Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — AN IMPORTANT LAND SALE. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT LAND SALE.

The most important land sale of the season for the immediate vicinity of Rensselaer, was closed up Monday. Jasper Kenton sold his old home farm of 320 acres, a few miles northwest of town, to George H. Maines, of Rensselaer. The price was $26,000, or $Bl per acre. It is a fine farm and has >een owned by Mr. Kenton a great many years, and a part of it came direct from the government to the Kenton family. Possession will )e changed the Ist of March. It is Mr. Kenton’s intention to move o Seuth Dakota. It was praotioaly a cash sale, and the deal was negotiated by 0. J. Dean.