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20 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1924 NEWS OF INTREST IN REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING FIELDS REALTY BOARDS IN 'CLEAN-UP Their Efforts Apply to City "Back Yards" Real estate boards all over the country are enlisting actively in the campaign now being carried on by the National Association of Real Estate boards through its Industrial Property division to clean up the "back yards" of the cit- ies, the section of their industrial plants which make the principal part of 'the towns visible to the casual passer- through on the railroad right-of-way. With the clean-up campaign is coupled a movement to make it possible for tra- velers to identify by name the towns they are passing through. Attractive planting along the right-of-way is part of the clean-up and paint-up movement in some of the cities. Committees to undertake the align- ment of local industries with the rail- roads in making the view from the right- of-way something more than ash heaps and rubbish piles have been appointed by real estate boards belonging to the association in the following cities: New Orleans, Milwaukee, Duluth, Atlanta, Erie and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; South Bend, Dayton, Des Moines, Trenton, New Jersey; Providence, Rhode Island; Lockport, New York; Dade City, Flori- da; Warren, Ohio; Mishawaka, Indiana; Kankakee, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin; Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas City, Kansas; Ogden, Utah; Casper, Wyom- ing; Albany, Oregon; and Pasadena, Venice, and Riverside, California. Other real estate boards have held spe- cial meetings to outline what form their participation in the campaign should take. The American Railway Development association has passed a resolution pledg- ing its co-operation in the movement for spruce and business-like appearances in industrial areas. Individual railroads are co-operating through their development departments. Newspapers of .the various cities are helping in enlisting the public -in the putting of the city's best foot foremost. . Building Permit Market Shows a Decided Slump Building permits issued in the Vil- lage of Wilmette took a slump this week with garages monopolizing the list. Simon J. Morand was the only one to receive a permit for the con- struction of other than a garage. He will build a sleeping porch at 909 Ashland avenue for $900. The garage permits granted include those to Jennie R. Howell, 1710 Wal- nut avenue, $300; D. Kollme at 246 Maple avenue, $150; J. H. Keil, 911 Greenwood avenue, $1,500; Elsie R. Carlson, 1539 Spence avenue, $400; John P. Steffens, 1521 Wilmette ave- nue, $175; Philip Dittmar, Lake ave- nue $150; C. M. Clay, 1228 Forest avenue, $550. REALTY DIRECTORS MEET Directors of the National Association of Real Estate boards will meet at Col- umbus, Ohio, October 30 and 31. Of- ficers of the association and its advisory board of past presidents will meet with them. Read the Want-Ads Home Economics Exhibit Proves Popular Venture The Public Service company has or- ganized a Home Economics department. Its work is done by Mrs. va Hawkins Shanks, in co-operation with women's clubs, ladies' aid societies, civic and church organizations, through "cooking schools" of two or three days each. The largest and best hall in the com- munity is secured, and there the company installs the necessary equipment, that is, stoves, tables, ice box, etc. The smaller utensils and equipment Mrs. Shanks carries in a specially designed and constructed trunk packed like a min- iature pantry with the most modern and serviceable kitchen devices. The programs of the schools are ar- ranged so that on each day different groups and types of food are prepared, for example, one day will be 'salad day," another "cake day," etc., the entire program having been worked through after the installation of the equipment and before the opening of the school. Although the department has been in operation a comparatively short time, it already has appointments with women's clubs running into April, 1925. CONTEST FINDS HOME BEAUTIFUL Real Estate Boards Urged to Adopt Plan Which is the most beautiful home in your city? And what are the points, anyway, on which a handsome house ought to be scored in a prize competition, as judges score Herefords, and Wyan- dottes, and prize babies, and bathing beauties ? The Chattanooga, Tennessee, Real Es- tate board raises the question, with a contest it has inaugurated to determine the most beautiful home in Chattanooga. Other groups within the National As- sociation of Real Estate boards are tak- ing up the idea. In the Chattanooga contest ten en- trants will be chosen in the competition by popular ballot. From these a com- mittee composed of architects, garden club members and a real estate operator will select the winner. The winning house may be a queenly aristocrat of the boulevards or a bunga- low with roses climbing and twining about it, after the fashion of Pickfor- dian curls, it is announced. Personality will count. Method of laying out the grounds, unique arrangement of rooms, and general utility of the house will be considered in making the decision. Here is a possible score card for a Handsome Homes competition, as spon- sored by Herbert U. Nelson, executive secretary of the National Association of Real Estate boards: 1. Planting, landscaping, 10 points. 2. Exterior architecture of house, 20 points. 3. Exterior ensemble, proper placing of house in relation to grounds, and consistency of landscape plan with the general style of the house, 10 points. 4. Interior; skill and ingenuity shown in arrangement of rooms for comfort and convenience, 30 points. Interior decoration, 15 points. 6. Livable quality of the house, its homelike quality, 15 points. 2 Acre HEAVILY Lots WOODED A beautiful tract of forty acres of real virgin woods, well located, and adjoining one of the largest and most beautiful estates on the North Shore, which we have divided into twenty- eight very choice homesites of one, two and three acres each. Reasonably close transportation. to North Shore Electric and steam road Choice heavily wooded acre sites 150x300 feet as low as $750.00 each. The terms are very easy and attractive. Phone for plat and full particulars. HILL & WHEELER INC., 736 Elm Street Ph. Winnetka 142 334 Linden Avenue Ph. Wilmette 93 Talks to Local Realty Men on Loans Subject An instructional talk on real estate loans was given by Hiram S. Cody, treasurer of the National Association of Real Estate boards, to the members of the North Shore Real Estate Board of Suburban Chicago at the meeting and dinner held Monday night, Sep- tember 8, at the Lake Shore Terrace. He also spoke on the work carried on by the various committees appointed at the national convention held at Washington, D. C. In his talk on real estate loans, Mr. Cody gave full details on how the property should be described, the ap- praisal of the value of the property and the best scheme of setting down the value of surrounding property. A number of important transactions relating to the real estate board were made and committee reports and plans were made. The officers of the North Shore Real Estate Board of Suburban Chicago are W. G. Stacey, president; Paul Heinsen, vice president; Lloyd C. Ayres, secretary; C. T. Northrop, treasurer. 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