The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], May 25, 1919, SPORTING SECTION, Page EIGHT, Image 20

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Put Your Rent Receipts Into a Home and Be a Real Citizen
UP BY GOVERNMENT
Local Realtors Plan to Liven
Up Building Movement.
No Decline in Cost of
Material
Originating: in Birmingham, the "Own
You# Own Home" movement has spread
throughout the country and the federal
government has now taken the matter
up. Through the labor and other depart
ments of the government the w'orking
men and others are urged to buy homes,
rot only as a means of helping to quicken
the revival of building activities, but be
cause the home owner is more independ
ent and usually a more useful citizen
than the one who does not own his home.
At a luncheon held a fewr days ago,
attended by over 100 business men. it was
unanimously decided to put on a cam
paign in Birmingham for the purpose of
furthering the "Own Your Own Home"
movement here.
A fund of $7500 has been pledged by
various lines of business which is to be
used in spreading the propaganda, and
an early week in June has been decided,
upon as the time for the campaign to be
made.
SPEEDING PROPAGANDA
Committees representing the various
lines of industry and eommerre in Bir
mingham will he appointed to push the
matter and when the campaign is ended
FOR SALE
$60,000.00
A fine investment: two stores on 2d
ave, between 21st and 22d sts.; lot
50x140 ft.
Phone 35© — 2026-3^Ave
Ml WK K. Ill TI.KIl
President lUrtnlnghnm flenl Kstnte
KscliunKe.
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! every person in Birmingham and vicinity
| will know what it means to own his own
home.
Representatives of different lines'have
already been named on a committee to
take generaj charge of the preliminaries.
The personnel of this committee follows:
\V. T. Warren, architect; P. E. Bostick,
contractor; H. W. Mathews, electrical;
Phil Oster, furniture; F. W. Dixon,
banks; Thornton Estes, lumber; J. A.
Hynds, paints; .7. A. Pate, plumbing; E.
J. Dunn, construction; Hill Ferguson,
real estate.
H. K. Milner is chairman, and John D.
Chichester, secretary.
Only one real estate sale of note was
reported during the past week, although
there were a number of transactions in
smaller properties. The activity in real
estate that set in a f§w weeks ago con
tinues, with slight abatement during the
past week, and the indications are that
it will become even greater with the
coming of summer.
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Building operations continue slack,
property owners hesitating to put up
houses at present high prices, but it is
(he impression among real estate men
that this condition will undergo a change
before very long.
Not only is there no prospect of an
early decline in the cost of material and
labor, but, to the contrary, lumber is said
:o have actually advanced a dollar or
two within the last two weeks. Reports
of lumber manufacturers associations
showr that* the cut at present is under
rather than over the actual demand, the
latest available information being to the
effect that orders placed with mill men
exceed the cut by a considerable percen
ts ge.
A number of small residences are now
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Published Weekly by the Birmingham Realty Co.
Vol. 16. Birmingham, Ala., May 25,1919. No. 5.
Be Good to Yourself
First. Go out to Norwood Boule
vard and take a good big drink of
beauty and restfulness.
Second. As you see the beautiful
homes in “The Placid Place” and long
for a home of your own, just remember
that it IS within your reach and that we
have a plan by which we can build for
you at a much lower cost than you or
anyone else can do it.
Third. Be good to yourself and act promptly. Right
now is the time to put that home-building idea into action.
Come and see us.
Birmingham Realty Company
2118 First Arena®
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Celebrated Stock and Grain Farm
AT AUCTION
on the premises
SATURDAY, MAY 31st
10:30 a. m.
We have surveyed and subdivided and will offer for sale at public auc
tion the famous farm and beautiful home of Mr. W. M. Tolley, located
THREE MILES WEST OP COLUMBIA, MAURY COUNTY,
TENNESSEE. ON HAMPSHIRE PIKE.
Containing 420 acres, deep, rich, level to gently rolling land, and known
the country over as one of the richest and most productive as well as
the most extensively improved farms in the state. The farm will be of
ferrod for sale in five separate tracts and then as a whole. The plan
producing best results will be a sale.
The improvements consist of a new 10-room, 2-story brick residence,
located on a beautiful shady lawn overlooking pike and it is finished in
old ivory and mahogany, with hardwood floors, cabinet mantels, hot
and cold water, twro baths, furnace, electric lights, gas, concrete basement
and water system that furnishes fresh, running, spring water the year
round in residence, barns, lots and all fields and pastures. Other
improvements consist of one 8-room frame residence, four large stock
barns, tool sheds, grainery, two silos, big spring house, three tenant
houses and numerous other outbuildings; three acres in fine*orchard
and one of the best fenced apd watered farms in Maury county. It will
please the most fastidious. '
LOCATION—Close in and convenient to Columbia; one of the liveliest
business towns and educational centers in the state, where you have the
advantage of the best schools and colleges for both boys and girls, as well
as the benefit of the great Middle Tennessee Experimental Farm located
on the same pike, half way between Columbia and this farm, where
the government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars teaching
the farmers and their sons how to make farms pay the biggest profits.
REASON FOR SELLING—Mr. Tolley has just bought a larger farm and
gets possession on June 1, so has given us written instructions to sell
for the HIGH DOLLAR, giving immediate possession of the farm, crops,
residence, gardens, orchards and everything, consisting of 45 acres of
wheat and young clover, TO acres of corn, 45 acres of Crimson Clover, 8
acres of red clover, 65 acres of oats and Voung clover, 16 acres of barley,
35 acres of rye and sweet clover, 150 acres of Bluegrass and Orchardgrass,
all in the highest state of cultivation, having been used for a number of
years as a stock and grain farm on a large scale. Everything just ready
to move into and go to coining money. ^
TERMS: One fourth cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years.
For further particulars or to be shown the farm see, write or phone
Mr. W. M. Tolley on farm or **
W. W. DILLON & CO.
&04 3D AYJSm N. NASHVILLE, TENN.
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A SPACIOUS MODERN BUNGALOW
DESIGNED BY CHAS. S. SEDGWICK, ARCHITECT
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mANY bungalows are to be
built during the coming sea
son. and the desire for more
room and all the accommo
dations of a two story house are de
manded. The accompanying designs
affords a large living room, dining
room, kitchen and sun parlor and
one bed room on the main first floor
and on the second floor are two
chambers and a large sleeping
porch, together with spacious bath
room and convenient clothes closets.
The size is 34 ft. in breadth and 33
i ft. 6 in. in depth, exclusive of the
sun parlor, which gives the added
width of 10 ft. 6 in.
The main living room across the
front is 29 ft. x 13 ft. with a wide
projected Dutch window with seat
on the right end and one main cen
tral chimney with fireplace in the
center of the long side of living
room. In the hall space between the
living room and t-he kitchen is a
lavatory and a coat closet. The
main staircase is on the right end
extended up to second story with
basement stairs below and a grade
entrance. There is a pantry fitted
up between the kitchen and dining
room and a recessed sideboard. In
the rear is a screened and glazed
porch. There is a maid's room open*
ing from the kitchen.
The principal rooms and sun par
lor are to be finished in dark Flem
ish oak, with oak floor and all the
other Inside finish is of Washington
fir or birch and left natural and
varnished* The second story floor
is of birch. There is a full basement.
except under the sun parlor which
is not excavated. The construction
is frame with shingled exterior and
shingle roof stained in creosote. The
estimated cost is $7,000 to $8,500,
exclusive of heating and plumbing.
The two principal corners are bnilt
up with field bowlder stone and the
chimney top in same manner. The
rough and rugged appearance of this
treatment gives a very pleasing and
substantial appearance.
under construction in Birmingham, and i
others will be started within a short ]
I time. These with two or three large
! business structures, now assured, will
Here’s An Ideal Home On Cliff Road—
Quick Possession.
$13,000.00—Here’s your opportunity to buy one of the most
attractive homes in Birmingham; finished in every detail
just as the discriminating home owner would want. Beau
tiful living room, built-in book cases, large fireplace, din
ing room, combination breakfast room and sun parlor,
butler’s pantry and kitchen, with maple floor and ample’
cabinets; downstairs lavatory.
Four bedrooms, two tile baths, with best of plumbing:, furnace with hot
water coil, hardwood floors throughout; servant’s house; paved alley in
rear; beautiful, elevated lot, 80x236; price $13,000; quick possession. See
our Mr. Elbert Jemison.
JEMISON R. E. & I^S. CO.,
211 N. 20TH ST.
MAIN 5280
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Vol. 1. Sunday, May 25,1919. No. 9.
BUY A LOT AND
WE’LL HELP YOU
BUILD.
! Mountain Terrace offers ev:
j erything that makes for home
happiness.
It is our most picturesque
residential section. Removed
from the noise, dust and dirt
of the city. Located on a
group of high, winding ter
races, the homes in Mountain
Terrace possess a monetary
and happiness value that as
sure their desirability for all
time.
Choose your building site
now and we’ll build the home.
The ideal home that will make
HER happy. May we discuss
this with you ?
HOUSES FOR SALE
COUNTRY CLUB DISTRICT.
$7500.00—Modern bungalow in Coun
try Club district; eight rooms; large
lot on paved street; composition
roof; a beautiful home and a good
buy; possession October 1. See our
Mr. Elbert Jemison.
EAST OF 20TH STREET.
$7300 00—1% blocks south of High
land avenue; V2 block of Milner bus;
paved street, facing east; large lot;
three bedfooms, sleeping porch,
den, servant’s room: quick posses
sion. See our Mr. Elbert .Temison.
$8500.00—Home in good condition, east
of 20th st.; on South Highlands; IV2
blocks of Lakeview school and park;
on bus line; large lot; has four bed
rooms; possession 30 days; unen
cumbered. See our Mr. Elbert Jem
ison.
SOUTH HIGHLANDS.
$5250.00—Owner leaving city and will
ing to sacrifice this modern home,
nejir Glen Iris, on Tdlewild carline;
living room, large den, dining room,
butler's pantry, three bedrocwns and
enclosed sleeping porch; tile bath;
not water coil in furnace? lot 102
feet deep; fine garden; roses; fruit
trees; good cement basement. See
our Mr. Elbert Jemison.
NORWOOD BUNGALOWS.
$4250.00—You’ll fall in love with this
cosy little bungalcfw on sight; It has
8 j ro.oms- three bedrooms, living
and dining rooms and kitchen; a
bargain at $4250; terms $500 cash
and your rent money. Phone or see
our Mr. Johnson.
$4750.00—Bungalows at this price are
scarce, especially in Norwood; this
one has six rooms and sleeping
porch; modern in every* way; hard
wood floors and furnace heat; a
• home and well worth
bbo more than price asked. See
our Mr. Johnson.
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$;>500.00—In choice part of West End,
on St. Charles ave.; the house is
modern, 2-story, built for owner
who insisted on first-class arrange
ment as well as construction; this
ideal home can be bought for $5500
on easy terms. See our Mr. May.
Jemison R. E. & Ins. Co.
211 N. 20th St. “Real Estate Headquarters” M. 5280
make a good sohwing before the summer
ends, despite the present apparent inac
tivity.
HOMES FOR SALE
$10,750.00
A handsome South Highlands home on
large lot, 66x160 ft., one block of car
linc; has hardwood floors, furnace,
glassed-in sleeping porch, etc.: was
built for and has been used only as
a home, and is high-class; if interest
ed in an A-l home, see this; can give
(juick possession.
$3250.00
A real nice North Highlands cottage
home on extra large lot and in first
class condition; let us show you.
REAIPJ&INS G?.
Phone 356 — 2026*3*? Ave
A device for protecting people from
taking doses from poison bottles by mis
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label with usual skull and crossbones Is
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enough to go all around the bottle, so
that when anyone takes up the bottle in
the night, no matter how dazed from
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tains poison of some description. The
printed label tells the kind of poison in
the bottle.
The number of trunk telephone lines in
the United Kingdom has trebled in 10
years.
BUY NOW BEFORE
PRICES ADVANCE
These Lots Are Selling Fast
in Beautiful
GULFPORT
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Packing early tomatoes and cucumbers for northern market*
Our truck farmers have their own box, barrel and crate factory
and ice plant. They also have two truckers’ associations.
Everything is systematized and truck is sold for spot cash.
I have just returned from a week’s trip to Gulfport, made several 10
acre sales, and one 50-acre sale to parties who will put in a dairy. •
The truck farmers have made more money this year than ever before.
One man told me that he would make affidavit that he had sold from one
acre since January 1, 1019, 52000; another one bought a 20-acre partly
improved.place for $9500, moved an it January, this year; he has made
enough already to pay for the place and buy a Ford car. Still another
one who has been farming there for the past 8 years bought last week
The New Dixie Theatre in Gulfport, paying therefor $14,000 cash. He also
owns the biggest stock in the new truckers’ ice plant, crate and box fac
tory that is now being erected, and he has had no other source of income
except a small truck farm.
The Gulf Park college, a college for women and girls, has just secured
a beautiful site in the suburbs of Gulfport, and will begin active building
in the next 30 days.
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Mobile to New Orleans
interurban electrical railway last Monday $12,000.00 was appropriated for
the survey and the contract let to a New Orleans civil engineer. Survey
to be made at once.
It is reported that the Government will erect big dry dock,-? at Gulf
port. Our Congressmen and Senators have been working for this for a
long lime. /
If you will go and see Gulfport and surrounding territory, you are
certain to buy at least a 10-acre tract. You will see in the harbor ships
from all over the world taking on cargoes, backed by a splendid young
city of 12,000 people, which is flanked by good land on which you can
grow oranges, grape fruit, pecans, kumquats, peaches, pears, In fact, any
kind of semi-tropical fruits, and in addition to this you can truck farm
throughout the winter months. Then when you consider that it is a very
beautiful as well as one of the healthiest spots on the globe vou will
realize that close-in land is bound to advance rapidly.
This close-in land is moving fast, better act quickly. 10 acres now
selling for $1000.00 on 6 years’ time, no interest, no taxes, during period
of contract. Price makes a big advance soon.
Ask for booklet. Phone Main 4762.
B. C. COX
1018-19 Jefferson Co. Bank Bldg.,
Birmingham, Ala.
Will You
Profit?
The busiest spot in Dixie
is growing in industries,
growing by the hundreds in
new homes, growing by the
thousands in new residents.
Will you profit by the millions
that are being spent to make
TT’AIRFIELT'V '
I “A City in the Making" I 3
the greatest industrial center in the south?
A number of substantial business men of
Birmingham invested more than $25,000 in
Fairfield business lots this week.
These men invested their money with
the confident expectation of making
money. Three of them have let con
tracts for store buildings. Two of the
buildings have already been rented at
an annual rental that will net these
men a very large per cent on their in
vestment.
The time to act is NOW. Business lots are
being sold by this company at no advance,
in price over 1913. If you buy now YOU
make the profit. If you wait, you pay it to
the other fellow. May we. discuss this
with you ?
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Live Near
Your Work
Put into rest and recreation those
90 hours lost every 30 days in
getting to and from your work.
Busy Fairfield is the model in
dustrial city of America. Ideal
home sites, with all city improve-*
ments in and paid for, $750 up.
Hundreds of new homes are go
ing up now. Choose your lot to
day—only 10 per cent cash and
the rest in easy monthly payv*
ments. f