Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — [?]SPOSK OF ALABAMA LANDS [ARTICLE]

[?]SPOSK OF ALABAMA LANDS

M. I. Adams & Son Sell Plantation Near Demopolis. . Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Adams, accompanied by Auctioneer Fred Phillips, will leave today for Demopolis, Alabama, where Mr. Phillips will cry the auction sale Monday of Mr. Adams’ and son Ray’s personal property, they having sold their land purchased there a few years ago and are selling off their $6,000 to SB,OOO worth of personal property. Mr. Adams & Son owned 520 acres there, and the former is not quite clear at this writing whether Ray eold the entire tract or only 360 acres. The price received is $69 per acre, net, cash, or $34 per acre more than they paid for the land in the fall of 1912.. They had improved the land considerably, however. It is understood that Ray will remain there this year at least as foreman of a plantation, but what he will do later is not known at this writing. It is reported that Sam Sparling, also formerly of Rensselaer, who went to the same place at about the same time the Adams’ bought their land and paid about the same price, has had several chances to dispose of his plantation at about double the price he paid.