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M ORTGAGEbS F. H.AL 4%% F. H.AL HUNIRY lm. MNUZ MOVING STORACE UNI. 9300 Wi. 1332 Winn.t&. 1332 Glencoe 1332 Highland Park 181 REAL ESTATE LOANS I WifkouI Commission Wilmette Permits Cal For Five New Houses Five new residences are being bulIt i Wlrhitté according to p'er. mits issued in that village during the past week. F. E. Hummel is erecting ý-three homes on Lawndale avenue and Roth Brothers are building two resi- dences on Beechwood avenue. One of the Hummel houses is Io- cated at 115 Lawndale. It is two stories, of brick veneer construction, and comprises six rooms and an at- tached garage. The estimated cost is $9,000. Another is at 119 Lawnda le. It is also two stories and of brick veneer construction with six rooms and at- tached garage, costing .$10,000. The third is at 123 Lawndale, cost- ing $9,000. It is two s tories, of brick, veneer construction and will have six rooms and attached garage. The indicated houses are ail de- signed by William L, Vesely, and the T, E. Hummel company are. builders. The two houses being built for Roth Brothers are located at 2205 and 2209 fleechwood. avenue, Each is *Mr. Clakre is, credited with hold- ing the first class in real, estate selling in the United States- a course that was given under the auspices of the Chicago Real Esta te. buard and the Chicago Cullege of Com- Four 35 years he was pruminently identified in real estate circles in Chicago in the partnership o! Hippie & Clarke. Several years ago he serv- ed as a director in the National As-~ sociation o! Real Estate boards. Mr. Clarke lives in Wilmette and joied the Baird & Warner organization dur- ing the past year. .No place for the meeting has ye t been selected, but it is expected it will be held in Evanston. Aetive Spriug Market, Forecast by Lighthart Sales. closed by Smart & Gulee, mce. during Nuvember and Decem-i ber amuunted to $129,000 and result- ed in .bringing the dollar volume for 1939 above the 1938 figure, acecording to N. F. Lighthart, vice-president. "ýOrdiriarily the last two m.onths o! the year are the most unseasonal," said Mr. Lighthart, "so it offers en- couragement in believing the early spring market will hé stronger than While general real estate activity durmng 1939 sJhowed some improve- ment over the previous year and. yet lagged behind the pace set in, *other parts'o! the country, there was *no lack of interest in extending the activities *of t h e Evanston-North Shore, Real, Estate buard. Like m o s t trade. organizations, good business Istimulates the scope of its activities, but in, spite :of any sustained general real e state busi- ness, the Real Estate board enjoyed one of its better years. Boost Membership Mvembership was increased, cdu- cat ionsi programs were popular and meetings wvere well attended. While the fiscal year of the board now ends. in June instead of December and :committee reports will flot be m'adefor another six months, a gen- e ral review of board meetings dur- ing the year shows that the officers were alert toa al matters affecting the general welfare of the local real estate market. The present administration was in- stalled last December to serve ta June, 1940. Following the resigna- tion, because of poor health, of Her- bert C. Jenks in the spring, Roland H. Peterson, vice - president, wv a S made president, a n d Robert *L. Wyatt became Vice-president. RoId 'Record Session The high point ini board activity came ini October during the state- wide "Real Estate Week" observer. ance with a record-breaking attend- ance of 300 persons October 2 'at the ballroom of the North Shore hotel. This was under the joint aus-. pices of the board and the Evans-' ton Chamber of Commerce and was attended by m a y o r s- and vil- lage presidents of allthe North Shore., communities. Herbert U. Nelson, ex- ecutive vice-president of the Nation- al*.Association of 1Real*Estate boards, was the speaker. Of the regular 'meetings o! the buard,,une of the largest turnouts- more than 100 rfl rt1frsand A ideo,