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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
4
A fragment ad from the Audubon County Journal in Iowa promises farm sales on small payments with relocation and wire transfers. It touts locating buyers, providing descriptions from a long list, and referrals to matching vehicles and trades.
Advertises an Iowa area farm of 160 acres six miles from town with good roads and rural delivery. Describes two houses, a frame barn, orchard, hog pasture, windmill, deep well, and a 70 bushel per acre corn potential on rolling and level fields. Price starts at 65 dollars per acre, rising to 75 within a year. Terms 3000 to 4000 down by March 1, 1907, easy balance terms. Journal News listing.
A 2720 acre tract offered at 50 dollars per acre lies 7 miles from a town with railroad and coal nearby at 2.50 per ton. About 90 acres are in cultivation, rest brush pasture. Improvements are good, land is new ground with little stone or sand. Terms include a first mortgage around 3000 dollars due March 1, 1907, then long time at around 6 percent.
For sale is 260 acres four miles from a good railroad and roads, eight miles to another rail town. Ground includes 40 cultivated, 70 bluegrass pasture, rest timber, with hog pasture and a stone quarry. Soil well watered, fences good, a 4 room house, barn 40 by 48, granary and hen house, orchard. Asking 45 per acre. Journal Exire.
A fine stock and grain farm in the county offers 6.25 acres at 70 dollars per acre. Located 54 miles from Goon Town on the main railroad line, 40 rods to school, near RFPD, close to church, and in a good neighborhood. The property includes 160 acres of cultivation, deep black Iowa soil, 100 acres of brush and timber pasture, bluegrass, water via springs and wells, windmill, two tanks, hog pasture, monster 66 by 80 barn, cattle sheds, hog house, granary, double corn crib, wood and coal sheds, a fine 2-story stone house with cellar, all on an ideal site. Price estimated between 3000 and 5000 with easy terms.
A land sale listing describes 210 acres near a town on Rock Island line with good roads and rolling, rich soil, no stones or bars, fenced pasture, orchard and groves, a four room house, stables, and grain facilities. Price starts at $47.50 per acre with terms $500 to $600 down, dated January 18 1907.
A rural listing describes a farm about 220 acres near Wig town offering timber and fine land, close access to coal and water, a good room house, barn, fencing, and a yard. It mentions 100 acres hollom and rolling pasture, one mile to school, and easy terms near exchange options for 20 or 40 acres.
Seven miles from good town with coal underlay. 25 acres under cultivation, 60 more could be. 26 acres timbered. Three buildings including a house once costing $2400 and a coal bank paying $409 yearly royalty. Coal under farm likely to last 29 years. Asking price trade plus $1000. Journal Exira Iowa.
The notice describes a 280 acre farm near a good town with a fine road two and a half miles away and a half mile to the school. It highlights a first class 120 acres not Will, well fenced cross fenced into multiple fields, good hog pasture, springs water, an excellent well, high state of cultivation, ten acres timber, buildings and feed lots in a grove, half the land in tame grass and a four room house with stables. The listing notes a price of 65 dollars per acre and proximity by phone in the house.
No. 30 160 acres at $50. One percent mile from town with mills and creamery nearby. Land lays rolling with ten acres tillable, balance brush and blue grass pasture. Fenced quarter with rich soil, sheds, barn, hen house, new house with stone cellar. Surrounding land sells at $60 to $70 per acre. act now via Journal office.
Buy today at 40. Sell in two years for 65 or 75. 120 acres at 40, 4% miles from town, near school, good neighborhood. 75 acres cultivated, rest brush pasture. Well fenced cross fenced, fine crops, well watered. New four room house coal and hen house, crib, stable, sheds, all new. Take a thousand in trade or sell on long time. Small down payment or good note. Storm clause. Journal office.
Real estate ad describing 60 acres at 365 with a five or six room house, good stables, pastures, orchard, and grove. One mile to school church store and large creamery. Gently rolling and well fenced. Call at Journal office.
A rural property listing describes No. 180. 1u0 acres at 55 dollars per acre located four miles from town. The farm features 40 acres rough pasture, well laid land watered by a wind mill and tank, a big dew barn, hog house, sheds, yards, varied fruit, a five to six room house with stone walled cellar and arched cave. It is advertised as very cheap with terms of 1000 dollars by March 1 1907 or flexible arrangements for payment upon serious intent.
Pretty forty acre tract with rolling land and a fine grove, a five to six room house, good barn and outbuildings, a spring, and a good orchard. Located 234 miles from a town. Price $65 with easy terms. Journal.
No. 196 four score acres offered at $65 per acre. Located three miles from a town on the Milwaukee main line with telephone, rural delivery at the door. Forty acres of good land, well watered, fenced, cross fenced, hog pasture, fruit and berries, rolling terrain, a four room house, new barn for four horses, cow shed, corn crib, buggy shed. Mortgage details: $200 due in two years at six percent. Call Journal office for particulars.
Buy this tract and have a home. Sixty acres at sixty dollars per acre near Exira with a pair house, barn and sheds. Sixty five acres in crop with balance in pasture. Good roads and water. No foul weed, no sand or stone. Five hundred dollars down, balance to salt yourself at five percent interest.
Property listing offers 180 acres of good farm land with a strong set of buildings for 1600 dollars. Sale terms include balance due by March 1907 and a five percent interest option. Buyer encouraged to inspect and consider this lot.
All Right Farm, well located and valued at a substantial amount. Eighty acres near the school and creamery, with a large eight room house, two good barns, a double crib, and granary. Nearly level, fine laying land, considered one of the best in Audubon County. Asking price listed as seventy five dollars per acre.
A snippet from the Journal Office recalls an exchange about Europe and a presidential boom. Washington Star notes a remark by Mr. Comrox on family reaction to his trip, while Uncle Ephrem quotes a tale about the Apostle Paul highlighting a preacher’s worth.
Ninety five acres described as well tilled with about 50 acres in cultivation and 20 acres of young timber. Land lies near two towns with good roads, near school, fenced with 180 rods of woven wire, well watered, barn, granary and sheds. Five room house and grove protected by orchard and stone walled cellar. Price listed at $590.00.
225 acres offered at 61 dollars per acre. Three miles from county seat with good roads. Part bottom land with no overflow, some rolling. Portions in clover and timothy, well fenced, good soil, house, large barns and sheds. Not first class but well watered with chard and grove. in ideal location at a very low price. $2000 to $4000 down, balance long time. Journal.
An insidious kidney disease warning notes that trouble can progress unnoticed until danger. Take Foley's Kidney Cure at first sign to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease and diabetes, per Nick Doffing.
A property listing describes 160 acres offered at 62.50 per acre with payments 2000 to 4000 due March 1, 1907. Located 4 miles from town, it features a modern 2 story seven room house, a nearly new barn, windmill, deep well, tanks, outbuildings, and good roads. The sale highlights a fine market area, schooling nearby, a phone in the house, and a strong neighborhood with level land and rolling gentry terrain.
A 160 acre tract eight miles from town offered for $66 per acre with good improvements gentle rolling fine water and strong fencing. Cash $1000 on March 1 1907 with balance to be paid over several years and $100 yearly after initial payments. Journal.
An offer for 100 acres priced at 62.50 per acre including 4 Toads and near a school, with good soil and a fine orchard. The property has a small house, outbuildings, fencing, water, and storm protection. Terms: 250 down, 500 March 1 1907, balance 2.50 per acre per year at 5 percent, with carryover if crops fail. Journal.
Farm listing describes 107 acres near two railroad markets with nearly level terrain 80 acres in a black walnut grove and an orchard. Includes small buildings good water and a few acres of low land in the northwest corner near coal. Asking price 55 per acre.
Hamlin-Hamlin area items include Peters Hamlin trips to Audubon on business and local sales and goods activity at P J Joel’s store. Reports of weather events, road conditions, and community improvements such as a repaired sidewalk and local creamery officers. Notes on shipments, calendars, and rural route examinations plus family visits and a long journey home for Frank Pfeiffer.
280 acres offered at 65 dollars per acre with good roads one mile to school and near a fine neighborhood. Property includes 40 acres tame grass 160 fenced and cross fenced a fine grove a good five to six room house new barn double corn crib and a bargain price on old town dirt. Small payment around 1000 dollars with easy balance terms. Trade possible for 160 acres.
Farm property No 210 spans 120 acres near Wo good towns seven miles from main Rock Island line. Includes 14 story house 16x28, barn 28x82, outbuildings, cistern, well and windmill. Land: 100 cultivated, rest good pasture, woven wire fencing, orchard, small fruits. school nearby, R F D at door, phone in house. Offered at a small price, worth $80,000 but reasonable terms.
This 200 acre farm near a small country town offers rolling but good soil, proximity to store post office school and church, with fair improvements and two wells plus windmill. It lists mortgages including $6000 mortgage and $5000 first mortgage due Sept 8, plus other loans. Also notes 1735 acres under cultivation with balance in pasture and springs. A stock farm with strong improvements.
The Blue Grass Creamery reports one year from December 1, 1005 with detailed receipts and expenses including 845,983 in milk, 657,138 in butter, freight and shipping costs, salaries, tax, and a sinking fund. Officers elected at the January meeting are WD SB Stanley president James Reck vice president C V Christensen secretary ME Mortensen treasurer and director P 2 Nissen. New members added include John Croos Walter Jenaen and Fred Christiansen. Route haulers named for routes 0 through 6 and buttermaker Fred Heileman are listed.
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