Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — JORDAN TP. FARM BRINGS $185 PER [ARTICLE]

JORDAN TP. FARM BRINGS $185 PER

Which Marks the Top Price to Date for Jasper County Land. FARM IS SOLO TO ILLINOISIAN Farm Is Well Improved But Not Exceptionally So—Mr. Bill Expects To Buy Again Near Rensselaer. John. Bill, {former trustee of Jordan township, has sold his SO acre farm in West Jordan to Edwin A. Ropp, of Normal, 111., who owns the 80 acres adjoining, for $lB5 per acre, which is the top price {for land anywhere in Jasper county with the possible exception of Carpenter tp. where possibly a little land may have sold at that high a figure. The Bill farm has good improvements, but not especially so, and there is better land in the township than thi®. Mr. Bill gives possession the coming spring, and Mr. Ropp advertises the two eighties for rent in this issue of The Democrat, the one occupied by Mr. Bill and the adjoining one occupied by Joab Branson. Any good parties wanting to rent a farm in this vicinity will do well to write Mr. Ropp. Mr. Bill still owns a 120 acre farm in Jordan now occupied by Jesse Dunn, near the Bullis school house. It is Mr. Bill’s intention to buy again, we undertsand, but to buy closer to Rensselaer.