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SUNDAY, MARCH 30. MUCH ACTIVITY IN AUGUSTA HEAL ESTATE RECORDS AT CLERK’S OFFICE SHOW MANY TRANSFERS DURING PAST WEEK Messrs. Lorick and Vaiden and Others Purchase 863 Broad Street; Sisters of St. Joseph Buy 20 Acres on Hill For $8,000; City Pays $45,000 to Compress Company. The records at the office of clerk of oourt Daniel Kerr for the week just past, show several property transfers involving considerable sums of money. One of the largest private real estate transactions made here recently was the purchase of 863 Broad street by Messrs. H. C. Lorick and H. C. Vaiden and oth ers for $ 20,900 from Arrinfeton Bros. The purchasers, it is understood, have secured the property as an investment, although it may be improved later. Twenty acres of land on the corner of the Wrightsboro road and Rhind ave nue have been ; urchased by the Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph from Mrs. Sarah G. Stokes for SB,OOO. St. Joseph’s academy will be built on this property and the work of construction will soon begin. The agreement on the part of the city to pay $30,000 to the Atlantic Ice & Coal corporation for the land on which is sit uated the Inter State Ice company is another large item on the books at the court house. The city needs the prop erty for the levee. The city has paid the Riverside Com press company $45,000 for the land on which the plant is located on the river bank between i4th. and 15th. streets. This is for the land and for the incon venience and cost to the compress com pany to move its plant out of the way of the levee. Transfer for Week The following are among the transfer?- recorded at office of clerk of court for week beginning March 24th. and ending March 29th: $2,500 Deed—Union Savings Bank to Susannah Caroline Irene Walker, three acres, seven miles south of Augusta. $75 Deed—W. H. Moore to Elizabeth McDonald, corner 15th. street and Sun set Avenue. $30,000 Agreement—City Council of Augusta and Atlantic Ice and Coal cor poration and the Trust Company of Georgia. The City Council of Augusta in this agreement obligates itself to pay to the Atlantic Ice & Coal corporation S3K>,OOO for the riant of the Inter State Ice company above Hawks’ Gully. The land is needed for levee purposes. The Trust Company of Georgia is trustee of the bondholders of the Atlantic Ice & Coal corporation. $1,300 Deed—Joseph S. Reynolds to Glenn W. Legwen. Lot on Raymond Avenue. TRADING HERE GOOD, DESPITE THE STRINGENCY IN THE MONEY MARKET 1 Mr. H. H. Alexander Talks of the Future of Augusta Real Estate —Recent Sales Indie ate Great Enhancement in Values. ' Mr. H. H. Alexander, of Alexander & Steiner, was asked yesterday re garding the outlook in the local real estate field and about the present conditions. He replied that the strin gency of the money market was pre venting as much trading from going on as would be otherwise, but that there was a bright outlook. ‘There is much trading now”, said Mr. Alexander, 'when the tightness of money is taken into consideration and there have been quite a number of Broad street sales during the past few months. “In some instances some of the property recently sold brought about twice as much as was paid for it only a few years back and that shows how property is enhancing in value. “I am always a bull on Augusta W SALES HADE IT HIT 8 PEEBLES Large Number of Transfers In volving Small Property. Many Applications For Houses, But Are None to Rent. Matheny & Peebles report a. splendid real estate business. During the past few weeks this firm has sold proprty ag gregating $12,000 to $16,000 in value. The great majority of the sales have been small and there is a great deal of trad ing in small property. Mr. Matheny stated yesterday that business was good that there were no houses to rent, but there were many applications for houses which he could not supply. The following are some of the deals made by Matheny & Peebles: Mr. J. A. Newman to Mrs. Ava C. Cleveland, house 1483. Gwinnett St.; price $1,275.00 Mrs'. Ava C. Cleveland to Mr. J. D. Ray, house 1483, Gwinnett St.; price $1,600.00 Mr. O. B. Palmer to Mr. H. R. Davis, house 1945, Watkins St.; price $1,550.00 Mrs. Emily R Brown t* Mrs. Annie A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL. To all knowing sufferer* of rheumatism whether muscular or of the Joints, scia tica. lumbagos, backache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains, to write to her for a home treatment which has re peatedly cured all of these tortures. She feels It her duty to send It to all suf ferers FREE. You cure yourself at home as thousands will testify—no change of climate being necessary. Thfs simple discovery banishes uric acid from tffe blood, loosens the stiffened Joints, pur ifies the blood, and brightens the eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the whole system. If the above Interests you, for proof address Mrs. 61. Summers, Box ft.. Notre Dame, Ind. Advertisement S22F Deed—Stafford Investment Com pany to Mrs. lailie Hendrix. Lot on north side of Walker street, West End. S6>CK) Deed—A. V. Kirsch to James Parker et. al. and Fannie Parker et, al, place on north side of Conklin Avenue known as LaFayette place. S2OO Deed—Jos. S. Reynolds to A. G. Hackett et .al. and H. H. Bell et. al., lots six and seven in Block O. Fair mont track (near Wheeless.) ssou Deed—Augusta Game Preserve Club to Georgia-i Carolina Power com pany, strip of land on Savannah river. SBOO Deed—J. S. Blacker to B. L. Habe.on. Lot of land on East side oi Moore Avenue. $5,000 Bond for Title—Fannie T. Max well to Mrs. T. Z. Gwin, 120 acres of land on Milledgeville Road. $650 Deed. —Union Savings Bank to A. J. Schweers et al and J. L. Herman et. al., southeast corner 12th. street and alley (Monte Sano.) SSOO Deed —J. E. Kavanaugh to J. Van Linge lots on Cooper and Estes streets $1,50 Deed—J. Can Linge to John H. Kahrs, lots on Cooper and Estes streets. $350. Deed —J. Emmet Armond to L. V. Hatcher, lot on Druid Park Avenue. S2OO Deed —Bank of Harlem to C. G. Oellerich, 15 acres, nine miles south of Augusta. $lO4 —Security Deed —C. G. Oellerich to W. Q. Rountree, 15 acres, nine miles south of Augusta. $2>0,000 Deed—Arrington Brds. & Co. to H. C. Lorick et al and H. C. Vaiden et al., 28 feet by 201 1-2 feet on north side of 900 block of Broad street. SIO,OOO Security Deed —H. C. Lorick et al and H. C. Vaiden et al to the Mort gage Bond Company of New York, north side of Broad -street. $7,000 Security Deed—Nellie B. Schweers, by attorney, to United States Mortgage and Trust company, southeast corner of Helen and Monte Sana ave nues. SB,OOO Deed—Sarah G. Stokes •to the Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph, 20 acres of land on the southwest corner of the Wrightsboro road and Rhind ave nue. $45,000 Deed—Riven? fide Compress Company to City Council of Augusta. Property on north of Reynolds street, west of 14th. street, south of the Sa vannah river and east of 15th. street. This land was purchased for a levee right of way. real estate and I look for great things in the not far distant future. With the erection of two office buildings within the next year the town will grow by leaps and bounds and I be lieve that Augusta’s future is of the brightest. She is bound to grow and grow rapidly. More power means more population and the people must live somewhere, so houses will be erected, new sections laid out in streets and places built to care for the growing population. The completion of an enormous power development proposition will cause industries to spring up that need cheap power and the people who operate the industries will come to Augusta to live. I cannot say more than that real estate in Au gusta has a magnificent future.” Butler, house 2009, Brown Alley; price $400.00. Augusta Land Co. to Mr. W. F. Bentley, vacant lot, Telfair St.; price $225.00. Mr. Bert Maxwell to Mr. R. L. Cham bers, house, Polk’s Alley, $373.00. Messrs Cummlngr, Verdery to Mr. B. O. Buck, 2 lots Fenwick St., $570.00 Messrs. Cummings, Verdery to Mr. W. C. Rhodes i lot on Fenwick St., $270.00 Mrs. E. R. Brown to Mr. W. L. Goff, 1818 Ellis St., $850.00 Mr. W. C. Levy to Mr. J. A. Newman, farm lands, $600.00. Sold for Mrs. D. A, Hennings, S. B. Cor. Crawford Ave. and Telfair, $1,150.00 Mr. A. M. McAuliffe to Mr. J. C. Richardiron, 1315 Ellis St., $2,750.00. Messrs. Cummings, Verdery to Mrs. Clara M. Isdell, lot Fenwick St., $240.00 Mrs. Eliza Reid to EX D. Ammonette house on Heckle St. $1,050.00 i Mr. Theo. Johnson to Mrs. jAlza Reid, lot on Greene St., $225.00. Mr. H. R. Davis to Mr. Theo. John son, 311 Eve St., $1,000.00. Mrs. Emily R. Brown to Mr. W. L. Bargeron, 311 St. Luke Alley, $650.00. Mr.. R .E. Allen to Mr:-. Sarah Bloom, 309 Eve St., $1,150.00 Stafford Investment Co. to Mr. A. Brill, lot In Grassdale addition, $300.00. Stafford Investment to Mrs. Ellie Hen drix, lot on Walker St., $225.00. St. Paul, Minn. —The railroad or ganlationg of Minnesota are pressing for passage by the legislature their full crew bill. This Is the third time that this measure has been before the legislature, at the last two. sessions opposition against it by the railroad companies being strong enough to de feat it. At this session it is confi dently believed that the bill will be come a law, although it is meeting with the usual opposition from the railroad lobby. Some of the provis ions of the MANY PERMITS FOB 01RLSINGS Mr. 0. F. Baker To Build $4,000 Home on Hill. Other Permits Issued by Inspector. large number of building permits have recently been issued by city building inspector, W. B. Young, showing a healthy growth on the part of the city in both downtown and hill sections. Mrs. P. P. Cotter will have a two story frame house built on Eleventh street, Monte Sano, for $3,850. The Industrial Lumber Company will do the work. Mr. F. C. Purdy has secured a per mit to build a one-story frame dwell ing on the Wrißhtsboro road, for $2,- 000. Mr. . V. Kirsch will build a one story frame dwelling on Chafee Ave., near Fenwick street, for SI,OOO. Mr. J. C. Cartledge will build a one story frame dwelling at 1911 Walker street for S6OO. Mr. Jos. A. Bailie will build a one story frame house at 1411 Cooper street for S7OO. Mr. E. W. Hancock will build three one-story frame dwellings on Ellis street, above Metcalf, at SI,OOO each. Mr. A. J. McCullough, contractor, will add three rooms and a hall to’a one-story house owned by Mr. Fred Lackman at a cost of S9OO. The place is on Meigs street near Central ave nue. Mr. J. C. Cartledge, contractor, will build for Michael Job three three room frame dwellings at 1643 Cooper street for S4QO each. Mr. A. C. McFarlin will build for Bazaar To Open Monday Night in Armory Will Be on the Old Style Arrangements Are All Complete and Everything to Be the Best—Miss Annie May Hogan to Be in Charge of the Dancing, and Balk’s Orchestra Will Furnish the Music. The bazaar, which the ladies of Au gusta, are going to hold at the Armory for Father Laube’s building fund, will open Monday night, Marlh 31st. Everything is in readiness and every thing points to the fact that this bazaar is going to be the best one ever held in this city, notwithstanding the reputa tion of the great bazaars of ten and twenty years ago. The popularity of the ladles working for the bazaar Insures Its success. Mrs. J. D. Hogan is chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, and is super vising the entire work. Her daughter, the charming and attractive Miss Annie May Hogan, with Miss Bridget Lyons, in charge of the dancing committee. Balk’s Orchestra wih furnish the muMc for the nightly dancing. Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Bolster and Mrs. Flynn are the committee on refresh ments and dining, and they announce that dinners and suppers will be served each day. Because of the central local A Splend Record For The West End Library What This Institution is Doing in the Life of the People of the West End in Augusta—lt Needs Books—Why Not Send Some Tomorrow ? WEST END FREE LIBRARY Here a body of good women maintain a spacious, well-lighted, cozy reading room whose walls are garnished with about four thousand books. A librarian is In attendance and keeps the Libra ry open from three to ten o’clock every week day. There are twen ty new magazines on the tables, and games are provided for the children. Everything Is free; any man, woman or child may go there, read or play as long as he wishes, then go away bearing a book to amuse or instruct him between whiles. It is a neighborhood center, more so than any other place in West End. Here news Iss ex changed, impressions are swap ped, politics whispered, and good feelings swashed against each other. The greatest demand for read ing matter is from the children; they are begging for adventure, for moving tales of advancement, and, most of all, for humor. A number of friends have recently sent the library batches of Juve nile hooks. “They done their duty,” and sowed a whole lot of happiness somewhere. Each report of the librarian bears testimony of the larger and larger place the institution Is making for itself in the commun ity and with the result of a mor al and Intellectual uplift. Seed ideas never fall to grow and bear some fruit. The library has an average at tendance of seventy-five visitors, dally, and there are about a thou sand names in the library ledger, which represent those who take out books. Fi-tlon, following the lead of larger institutions, is the THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA- Say Goodbye to Pimples Stuart's Calcium Wafers Will Drive Them Away. Creams Wi,ll Never Do It; They Can’t. No need for any one to have a com plexion disfigured by pimples, blotch es, liver sports or blackheads. Just clear the blood of Impurities and they’ll go away. All My Friends Marvel at the Way Stuart's Calcium Wafers Drove Those Ugly Pimples Away. Stuart’s Calcium Wafers cleanse and clear the blood, driving out all prisons and Impurities. And you'll never have a good complexion until the blood is clean. These little wafers may be used with perfect freedom. Science knows no more powerful blood cleanser. They are entirely free from harmful drugs or opiates. Your doctor prescribes these hundreds of times a year. Stuart’s Calcium Wafers go right Into your blood. Their purifying, bene ficial effect upon the blood is felt throughout the body, not in a year or a month, but In a few days. You feel better all over because your blood, the life-giving fluid. Is doing its work Properly. No matter how bad your complexion is, Stuart’s Calcium Wafers will work wonders with it. You can get these little wonder-workers at your drug gist’s for 50 cents a package.—(Ad vertisement.) Mrs. M. J. Doney one-story frame dwelling oh Carter’s alley, for S7OO. Mr. Thomas Parker, contractor, will build for Mr. C. E. Baker, a two-story frame dwelling on Glenn avenue, near McDowell Btreet, for $4,000. ity of the Armory, the vast amount of shopping, visiting, etc., in the city, and the deliciousness of the menus, it is ex pected that the luncheons and suppers will be wll attendeed. All who are in the city on business, or work in the city and aree unable to reach their homes for luncheon or supper, are invited to dine at the Armory and are assured of prompt service. The Knights of Co lumbus will dine there Tuesday night, and the Daughters of Isabella another night. Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. O’Keefe, Mrs. Will Jones and Mrs. Jake Buckley are other ladles who have been engaged in the work of preparing the bazaar. The fancy article booth, in which there are more than SI,OOO of beautiful and useful articles, will attract wide attention be cause of the unusual beauty of It. There are other attractions both of entertain ment and usefulness, all of which the public Is invited to visit, Inspect, par take and participate In. main thing sought, but essays and books of travel are not neglected. Get Rid of Piles at Home Simple Home Remedy, Easily Applied Gives Quick Relief and Prevents All Danger from Operation. Send for Free Trial Package and Prov# It In Your Case. 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Kind ly send me a trial treatment of Pyramid Pile Remedy at once, by mall, FREE, In plain wrapper, so I can prove Its splendid results. Name Street City State Four Congregations Will Unite To Frame Expressions Sympathy Members of First Christian, First Baptist, First Presbyterian and St. John Methodist Will Unite at the Latter Named Church Tonight at 8 O’clock. Services at the First Christian church, the First Presbyterian church and the First Batplst church will give way to a union service of these three churches and St. John’s Methodist church, to be held at this latter church tonight at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of giving an expression of sympathy to the flood sufferers In Kentucky, Indi ana and Ohio. , The meeting Is to he presided over by Mayor Llnwood C. Hayne, of Au gusta. There are to be addresses by four prominent Augustans. Mr. Wil liam H. Barrett; Mr. Edward B. Hook chairman of the 1908 relief work in Augusta; Mr. Archibald Blaekohoar, Taft Party Will Leave Augusta This Afternoon at 5:15 O 9 Clock Miss Emily Thomas, of Augusta, Will Accompany Mr. and Mrs. Taft As Far As New York—Col. and Mrs. Strong and Mrs. Francis, in Party, to Stop Off in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Tnft and party leave Augusta Sunday af ternoon at 6:15 o'clock, after havTTig spent 25 delightful days In Augusta. As far as spirits and appearance go, the Tafts have gained what they sought In Augusta, recreation and rest. They have been entertained, Mr. Taft has spoken in public on several occasions, and he has otherwise fav ored Augustans with his presence, but there has been no routine, no formali ties no pressing when the body or mpid was weary. The result has been a happy one for Mr. Taft and for Au gusta. He has gained in health; haa Improved in his game of golf; and has announced his Intention of returning for annual visit to Augusta. This let ter is the announcement above all others that Augusta should like to have heard. Her treatment of him has been appreciated, and a mutual bene fit Is to accrue. Saturday Mr. Taft spent the morn ing on the links. He would not miss that opportunity of driving another spike In the success of his name. Sat urday afternoon Mr. and Mra. Taft spent with friends. Saturday night there was a dinner at Bon Air. Im mediately after there were cards. KIMBALL PIANOS ca 4. * V H THE SCALE —this is the back bone of any good piano if you want purity of tone. Our fifty years of ex perience- has enabled us to reach the goal —the envy of all manufac turers “The Perfect Scale.” How we avoid the customary weak spots or breaks in the scale found in com mercially made pianos, we shall be glad to explain to anyone interested. Three Generations Using the Kimball [youSavp] il When [j I You Buy 1 A r ’cJJ presidmt of the Associated Charities of Augusta, for many yeors legal ad visor of that Institution; and Judge E. 11. Callaway, of Augusta. While funds are being raised In Au gusta for the alleviation of the suffer ers in the flooded districts, it is sup posed that a collection will be taken tip for that purpose at St. John's to night. There will he no night services at the First Christian, First Baptist and First Proshytertan churches on ac count of this union meeting at St. John's. The pastors of these four churches will all be present at the un ion meeting. The party leaves this afternoon at 5:15 o'clock over the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. In the party there will be Mr. and Mrs. Taft, Mr.' Charlie Taft, Mrs. Francis, n daughter of ox- Chlef Justice Chas. M. Fuller. Col. and Mrs. Henry M Strong, of Rochester, N. Y., their son, Mr. C. M. Strong, his friend, Mr. J. Randolph Fox, also of Rochester, Miss Emily Thomas, of Augusta and Mr. W. W. Mischlor, Mr. Taft's private secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Taft, Mr. Charlie Taft, Miss Thomas and Mr. Misehler go through to New York. Miss Thomas is returning to tho fashionable and exclusive finishing school on the Hud son. Tho Tafts will spend Monday night In New York and go on, the day following to New Haven, whore Mr. Taft will fill tho Kent Professorship at Yalo. Mrs. Francis, Col. and Mrs. Strong, their son and Mr. Fox will stop off In Washington, leaving the others to complete tho trip alone. Miss Helen Taft left Augusta Wed nesday of tho past weok for New York Other members of the Taft party, Including Mr. and Mra Henry W. Taft, the Count and Countess de Chambrun and Dr. and Mra. Nicholas Superb in Tone The Piano that is a Safe absolutelv safe-investment THREE VITAL POINTS THE PRlCE—where quality is the same, is the deciding point in the purchase of any standard grade piano. Note the following : Our One-Price Plan—absolutely one—enables us to sell good pianos for less money than dealers who have a sliding scale of prices. We sell direct to the consumer, eliminat ing the middleman’s profit. , We are the World’s largest manufacturers of pianos, and our facilities are such as to enable us to place on the market a high-grade piano for less money than the manu facturer whose output is limited, or the dealer or agent whose retail profit must be added to the selling price. Our prices are based on the sale of 35,000 instruments— •the yearly output of our factory. Remember that Kimball Pianos at their regular One Price are greater bargains than unknown makes made by unknown makers, and advertised for sale at fifty cents on the dollar by dealer agents. You owe it to yourself to investigate our claims beforo purchasing elsewhere. Cash, or terms can be arranged. W. W. KIMBALL 00. Augusta Branch 306 Jackson St Ira E. Perkins, Mgr. HAIR AND SKIN BEAUTY PRESERVED BY OUICIIRA SOAP Assisted by occasional use of Cuticura Ointment. Cutlmira Soup and otntmontinM IhroufTumt tiM world. Bond pootol for liberal aaiuplo of oocb molted froo, wits 32- poor book OB the ikto tad walk. Addrooa "Cuticura.” Dept. l IV, lioeton. Murray Butler returned to their re spective homes during the past week. Bcranton, Pa.—lntervention by Dl«i rector of Public Works W. H. O* Malloy brought about a settlement of' the strike of the 400 employes of the People's Coal Company at the Oxford Colliery, and tho men roturned to work today. Tho settlement provides for the re instatement of the men who were die. charged; the acceptance of the full terms of the strike commission* awarded by tho company; permitting tho collection of union dues on the colliery grounds, and later tho abol ishment of tho prosont contract sys tem, which wns really > the basis ot the dispute. THE TOUCH —ln playi n g the Kimball piano you have a delight ful sense of firmness. The dip of the, keys is not unlike that of our best Grands, and there is a respon siveness that invites the player to put forth his best efforts. THREE Over 250,000 Kimballs In Use H^STSave) I] WhENv[| I You ßuy j AT v^JJ