Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — Lake Cicott Farmers Sold 7,000 Bushels of Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Lake Cicott Farmers Sold 7,000 Bushels of Wheat.

Monticello Journal. Wils Searight and his son, Ralph, farmers in the Lake Cicott neighborhood, who owned the grain in partnership, yesterday sold to a Logansport elevator 7,000 bushels of wheat at $2.70 a bushel, receiving a check for nearly $20,000. Some of the wheat has been in bins for four years. The Searights have another farm near Waverly where they have stored about 2,000 additional bushels of wheat. It was perhaps the largest quantity held by a farmer in Indiana, if not in the middle west, alt the present time v