Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — Back From Burned-Up Kansas To Again Live in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Back From Burned-Up Kansas To Again Live in Indiana.

G. W. - Akier and wife and four children arrived this Saturday morning from Kiowa, Kans., and he announces that after fifteen yearsr residence in Kansas he is now hack to Indiana to remain permanently, unless hiis wife, who -has spent her entire life in Kansas and Oklahoma, Is displeased with conditions here. Mr. Akier is a cousin of Mrs. Levi Clouse and was raised in White county. He.states that everything in his part of Kansas was a failure this year, there being some very light wheat but a total failure of the corn crop, not even enough for feed. He said that from what he saw of Kansas he believes one wagon could haul all the corn raised in the state this year. For the past three years the crops had been very poor and the destruction this year makes a great hardship. He reports that there were 67 vacant houess in Kiowa, and that the people were coming to the north, many locating in Missouri, but he saw nothing that looked very good in that state. Mr. Akier will live in Rensselaer if he can find a house and will work for wages for the time, possibly getting a farm later.