Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1910 — Mt. Ayr Family Start for Golden West in Home Quest. [ARTICLE]

Mt. Ayr Family Start for Golden West in Home Quest.

W. W. Miller and wife and son Jay and daughter Ada, also his married daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hufty, and their two children, all of Mt. Ayr, came to Rensselaer Friday afternoon and remained here until this Saturday morning, when they started via Chicago for Pasadena, Cal., on the Santa Fe route. Mr. Miller is a brother-in-law of A. F. Long, and is an old and highly esteemed resident of Newton county. He has a farm of 101 acres just this side of Mt. Ayr, where he and his family made their home. Mr. Hufty has been clerking in the Sigler store. Mr. Mil-ler-has been figuring on the “golden west” for some time. The winters here do not agree with, him and as he has laid by a competency he is entitled to a rest where there is more sunshine and less snow. “Mr. Millet* has rented his farm to his brother, Alex. Miller, who recently sold his own farm near Bluffton and came to Mt. Ayr. Mr. Miller and family are not yet certain where they will spend the winter in California, but probably at Pasadena, to which place they will go first. As to whether or not they will decide to make California their permanent place of abode has not been decided upon and will depend altogether on how well pleased they are after they get there. Mr. Miller has no thought of disposing of his land in Newton county, which is a good money maker, and he is not expecting to invest in the west until he is convinced that himself and family will be content to reside' there permanently.