Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1908 — J. J. LAWLER BUYS MONNETT LAND. [ARTICLE]

J. J. LAWLER BUYS MONNETT LAND.

Former PulWof telto Thompson Buys Another Good Tract of JMtQr.Coaaty, Land. John J. Lawler, head of a large stock dealing firm at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, and well known here by reason of long partnership in the stock and land business with Delos Thompson, last Saturday concluded a deal for the purchase of the former Monnett land in Marion and Newton townships, in this county. The land was bought from the Chicagc Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and Mr. Myers, husband of Mrs. Lucy Rider Myers, who is at the head of the institution, was here and made a deed for the land. .It comprises 966% acres and the price paid was $48,325 or exactly SSO an acre.

It is the general opinion here that the land Went very Mr. Lawler is now one of the largest land owners in this section of the state, his holdings in this and Newton counties being near 25,000 acres. It is not very many years since he was an errand boy in |he Union Stock Yards, and now he is probably a, millionaire. ’ This will in no manner affect the Monnett Children’s Home, as it was a part of the original intention to sell the large farm tfact to carry oaf Mrk. MtonMt’s' whshrii fbf tile creation of a memorial hall in Chicago for their mother.