Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1904 — Gifford Sells Another Farm. [ARTICLE]
Gifford Sells Another Farm.
Benjamin J Gifford is still selling off the outlying portions of his landed possessions. The Utest of hissales, to appear upon the records, is the farm which corners on to the corporation of Rensselaer, at the northeast corner, and known to all older residents as the old Jaley Parkison farm It contains 149 acres, and has been sold to James M Halligan fur $10,270:" or $69 per acre. Mr Gifford bought the farm four or five years ago of John Nichols, for about SSO per acres.
