Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Otterbein Grain Elevator Sold to Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Otterbein Grain Elevator Sold to Farmers.

Contracts and papers have been drawn up between W. W. Evans &

Son and the Farmers’ Grain company, both of Otterbein, transferring the grain and coal business of the former to the latter. The sale price , was not made public. The Farmers' Grain company had made plans and purchased the White property with the intention of erecting a new warehouse, but bought the Evans house in preference. W. W. Evans & Son purchased the business in the fall of 1910 from the Htirrington Grain company, who ha,d succeeded the firm of Duffy & Harrington. Lee Evans is the manager of the Evans & Son company. The Farmers’ Grain company will take possession of the business May 1. The company is composed of a hundred or more farmers and the officers in active charge are John Fowler, president; J. D. Maddox, secretary; J. W. Moore, treasurer. —Oxford Gazette.