WAUPACA COUNTY POST

October 13, 1921

 

METHODIST CHURCH SOCIETY BUYS MANCHESTER PROPERTY

ON MAIN AND BADGER STREETS

Special Meeting of Society Held Tuesday to Complete Negotiations.

Sale of the Residence on Berlin Street to S.E. Sanders is Also Effected.  Barn is Offered for Sale.

 

            The members of First Methodist Church society of this city were fortunate in concluding negotiations Tuesday evening for the purchase of the Manchester property joining the church property and facing on Main ad Badger streets.  Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Lowell were in the city Tuesday to secure this desirable corner.

            Standard Oil Company was one of the prospective customers for this property with a view to erecting a filling station on the corner looking north on Main Street.  While the price asked was $8,000 and there was some reason to believe that this price might be obtained from the Standard Oil Company, the heirs consented to make a price of $7,500 to the church society that had been neighbors of the Manchester family for more than half a century.

            The sale of the church property on corner of Lake and Berlin streets to S.E. Sanders made it possible for the society to see a way to secure this desirable property and prevent the location of an oil station on an adjacent lot to the church property.

            The society will dispose of the barn and will install a furnace in the Manchester residence.  The society will now be ready to sell the church lot between the church and the public library.  The difference in consideration between the two properties was approximately $3,000 which will be cheerfully assumed by the society.