The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on January 18, 1924:
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS SHOW BIG DECREASE
Only Two Hundred Eighty-Three Conveyances Filed During Year With Sixty-Nine for Luverne
Two hundred eighty three transfers of real estate were made in this county during the year 1923, according to the records of County Auditor Olaf Skyberg. This is similar to the records of a year ago, but shows an enormous decrease since the “flush” years when everybody was buying or trading land, and the real estate business was at its height.
Of the total number of transfers, a consideration is stipulated in only 126. While 28 are final decrees handed down by the probate court. The city of Luverne leads by far all the other civil divisions of the county, having 69 transfers, in thirty-five of which considerations are mentioned, and six of which are final decrees.
The transfers of the other villages and townships of the county are recorded as follows:
Battle Plain township, eight transfers, with six considerations and one final decree.
Beaver Creek township, seventeen transfers, four considerations, one final decree.
Beaver Creek village, twelve transfers, seven considerations, one final decree.
Clinton, fifteen transfers, eight considerations, and no final decree.
Denver, eighteen transfers, nine considerations, three final decrees.
Hardwick, five transfers, four of which had stipulated considerations.
Hills, nineteen transfers, with only seven considerations.
Jasper, ten transfers, having four considerations and one final decree.
Kanaranzi township, twenty-three transfers, thirteen considerations and a final decree.
Luverne township, seven transfers, with three considerations and one final decree.
Magnolia township, fifteen transfers, four stipulated considerations and two final decrees.
Village of Magnolia, seven transfers, with three considerations and one final decree.
Mound, ten transfers, three considerations, one final decree.
Rose Dell, eighteen transfers, five considerations, one decree.
Springwater, eleven transfers, four considerations and four final decrees.
Vienna township, eight transfers, with two considerations and two final decrees.
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