Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1905 — The Delinquent Tax Sale. [ARTICLE]

The Delinquent Tax Sale.

The annual public delinquent tax sale was held Monday and was not called off on account of weather. Lika all other public sales this year, it was well attended and the bidding was lively and the property sold readily. ‘Col.” Bruoe Porter was the auctioneer, and he performed the duty in a way that shows that thb other colonels around here will have a dangerous oompetetor in or.se he ever engages in the general auctioneering business,

Of the original some 212 delinquencies advertised, all but about 55 had been paid up before the hour of sale. Of the remaining number 52 were sold. Those not sold were a small irregular tract in the town of Wheatfield, advertised as the property of Luoy Taylor, and with $8.75 due on it. Another that no one wanted was the old laundry eite lot in Rensselaer belonging to F. C. Lagan, with $75.40 due on it. The other was the T. J, McCoy lots in Robinson’s addition, with $75.50 back on them. One of the mo3t important single sales made for the collection of $1217.23 on the 537 acres of A. McCoy and Mattie A. Rinehart land, in Hangirg Grove. E, L. Hollingsworth bid this in, paying the delinquency for 40 acres of the land.

But the most interesting sale, was the new K. of P. Castle Hall, in Rensselaer and onwhich $638.77 was due. Tnis entire property was bid in by The Dickinson Trust Co., which holds a large mortgage on the building. The blown-lip T. J. MoCoy residence property ou McCoy avenue was in the advertised list of delinquencies, but ihe $179.07 due on it was paid by Mrs. A- MoCoy before the day cf sale. The entire ea’e aggregated considerably over $3,000, but the exact amount has not yt t been footed up.