Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — FARM BARGAINS. [ARTICLE]

FARM BARGAINS.

60 acres—-Near station and school, at heart of dredge aitcn, all level,: productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are'a good two-story fourroom house, good small barn and good well. Price $45. Terms, S7OO down. 80 acres—All black land in cultivation, near school and churches, touches large ditch, a fine outlet tor drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements are a good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only $45. Terms, SI,OOO down. 21 acres-—Four blocks from the court house. 165 acres —Highly Improved, half mile of the corporation of this city. Will sell ih small tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices. 599, acre ranch—-Good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy payments. . .. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade ror land or property. Will put in cash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

ST. LCD IS, MO.—The reports that’ Colonel Rocsevelt had intimated that he would ' olt from his party in case he fails of nomination brought forth a vigorous denial from the colonel. “Any statement like that Is untrue,” he said. “Any time F have anything to say on that subject, I will say it myself, and anything purporting to come from me, unless I say it myself, is a fake.” . KEOKUK, lOWA—The small town of Gregory, Mo., about twelve miles south of Keokuk, is reported to Jiave been inundated by the Mississippi river, which rose out of its banks between Alexander and Gregory. According to reports which reached here, four houses are floating down the river and during the night people were Heeling the town. WASHINGTON—FoIIowing a meeting of the entire cabinet, an ultimatum has been served on President Madero of Mexico commanding that he give adequate protection to the railway line between Vera Cruz and Mexico City so that arms and ammunition can 1 be delivered to American citizens in the capital. LONDON, ENG.—The first woman to cross the channel from England to France as a passenger in an aeroplane made the trip with Gustave Hamel, the aviator, who left Hendon at 9:38, passed over Dover at an altitude of 2,000 feet at 10:50 and landed at Saint Inglevert, to the southeast of Cape Grisnez, at npon without incident.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—With the Mississippi river here marking twentynine feet and rising rapidly, it was expected that the danger mark, thirty feet, would be reached during the day. Reports, of broken levees are being received from the flooded territory in the vicinity of the conjunction of the Ohio and Mississippi. . • ANDERSON, IND. William W. Brunner, forty-three years old, of Alexandria, has been taken to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City to serve a term of two to fourteen years for attempted murder. Brunner pleaded guilty to having shot at Charles H. Anders, fiance of Mrs. Bertha Parks, a sister to Brunner.. WASHINGTON—The U. S. senate became a body of ninety-six members. New Mexico and Arizona contributing the four additional senators, Thoipas B. Catron and Albert B. Fall of New. Mexico, Republicans, and M. A. Smith I and H. F. Ashuft of Arizona, Demo-! crats, were the new members to take the oath.

, CHICAGO About fourteen thousand carpenters were ordered to go on strike on Monday morning. They bundled tip their tools and took them home in obedience to the instructions of the union officials. Building operations in Chicago are expected to ne tied up.