Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Lively Bidding on McCoy Land. [ARTICLE]

Lively Bidding on McCoy Land.

Bidding has been lively on the McCoy Jordan land lately. After the Fowler people at Lafayette sprung Wm> Hill’s and Carr Bros.’ bids about §2OOO, Hill came back at them by bidding $lO per acre more on the 120 acres of that the Carr’s were after, he going on the theory that his contract with Trustee Chapman would hold the 1,880 acres. Then the Fowlerjai d Potter people came back with an increase of $1,275 on their bid. About that time Jack Esson, over in Brook, woke up and wanted a band in the game. He telephoned that he would raise the Fowler and Potter bid, $1,875, and that he would send in a legal and binding bid to that effect, today.