Otto Meyer and his wife, Mary, solved the difficulties attending
the high cost of living as far as they are concerned. They
have lived for years on a thirty-acre farm near the village
of Riverside, Cook County. By a deed filed in the Recorder’s
office, Meyer, for a consideration of $6,000 in cash, conveyed
to his son, Fritz H. Meyer, the farm. But in return for this,
the elder Meyer is to be furnished with all the necessities of
life, including a house, regardless of the market price, as long
as he or his wife lives.
A part of this unique deed reads as follows:
“The grantee is to provide a sufficient supply of fruit, a
sufficient supply of vegetables of all kinds, to be delivered
on demand; one drest hog of 200 pounds weight, one fore-quarter
of fresh beef, to be delivered on December 15 in each year;
one-half dozen fat ducks, one-half dozen fat roosters, drest, to
be delivered November 1 of each year, and three barrels of best
quality of wheat flour, to be delivered, one barrel each time on
January 1, May 1, and September 1 of each year; twenty bushels
of good eatable potatoes, to be delivered on demand; two pounds
of fresh butter each week, one dozen fresh eggs each week, one
quart of fresh milk each day, except Saturday; one half-gallon
of fresh milk and $40 in cash, $20 on March 1 and $20 on July 1
in each year.”
(2502)
=Price as a Test=--See GOLD, TAINT OF.