Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — MAYOR OF SURREY WRITES FROM KANSAS [ARTICLE]

MAYOR OF SURREY WRITES FROM KANSAS

er L. Thornton and Wife are Visiting Former Jasperltes in Southern Fart of Kansas. ♦ , *777 Ashton, Kansas., Sept 28, 1912. Publishers Republican: We started from Chicago Sept. 10th and arrived at Greensburg, Kansas, at 11 o’clock the next night. We stayed that night with W. L. Fleener, a former, Jasper county man. The next morning went up town and was greatly surprised to see the old town bo greatly improved. Some 15 or 20 new brick buildings have been greeted and some are as nice stores ns you would see in any town in Indiana. Mr. Fleener has a new brick building 50x100 feet antThas it stocked with a SIO,OOO furniture stock and is doing a fine business. There are five elevators in the town and all are full of wheat of an extra fine quality, testing from 60 to 66 pounds to the bushel Farmers are very busy getting their seeding done. There has been an abundanoe of rain this fall and the ground is in fine condition and they are putting everything to wheat again this fall. They are too busy to talk bull moose out here any. Visited F. W. Sparling. Frank is a standpatter. J. O. Sparling is in the insurance and land business and is doing fine. On the 18th we went from Greehsburg to Coats, visited Aunt Mary Porterr Fred Hammond and family and many other former Jasper county people in that locality. From there we went to Ashton, Kans., where we are visiting Bert Sparling and his mother and Harve Miller. This is a nice country, the same as Kiowa county. There are large trees in the lawns, hedge fences all around the farms and everybody here seems prosperous and happy. There are some beautiful small cities in this part of the state. Arkansas City, 12 miles east, has 8,000; Windfall about 11,000. We gre going to visit the Cherokee Indian reservation across the Oklahoma line and also the Indian school and think it will be very interesting. We go from here to Colorado Springs. H. L. Thornton and Wife.