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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1922
Page
14
Finance and markets note coal trade and real estate totals. New corporate offerings include railway equipment trust certificates and New York Steam Corporation bonds. Sugar, cattle, hogs, sheep, butter, eggs, cheese, cotton goods, silk, and grains items from New York and Toledo dated June 26 with prices and receipts reported.
In Williamson the real estate boom is pitched by banker directors and lawyers who buy West Williamson lots unseen. Harry Scherr of Goodykoonts Scherr Sitven and others, as Bankers Land Co president, bought fifty three lots unseen and eight sold similarly. C B Early of the National Bank of Commerce has bought and sold two lots unseen for profit, ten minutes away. Wake up and consider mail order property deals. Special ist West Williamson Lots.
New York reports indicate no evidence of a stock corner in Mexican Petroleum. Shares rose from 181 1 4 to about 204 1 2 before trimming to 195, a gain of 13 3 4 points for the day. Pan-American Petroleum A and B led gains, while other oils lagged.
In market notes Swift and Co and currencies incl Sterling Francs and Drachmas are listed amongChicago stock and exchange items. The brief column highlights foreign currency activity and related market movements without detailed prices.
A scattered set of real estate ads in Bluefield offers three 30 foot lots in South Bluefield across from the Virginia Apartment Hose at a reasonable price, plus a 50 foot lot with cottage on Bland Street. Prices range from 1,150 to 5,000 dollars. several lots in Montvale and Whitethorn streets, a modern eight room brick home, four room cottages with down payments and monthly terms, and a 130 acre limestone farm in Botetourt County with home and barns. Also offered: land along Princeton car line with water, and houses with macadam streets at no cost to buyers. Willing to accept Bluefield real estate notes in part payment.
Real estate notice lists properties with rooms, baths, heating, and prices from 3 650 to 20 000. Includes Adams St Giles St Raleigh Terrace Wythe Ave Union St and Fincastle Road offerings plus empty lots near a college and a tract with 200 feet frontage. Terms available and prices reflect half value for one tract.
Home Realty Co advertises many seven and eight room houses on Adams Hancock Frederick Union Preston Bluefield Cedar Lynn Highland Rogers with oak finish hot water heat basements garages and large lots. Prices and terms on application. We have other homes in all parts of the city.
Real estate transfers of record filed Monday include J. Compton and F. E. Mitchell to Frank L. Longley for six Bluefield lots at $6,000. John R. Smith and wife to Eva Lazenby Anderson for lot 3 Bluefield at $26. R. L. Shelton to J. Marvin Anderson for lot 1 Bluefield at $25. Karl M. Hale to Gray son Lowe for North Walker Street lot Princeton at $500. D. T. Carr trustee to Sallie P. White for lot 10 College Street Princeton at $4,565.72. S. J. Sublett to Goodybootz Drug Company for lot 26 Bluefield at $15,000. R. R. Brown to C. B. Hearn et al for Lilly Land Company Addition Princeton lots 27-29 at $550. W. R. Winfrey to F. Hutchins for 182 acres near north Princeton at $1,000.
In a home in Mil ton, a pet monkey named Jojo wrapped itself in a blanket as a fire broke out and escaped suffocation. The incident is noted among other brief items including Liberty Bonds chatter and a call to boycott German made bagpipes.
Stone Securities Co lists multiple properties in Bluefield and Botetourt Virginia. Listings include two large 75 by 250 feet lots on South Bluefield near Bland Boulevard at 2800 each, several smaller lots, and homes with cash and financed terms. A 133 acre Botetourt County farm on the Valley Pike with buildings and orchard is priced at 30000. Adjustable terms offered on several parcels.
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