Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1915 — Classified Advertisement Sold B. Forsythe’s Farm. [ARTICLE]

Classified Advertisement Sold B. Forsythe’s Farm.

B. Forsythe was always an advertiser and he always got results. He has paid a good many hundreds of dollars to The Republican and he saw a great business grow and prosper through the liberal use of the columns of the newspaper. Since he retired from the mercantile business he has occasionally found it advisable to advertise and he has quite invariably got results. On Sept. 13th he called at The Republican office and placed a classified advertisement in the paper for the sale of a 90-acre farm. Today he closed a deal for the sale of 100 acres, not the exact land he had advertised but a part of the same farm and sold it to a -'man who had seen the advertisement in The Republican and called on him in response to its appeal. The buyer was Martin L. Ford, who has resided in Hanging Grove township for a number of years and who recently sold his farm there. The 100 acres Mr. Ford buys of Mr. Forsythe lies west of the road and is a part of the old Churchill farm. Mr. Forsythe paid S9O per acre for it. He sells it for S2OO an acre. He had spent considerable money in the improvement of the f§rm but he still has 110 acres and this will sell for enough to more than take care of all the improvements besides the original cost.

Mr. Ford has rented the 90 acres which Mr. Forsythe advertised and will ran it in connection with the land he bought. The other 20 acres of the farm is onion land and will be managed by Mr. Forsythe. The advertisement that resulted in the $20,000 deal cost Mr. Forsythe only $1.25. Had it been sold by an agent the commission would have been S4OO. It pays to advertise.