Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — BIG FARM AT PUBLIC AUCTION [ARTICLE]

BIG FARM AT PUBLIC AUCTION

A. C. Stauffenberg of Manhattan. Illinois, was here Tuesday and Wednesday looking after his real estate interests in Jasper county. Mr. Stauffenberg owns lands in three different states and has decided to consolidate iiis holdings. He therefore is offering his 303acre farm four miles southeast of Rensselaer for sale and will sell same at public auction next Saturday afternoon, June 23. An advertisement appears of same in another place in The Democrat Mr. Stauffenberg’s home farm in Illinois was just outside of the path of a recent cyclone which

passed through his . vicinity and* while he escaped with damage . Of only is2oo to S2OO, some of his heigfibors, a half mile tp a.milo north of him had their farm buildings entirely ’swept away and ’ the damage wrought runs up into a great many thousands of dollars. This storm “staffed over about Minooka. Illinois, and three people lost their lives therein.