Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — GOVERNMENT WILL SELL ENTIRE TOWN. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT WILL SELL ENTIRE TOWN.

Washington, Aug. 22.—After selling war stock ranging from handcuffs to airplanes, the war department now offers for sale an entire town, Nitro, West Virginia, site of the second largest smokeless powder plant in the world. Bids for the property will be opened September 30 in Philadelphia. The community covers 1,800 acres and is completely equipped with modern improvements. The industrial area is surrounded by 1,500 houses for workmen, 75 executive residences, hotels, 24-room school, stores, theatres, fire and police stations, 400 bed hospital, bank, telephone and telegraph building, recreation centers and other structures that make a modern town.