Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — Cheap Forming Lands South. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Forming Lands South.

It is a recognized fact that the cheapest farming lands in America to-day are in the South, and men of much or moderate means, looking for real estate investments, or permanent homos, should not fail to visit the following points, where so mmv Northern people are now settling, viz: Jackson, Tennessee; Aberdeen and Jackson, Mississippi; Hammond, Crowley, Jennings, Welsh and Lake Charles, Louisiana. Bound Trip Tourist tickets, limited to June Ist, 1888, with stop-over privileges south of Cairo, Illinois, are on sale to New Orleans, Jennings and Lake Charles. For rates apply to nearest ticket agent, and be sure your tickets read via the Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago or St. Louis. For pamphlet entitled “Southern Home Seeker’s Guide,” and circulars concerning the above named points, address the undersigned, at Manchester, lowa. J. F. Merry, Gen. West. Pass. Agt.