Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — A. F. LONG DRAWS HOUSE AND LOT. [ARTICLE]

A. F. LONG DRAWS HOUSE AND LOT.

The Commercial Club lot drawing was held in the west court room Thursday evening and A. F. Long, on the 107th draw, pulled down the prize of lot 2, in block 19, on which a good house worth S7OO to SBOO is located.

There were 151 lots disposed of at this drawing. C. G. Spitler was elected chairman for the evening and C. CL Warner secretary. Chairman Spitler appointed S. E. Sparling, Prof. I. N. Warren and M. Leopold as a committee to decide on the manner of conducting the drawing and to verify the secretary’s list of eligible names. The Louisana lottery method, which B- F. Fendig plead guilty to having seen, was adopted, and J. P. Hammond, C. A. Tuteur, A. Halleck and Perry Gwin were appointed to conduct the drawing. The names were placed in one box and the lot numbers in another, and as the names were drawn from one box a lot was awarded them from the other.

A large number of ladies were present and vigorously applauded the speeches made before and after the meeting.