Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1913 — DELINQUENT TAX SALE HELD MONDAY [ARTICLE]

DELINQUENT TAX SALE HELD MONDAY

Match Factory Lots Sold to E. L. Hollingsworth, Taxes Amounting to $104.46,

The delinquent tax sale took place Monday at the court house. A table was moved to the large corridor on the main floor and County Auditor Hammond and County Treasurer Fell conducted the sale. Local bankers and loan agents surrounded the table and as the advertised lands were called out some one of the men would say, “I’ll take it,” or “Do you want it?” and the purchase would be made usually by the person holding a mortgage if there was one. The sale was the smallest in recent years, although there was more advertised than in recent years. Most of it had been paid, however, before the time for the sale. The match factory lots, on which there was a total tax and penalty of $104.45, was sold to E. L. Hollingsworth, president of the First National Bank. What this sale means, no one seems to know. It is hardly probable that the match factory promoters are going to sacrifice the land, which would be the only possible profit they could get from their exploitation. In addition to the match factory lot sale, three pieces of property in the town of Remington were sold, 3 in Gillam township, 1 In Kankakee, 13 in Keener, 1 in Jordan, 1 in Milroy, 1 in Marion, 2 in Renss* laer, 4 in Union, 4 in Walker, an I 5 in Wheatfleld township.