Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. William Lee died yesterday of quick consumption at about 9 o’clock at her hfofne in the east part of the city. She leaves a husband and three small children to mourn her loss. At this writing funeral arrangements had not been made. C. P. Wright was over to Wadena Tuesday where he closed up a real estate deal by w hich George Mitten, the w'ell known Wadena merchant, trades his store, business and all other real estate owned in, Wadena for a finely improved farm of 220 acres near Garden City. Kan., upon which he expects to move. Mr. Mitten also gets $2,000 in cash. The big fertilizer works two miles southwest of Knox was destroyed by fire last week entailing a loss of $30,000, with insurance. The plant had recently been overhauled and new machinery added. In another week two shifts of men, thirty each, would have been working. The plant will probably be rebuilt. It was ow'ned by Peoria, 111., people.