Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1919 — ROWLES & PARKER SELL FARM. [ARTICLE]

ROWLES & PARKER SELL FARM.

Rowles & Parker, proprietors of the corner department store in this city, have sold their quarter section farm just east of this city to Frank Fenwick, of Jordan township. The price at which this farm sold is the same as that received hy Mr. Fenwick for his one hundred and sixty acre farm upon which he lives, two hundred and thirty-five dollars per acre. Rowles & Parker have owned the farm east of the city for about five years. They paid one hundred and fifty dollars for it. They have improved the land very much by draining and have erected new and substantial improvements. They have paid for these improvements from the rents and profits from the farm and the margin between the buying and (selling price represents their net profit,