Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1919 — JAMES BRITT BUYS 200 ACRE MICHIGAN FARM. [ARTICLE]

JAMES BRITT BUYS 200 ACRE MICHIGAN FARM.

With Charles C. Warner, of this city acting as agent, James Britt, Sr., of Barkley township, on Saturday purchased, a 200-acre Michigan farm, paying $20,000 for the same, or SIOO. per acre. The farm is well improved with a modern eleven-ro&m house on it and lies within three miles of Niles, Mich., a city of 8,000 inhabitants. Mrz Britt will occupy the farm after March \l. During the past several months several citizens of this community have made land purchases in the vicinity of Niles, and by spring there will be quite a colony of them located in that community.