Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-04
ONLY FEW LEAVING COUNTY
Many Farms Change Ownership and
) Tenant. But immigration to North
west and Southwest Is at tho Mini
mum-correspondents at Eldora and
Iowa Falls Note the Changes.
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the advance in prices over a few years
ago is very marked.
Thomas Hall has sold S71s acres SIX
miles southwest Of Eldora for 500 per
acre to Dennis Lawler. This is land
containing no buildings.
Sam Todd has hold his farm four
miles north Of the city to S. P. john
ston for $116.25 an acre.
o. B. Chaplin has purchased the
Gleason Hutson 100 south of town at
SOS per acre.
John Willis has bought the Carl
Schmidt 100 acre farm six miles north
east Of Eldora at $94 an acre.
Elmer Mossman has purchased 200
acres of timber land in South Clay OF
John Willis at s12,250.
Elmer Mossman has sold 123s acres
southeast Of Eldora to Thomas Megan
for $3.50 an acre. This makes to-
tai. OF over 900 acres for Mr.. Megan
and he is already investing his surplus
in bank stocks.
Robert Schwartz has bought the A.
S. Howell quarter section east of the
city for $4,000.
Leo Marks has bought go acres OF
the ]. d. 4. Smith pasture southwest
OF town for $l4,4O0. He has just sold
a half section Of Red River valley land
for $4,000.
william Smith OF Keokuk county.
has purchased so acres west Of town OF
T. J. Sheldon at $95 an acre and will
move onto the same. His brother,
James Smith, who came with him. has
bought the Lew Frank 80 east of Ell
dora at sos an acre and will farm it
this season.
John Miller has bought the w. j.
Murray 100 south OF town at $3.50 an
acre. Henry Delaske, who has been
farming the same, will move onto the
w. e. Rathbone farm, while William
Hallman, who has been on the Rath-
bone farm, has bought 10S acres OF Z.
G. Sheldon for $8,400.
William Thomas, who has farmed
west OF Eldora for thirty-seven years,
has sold his 100 to Owen Kangley for
81, 1000, and will move to Atwood, Kan,
where he owns other property.
n. A. Hall, having disposed of twen-
ty acres OF his land to his brother 0.
E. Hall, has purchased Az acres of
B. S. Beecher at SIS an acre. Beecher
has bought the Henry Barr 80 for So
700. Barr has bought the ]. D. MAJOR
100 at $3.50, and Mr.. MAJOR was
forced to move to Eldora and has pur-
chased the M. N. Smith residence and
property on North Washington street
for $4,000.
Henry Miller has bought the Charles
Hoelscher 1850 acre farm west of town
at $3.50 an acre.
Aaron Johnson has bought 10S acres
of e. r. Seaton for $75 an acre.
William Steinfeldt gets possession OF
the II. p. Hughes 1861 acre farm
northwest of Eldora at $3.50 an acre
and has leased the same to Robert
Barr, of Alden.
]. P. Fromm, who has been on the
Hughes farm, has bought the James p.
Bruch farm at $50 an acre, and Mr..
Bruch has purchased property in Ell
dora and retired.
J. C. Stewart has moved onto the E.
S. Thompson farm.
c. E. Greet has sold thirty-seven
acres south Of town to j. o. Reece, for
$1,000.
c. A. Rumbo has moved off Of his
fathers farm. and having sold his own
farm to c. w. Fossler, goes to Bar
ron. Wis, where he has bought prop
erty.
w. H. Rumbo has leased his town
unccav .on6 fnnva6
back onto the farm vacated by his
son.
]. H. Williams moves from his farm
north of Steamboat Rock to his Eldora
residence, just vacated by G. p. Illus
sey.
Frank Arnold moves from near
Written to the C. H. Rockwell farm; B.
w. Newly moves from the Rockwell
place to the w. w. Walker farm; Will
Ethridge goes from the Walker place
to the r. NJ. Higginbotham farm, and
j. C. Forest goes from there to Okla
homa.
w. s. T. Doane has sold sixty acres
to c. M. Duren for $4,000.
F. S. Sheldon has sold eighty acres
west of town to E., q. G. and P. Hay
den, at $50 an acre, and the Haydens
have leased the same to Art Hutch
ems.
q. A. Rinehart leaves the T. c.. Shell
don farm southeast of Eldora, and
moves to Mason City. Mr.. Sheldon will
the farm from his Eldora
home.
William Marske has bought eighty
acres from Carl Schwebke for $4,000.
Only a few years ago Mr.. Marske
started farming with good health and
q determination to succeed, and he now
has 200 acres of land, good barns and
a new modern home, all within three
miles Of Eldora.
H. H. Williams has sold to G. w.
forty acres northwest Of
town for 1928.
E. L. Ruby has leased the Walter
Harmed 60O-acre pasture five miles
north of town, for seven years, at ST.
500 a year.
Gustav Huehn has moved from Alden
to the east Samuel Wiesner farm.
Herman Granner has sold 100 acres
west of Eldora for $50 an acre. which
he purchased about twenty years ago
at $3.50.
Lester Smell, OF Steamboat Rock. has
moved onto the J. II. Smith farm suuth
Of town.
In Vicinity Of Iowa Falls.
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Iowa Falls, March 4.-March 1 was
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