Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — Dr. Hansson Buys Augspurger Farm. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Hansson Buys Augspurger Farm.

A deal was closed up Monday ■by which Wm. Augspurger of i Newton tp., sold his 105 acre farm in that township to Dr. J. jH. Hansson, the veterinary surgeon, for $14,000, or almost $134 per acre. Mr. Augspurger takes ’ in on the deal a new 1912 Model T 40-horse-power Overland auto ! for which Dr. Hansson is the 10, , cal agent. ' Mr. Augspurger bought this, farm ten years ago for S7O per acre.. He wanted more land and I not being able to buy here at a ; price to suit him, went up to Mankato, Minn., last summer, where he bought a 280 acre, fineily improved farm, nine miles out from Mankato, a town of 15,000 population, paying $75 per acre therefor, and will move upon same the coming spring. It is rumored that Dr. Hans-sotr-has a purchaser for the farm, and did not buy it for his own use. r