Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — TENANT IN ARIZONA WHEN BARN BURNS. [ARTICLE]

TENANT IN ARIZONA WHEN BARN BURNS.

Washington Cook and sons, Robert and John, were in Rensselaer today and the young men bought a tractor-of. Kellner. Callahan.—Wash Cook reports that his son, Samuel, jmd wife ..will return Tuesday from Messa, Ariz., where they had been called on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Samuel Cook’s father, Rolla Johns.’ The bArn on the place which is being farmed by Mr. Samuel Cook was burned last Saturday. It belonged to James Bowers, of Lafayette, and he had the -‘building insured for $1,500. This is much less than the value of the barn, possibly less than half. Mr. Cook and Bowers had in the barn when it burned ten tons of timothy hay, two hundred bushels of oats and several sets of work harness. It will not be known whether the contents of the barn were insured until Mr. Cook returns.