Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SALESn ARE ABOUT OVER. Last Two Months Pretty Well Taken Up By Public Sales Here. Next week will practically wind up the public sale season in this vicinity for this year. While there were not as many sales early in the season as usual, January and February was pretty well taken up, there being* a sale for almost every week dy, and the total , number is about the same as last year. Property has generally sold well, and the total proceeds of each sale has in most instances been considerably greater thjan the owners expected. While it may look to people of other localities, who have seen the many sale notices in the newspapers here, as if everybody was leaving Jasper county, others are coming in to take their places from different parts of the country, many young men have got married and will go to farming for themselves, and there will be no very good farms hunting renters. Hundreds of farmers have left this county during the past ten years, seeking cheaper lands in the west and, we are glad to note, that without a single exception, so far as we have learned, all are doing well in their new homes. But for all this there is no reduction in farm rentals as a result, and real estate* values are constantly advancing here. Jasper county is still on the map, and will be heard from right along, and she will continue, no doubt, to furnish brawn and muscle to help develop the virgin soil of the great west in years tb come as she 'has in the past, herself growing in wealth and population meanwhile. Try a pair of the Gold Cross Rubber Boots. Every P*** Ruaianteed. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.