1.4 , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948. ·· · :i ': t' . I IlmmlFP,TFrPr.4117e-714 - 09' Padres Pum For Rentlt kround the Town .M,5..911-41 , r ' ,. _ 1.4 1- - -11. M By Pacific ( With Eagle Eye t, JT- * 'i _YC In Opener 31 One House . m 41.! F'J'I; 7 Nine Dolla While clearing out the basement of his Eighth street home recently Jim Southwell, circulation manager of the TRIBUNE ran across some interesting old letters. The letters were written in 1905 by the late W.' B. Filcher, real es- tate and insurance agent of Pa- cific Grove. Addressed to a Mr. Thomas Leak of Dunsmuir, the let- ters dealt with certain rel prop- erty owned by Leak and handled by Filcher. The contrast in the rentals of that day and the present, judging by the information contained in the letters is fntastic. Mr. Leak wrote Mr. Filcher com- plaining that his two bedroom par- tially furnished house was only bringing $9.00 a month rental. 'Filcher replied in effect that with the exception of one month during the summer, there were "lots of places" to rent, and that he, Filcher, felt the highest rent Leak could expect was $9.00. "I have one house," wrote Fil- cher "not very thoroughly furnish- ed on the opposite side of the street from you ... the rent is $10 a month and it is idle far more than yours. It rented for $25.00 one month during the summer, but it has been idle ever since. I think when you look the matter over care- fully you will see that it costs mon- ey to make money. "If you sRend $100 to $200 to furnish the house properly you will attract a better type of renter, the type that will not move too often, break up your furniture and steal the linen." Filcher went on to say that a re- taining wall had been put up in front of the lot, the costs of the steps and wall amounting to $8.50, a sum that today might cover the cost of one step. Mr. Filcher, who was in the reaI estate business in Pacific Grove more than 20 years, moved to this community · from Marysville in 1903. With him came his wife, who took over the insurance agency fol- lowing her husband's death in January of 1921. Incidentally Mrs. Filcher is still engaged in that business at her home on 221-17th street. According to Mrs. Filcher, in those days her husband built a six room house for $3,000. "The rooms were all large ones" says Mrs. Filcher "and the ma- terial used, redwood of the finest quality. · In addition, the greatest care was taken to insure solid, ex- cellent construction. Imagine building such a home to- day for $3,000, burt Mrs. Filcher as- sures us that the price was con- sidered quite'"high" at the time! L.-1.:42-.1.1- According to Hall Davis, manager of the. Pacific Grove Bank of Am- erica, thecks·totalling $15,000 were mailed to certain lucky Grove resi- dents ·this month. The· recipients of the checks stated'Hal, are all members of the Bank 6£ America's Christmas club. "A very sound idea," says Hal "and one that pays dividends when it comes to making essential Christ· mas sQasoh purchases or meeting year-end financial Obligations." He hdded that bnrollments for the 1949 Christmas club are now being accepted. We mdt''Mr-i- Emma Gill of 503 Lighthous{F ' a*entid ' for the first time ttie other day, When she came into the' office to buy an extra TRIB. When i we said her face looked familiar, she said that after all, she had been around the Grove for quite some time, having moved to this community in 1906. In this thanging world to find someone who has lived in the same community 42 years gives one a feeling somehow of stability and knowledge) that people still exist who put down deep tap-roots. Christmas in Pacific Grove is a new experience . th·is year for about one-fifth or one-sixth of the city's population ndw estimated to be 11,000,·persons. Who are these people? Where were they on other Christmas Eves? Frankly,!. many of ' them are vet- erans. They· spent Christmas Eves in such placeS :las "the Bulge" in France;· in the Appenines of Italy -the lonely· beach strands of the South·Pacific.,; Others,are people who have moved here and gone into busi- ness. A few Of the recent arrivals are retired folks. Eagle Eye is glad to welcome the newcomers to this splendid community. Yet, as the bells toll on Christ- mas Day, the world is girding for another .war,- another gigantic blood, bath .that will snuff out the lives of, thousands-if not mil- lions.. ··4 Morel deadly weapons are being forged in many places. The Red "plott61>5" are schanting and pre- paring to divide the "swag" of the peace tables that they hope to pre- side over after the World War III. It is tragic, yet ' pathetic that Christmas' this year does not bring peace.· Members of the Rotary Club had to pay fines this week because a few of them had their pictures in this newspaper. Gladly, they "dug up." The money went for a good causen-the Boy Scouts. Those who paid were Kenny Zug and Roy M. Wright. "Too Big for Rec' Club-Too Yo'ung for the Card Room"-That was the .sentiment expressed by several P. G. teen-agers who voiced their cdmplaints to one of the local nailic'h.4,(An= 6,; „ 1 T. 1 lit ¥2911.*4 i' ,1 -*2:' 1- Il 44 : I 12 ,-,2'40 i i .--=43 k j 1-i 14, 1 '24&- b 4 1 -1* 1, 6111 1 .( .4/- 11. 7 1 1 -16% #+ *4 ',4 ' i '34 40 2 2 t-4 14)15 +- - - -' 41 k ill. klo ''IT -·it"d 1. 1.= -¥1 .1. - .r- L--- -Ii.-Il FARM QUEEN ... Patsy Miller, 17, Osceola, Ia., won the National Farm and Garden beauty contest in Chicago this year. She is a junior in Osceola high school, knows how to handle a tractor or milk a cow, sew and cook. not do these things. The commu- nity„ too, should not suffer a black name because of piracy by a small few. Possibly the Better Business Bureau could take time off to fer- ret out and bring to the bar of jus· tice some of the offenders. Delay Will only harm the innocent con· cerns, E. F. Shifley, kindly S. P. agent, ist·one of the town's early risers. He? says that rail traffic is on the increase but the planes are still.get- ting business. We hope that the magnificent S. ]P. will somebody build Pacific Grove a fine new station as they are doing at Watsonville. The morning whistle is music to th'e ears of many of the pioneers. While "Diamond Dick" and "Dead-Eye Joe" were the "dread- ful" literature of three decades ago, the "Comic Books" and Fa- mous Women Criminals" are the regular literary fare for many of the young folks today. Some people, not so juvenile, can also be seen reading the horror- literature that extols human cruelty and torture! Meanwhile, the family bible goes untouched, just gathering dust on a dark shelf! Hal Sherman, popular among the local building group, has moved into his new home on Sixth avenue. Hal built mud'h of the place him- self and, as he peers out the plate glass front window, can think of his Alaska days when he helped to build barracks as a soldier-carpon- ter in the frozen north at 30 below! Indicating the "good treatment" In the final analysit cific Grove by a hear the "Breakers" from P were on the average, taller than the Padres was only kept down fensive play on the Carmel team and if tl a hot streak the score been very close indee To give the "Break credit-they richly d, win and should go ah the conference title. good team spirit and brilliant forwards; esI de Lorimier who was man for the evening 01 court with 17 digits w equalled the scoring o Carmel squad. There's no use ig Sieve either while w about P. G. His exti was always a towering the Padres in the cl work around the baske On the Carmel side er it was mostly the fin team play that kept down. Dick Gargiulo b cold. After sinking fou foul shots in the early game he wound up r of eleven points for which was high for Half a dozen times hi shots only to miss th, matter of inches. His bad or he would have another half dozen pc In the opening phaE Pacific Grove as thes baskets in quick sue Hare got in a beauti and Gargiulo came a pair of foul shots "Breakers" drove ah pair of neat under the ins. At the end of the f score stood 22 to 15 the visitors and the putting up such a spir that it looked as thoug draw even. During the half til sion the Carmel roo tried out a card systet n't quite live zip to but with a little m they'll have it down add color and spirit t Jack Belangee, footba in a half time appear female attire much to of the crowd and pl buss on the referee's 6 so upset his equilibri a few seconds it look, we'd have to have a in that department.' J: is going through some as a part of his hazing taken into a campus a good gag and got almost hysterical. With the beginning ond half, although C. varied his combinatior ened up his dafense there was no stopping --- , OCR Text: 1.4 , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948. ·· · :i ': t' . I IlmmlFP,TFrPr.4117e-714 - 09' Padres Pum For Rentlt kround the Town .M,5..911-41 , r ' ,. _ 1.4 1- - -11. M By Pacific ( With Eagle Eye t, JT- * 'i _YC In Opener 31 One House . m 41.! F'J'I; 7 Nine Dolla While clearing out the basement of his Eighth street home recently Jim Southwell, circulation manager of the TRIBUNE ran across some interesting old letters. The letters were written in 1905 by the late W.' B. Filcher, real es- tate and insurance agent of Pa- cific Grove. Addressed to a Mr. Thomas Leak of Dunsmuir, the let- ters dealt with certain rel prop- erty owned by Leak and handled by Filcher. The contrast in the rentals of that day and the present, judging by the information contained in the letters is fntastic. Mr. Leak wrote Mr. Filcher com- plaining that his two bedroom par- tially furnished house was only bringing $9.00 a month rental. 'Filcher replied in effect that with the exception of one month during the summer, there were "lots of places" to rent, and that he, Filcher, felt the highest rent Leak could expect was $9.00. "I have one house," wrote Fil- cher "not very thoroughly furnish- ed on the opposite side of the street from you ... the rent is $10 a month and it is idle far more than yours. It rented for $25.00 one month during the summer, but it has been idle ever since. I think when you look the matter over care- fully you will see that it costs mon- ey to make money. "If you sRend $100 to $200 to furnish the house properly you will attract a better type of renter, the type that will not move too often, break up your furniture and steal the linen." Filcher went on to say that a re- taining wall had been put up in front of the lot, the costs of the steps and wall amounting to $8.50, a sum that today might cover the cost of one step. Mr. Filcher, who was in the reaI estate business in Pacific Grove more than 20 years, moved to this community · from Marysville in 1903. With him came his wife, who took over the insurance agency fol- lowing her husband's death in January of 1921. Incidentally Mrs. Filcher is still engaged in that business at her home on 221-17th street. According to Mrs. Filcher, in those days her husband built a six room house for $3,000. "The rooms were all large ones" says Mrs. Filcher "and the ma- terial used, redwood of the finest quality. · In addition, the greatest care was taken to insure solid, ex- cellent construction. Imagine building such a home to- day for $3,000, burt Mrs. Filcher as- sures us that the price was con- sidered quite'"high" at the time! L.-1.:42-.1.1- According to Hall Davis, manager of the. Pacific Grove Bank of Am- erica, thecks·totalling $15,000 were mailed to certain lucky Grove resi- dents ·this month. The· recipients of the checks stated'Hal, are all members of the Bank 6£ America's Christmas club. "A very sound idea," says Hal "and one that pays dividends when it comes to making essential Christ· mas sQasoh purchases or meeting year-end financial Obligations." He hdded that bnrollments for the 1949 Christmas club are now being accepted. We mdt''Mr-i- Emma Gill of 503 Lighthous{F ' a*entid ' for the first time ttie other day, When she came into the' office to buy an extra TRIB. When i we said her face looked familiar, she said that after all, she had been around the Grove for quite some time, having moved to this community in 1906. In this thanging world to find someone who has lived in the same community 42 years gives one a feeling somehow of stability and knowledge) that people still exist who put down deep tap-roots. Christmas in Pacific Grove is a new experience . th·is year for about one-fifth or one-sixth of the city's population ndw estimated to be 11,000,·persons. Who are these people? Where were they on other Christmas Eves? Frankly,!. many of ' them are vet- erans. They· spent Christmas Eves in such placeS :las "the Bulge" in France;· in the Appenines of Italy -the lonely· beach strands of the South·Pacific.,; Others,are people who have moved here and gone into busi- ness. A few Of the recent arrivals are retired folks. Eagle Eye is glad to welcome the newcomers to this splendid community. Yet, as the bells toll on Christ- mas Day, the world is girding for another .war,- another gigantic blood, bath .that will snuff out the lives of, thousands-if not mil- lions.. ··4 Morel deadly weapons are being forged in many places. The Red "plott61>5" are schanting and pre- paring to divide the "swag" of the peace tables that they hope to pre- side over after the World War III. It is tragic, yet ' pathetic that Christmas' this year does not bring peace.· Members of the Rotary Club had to pay fines this week because a few of them had their pictures in this newspaper. Gladly, they "dug up." The money went for a good causen-the Boy Scouts. Those who paid were Kenny Zug and Roy M. Wright. "Too Big for Rec' Club-Too Yo'ung for the Card Room"-That was the .sentiment expressed by several P. G. teen-agers who voiced their cdmplaints to one of the local nailic'h.4,(An= 6,; „ 1 T. 1 lit ¥2911.*4 i' ,1 -*2:' 1- Il 44 : I 12 ,-,2'40 i i .--=43 k j 1-i 14, 1 '24&- b 4 1 -1* 1, 6111 1 .( .4/- 11. 7 1 1 -16% # *4 ',4 ' i '34 40 2 2 t-4 14)15 - - - -' 41 k ill. klo ''IT -·it"d 1. 1.= -¥1 .1. - .r- L--- -Ii.-Il FARM QUEEN ... Patsy Miller, 17, Osceola, Ia., won the National Farm and Garden beauty contest in Chicago this year. She is a junior in Osceola high school, knows how to handle a tractor or milk a cow, sew and cook. not do these things. The commu- nity„ too, should not suffer a black name because of piracy by a small few. Possibly the Better Business Bureau could take time off to fer- ret out and bring to the bar of jus· tice some of the offenders. Delay Will only harm the innocent con· cerns, E. F. Shifley, kindly S. P. agent, ist·one of the town's early risers. He? says that rail traffic is on the increase but the planes are still.get- ting business. We hope that the magnificent S. ]P. will somebody build Pacific Grove a fine new station as they are doing at Watsonville. The morning whistle is music to th'e ears of many of the pioneers. While "Diamond Dick" and "Dead-Eye Joe" were the "dread- ful" literature of three decades ago, the "Comic Books" and Fa- mous Women Criminals" are the regular literary fare for many of the young folks today. Some people, not so juvenile, can also be seen reading the horror- literature that extols human cruelty and torture! Meanwhile, the family bible goes untouched, just gathering dust on a dark shelf! Hal Sherman, popular among the local building group, has moved into his new home on Sixth avenue. Hal built mud'h of the place him- self and, as he peers out the plate glass front window, can think of his Alaska days when he helped to build barracks as a soldier-carpon- ter in the frozen north at 30 below! Indicating the "good treatment" In the final analysit cific Grove by a hear the "Breakers" from P were on the average, taller than the Padres was only kept down fensive play on the Carmel team and if tl a hot streak the score been very close indee To give the "Break credit-they richly d, win and should go ah the conference title. good team spirit and brilliant forwards; esI de Lorimier who was man for the evening 01 court with 17 digits w equalled the scoring o Carmel squad. There's no use ig Sieve either while w about P. G. His exti was always a towering the Padres in the cl work around the baske On the Carmel side er it was mostly the fin team play that kept down. Dick Gargiulo b cold. After sinking fou foul shots in the early game he wound up r of eleven points for which was high for Half a dozen times hi shots only to miss th, matter of inches. His bad or he would have another half dozen pc In the opening phaE Pacific Grove as thes baskets in quick sue Hare got in a beauti and Gargiulo came a pair of foul shots "Breakers" drove ah pair of neat under the ins. At the end of the f score stood 22 to 15 the visitors and the putting up such a spir that it looked as thoug draw even. During the half til sion the Carmel roo tried out a card systet n't quite live zip to but with a little m they'll have it down add color and spirit t Jack Belangee, footba in a half time appear female attire much to of the crowd and pl buss on the referee's 6 so upset his equilibri a few seconds it look, we'd have to have a in that department.' J: is going through some as a part of his hazing taken into a campus a good gag and got almost hysterical. With the beginning ond half, although C. varied his combinatior ened up his dafense there was no stopping --- , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,E through F File names,Filcher,FILCHER_009.pdf,FILCHER_009.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: FILCHER_009.PDF, FILCHER_009.pdf 1 Page 1