Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Hadn't Taken the House. [ARTICLE]

Hadn't Taken the House.

Ghosts and weird apparitions which were said to appear in an empty house were not an inducement to possible tenants, so the agent had it elaborately done up and decorated and. by way of tempting bait, had some expensive gas fittings through the house. The next week he heard that some bold man had been after the house. His heart leapt with hope and expectation, and he rushed off in frantic excitement to the housekeeper of the haunted grange. “This is splendid!” he gasped. “Someone has taken the house, asnl he?” “I don’t knowj sir, I’m sure. Perhaps he’ll come back for the house, but he’s taken all the gas fittings*