Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE [ARTICLE]

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Will N. Nelson et ux to Daniel W. Myers, March 21, w % nw 31-32-5, Walker, $7,347. Wm. Richling et ux to Peter W, Richling et ux, March 29, pt nw sw 29-29-6, Marion, 6 acres, $1,500. Wm. J. Helmick et al to Tymou M. Mitchell et ux. Match 29, Its 2, 3, bl 1, and a strip 15 feet by 98

feet long, Wheatfield, Bentley’s add., S3OO. Wm. G. Halbert et ux to Geo. H. Hall, October 8, 1917, pt ne 25-32-0, Wheatfield, SSOO. Wm. J. Swart et ux to Harman Osting, March 9, Its 12, 13, bl 2, Demotte, A. L. McDonald’s add., S6OO. Years ago a man introduced to the world a thin copper strip for protecting shoe tips and received $4,000,000 in royalties. The number of Filipinos emigrating to Hawaii since 1909, when the movement started, has reached a total of 23,625. On a trolley car running from Brooklyn bridge to Coney Island. George Roth is imotorman and his daughter Grace is conductorette. The state of New York has 394,023 motor vehicles. They pay an annual fee of more than $2,215,000 and give employment to 106,000 chauff eu rs. - — —■ —: —— The highest railroad in the world is the Central, of Peru, whose rails reach an altitude of 15,865 feet, and which has its highest station at 15,665 feet. The new railroad mileage built during the year was 962, which is less than in any year since the civil war, except 1915, when 933 miles were constructed.