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Newspaper Page Text10 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, ' PORTLAND, OCTOBER 25, 1914. PLEAS OF BIDDERS IGNORED BY BOARD Contracts Awarded for Work on Couch School Over Protests of Many. SHATTUCK NEXT IN LINE frlces to Be Asked for $160,000 Structure Vhen First Is Well Under Way Apartment House Announced. In face of protest raised in behalf of , the low bidders the School Board i Thursday, in awarding the general and . heating contracts for the construction of the Couch School, rejected the bids eubmitted by James S. Winters for the '. general work and the heating bid of .W. G. McPherson. The general contract was given to the Boyajohn-Arnold Company at a figure of ?119.584, or about $3000 higher than the lowest bid, and the beating work was given to W. W. Cox on his bid of $26,038, which is about $1000 higher than the lowest bid. All plumb ' ing bids were rejected, and new bids will be invited. Board Clurec Attacked. The charge made by members of the Board that the low bidders were irre sponsible and that they had previously done work for the Board which was un. satisfactory was vigorously attacked at the Board meeting by Mr. Winters' attorney, by Mr. McPherson and by Director Beach. Originally nine bids were received for the general contract, ten for the plumbing and seven for the heating work. The Couch building Is one of four that Is planned for Immediate con struction by the School Board. To morrow the corner-stone will be laid for the Fulton Park School that Is be ing erected In South Portland. As soon as work is started on the Couch building, at Twentieth, Glisan and Hoyt streets, according to the contracts let last week, bids will be Invited for the construction of the $160,000 Shattuck School on the block bounded by Broadway, Park. Hall and College streets. The building permit already has been obtained for the erec tion of the $65,000 annex to the Rich mond School. Mr. Glisan to Erect Building-. Rodney L. Glisan has directed archi tects Houghtaling & Dougan -to draw plans and working drawings for a two-story and basement brick building at the northwest corner of Fourth and Couch streets, directly east of a similar building completed for Mr. Glisan sev eral months ago. The new building will cover property 100 feet square and cost about $25,000. It is to be divided into three sections, occupied oy ten ants engaged in the wholesale busi ness. l:l0,00O Apartment Announced. The Metropolitan Investment & Im provement Company has announced that it will erect a two and one-bali story apartment building on Nineteenth street, near Washington street. Ellis F. Lawrence and William G. Holford, associate architects, have charge of the plans. The building will be of brick, con crete and stucco and cost about $30,000. It is to be divided into eight separated . apartments of six rooms each, making eight houses under one connected roof. Heat will be supplied by the plant of the Belle Court Apartments, close by. English architecture will prevail In the construction of "The Gables." Athena BIda to Close. Architects Tourtellotte & Hummel will open bids October 31 for the con struction of the $35,000 high school building at Athena. The building will be two stories and basement, on prop erty 78 by 128 feet. The exterior will be of pressed brick with light colored trimmings. Ten classrooms, a gym nasium and a large auditorium will be provided. One-Story Brick to Go Up. v Earl A. Roberts has prepared plans for the construction of a one-story building on the southeast corner of Fifth and Hoyt streets for the Pioneer Trust Company, to be used as a dis tributing station for the postoftice. The building will be one-story, of concrete construction and 100 by 100 feet, in dimensions. Chester Murphy Gets Repair Permit. A building permit was Issued last week to Chester G. Murphy to alter and repair the two-story frame residence at 251 King street, recently purchased by Mr. Murphy for his permanent home. The coBt is estimated at .$4000. White house & Fouilhoux drew the plans and "W. D. Walker has the contract. &5O0O Building Started. Ground has been broken at East Twentv-ninth and Bryce streets, in Olmstead Park Addition, for the con struction of a one-story store building that will cost about $5000. B. M. Lom hard. the owner, has awarded the con tract for the work to John Moore. Lawrence & Holford prepared the plans. BUr Repnlr Permits Let. Among the important repair permits authorized last week was one issued to the Brayton Engineering Company for alterations to be made to the eight-story Pittock block, calling for $3000 worth of work, and a $2500 per mit given Mrs. Rose H. Reed for al terations to be made to the two-story residence at 620 Main street. G. E. Reed will do the latter work. Shop Will Coat a0O0. According to plans drawn by Archi tect Charles W. Ertz, James Taylor has commenced the erection of a one story frame shop on East Ninth street between East Stark and East Wash ington streets. The rrobable cost is fciven at $2000. Bakery to Go I'p. Flans have been completed by O. N. Pierce for a one-story brick building to be erected on Page street, between Albina and Ross streets, for E. H - Ins-ham. The estimated cost is $8000. The building will be used for a bak cry. Mr. Ingham, who is building sev oral structures in the same locality, will have charge of the construction, Handing to Be Trio Stories. Plans for the Regner building to be built at the corner of Main and Sec ond streets, in Gresham, have been changed to a two-story building. The new building will cover a ground space B0 by 60 feet and will extend over the old building, which has a 50 foot frontage and reaches back nearly to the center of the block. The upper story will thus extend over the new and old buildings and will contain a public hall. It will have a hardwood floor 50 by 110 feet and at the rear end of the old building there will be a banquet hall and kitchen. Entrance to the second story will be by an out side stairway. Gresbam Votes for Union Hitch. The sentiment of the taxpayers of the Gresham school district No. 4 ex pressed at the special election held there recently is favorable to the pro posed, union high, school and the live- BLEAK ? -fry- fr t z ? " S - A , f J acre tract purchased by the Gresham district in the Cleveland Addition last Spring as the site. It was necessary to hold this elec tion to make the donation of the school site legal before .the special elections are held In the several districts inter ested. Gresham gives the site for the union high school, and It only remains for the other districts to ratify the action taken by the Gresham district to make the erection of the union high school building a certainty. The assessed valuation of the uroo- erty In the nine districts interested in the project is as follows: Gresham. $1,479,425: Terry. $358,450: Cedar $219,150; Fairview, $603,474; Powell Valley, $418,145; Rockwood, $435,980; Lynch, $406,665; Pleasant Valley, $418, 145; Hlllsview, $78,565; total, $4,319. 344. These districts have about 900 children of the school age. Special elections now will be held in each dis trict on the union high school ques tion in December. Brick Building; Planned. E. H. Ingham has taken out a rjer- mit for the erection of a one-story brick building on Goldsmith street. near Albina avenue. The cost will be $4000. It will be used for a stable. CANBY RANCH IS SOLD DEAL INVOLVING S4S.000 CLOSED FOR PORTL-txD WOMAN. Cash Transaction Transfers Tlurd- vllle Property to C. M. Balr for Addition to HomeSite. The banner farm sale of the past week was closed at Canby when Mrs. Carrie Walker and her son, Oliver O. Walker, Doth of Portland, purchased from L. A. Brandes the famous Brandes ranch of 157 acres, about a mile and a half northwest of Canby. The price paid is reported as $4j,000. marking the record In that locality for some time. A large residence and modem barns and outbuildings' are on the place. A portion is planted to fruits and the remainder is field and pasture. all fenced. George E. Knglehart, of Portland, represented the purchasers in the transaction and Bates & Gor ham, of Canby, the seller. C. M. Balr Adds to Homeslte. Through the agency of Samuel Doak, Portland realty man, K. A. Wyckolf. of Vancouver, B. C, last week sold a 35 -acre ranch near Tigardville. Washington County, for $14,200 cash. The farm formerly was known as the Harry Frewmg place and is one of the most desirable near Portland. About one-half of it is planted in 5-year-old commercial apples. C. M. Bair, the buyer, plans the erec tion in the early future of a modern California bungalow which ho and his family will occupy as a Summer home. It adjoins 20 highly improved acres recently purchased by Mr. Bair through the agency of Mr. Doak. This place already has been improved extensively by Mr. Balr and stocked. In the com bination of the two farms Mr. Bair hopes to make one of the show places of Oregon. Bis; Sale In Morrow County. W. Aj Wilcox, of Heppner, has paid 0,000 for a 280-acre ranch at the junction of Rhea Creek and Willow Creek, two miles east of lone. Most of the place is bottom land, said to be the richest in Morrow County, the balance being used for grazing. Stock and im plements were included in the purchase. The former owners, George Swaggert and Jack Mills, say that their hay real ized for them from $12 to $15 per ton when fed to stock. Three Deeds Transfer SS.OS9 Acres. The La Grande Observer reports that three deeds placed on record at Knter prise recently transferred 28,069.79 acres of Wallowa County land, consti tuting by far the largest realty trans- action In the history of that county One deed transferred 13,830 acres of timber land from the George Palmer Lumber Company, of La Grande, to the Kast Oregon Lumber Company, of En terprise, and in the remaining two deeds the East Oregon company and its president, Duval Jackson, gave the Palmer company title to 14,238.93 acres. I,000 Is Sale Price. Emil G. Messner, of Plush, recently purchased from J. T. Flook 720 acres on Rock and Willow Creeks, in Eastern Lake County, . the consideration being quoted as more than $12,000. The sale was negotiated, by W. F. Paine & Co, of Lakeview. Important Trade Reported. The Yamhill Record reports that B. , F. Smith has traded his 79-acre ranch two miles west of Yamhill, to Margaret E. Hearn, of Portland, for a los-acre dairy ranch near Cloverdale, in Tilla mook County. The dairy ranch fronts on the ocean teach. Two Sales Reported. For $5000 Fred Grambo has sold his 80-acre ranch above Happy Valley, in the Yamhill country, to M. A. Ingram of California. At Albany a deal has been closed whereby E. H. Grover, re cently from Kansas, paid J. A. Zysett $1000 lor 25 acres near Thomas. HELL IS TRANSFORMED IN TOUR f , 7 -.SI,' ,,i j. 4v a vx 4 S i.t p. tV&-?r&Dver 7eirt3ce. -Same -SxZ CHANGE STIRS AWE Westover Terraces Wonder of Engineering Skill. - HOMES ON SCENIC SITES Mountain Becomes Knoll, With Easily Winding Drives Climbing Vp Its Sides Gracefully, in tout Four Years of Work. The stranger In Portland, visiting its many points of scenic beauty, can not but be wonderfully impressed with its desirability as a home. Among the many great understakr ings looking to the coming of . the home-builder, the recent completion of Westover Terraces stands out easily as the most stupendous and far-seeing and as yielding the greatest return in scenic grandeur and Isolation from every undesirable influence. The visitor gazes upon tne result or this great work with awe when he is told that four short years ago a great mountain lifted its head -where now lie gentlv sloping terraces, covered with a green mantle of velvet, with here and there a beautiful home nestling far above the noise and bustle of the city; with easy, winding driveways leading up to the highest terrace of Westover, where one may gaze across great valleys, rivers and mountain ranges to the snowy peaks that rise far to the East and whose melting snows feed the rivers that carry a world-wide commerce. One of the pleasing features of this great work is the fact that Instead of leaving ugly scars and jutting, irregu lar masses of earth and debris, as is the case with many so-called improve ments, the completion of Westover Ter races actually has added to the beauty of the adjoining properties, merging on all sides in harmony with the general contour, enhancing their -value and en larging the scope of perfect scenic en vironment. The owners of Westover Terraces have been congratulated on the real ization of the dreams and aspirations of years; they have wrought nobly and they have given to the home-builders of the city and those who shall come hereafter a monument as enduring as the emerald hills that rise like pro tecting sentinels along the city's west ern border. It is a sure indication not only of future, but of present, prosperity, that many of Portland's best people have established themselves in permanent homes at Westover and that the com pletion of the great project has re sulted in an active demand for the new home-sites. LOTS AD HOMES ARE SOID Realty Firm Reports Several Sales During Past Week. The realty firm of Umbdenstock & Larson report the following sales closed during the past week To Edwin A. Hyde, a lot on East t MULTNOMAH COUNTY TO HAVE ITS FIRST HIGH SCHOOL. : l ' BUILDING ABOUT TO BE CRECTED NEAR CO RB ETT. Multnomah 'County's first union high school is now being erected near Corbett, east of the Sandy River, at an estimated cost of $8000. The general contract for the work has been awarded to Stebbinger Bros.; of Portland, at a contract price of $6600, and the heating con tract has been awarded to W. G. McPherson. of Portland. The excava tion for the foundation has been completed and the actual construc tion work will be started as soon as the materials can be assembled. The building will cover 85 by 86 feet and contain four classrooms, offices, restrooms and a full concrete basement. Heating will be ef ' fected by hot water. P. Chappell Browne is the architect. P. Ward Evans, chairman of the Union High School Board of Directors, ex pects to have the school completed in time for occupancy in February. YEARS. 4 f 7Zurm373' l4?c. Sixty-second and Davis streets for $900 and contract to build & $2500 home. To Sydney Wood acreage at Pleas ant Home for $1600. To Herman Franz a. house in Jones more, $2300. To Kred J. Miller, a house-in. North Jonesmore. $1300. To Roy Marshall a lot at East Sizty rfourth and Davis streets. $800 and con tract to build a $2200 home. Cottage Grove Bungalow Pleases. . COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Oct. 24.- ( Special. ) From an artistic point of view the recently completed John Bader bungalow is probably the finest residence in the city. The Inside of the house is constructed according to Mrs. Bader's ideas and finished according to her husband s plans. The outelde will be according to Mr. Bader's design. He has done the landscape work for number of homes, was for 30 years florist in Pittsburg and when he completes the work ho" has in mind there will be no prettier yards even in Portland. The parking already is planted to roses which are in bloom A row or catalpa trees will be. set a few feet inside the front walk and cherry trees will be used. Xomlnal Considerations Cited, Nominal fees were recorded in deeds filed at the Courthouse last week in volving the transfer of valuable prop erties. Frank J. McCann and others transferred to the Lewis-Wiley Hy- drauiic company right of way to a strip 24 feet wide extending from the northerly line of St. Helens county road to the southerly line of Indus trial avenue. Frederick H. Strong granted the United Railways Company right of way over the same property. A lot located on the southwest corner of Stanton and East Twenty-fourth streets also was deeded by Maude Salz man to Adam Ruppe for a nominal consideration. Buildings Started in State. S. L. Barnaugh, Jr., of Enterprise, announced last week that he planned the immediate erection of a two-story business building at that place. Brick, concrete or stone material will be used. The Schoor Board of Marshfield has voted to advertise for bids for the erection or a $10,000 gymnasium. Word has been received from Glendale that a committee is selecting a site for the location of a union district high school. The plans for the building are being drawn. Three Sales Total Jiearly $10,000. For $4500 Annie E. Little has sold property described as lot 5, block 1, in Lofty View Addition, to William F. Hiatt and associates. N. J. Bailey has sold to Carl V. Dahl and associates lot 17, block 5. in Severance Addition to St. Johns' for $2400. while $2800 was cited a the sum for which C. T. De Voir deeded lot 21, block 11. Ter race Park, to the Apple Orchards Com pany. $6000 Lot Sale Told. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Tigard have sold a lot located on Sellwood street, be tween Kerby and Commercial streets, in Evans Addition, to Peter Stevenson and associates for $6000. The property is described as lot, 10, block 2, Evans Addition. $7 0r0 Deal In Piedmont. J. C. Ainsworth, president of the United States National Bank, took title last week through R. A. Liesy to a lot situated on the northwest corner of Mallory avenue and Colfax street. in Piedmont. 8 SiaijK ' '96AAjb -"iil1rtl,is rmm i .Jinn ill tii r " t 3T TEH SALES $45,000 East Side Homes and Building Sites Purchased. LARGEST SALE IS $6600 Quarter Block In Brazee Addition Is Sold to Jobn M. Dunn by P." J. Clibborn Sale in Ladd Addition at 9654t. Ten residence sales on the East Side aggregating more than $45,000 have just been made. These sales were mainly for residences and lots. One of the largest was the transfer of a quarter block In Brazee Addition by P. J. Clibborn to John M. Dunn, for $6600. It included lots 33 and 34, in block 6, east of East Twenty-fourth street. The house is nearly new. Another residence sale was closed In the LaUd Addition, where the Ladd Es tate Company transferred to Winfleld S. Cone lots E and 6. block 15. for a consideration of $6500. The property Is located on Holly street, near the center of the addition. William Faull took title to two lots and a house in Firland, in the South East Side, from P. L. Schamel. the price being $1000. A house and lot in Beaumont was sold by T. M. ' Word to R. C. Richardson for $4817. In Elbprta Addition. Charles E. Palmer sold a home to B. F. Orchards for $3500. Ben Rlesland took title to block "A." in Wildwood, from the Western Securities Company for a con sideration of $3500. A large number of residence sales ranged from $3500 down In different additions. In versteegs Addition, Peter Schreiner sold to E. L. Beadell a house and lot for $t600. Church Uuytt Rose City Park Site. The Methodist Church Extension So ciety has taken title to lots 17 and 18 in block 80. and also to the south halt of lots 1 and 2 in block 80. Rose City Park, for a consideration of $1610. On this site the Rose City Park Methodist Episcopal Church has started the erec lion of a modern church, which will cost $5000. Only the basement will be completed at this time and occupied in order to stop rent. The church is using the auditorium of the Rose City Park Club, Sandy boulevard and East Fifty seventh street. The site of the church is located on the Alameda, East Fifty eighth and East Fifty-ninth streets. Lots 17 and 18 are located on the cor ner of East Fifty-eighth and the Ala meda, and the half of lots 1 and 2 is located on the Alameda and East Fifty ninth streets, which provides the church with three lots,' all facing on the Alameda. The basement will prob ably be completed and occupied by about the first of the year. ' Two Houses Sold. Marshall Ward has purchased of J. V.. Savage lot 4, in block 10, Sunnyslde, with house, for $2200. This property is located on Thirty-ninth, near East Alder streets. In Nut Grove, Frank B. Ford took title to two lots in block 6 for $2625, including a house. A. P. Smith deeded to City of Portland a strip of land in East Thirty-fourth, near East Lincoln, for $1575. f2150 Is Price Paid. In Irvlngton Park, Cynthia A. Crider purchased lots 9 and 11, in block 41, of John A. Danielson. for a consid eration of $2150. Herbert E. Dilley sold to Blanche Viola Hurlburt a lot in Rolley Addition for $1000. In Foxchase Addition, H. E. Noble purchased of Albert Dobner a single lot and house for $192o. Mary G. Breitling purchased lot 3, block 54, Irvlngton, of John J. Stritzel, for $1400. Three Sales f 11O0 Each. H. E. Noble has sold to Martha M. Fox lot 7 in block 3, Excelsior Ad dition, for $1150. The property is lo cated on East Thirtieth street, in the South East Side. In Olmsted Park B. M. Lombard sold lot 16 In block 15 to Alden R. Morris for $1050. F. E. Potter transferred to A. M. Widener a lot and Improvements in Arleta Park for $1150. Rossmere Home Brings 31O0. In Rossmere, George A. Thompson sold to Maggie M. Hanna lot 5 in block 15, with a house, for $3100. Mary M. Holden purchased of J. U. Wanner a lot in Park Addition to Albina for $1000. H. C. Thompson transferred to G. W. Farwell a lot and fraction of another in Alameda Park for $2400. In Elm hurst Jessie W. Lucas purchased a lot with improvements from B. B. Brum well for $2600. Harry Grebe sold to J. H. Deitz part of a lot in Waverleigh Heights for $1200. Mrs. Lucia H. Additon has sold to Albert Hamilton property in Carlyle Addition for $1000. Springs Propertr Sells for f3000. Roy S. Wilson has purchased of P. H. Harth a house and lot In Paradise Springs Addition for $3000. In Glencoe Park, W. H. Gericke took title from I. Agron to lot 6. block 13, for $2450. Anna Q. Olmsted sold to C. L. Mc Kenna lot 4 and part of lot 3, North Albina, for $1500. Herbert Lewis pur chased of Gazella S. Brown two lots in Mount Tabor Villa and a house for $1900. S. lv. Meyer Makes Purchase. The James A. Strowbridge Estate Company sold two lots in Errol Heights to S. K. Meyer for $1850. Jessie Eaton took title to a lot on Wil lamette boulevard from E. C. Hurlburt for $1200. Helen Larrows took title to lot 8, block 42, Irvington, from Charles P. McGinnis for $1000. In Parkrose, on Sandy road, John T. Pond sold to Arthur G. Osland lot "C." block 63. for $1900. Sales on the Peninsula Told. The Kenton Pacific Improvement Company has sold to Marvin D. Farmer the south half of lots 55, 66, 57 and 58, in block 41, Kenton, the consideration being $1710. S. W. Rogers sold to E. J. Carr a lot in Kenton for $1600. In James Johns' Addition to St. Johns. Rebecca A. Horseman has transferred to William R. Hollenbeck a bouse and lot for $2600. Lew Tlipgs Buy Bungalow. The Fred A. Jacobs Company re ports the sale of a bungalow in Berke ley, at Charles and Conklln streets, for $1250. to Lew Riggs. Also, house at 789 East Seventy-second street North for $3500 to Walter C. Schaefer. Mr. Schaefer has for some time past been engaged in the banking business in Idaho, but comes to Portland with his partner. Dr. Waugh, for the purpose of manufacturing a specialty which they have recently patented. Park Street Property Changes Hands The north one-half of a lot located on Park street between Burnside and Couch streets was Bold recently by H. W. Grumwaldt to Herbert Gordon. A nominal price is quoted in the deed f iranster. . Big Sale Made in Kenton. H. F. Jones and W. A. Belcher have just purchased 60 well-located lots In Kenton from the Kenton-Pacific Im provement Company. The sale was ne gotiated by the Co-operative Realty Company. TILLAMOOK CASE SHOWS NEED OF LIFE INSURANCE Mortgage on Dairy Parmer's Place Might Have Been Handled "With Ease Had Look: Into Tutxire Been Taken by Mr. A. Johnson. BT W. S. RAKER. MrsJ A.' Johnson, of Tillamook County, is a widow with eight children, the oldest under 15. Her husband was a dairy farmer. Two or three years ago Mr. Johnson bought 'a farm for $6000, paid down what he had and gave a mortgage for the remainder. Then he built a nice home for wife and children, stocked and Improved the farm. All went well and the future looked bright, as he was but little more than 40. Then he fell sick and lingered for most a year under the doctor's care. Last July he died. The funds were spent for help and medicine. The interest was due on the mortgage, the funeral expenses had to be n-.et. tl-.e man who held the mort- ge threatened to foreclose and the widow's grief and anguish multiplied because Bhe could not raise the money to satisfy her pressing obligations. The thought of being thrown out of house and home drove her to distraction. Her mental poise was reaching the break ing point. A few days later, while in the Pro bate Judge's office at Tillamook, the bherifT entered and was handed the legal documents to bring Mrs. Johnson before the Insanity Commission. The next day I saw her In custody of the Sheriff and engaged her in conversa tion. Her whole thought was where to get money to save foreclosure and her home for her children. That was the last I saw of her case. But here was what the future looked like: The mother and widow in the asylum as ward of the state, and the children. either separately or collectively, wards of the county. - The foreclosure proceedings would BU1LD1NGLQSSGAINS Construction Work Decreases Thirty-two Per Cent v in Month. ACTIVE TRADE IS PROBABLE Despite Erfect of War on Contract Jobs, Brighter Outlook for October Is Seen Over That of September. It is not easy to extract consolation or joy from the statement of building operations for the month of September. The figures look unfavorable. In fact, they are unfavorable. August, the first month of the war. made a creditable showing, a shrink age of only 4 per cent, as compared with August last year. But September reveals a loss of 32 per cent. The ex planation is perhaps this: Flans late in July for August permits had already progressed so far that stoppage was both unnecessary and undesirable, llut during the month of August there was not the same undivided looking ahead to construction work. Instead there were street corner discussions and ar guments. Turning the spotlight on the misty future, a somewhat hazardous guess would be that building opera tions may be about due to get their second wind. One consideration which is receiving some attention is that building ma terial has cheapened in some directions within recent weeks and that this may serve as a spur to increased activity. Looking the figures squarely in the face, this is the presentment: The official reports of building per mits issued by 71 of the principal cities throughout . the country, during Sep tember, received by the American Con tractor, Chicago, total $44,971,904, as compared with $65,844,495 for Septem ber, 1913, a decrease of 32 per cent. But the losses are not unanimous. There are 18 .cities that show gains. Including St. Paul, 209 per cent; Denver, 241 per cent; Des Moines, 198 per cent; Scranton, 339 per cent; Springfield, 111., 166 per cent: Salt Lake City, 237 per cent. For the first nine months of the year the showing is creditable. The total cost of building permits Issued in the 71 cities was $558,276,753, as compared with $583,218,892 for the corresponding period last year, a decrease of only 4 per cent. The statement in detail is as follows: Fept. 114. 28.a7S 267.325 170.K04 300.811 162.31.-. 729.22 314. Mm 781.OO0 24.00l 77.3H 4,925,900 O35.0OS 2,132.1170 4Ul.72.-i 140,26'J 42.705 1.007.1SH 3bU,ri.j 1,547.235 187.82 01.3:i4 8U.140 122.800 427,624 105.4.-.O 12D.U1H 411,628 C 63. 035 OS. 65(1 1,1 OH. 064 267.370 77,037 132,160 1,162,004 eSl.275 231.660 i 431.810 159.277 oept. Pet. 1013. Loss. $ 3113.645 27 4.B95.375 85 384.723 56 80S.237 52 1M2,09".1 83 I, 320.340 45 224.323 41 821.000 7 jH.ikmj 2 50.120 54 7.S.-.8.02U 37 1.U4D.545 1,1140. .',45 473.1B5 4 409,123 70 107,953 60 2!'6.4U 241 127.750 'IDS 2.0.-6,8.1. 25 473.807 W 25S.O 45 115 101.71O 11 278,355 66 I 1.073,350 . J3 83.600 26 36M.421 65 675,504 676,tt5 16 101.650 8 I 1,748.665 37 297,170 lo! 161.015 52 288,355 54 874.5O0 33 1,449.650 39 561,526 50 243.8S0 . '76 186,769 14 6.307.128 14 621.098 lon 2,405.750 46 1,018.828 34 151.339 27 II. 492,241 ! 414,580 23 54.215 34 142.245 4 4.368.855 58 1.4:;4.7!0 3 1,621.005 81 122.361 "12 843.226 21 142.937 237 2.273.723 63 77.320 6rt 1.1S0.80M 43 910,908 2nit s 71.420 33 692. SS5 20 74.573 22 100,085 If 6O.02S 28 679.115 84 52,385 '166 1.442.7H3 82 157.848 48 672.488 46 11 6, On 5 63 1.253.950 . 84 740.886 47 153.050 37 404.61O 35 $65,844,495 112 City Akron $ Albany ........ Atlanta Baltimore Birmingham BostonD ....... Bridgeport Buffalo Cedar Rapids .. Chattanooga . . . Chicago Cincinnati. ..... Cleveland ...... Columbus ...... Dallas Dayton Denver ........ Des Moines..... Detroit Duluth Bast Orange . Evansville Fort Wayne. , . . Grand Rapids.. Harrlsburg ..... Hartford Indianapolis ... Kansas City. . -. Lincoln Los Angeles. ... Louisville Manchester .... Memphis ....... Milwaukee .... Minneapolis .... Newark ........ New Haven..... New Orleans.... New Tork City Manhattan . . . Bronx ....... Brooklyn .... Queens' ...... Richmond Totals Omaha Paterson Peoria Philadelphia ... Pittsburg Portland ....... Richmond ..... Rochester Salt Lake City.. San Francisco.. St. Joseph St. Louis St. Paul.- Scranton ....... Seattle Shreveport Sioux City South Bend.. SDokane ....... S. 475.220 1.239. SOI 8.522,290 1.272.047 109.821 11.619.179 312.360 ' 72.783 136.750 1.B11.3U5 8S0.C49 309.1 4 180,799 666, .-..'54 481. 8S0 830.(181 26.172 651,480 2.811.836 313.218 5.r.6,560 53.077 84.050 42.100 42.265 13'.i.2:m 262,325 86.826 360.3.-i8 . 40.610 71.10 3S10.S1 1 84.030 262.260 Springfield, 111. Syracuse ... Tacoma Toledo Topeka Troy Washington Wllkes-Barre Worcester Totals Gam. R5000 Building; Started. On East Thirteenth street, between Leo avenue and Bidwell street, a two- leave the Johnson estate equity a minus quantity. The remedy? Life insurance. Had that widow been the beneflciary in a life insurance policy, even a small one, her lot in life would have been changed; ner mortgage discharged: her children provided with a happy home. All thia could have been provided tor with per cent auuei to -Mr. Johnson's inter est account on his mortgage. This would not only be possible but simple. Could the spirit dl Johnson come back and witness the awful condition his taking off had caused, do you sup pose he would wait to be asked to buy life insurance My impression Is that he -would hurry to the nearest life in surance agent he knew and cover the risk. Could the county have known that it must assume the burden of being father and mother to these orphans, they, too, would have advised protec tion. Could the man who held the mort gage have known land r.e should have anticipated this), he would not only have advised, but required the mort gagor to protect himself. Fire in surance is always required to protect a mortgage where buildings are mort gaged. Why not require life Insur ance in cases like this? Perhaps the life insurance salesman did not present the matter to this man or perhaps Mr. Johnson took the ohance that many do of living until this obli gation was satisfied, little thinking of this burden that would fall on his widow and children if he failed. If a law or custom requiring such protection were In force, cases like this would be no more. The widow, the children, tr.e state and the county would save a world of waste and worry. story frame building will be erected for J. T. McGregor, who will supervise the construction. The structure will cover 44 by 48 feet and cost about $5000. Both floors will be used by an undertaking establishment. KEEDVILI.E ACREAGE IS SOLD Transfers of Numt'rous Properties in City Reported Also. This month the Hartman &. Thomp son Bank reports the sale of 32 H acres near Reed villa to W. E. Moon, of Idaho. The place is more or less improved and has several acres in bearing apples and other fruit, and is only 14 mi'es from Witch Hazel station. Mr. Moon intends to move to the property at once and start improving it. A 50 by 100-foot lot on East Fifty eighth street, near Stanton, in Rose City Park, at $800. It is the Intention of the buyer to build on this lot at once. Lot 5, in block 17, Rossmere, was sold for account of D. S. Voorhees. Twelve acres near Sheridan, all in cultivation, was sold to C. D. Guns; lot 2, block 38, 60 by 100 feet, in Ross mere, at $850; a four-room house in Gregory Heights to B. F. Hart at $750. and a one-acre tract in Parkrose, north of Sandy boulevard, facing on the O.-W. R. & N. Railroad and on the corner of Richardson road, at $1550. Furniture Firm Incorporates. Incorporation papers were filed last week by the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, a $25,000 corporation, which will open a furniture store at 85 Fifth street, in the Manchester building. The owners of the store are A. H. Radet Bky. of ' Denver, and Anton Klein, of San Francisco. Both are experienced furniture men and they propose on November 1 to open a first-class furni ture store. Mill to Be Rebuilt. Following the final adjustment of in surance covering the destruction of its mill by fire a few months ago. the officials of the Carlton Fir Lumber Company announced last week that the mill would be rebuilt. Charles K. Ladd is president of the company and Philip Buehner manager. The proposed new mill will have a daily capacity of 200,000 feet. Xew Home Started In Vernon. James Hyland will build a one-story frame dwelling on East Fourteenth, between Alberta and Wygant streets. The cost will be $2500. Mr. Wygant will be his own builder. Charles Solo mon has started on the erection of a $2500 home on Fifty-fifth avenue, in the South East Side. Home Brings $5 600. Harry E. Bleeeker, a recent arrival from Texas, has purchased from Levi Rodlun an eight-room house located at the corner of Eaet Irving street and Peerless place, in Laurelhurst. for $5600. Nominal Price Paid for Tract. A tract beginning 60 feet eat of the southwest corner of Sixteenth and Jackson streets, city, has been sold by James E. Morgan to J. Lesser for a numlnal consideration. German Lutherans to Balld Chares. The German Lutheran Church will erect a story-and-half ,man8e on East Ninth street between Fremont and Feech. to cost $1800. Directory of Prominent Life Insurance Agenciet Members of Life Underwriter Association of Oregon VVm. Ooldmmn, Manager, MANHATTAN Llln, Oresoulaa Blag. h G. colton. Manager, MASSACHUSETTS MliUiL UFH Chamber ot commerce Bidg. j L. Harmon,. Manager, PENN MUTUAL. Hi Ji. Nortnwestern liank Blag. Horace Meckiem. Manager, NEW NILAN1 MUTUAL L1FB, Northwestern Hank .Bids,. Aims r. Kats. Manager, MUTUAL LU'E lNSUKANCHi to. OF 3t. Coroett Bidg. I. G. M. Slocum, Mgr. RELIANCE LlFJsl l.SS. CO.. rliuburga. P 208 Morgan Blug., Portla.ua, or. c v Lockwood. Vice-Prea. and Gn ilgr, COLUMBIA LIFE & TRUST CU, tiptldmg Bldg. Psttls-Grossmayer Co.. General Agents IEM TRAVELERS' INS. CO, S08-S1O Wilcox Bldg. T. H. McAUs, Manager. UNION MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO, 557 Sherlock Bidg. John Pauer, Manager, PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA. Rothcbild Bldg. E. W. Amesbury, Manager. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO Northwestern Bank Bldg. Judd Lowrey. Manager, AMERICAN CENTRAL LIFE INS. CO, 50a Dckun Bldg. McCarger. Bates A Lively. Managers, AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO, yeon Bldg- Charles J. Little Agency. Inc, Managers Western Oregon. IDAHO STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO, 606-60 7 Yeon Bldg. Phone Main 241L J. Wm. Johnson. Agency Director, WESTERN STATE LIFE INS. CO, 2012 Northwestern Bank Bids. Phone Marshall 4U20.