Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — $2,660 BUYS A KANSAS TOWN [ARTICLE]

$2,660 BUYS A KANSAS TOWN

Bhlpten Disposed Of at Auction and Sailor Gives Banquet Sallna, Kan., Oct 22.—Tha town of Shlpton has been sold at auction to Frederick Warnow, a farmer, for $2,660. Three others made bids, beginning with ,SI,OOO. The town site consists of thiry-two and five-sixths acres, with five buildings. After the sale W. S. Irwin, former owner of the town, gave a big dinner to the thousand people at the sale.