Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1898 — Land Business Looking Up. [ARTICLE]

Land Business Looking Up.

It looks like the laud selling and buying business in Jasper county was beginning to recover from the re-action of the unreasonable boom of several years ago. Especially is this the case in the northern part of the county. For instance Geo. F. Meyers, the real-estate man of Kniman, reports five good sales of land he has recently negotiated in his immediate vicinity. And what is better the land is not being bought for speculative purpose or to increase the holdings of who already have large quantities of land, but the buyers are men who intend to move upon and cultivate the land themselves. One of the men who sold out is Fred Meiser, an excellent citizen of Walker, whom it will be a misfortune to have move away, if such is his intention. He has sold 320 acres to Frederick Fink and William Timpke, of Downer's Grove, 111. Another sale was that of our old friend John Wolf, who sold 80 acres to Charles Schwass, of River Yeiw, 111., and another is that of Lewis Marny, who sold an 80 to Wm. Schwass, also of River View. The fourth sale was Mathias Schillo to Mitchell Obermoyer, an 80 acre tract; and the fifth, also an 80, and belonging to W. B. Austin, of Rensselaer. The buyer ds Joseph Laux, of Chicago.