Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1910 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

T. M. Callahan made a business trip to Kankakee Sunday evening. Wm. Kennedy and family spent Sunday with Ed Walker and family. Lola Oliver spent Saturday night with Bell and Lizzie Tow. Ernest and Mary Rees spent Sunday with J; C. Tow and family. Mrs. T. M. Callahan and baby called on Mrs. Wm. Rees Sunday evening. Jennie Jeffery, of Gifford, is helping her aunt, Mrs. G. M. Beebe clean house. Mrs. Jess Nuss spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Dan Snyder, of Gifford. Floyd, Luther, Bell and Lizzie Tow and Lola Oliver visited Ernest and Mary Rees Sunday evening. Art Kennedy went to work for Os. Moore Monday. The latter lives near Pleasant Grove. Mrs. John Snyder and children and Mrs. Rube Snyder an 4 daughter spent Sunday with the latter’s mother near Gifford. The dredge now works night and day, having nine men at work on it. It is cleaning the Pinkamink ditch, east of Newland. There has been about 30 acres of onions planted in the last week in and near Newland. Everybody seems to be on the move nowadays, as the men are working in the fields and the women cleaning house. An 18-year-old high school girl, I.oretta Locher, kept pace with Edward Payson Weston (luring the eighteen mile walk from Ligonier tn Kendallville early Friday morning. Farms and villiage knew of the approach of the coast to coast pedestrian and .at every cross roads and town there was a crowd to greet him, and Miss Locher shared in the cheers. % —, . Ten thousand visitors from all parts of northern Indiana and southern Michigan will be in Nappanee on Aug. 25 to attend the annual onion day festival, the arrangements for which were completed at a meeting hejd in Nappanee last week. The Nappanee Onion Growers’ association re-elected all of (the old officers. They are: A. A. McLaughlin, president; D. G. Frank Brown, secretary; Wilson Slaubaugh, treasurer. >