Audubon County journal., January 04, 1912, Image 6

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Trade Your Small
for This
Bus to and from all
trains. Phone 52 at P.
M. Christensen's Jewelry
Store.
Farm
A Half Section of Iowa's Richest
Bottom Land to Trade for a
Quarter or Less
A half section that is mostly well
drained bottom land is bard to find.
Here is one. It iB at the headwaters
of the Nodaway River In Adair coun
ty, seven miles from two good townB
has R. F. D. ninety acres magnificent
"r jblue grass pasture big orchard medi
.urn sized buildings, some nearly new
nine room house, with new bricked
cellar new granary and corn crib
.good horse barn, hog house, etc. good
windmill with plenty of water all is
well fenced.
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Owner will sell at $110 per acre on
easy terms, or will trade for a smaller
place. It is rented for 1912 on terms
that will improve its condition. The
increase in value on this place during
the next ten years will amount to a
small fortune.
90 Acres at $120
New Land, New Buildings, and a
Qently Sloping Surface Make
This Little Farm a Jewel
A tip-top tract of ninety acres in
Exira township. Mo3t of it slopes
gradually to stream. All cultivated
or can be. Buildings are new. Fine
room house, ba^rt—-double corn orib_
and granary, bog house, etc. Good
water. Price $120, $1500 cash, March
1, 1912, balance time.
80 Acres at $JIO
This Farm Will Easily Pay Itself Out.
Terms are Easy and Land
Is Good
Good eighty only a few miles from
i- Exira. Largely bottom, balance lies
well. Practically all under plow. Corn
aversged forty bushels per acre this
year. Good house. Fine water system
unfailing spring. No bum. Posses
sion given anytime. Price $110 per
acre, $1500 down, balance easy terms.
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I01EY KIDNEY POLS
FOR BACKACHE KIDNEYS
AND
OVER 65 YEARS*
EXPERIENCE
TRADE MARKS
DESIGNS
COPYRIGHTS &E.
Anyone Bending a sketch and description may
quickly tucerUilii our opinion free whether an
Invention Is probably patentable. Communica
tions RtrictlyconUdentia). HANDBOOK 011 Patent*
sunt free. Oldest agency for socarlng patents.
Piitonts tuUen tbroueli Munu & Co. receive
special notice, without charge, la tbe
Scientific American.
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. lamest cir
culation of any flclentldo journal. Tonus, 13 a
year four months, tL Sold by all neirsdoalers.
MUNN & Co.3e,B«»dw»»'New York
Bnuith Offlco, 625 &U WMhiDjftoo. D.
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Each year sees fewer farms for sale, the prices
higher, and bargains harder to find.
A Good One on the Bar
gain Counter
Two or Three Years on this One and
2a Little Expense, will flake You
a Handsome Profit
We have at a sacrifice price a good
quarter section less than twenty miles
from Des Moines, and five and one
half miles from a good station on a
main lice of railroad. It is a German
Lutheran community and one mile
from church.
HOW 'BOUT A TRADE)
If Your Property Does Not Suit You,
You Can Get One That Does.
The Journal has a number of pro
perties on its list, which are subject
to exchange. If you want to trade
your farm for a larger one, or for
one in a different location, write us
what you want and we will try to
make you an offer.
All communications of this na
ture will be held in the strictest
confidence.
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BLAOOKR
loWa bind is af Premium
It all liei well, with the exception of
five or six acres, upon which the
buildings stand. This is somewhat
rough. The eoil is rich loam, with
clay aubBoil.
Improvements consist of large nine
room house, with good cellar, large
barn, corn crib, hog house and all nec
essary buildings. All are in fine con
dition but need paint. Farm is fenced
and crass fenced. There is a large
spring piped to every point where
water is needed.
It will be sold at $90 per acre on easy
term*, $2,500 down, balanoe at five per
cent. Land ia that section is selling
at $100 to $150 per acre. We are relia
bly informed that the farm adjoining
this one recently sold at $125, notwith
standing it is worth no more than the
one described above.
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Note the Price. It Is Well Improved
and in Audubon County, Too
This is one of the very few pieces in
Audubon county that can be bought
at
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than $100. But read the de­
scription.
Located 3^ miles from towo, one
fourth mile from school, has six room
house, two bams, one 38x42, the other
24x36, bog house 22x28, two poultry
houses, cattle sheds around barns,
good spring, windmill and cistern,
all fenced, 40 acres hog tight, 8 acres
grubs and bog pasture.
The price is ouly $90 per acre and it
requires only $3000 to handle it.
JOURNAL
Send us your next cow or horse hide and lei us make you a good coat
or robe. We can save you from $10.00 to $15.00 on every garment.
Our tanning process renders the hide absolutely moth, wind and
water proof. Every Article with
If you hope to buy or expect to buy a farm in Iowa before long, look carefully over the places
offered below. They are among the Journal's very best listings. You can't beat them and
you can't buy too soon if you are in the market.
A Famous Stock Farm
A Farm, Pre-eminently Suited for
Stock, That Has Made Its
Owner Rich
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The Journal offers for salejhe Oak
wood Stock Farm, lying between Ex
ira and Brayton. It is well known to
stock breeders throughout the land
and has made its retiring owner a
handsome fortune.
It consists of 250 acres, all bottom,
100 acres under plow. Splendid resi
dence, inexhaustible well near door,
two barns, three other buildings that
could be used as residences, complete
water system with 250 barrel reservoir,
IE acres hog tight, orchard one acre,
blae grass pasture.
It is held at a reasonable price and
the terms are easy. For information
address the Journal.
200 Acres at $135
A Splendid Farm Near Elk Horn at a
Reasonable Price and en
Easy Terms
We ofter a 200 acre farm one mile
from railway station, three miles from
creamery, one mile from church, half
mile from school. Large house, large
barn, hog house, double corn crib and
granary combined. Beautiful grove,
orchard, chicken house, macbite shed,
fine water system, windmill, ^ving
spring fenced hog tight. Thei ^n
jothfitljjst- of itppmeiaep'.fi
enough for an eighty on another pait
of the same farm. Will divide the
farm and offer 80 acres of it with one
Bet of improvements at $130 per acre
and the 120 acres at $140 per acre. The
terms can be arranged. Large amount
can be left in the farm. This farm is
worth $150 per acre, but will go at $135.
8o Acres at $70
Special Announcement
If You Want to Reap a Big Advance
in Value, Here is Your Cnance
Eighty acres at $70, seven miles
from good town, all plow land except
four acre? in native grove and bog
pasture, fair buildings, all fenced bog
tight, $1,950 mortgage owner wants
balance of equity.
The Journal has made arrange
ments with the publisher ot "Pro
fitable Farming," whereby anyone
renewing, paying in advance, or
subscribing new will receive this
magazine, which is a high class
semi-monthly Farm Journal, pub
lished at St. Joseph, Missouri, FREE
for three years. This offer applies
to ALL those who have paid one dol
lar or more since the big contest
has started, as well as those who
may hereafter do.so. It iB neces
sary merely to ask that it be sent
you. Write or call up the Journal.
WE TAN HIDES
WILLARD'S
We also re-line and repair old fur coats and
robes. It will pay you to write for our free cata
log and price list. Fine Furs Dressed and made
up to your order.
Highest Market Pricei
paid for Hides, Furs and Wool.
Hm WILLARD, SON A
Established 1894
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Christian Church Notes
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30p
Junior Endeavor at 2 p. m.
Senior Eudeavor at 6:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday
7:30 p. m.
POPULAR
MECHANICS
AGREAT
Buy now and get rich as Iowa farms go on up.
The movement is irresistible.ggfDelay is Costly.
8o Acres at $145
Here Is a Little Farm That Will Make
You Proud of the Qrouud
You Walk On
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Eighty acres in Cass couuty of land
as good as any on the map of Iowa.
The surface is slightly rolling, part of
it tile drained, and it never overflows.
All fenced hog tight except 40 rods,
line and road fences- new. Never
failing running water on place. Good
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room house, big three story base
ment barn 32x50, almost new corn
crib, hog house, poultry house never
failing deep well, windmill and good
water system all kinds of fruit, two
orchards on place. It is situated al
most en River to River Road, 3} miles
from two towns.
Price is $145 per acre, $3,000 down,
balanoe on easy terms. Most of it ean
be left in first mortgage. 1,
80 Acres at $135
A-Rich Bottom Eighty, Well Improv
ed, In Danish Community
A fine eighty near county line
Mostly rich bottom land, all cultiva
ted, none rough. Four room house,
nearly new, with summer kitchen
good large barn nearly new other
buildings fair. Price $135 per acre,
$2000 down termsJOJQ balance^
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A Qood Farm in Guthrie County at a
Real Bargain and On Easy
Terms
Eighty acres at $85, six miles from
town good six room bouse deep well
and wiodmill fair barn splendid
cattle shed, corn crib, granary and
chicken house good orchard all fenc
ed hog tight, and 20 acres fenced off
hog tight. This is a snap at $85 a
$4,300 mortgage at 5 per cent at five
years, owner wants equity, $2,500
down.
ARE YOU WATCHING
Railroads Are Busy Opening New
Rich Sections.
Are you keeping an eye on the
new sections of the Northwest,
Southwest and South, through
which NBW LINES OF RAILROAD have
recently been run, and which are
just now entering upon a period of
deveiopement, perhaps as great as
that through which the Middle
West has already passed?
There are Beveral of tbeee dis
tricts now opening. Some of them
are RICH IN TIIE PROMISE OF FUTURE
WEALTH. The Journal has accurate,
authoritative information concern
iug them, and will glodly furnish
it upon request. If you are interest
ed in any particular region or part
of tbe country, and wish to know
more about it, drop the Journal a
line.
JUR. JOHN J5M2JKIr,
Physician Surgeon
Office Phone S3? House Phone 57
Office.first door eist of
:.rntr Drue Store, uotelrt
Bxira, IOWA
VETERINARIAN
George Weighton V.S.
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160 Acres at $127.50
A Splendid Stock and drain Farm
That is Worth More than the
Price Asked
A fine quarter Bection in Audabon
County. Most of tract lies well
but one forty somewhat rough and
nsed as timber pasture. Good seven
room house, cistern, good well, mill,
Bnd supply tank. All fenced and
cross-fenced. Forty rods to school.
Commanding location. Good barn
with oement floor. Corn crib 24x28.
Poultry house 8x24. Machine Bhed.
Hog house with cement floor. Has
R. F. D. and telephone. One of the
best producing farms in Iowa. Price
$127.50 psr acre, $1000 down, balanoe
time. This place is only three miles
from a tewn with down hill road all
the way.
113 Acres at $125
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A Medium Priced Farm That is Quot
ed Low for Quick Sale
One of the Journal's best offer,
log* ie a highly improved farm of
113 A., nine utiles from Exira. It has
R. F. D. and telephone. Corn on it
averaged 48 bushels per acre this
year. It
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80 Acres at $85
well baB running' wat­
er and buildings are centrally locat
ed. They consist of medium-sized
hjagfe —tWo~'tarns,' two poultry"
houses, hog bouse, etc. All are in
good condition. Has brick cave and
good water system. Price $125. per.
$5500. down, balance optional. Ad
dress the Journal.
A Dandy Eighty at $75
A Little Guthrie County Farm as
Good as Our
Eighty acres at $75, Ay2 miles from
a good town, mile trom school, fair
five room house, new barn, good out
buildings, splendid orchard all fenced
add cross fenced, and every acre of it
is farm land. Owner will carry back
three or four thousand dollars, three
to five years.
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$120
Land
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Wanted'
We have several buyers who
wants farms. It you contemplate
selling your place list it with the
Journal. It costs you nothing un
less we sell it,
Audubon Co. Journal
INSURANCE
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