Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1912 — WENT PROSPECTING IN THE BLACK BELT [ARTICLE]

WENT PROSPECTING IN THE BLACK BELT

Omar Kenton, Ed Herath and Joe Pnllins Went to Demopolis, To Look at the Land. Omar J. Kenton, Ed Herath and Joe Pullins, well known farmers, left this Tuesday morning for Demopolis, Ala., where they will look at the land in Lhe “black belt” of Alabama and Mississippi, where Winifred Pullins, brother of Joe, has lived for two or three years and where S. E. Sparling recently invested. Mr. Herath, at least, expects to invest at once ana to move there if he is pleased with the country. The others may do the same thing. They all are mighty good farmers and citizens and Jasper county would dislike to lose any of them. Clarence Dobbins was in town today. He is now living with his father, Simon Dobbins, at Reynolds and working with him as a monument agent. Clarence returned last June from Ravendale, Cal., where he is homesteading a quarter section of land. His brother, Homer, the former high school and later Wabash college athlete, is also at Ravensdale, where he has homesteaded a quarter and taken a desert quarter and his wife has done the same thing. This gives him a section and he is also looking after other land, and has in all 1,920 acres under his care. He is going in for cattle ranching and has a fine outlook for success. Clarence built a shack on his place and will return there next, June to look after it He filed last November, at which time there was upwards of 40,000 acres open, but inside of a few months all this was taken. Homer still has trouble with hiß injured knee and will probably never entirely get over it. He has prospered in a number of ways there and besides getting a wife and a ranch also has a baby son.