Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1919 — $833.33 AN ACRE PAID FOR NEWTON COUNTY LAND. [ARTICLE]

$833.33 AN ACRE PAID FOR NEWTON COUNTY LAND.

Kentland Enterprise— Charley White and Samuel G. Kindig met on the-street the other evening and after a few minutes dickering set a new price for Newton county land.'* Mr. White owned an eighteen acre farm adjoining Kentland on the north, and Mr. Kindig, disregarding the Biblical injunction, coveted his neighbor’s possession, arid in consequence laid down fifteen thousand good American dollars for Mr. White’s little farm. By simple division you will find this to be 833.33 an acre. The improvements cost Mr. White $4,200 ten years ago. Deducting these figures still leaves the land selling at S6OO an acre. Mr. Kindig Wanted the land to raise Big Type Poland China hogs ion, and he got what he wanted.