Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — This County, Now and Then. [ARTICLE]

This County, Now and Then.

The sale of the old Sparling farm brings back to the memory of the old settlers visions of long ago. The development of this county’in the last lift-time is almost marvelous. In J 346 John Alter and sons moved out on the prairie in what is now Carpenter township. They were the first persons that ventured to settle miles away fronrnny timber. Not a bush or shrub was in sight from lower ground and a dim blue along the horizon showed timber on the higher ground. Now Lewis S. ter has a sew mill on this same farm and is sawing up walnut logs 3 feet in diameter, with sycamore, wild cherry and willow almost as large, while the neighbors who settled there many years later are bringing in nice ash and maple logs. It is hard on the imagination to see what this country looked like when Grandfather Sparlipg, Uncle David Nowels, Mays, Jordens, Alters and a few more old pioneers pame to Jasper county.-—L. S. Alter. In answer to a superintendent, who asked if a school corporation must accept transfers of children, though a building is over-crowded, State Superintendent Greathouse replied that the courts of the state have held that when a pupil is transferred, the corporation must receive him. William Bayard Cutting, wealthy lawyer and civic reformer of New York, died last night near Rock Island, 111., on a special train which, since Thursday had been racing eastward from El Paso, Tex., in an effort to reach New York before the end came. The car works at Jeffersonville, Ind., have been completed and are ready to ship the last cut of passenger coaches constructed for tbe Frisco system. Work has also been started on the construction of twenty-five stePb coaches for tbe Chicago & Northwestern railway. ' i ' ~ ' "\ • Advertising is an Investment, not an expense. Advertising placed in Tbe Republican becomes a profltab’.o investment, whether large or small Try a classified advertisement and be convinced.