Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Real Estate Transfers [ARTICLE]

Real Estate Transfers

The number of business failures in the last week of October, in the first year of McKinley’s administration, was 218, while the average number of the last week of October during the four .years of Cleveland’s administration was 287.

According to figures taken from the official reports of the Cleveland administration, the farming element of the country lost by decreased consumption and decreased values during Cleveland’s last administration something like four , thousand million dollars. The free silverite theory of Mexican prosperity is for a Mexican to take -in- Mexican pesos, every one of which is as bard for him to get as is a gold dollar for his American neighbor, and purchase with them something which is worth §lO in American money.

Explanatory Note: til are warranty deeds when • theiwi-e specified. The date, given i: the different items, are the dates of the deed r euwelves, showing when execut’ ed. Tit■ " "iif” ‘se” "sw.” mean North west quat et, Northeast quarter, etc., and denote a .iinrt.t -ection, or 160 acres; “nk nw” would nn df of a quarter section, or 80 acres, "new" means the northeast quarter of the sou hwest quarter, or 4(1 acres The figures - ::ii 2!i 7, mean section 30, township 20. range 7 John I'. Warren, Cpm'r to James C. Passons Oct. 18, It 6 bl 16, Leopold's Add. mid pt sw 19-29-6, Renssci ier, S3OO. August i- D. Babcock to Wm. B. Austin: Nov. 3, pt sw 19-29-6, Rensselaer, $450. Moses B. Alter, executor, to Jas. I>. Babcock, Oct. 18, pt sw sw se 28-29-7. Marion, $4,450. Same to Same nw se 25-29-7, Marion $2,000. Same to Same nw se 25-29-7, Marion. $1,600. Same to Same, pt w side ne se 25-29 -7. ! . acres, Marion, $650. Geo. Ziegler to Dora Zard et al Oct, 29. nw, n| sw, pt, sw, 6-28-5, pt sw’, 31-29-5, 283 acres Hanging Grove, 3600. Eva Mo rgan to Pleasa Clift Nov. 6, pt nw 30-29-6, Rensselaer. $125. Austin M Lakin to John S Lakin. Sep. 11, e| ne, stv ne 3-30-7, Union, $1,900. James B. Graham to Elizabeth M. Greve et at, Nov. 4, Its 5,6, 7, 8, bl 6, Graham’s Add. Wheatfield, S2OO. Michael O. Halloran to Claude G. Garret Oct. 18, 680 acres in 431- 5-31-7. 32-32-7, 33-32-7, 3432- Keener, $27,200. Abbie J. Prewett to Jerry A. Clark. 5 ov. 6, n| n| sw 26-30-5 40 acres. Gillam, $2,000. Wm. M Prewitt to Jerry A. dark. N..v, 6, nw se 25-30-5, 40 l icrefe, Gillam, $1,500.