Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1910 — Forty Thousand Dollars Cash Paid for the Ranton Farm. [ARTICLE]

Forty Thousand Dollars Cash Paid for the Ranton Farm.

One of the biggest cash real estate deals ever made in Jasper county was that pulled off Monday by C. J. Dean, and by which Ed Ranton, Sr., of Hoopeston, 111., sold to Joseph Nofzinger, of Tazewell county, 111., the 380 acre farm known as the Peter Wasson farm and which has been occupied for several years by Ed Ranton, Jr. The price was $lO6 per . acre, making $39,900. Mr. Nofzinger will not occupy the farm himself, but will rent it.