Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1912 — Picked Persimmons on Old Newton County Farm. [ARTICLE]

Picked Persimmons on Old Newton County Farm.

Senator A. Halleck and family drove over to Morocco Sunday and there met and, took as passenger in their car John C. Jenkins, of Nelight, Neb. Senator Halleck and Mr. Jenkins were raised together on adjoining farms in Newton county, near Beaver Lake and they made a trip over to the old home place Sunday afternoon. When both were boys Mr. Jenkins’ father returned from a trip to Missouri bringing some small persimmon trees which fie set out along the Beaver lake ditch. Now the trees are 25 feet high and they are the only persimmon trees in this part of Indiana so far as known to us. There are several bushels of fruit on the trees but they are not yet ripe, a succession xifr frosts or a freeze being necessary to ripen them. Two of the persimmons were left at our offipe and we find that few people who see them know what they are. Mr. Jenkins is engaged in the abstract and insurance business in Nebraska, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He was a delegate to the conservation congress which met last week at Indianapolis and was spending a few days with old home scenes.