Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1919 — BENTON FARM AT RECORD PRICE [ARTICLE]

BENTON FARM AT RECORD PRICE

1,200 ACRE FARM SELLS FOR $480,000, OR S4OO PER ACRE. A Fowler, Ind., Sept. 12.—Probably the largest transaction -in- real estate ever made in this section of the country was consummated when Mrs. W. C. Ditton sold twelve hundred acres of Benton county land to parties from northern lowa for S4OO an acre, or $480,000. lit will be remembered that when Ed C. Sumner died some years ago he left thirty thousand acres of land to his wife and four children. After the widow’s death the property went in fee simple to the heirs. Mrs. Ditton, one of the granddaughters, daughter of Mrs. Jane Hawkins, has now disposed of her holdings. There may have been instances where smaller tracts of land have been sold for more than s4ofi an acre, but never before nas so large a body of land been sold for such a price as this in this section of the country. The tenants on the land have already been in Hoopeston looking at other farms to lease,, and it is presumed that the new owners expect to run the farms themselves.