Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — Sam McGinnis Purchased The Andy Granger Stock. [ARTICLE]

Sam McGinnis Purchased The Andy Granger Stock.

Mayor Spitler and Sheriff McColly went to DeMotte this Saturday morning and the sheriff sold at public auction the stock of goods which Andy Granger had sold some time ago to Grossman & Reprpgle. After the sale by Granger creditors compelled a foreclosure. The aggregate indebtedness was more than SI,OOO. The stock was invoiced at about S9OO. The law requires that it bring at least twothirds of the assessed valuation. There were two bidders, both DeMotte merchants, namely John DeKock and Sam McGinnis. The latter was the buyer, his bed being about S3O above the two-thirds-of the invoice.