Work Is go
ing forward rapidly.' In -the course of
a few weeks the building will be fin
ished at a cost of about $2000.
New Mount Scott Home RJalna-.
G. E. Landig. at East Fifty-fourth
street, in the South East Side. Is erect
ing a new home costing about $2000.
Band Stand Ruins; on Roof.
Under the direction of Battalion
Chief Holden. a band stand is being
erected on the roof of the river fire
station at the foot of Washington
street. The roof of the two-story build
ing serves as the floor of the band
stand. Mr. Holden said that the plana
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include arrangements for stringing
electric lights around the edges of the
building.
Two aiSOO Resldencea Started.
Albert Dobner has started the erec
tion' of a residence on East Twenty
ninth between Wygant and Going
streets, at a cost of $1500. G. E. Nor
cross is building a story and a half res
idence on Virginia street, costing $1500.
IrvtnKton Cottage to Cost SIOOO.
P. Bammer is erecting a cottage at a
cost of $1000 on East Eighth, between
Siskiyou and Stanton streets. Mr. Bam
mer is superintending the erection of
the building.
Irvlngton Home to Cost 95000.
F. E. Bowman Company has com
menced the erection of a residence in
Irvlngton. on East Nineteenth street
between Klickitat and Fremont streets.
Its cost will be $5000.
Lents Building Is Occupied.
The modern two-story concrete build
ing erected on Main street and the Fos
ter road, Lents, for Mrs. Mary Yott, has
been completed, and now is being oc
cupied. All the first floor has been
taken and partly occupied. This Is the
best business building erected in Lents
this year. The outside has a light flu
sh. Irish Brothers were the contrac
tors. The coet was $12,000.
Telephone Annex Completed.
The addition to the exchange of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany on Klutngsworth avenue, near the
car barns. Is being completed by the
Sound Construction Company. The ad
dition doubles the space In the building
and the cost with equipment will be
about $20,000. This addition was needed
to take care of the increased telephone
business in North Portland and the
Peninsula.
PIANO HOUSE IS IMPROVED
Bush & Lane Company Increases
and Beautifies.
The Bush & Lane Piano Company is
completing alterations to the building
located on the northeast .corner of
Twelfth and Morrison streets, owned
by Henry W, Fries, which will more
than' double its space. The company
formerly occupied two floors. 40x45
feet, but their new quarters, about to
De openeo, well contain two noors.
each with a 50-foot frontage on Wash
ington street and 110 feet on Twelfth
street, with a mezzanine floor for of
fices. "While other folks are talking hard
times we find It necessary to double
our store space in order to- handle our
ncreased business, said John N. Sharp.
general manager of the Portland branch
ot the Bush & Lane Company, yester
day. "We have sold more pianos al
ready this month than we did during
all of last month. We think our new
quarers give us the hamsomest piano
house on the Pacific Coast."
Hereafter the main store room will
be reserved for reception purposes. At
the rear will be the Bush & Lane room
where art pianos will be displayed ex
clusively and the Victor room. The
various rooms are set apart in such a
way that five customers can be han
dled at one time without seeing each
other or hearing the different pianos.
The - wholesale department will be
housed in the enlarged basement, which
with the upper floor, provides space for
about 300 instruments.
Four new offices have been added
all of which will be finished in white.
Hardwood floors are being Installed
throughout the building, the various
Improvements being made at a cost of
between $4000 and $5000 to the com
pany. Seattle to Vote on Big Issue.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 17. (Special.)
The County Commissioners have ap
proved a resolution calling for a spe
cial election to be held November S. for
the purpose of determining whether or
not the board shall be authorized to
issue $350,000 in King County bonds
for the purpose of adding two more
stories to the new courthouse now un
der construction.
Corbet t to - Have High School.
. P. Chappell Brown, a Portland archi
tect, has been directed to prepare plans
for a proposed high school building at
Corbett. for which $8000 has been ap
propriated. The building will include
four classrooms.
MOOSE PLAN HOME
Hillsboro Temple May Be First
West of Rockies.
$30,000 TO BE EXPENDED
Pendleton Catholic Church to En-
large School at Cost of $3 5.O00.
Parochial Institution at La
Grande to Rise Soon.
Commission to prepare plans and
working drawings for the erection of
three large buildings a Moose Temple
at Hillsboro. a Catholic school at Pen
dleton and a Catholic school at La
Grande, aggregating a cost of $140,
000 were awarded within three days
last week to the Portland architec
tural firm of Houghtallng & Dougan.
The lodge building to be built for
the Order of Moose at Hillsboro is said
to be the first exclusive Moose build
ing to be erected west of the Rocky
Mountains. The building will cover a
corner 64 by 100 feet, just opposite the
City Hall, and will be three stories.
The estimated cost Is $30,000.
The first floor will be occupied by
storerooms and the second floor will
be divided into social quarters, bil
liard, reading, writing, banquet, card
and bar rooms, the secretary's office
and a kitchen. The third floor will
house the main lodgeroom, a stage,
dressing and retiring rooms. The base
ment will have a plunge, gymnasium
and bowling alleys.
The exterior of the temple will be or
red pressed brick, with terra cotta
trimmings. The plans will be ready for
figures about the first of the year.
The Moose lodge ot Hllsboro has S00
members made up mostly of business
men and ranchers of the adjacent com
munity. It bears the reputation of hav
ing the largest membership In the en
tire West for a town of Its size.
School Will Cost 33,0O0.
The same firm is working on plans
to alter and enlarge the parochial
school for the Catholic Church at Pen
dleton at a cost of $35,000. The pres
ent structure is a frame building 2hi
stories high. The addition will be of
brick and of the same height as the
present building. The trimmings on
the old building will be replaced to
conform to the finish of the new build
ing. La Grande Church School to Rise.
The parochial school to be built for
the Catholic Church at La Grande will
cost In the neighborhood of $75,000.
It will be of brick and heavy mill con
struction, with a terra cotta finish.
Gothic architecture will prevail. Actual
construction work will commence as
soon as the weather will permit. Class,
recitation, chapel and dormitory rooms
will be provided. The location is only
one block and a half from the $40,000
church now being constructed for the
diocese of Baker City pursuant to plans
drawn by Houghtallng & Dougan.
Mr. Lombard bell.
B. M. Lombard sold to Elizabeth
Prescott lots 8 and 9, block 6, Hancock
Street Addition, for $1500. The prop
erty Is on Schuyler, near East Thirty
fifth street. Fred Shrler purchased of
W. L. Wilson a lot In Kern Park, South
East Side, for $1200, with improve
merits.
The Tate Investment Company trans
ferred two lots in Troutmann's Ad
dition to Albert Webb for $1300. The
property is described as lots 2 and 3, in
block 4.
Two Improved lots. 8 and 9. block 20,
In Eastmoreland. were purchased by
Maud B. Bohlman from the Ladd Estate
Company, for $2100.
in Almond Addition Charles r
Blyth sold to Benjamin J. Bond one
lot, with Improvements, for $2500.
University Park Lots Sell.
Catherine B. Roach ha3 taken title
to four lots in block 176. University
Park, from Sophia M. Harrison. In
Mayor Gates' Addition to Central East
Portland Elizabeth Wilson Bold to Anna
Dahl one-half of lot 10. south 22 Vx feet
of lot 9, block 8, for $1000.
Alice I. Mann has sold to Charles w.
McLean 5. 6. 7 and 8. In block 8, Chel
sea, for $2400. The property is locaiea
on Kelly avenue, between East Thirty
seventh and East Thirty-eighth streets.
K. A. McGrath transferred lot 9 in block
68, Irvlngton. to J. M. Thompson. The
property Is located on East Fifteenth,
near Knott street-
Colonial Heights Sale Made.
The Colonial Heights Realty Com
pany sold to George H. Dunsford lot
5. block 4, Colonial Heights, lor 2000.
The property Is located on East
Fifteenth street near East Market
street. In Ecgemont, John Stewart sold
to Allen McDonell lots 9 and 10, In
block 7. located on Klickitat street,
near East Twenty-fifth street, for $2000.
A. Jf. Searle purchased in Terrace
Park of D. D. Randall lot 18, in block
17. for $1000. In North Irvlngton lot 2,
block 6. was transfe.red by Sheriff
Word to J. R. Morton, for $1274. W. J.
Hallock sold to James F. Sampson
lot and house In Lowell Addition for
$1900. In Grimes' Addition Henry Hen
derson sold to Anna Sargent lot 7, in
block 4, for $2000.
Bank Reports Real Estate Activity.
The Hartman & Thompson Bank an
nounces that Its real estate depart
ment has had a decidedly encouraging
week, with several deals about closed
The demand has been active enough to
crowd the office to capacity at tlme&
and an encouraging feature la that the
lnrjulry Is not only for one kind of
property, but for a general variety all
along the line. It has been for city
lots for homes, for small acreage and
In several Instances for large farm
deals, the largest ones mostly as ex
changes, but the smaller ones for cash,
Election Comes November 1.
HAILET, Idaho, Oct. 17. (Special.)
On November 10 an election will be
held in Halley for the purpose of vot
ing on a bond issue of $35,000 for
I purchasing the waterworks system
owned by the Idaho State Life Insur
ance Company. The bonds will be pay
able in 20 years, and redeemable after
10 years.
$7 5,000 Bond Vote TJp.
CATHLAMET, Wash., Oct. 17. (Spe
eiaL) An election will be held Novem
ber 3, at which time the voters of
Wahkiakum will vote on the proposl
tion of issuing bonds in the sum
$75,000 for the construction of roads.
The bonds shall be payable and re
deemable after 10 years, and shall
bear 6 per cent.
Farm Near Albany Brings 94 0-00
ALBANY. Or.. Oct. 17. (Special. )-
E. H. Grover. a recent arrival in Ore
gon from Kansas, last Saturday pur
chased a 25-acre farm from J. A. Zyeett.
near Thomas Station. Grover brough
his family of 10 children with him from
the East and all are making their home
on the farm near Thomas. The 25 acre
cost Grover $4000.
Marshficld to Have School.
MARSH FIELD, Or., Oct. 17. (Spe
cial.) A decision was reached by the
School Board at a meeting held in th
office of Judge Hall to advertise for
bids on the $10,000 gymnasium. The
bids will be advertised for 10 days.
LAUREL.ITCKST SALES LISTED
Company Disposes of Several Lots
and One House In Week.
The Laurelhurst Company reports
the following sales made in a. week:
Rex Perkins has purchased from the
Laurelhurst Company lot 17, block 19,
Laurelhurst, for $1500. Mr. Perkins Is
constructing a ?3500 home.
Misses Caroline A. Barnes and Anne
Frlendllch havo purchased a site of
one and one-half lots in block 87,
Laurelhurst, opposite the park, for
$2980.
R. II. Torrey has purchased a 75x100
homesite In Laurelhurst, overlooking
Laurelhurst Park, for $2800.
Mrs. Hanna Slater, of Pullman,
Wash., has purchased from the Laurel
hurst Company, lot 14. block 113, for
$1400.
Mrs. Katherlne J. Ralne has pur
chased from the Laurelhurst Company
lot 9. block 106, Laurelhurst. for $1600
and has begun the erection of a $3000
bungalow. Mrs. Ralne recently came
to Portland from Santa Rosa, Cal.
Fred J. Bolger has purchased from
the Laurelhurst Company the house
located at 1124 Hassalo street for $4000.
Paul C. Murphy, vice-president of the
Laurelhurst Company, said there are
practically no vacant houses In Laurel-
urst and that there Is a strontr de
mand for houses. Mr. Murphy says the
prospects for a good business this Fall
look promising. About a dozen new
houses are now under construction in
Laurelhurst.
SEWER IS LIKELY SOON
WILLOW-EAST EIGHTY-SECOND
CONTRACT IS IX SIGHT.
System Will Complete Great Trunk
Line for Montavilla District.
Big Scope To Be Served.
The contract for the Willow-East
Eighty-second street sewer system
will probably be let the latter part of
the month, and work started soon
thereafter. This is the most impor
tant and expensive improvement pro
ected on the East Side, and will com
plete the great trunk sewer for the
Montavilla district. The cost will be
between $183,727 and $196,997. It will
form the eastern end of the trunk
sewer, which starts at the foot of East
Eighty-second street and ends at pres
ent at East Sixty-third street, and
which already has cost about $500,000.
ihis last branch will serve a large
errttory between the main line of the
O.-W. R. & N. Company and extending
soutn nearly to the Section Line road
and eastward to the city limits. It
will take care of the territory east of
t-ast seventieth street at Tabor
Heights to the city limits. In that the
ewers lor Tabor Heights will con
nect with the Willow-East Eighty-sec
ond street trunk.
As soon as the sewers have been
laid In Tabor Heights several of the
Important streets there are to be paved
East Gllsan street will be paved this
year from East Sixtieth to East Sev
enty-flfth street, and later will be
paved to the city limits. It will take
care of Montavilla, South and North
Jonesmore, Terrace Park. Kinzel Park.
Tabor Side, all the territory inside the
city imits north and south of the Base
Line road to the city limits, including
at present about 25,000 people.
Jt was predicted by ex-City Engineer
Morris to an audience in Montavilla
hat the trunk sewer that would cover
Montavilla. reaching from the Willam
ette River, would cost more than
$1,000,000. This Is In a fair way to be
realized, and the laterals are yet to
be built and connections made, which
will cost at least $500,000 more.
Montavilla property- owners who
have been paying sewer assessments
for the river end of the trunk sewer
that Is eventually to serve them, are
still without sewerage, and this last
trunk is to be their supply. It is ex
pected that it will add much to the
value of property in this great dis
trict, where at present sewerage is
disposed of by cesspools. Rapid build
ing operations in Jonesmore, Terrace
Park -and other additions necessitate
construction of sewers as soon as pos
sible. Work on North Bend Hotel Bearun.
At a recent meeting officers were
elected by the stockholders of the ho
tel that now is under way at North
Bend. It was announced that as $52.-
000 of the necessary $75,000 to erect
the structure had already been sub
scribed, the project was a certainty.
L. J. Simpson is president, J. C. Ham-
mell vice-president, C. 8. Windsor
treasurer and John G. Mullen secretary
of the company. Mr. Hammell was
formerly proprietor of the Hammell
Hotel at Albany. The excavation for
the structure Is progressing rapidly.
Sutherlin Buildings Rise fast.
"Conservative business men of Suth
erlin who are in a position to give ac
curate figures estimate that $100,000
has been expended here during the pre
sent year in new buildings," says the
Sutherlin Sun. "More new buildings
have been erectea here during the pres
ent season than in any preceding year
since the town was established."
Klamath Mill May Be Erected.
Announcement was made last week
that a sawmill will be built at Klamath
Falls to cut 26.000,000 feet of timber In
the Crater National Forest recently-
purchased by w. E. Lamm, of Danville.
111. Mr. Lamm s contract with the for
est service requires that the timber be
cut within four years time.
The Dalles to Have Postorfice. j
Bids are now being received by O. '
Wenderoth, supervising architect, for
the construction o( the proposed post
office building at The Dalles. The
building will be of partial flrenroof
construction and faced - with stone.
The two stories and basement will pro
vide 5080 square feet of floor space.
Activity In Leaseholds Reported.
Terry & Harris, Incorporated, re
port an unusual activity In leasing. At
present numerous clients are nego
tiating for business locations and
sites for factories and warehouses.
During the past few weeks 17 leases
have been closed through the office of
Terry & Harris.
Sale Made In Verstecg's Addition.
A lot located on East Twenty-fourth
street in Versteeg's addition. North
Portland, has been sold by Peter
Schreiner to E. L. Beadell and asso
ciates for $6600. Mr. Beadell and as
sociates also purchased lot 25 in block
1, Creston addition, from J. Martin
Plerson for $2150.
$10, 000 Is Price Named.
A tract beginning at the Intersection
of the north line of the O.-W. R. &
N. Railroad with the east line of East
Nineteenth street was transferred re
cently by S. S. Kajikawa to S. Toml
hiro fur a quoted price of $10,000.
John K. Carson Sells Lot.
A lot located on the south side of
East Madison street, near East
Twenty-fourth street. Pleasant View
Addition, has been sold by John F. Car
son to Rudolph WUhelm for $3562.
B. AGKLEY IS DEFENDED
REALTY DEALER MUTICISED
Jl HIST HELD BLAMELESS.
8pc-ll Committee, After Making lavaa-
tla-atlon. Recommends That Member
of Board Bo Exonerated.
The special commi , v. r
land Realty Board appointed recently
to investigate statm.t. mH w
Judge McGinn said to have reflected
on tne cnaracter and butin. intirritv
of Ralph Ackley. while the latter was
testifying In the Circuit Court has
filed a written report whi-h ntl.'v
exonerates Mr. Ackley from any wrong-
UUIUQ.
By adopting the report unanmriiv
the Realty Board has evidenr.d it.
complete confidence in Mr. Ackley.
x ne mil rrpun ui me committee fol
lows: 'Wo have carefully read the testi
mony In the case entitled "Georee C
Held vi J. B. Kennedy and Ralph Ack
ley." the latter velntf voluntarily non
suited in opening statement of plain
tiff's attorney. This action evidences
most clearly the absence of Ackley s
financial interest. The evidence shows
that the deal was made almost entirely
by and between Held and Kennedy,
who fixed their respective values. In
spected their respective properties and
agreed between themselves as to how
the trade would be made.
'No realty dealer can control the
prices on property of clients, whether
trading or not, and we therefore fall to
see wherein Ackley Is open to censure
In the transaction, particularly since
the evidence shows that he told each
his price was too high.
"The committee would unanimously
recommend that the board exonerate
Mr. Ackley 'from any wrong-doing
whatever In the above transaction.
Yours respectfully.
"H. GORDON,
' "CLARENCE R. HOTCHKISS.
"H. W. GODDARD.
"GEORGE P. HENRY,
"E. S. JACKSON."
SEVEN REALTY DEALS MADE
Goddard & WiedTick Report Hand
ling Number of Residences.
Among the recent sales of real es
tate made by Goddard &. Wledrlck are
the following:
The west 35 feet of the east 45 feet
of lot 12 In block 284, Couch Addition,
being a parcel 35 by 100 feet with a
six-room house on Johnson street, near
Twenty-firs for Mrs. A C. Tucker to
Mrs. Meta Berg: consideration about
$6000.
The south 40 feet of lot 4 in block
20. Multnomah, with a six-room house,
for John M. and Margaret Dunn to
P. J. Cllbborn: consideration $3500.
Lot 5 block 9, Going-Street Addition,
for the Merchants Loan & Trust Com
pany to Mrs. Nona Robert, a lot 31
by 100, for $284.
Lots 3 and 4 in the same block, to
L. R. Fox for $734.
Lot 14 in block 10 In the same addi
tion, to Dr. C. E. Bockman for $450.
Twelve acres rear Barton, In section
15. township 2 north, range 3 east, for
Ashley & Rumelln to James Fergu
son: consideration $600.
Lots 33 and 34 In block , Rrazee
Street Addition. 50 by 100 on East
Twenty-seventh Btreet. near Brazee,
with a fine six-room residence, for
P. J. Cliborn to J. M. Dunn: considera
tion $6600.
80 Acres Bring $12,000.
When Mrs. Minnie Walker paid
George W. Staggs $12,000. or $150 an
acre, for 80 acres located about a mile
south of Weston she established what
Is regarded as the record price for land
In that locality. With the $12,000 Mr.
Staggs has already purchased rrom
Julius Wade 800 acres in the Dry creeK
district, 700 acres being farming land
and the remainder pasture.
Ranch Near Heppner Is Sold.
s R. N. Stanf ield. of "Stanfleld, has
taken title to the 6000-acre Lafe Pen
land ranch, located 15 miles south of
Heppner. on Rhea creek, and said t
be one of the finest cattle ranches in
Morrow County. The price has bsen
announced as $30.000.
$15,000 Sale Made at Blaine.
The Tillamook Herald reports that
W. C. King and Ira Smith have pur
chased 777 acres located near Blaine
from R. C. Magarrell for cash and town
property at a valuation of $15,000. -The
place has both creek bottom and hill
land. It will be stocked.
'Seattle Women to Plant Tract.
Miss Blanche Elliot and Mrs. Susan
E. George, of Seattle, have purchased a
15-acre tract on the Albany-Plalnview
roadt three miles south of Albany. The
women will plant the tract to apples
and make their permanent hams in a
new bungalow.
Coos Bay Ranch Sold.
E. W. Sullivan and William E. Sulli
van have paid $3500 for the Sanborn
ranch of 80 acres, located in the Coos
Bay country. The deal was made by
W. A. Reid.
South Portland Sale Told.
For $7000 Ida J. Hauthorn has trans
ferred title to a tract In Block A of
Carter's addition, near Twelfth and
Hall streets. South Portland, to the
Marietta Realty Company.
American women yearly buy more than
tlo.ooo.ooo worth of millinery supplies rrom
France.
Directory of Prominent
Life Insurance Agencies
Members of Life Underwriter
Association of Oregon
Win. Ooldman, Manager,
MANHATTAN Llk'aW
oresoni&n Blds
U- Colton, Maiiaxar.
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL. LIFE.
Chamber ot Commerca Bids:.
k L. Harmon, Manaser,
PENS MUTUAL. L.I E,
KorUiwaaf rn Bank Bloa.
uoraca Mccklem. Manaacr.
NKW .NQLA.D MUTUAL 1.1 FE.
Northwestern Bank lilda.
Alma T. Kata, Manaxar,
MUTUAL. U.-E 1NSUKASCS LU. Ol X.
Corbett B1Q.
U. M. tilocum, Mr.
RELIANCE LIKE l.NS. CO., A'utabursh, Pa.
203 Morgan Bid-.. Portland. Or.
a. X. Lockwood. Vlca-Pras. and Gen.
COLUMBIA LIFE & TRUST CO,
1 Spalding Bldg.
pttl-Groaamayer Co., General Aganta,
THB THAVELERS- INS. CO
108-810 Wilcox Bids.
T. U. McAllia, Manager,
UNION MUTUAL, LIFE INS. CCA,
667 Sherlock Bldg.
John Pauer, Manager.
PRUDENTIAL. INS. CO. OF AMERICA.
Rothchlld Bids.
. W. Ameabury. Manager.
NORTBVWE6TEKN MUTUAL, LIKE CCA,
Northwestern Bank Bldg
J ud d Loarey, Manager.
AMERICAN CENTRAL, L.1FE INS. CO,
503 Dakum Bldg. .
McCarger. Batea A- Lively. Managers,
AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO,
Yton Bids.
Charlea J. Little Agency. Inc..
Managera Western Oregon.
IDAHO STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO..
608-60T Venn Bldgi Phona Main 2411.
J. Vm. Johnson,
. Agency Director, ,
WESTERN STATE LIFE INS. CO,
201" Northwestern Bank Bids.
Phone MarsbaJI eOTO.