Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1913 — Fifty-Cent Ad Sold Farm For $l50 Per Acre. [ARTICLE]

Fifty-Cent Ad Sold Farm For $l50 Per Acre.

A classified advertisement In The Republican, costing 50 cents, saved Mrs. M. W. Reed an agent’s commission on the sale of her farm, west of town. Desiring to sell the farm, the matter of placing it in an agent’s hands was discussed with her attorney and it was decided to first place an advertisement in The Republican. A small classified ad was used. It attracted the attention of Fred McColly, the carpenter, and he soon saw Mrs. Reed and the sale was consummated. The price was $l5O an acre. The farm consists of 43 acres and is splendidly improved. Mr. McColly will rent the farm and Mrs. Reed will move to property she owns in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wilcox, of Springfield, Ohio, who have been attending the auto show in Chicago, came yesterday for a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Frank Leek, and family. Louis is engaged in the monument business at Springfield and is making good in every way. He reports that his two brothers, Trevor and Jay, who with their father, G. M. Wilcox, moved to Eugene, Oregon, four years ago, re cently sold their shoe store there at a good figure and that Jay is in charge of the shoe department of n big department store at Eugene. Trevor has been at Marshfield, Oregon, and is preparing to locate there and will engage in the real estate business. George Is taking life easy and enjoying its