Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1917 — WILL LOCATE IN THE SOUTH [ARTICLE]

WILL LOCATE IN THE SOUTH

ELZEY COFFEY TRADES FOR PLANTATION OF 1377 ACRES NEAR GLOSTER, Elzey Coffey, who recently went to Mississippi to look at lands offered for trade by Harvey Davisson, has just closed a deal for the D. F. Dixon plantation of 1377 acres nepr Gloster, Miss.' This is one of the best plantations in that section of the south. It is all fenced and 700 acres are in cultivation. On the plantation is a large residence, 12 good tenant houses, barn, store house, carriage house,’s wells, 950,000 feet of saw timber and a big pecan orchard. Mr. Coffey will get onefourth of this year’s cotton and corn crop, which is estimated at several thousand dollars. Mr. Coffey has been living on a big farm a mile from Wheatfield and will move to the south this' fall. In the trade Mr. Coffey put in’ eight flats and one 12-room residence in Indianapolis, which bring in a rental income of $3,200 per year.