Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — Saw Some Country That Was Exceedingly Dry. [ARTICLE]

Saw Some Country That Was Exceedingly Dry.

Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier returned Thursday evening from a week’s auto trip through Indiana. They left Friday morning, July 3rd, for Indianapolis, and paid a short visit to theij son, Rev. J. Ford Rainier. They went next to Seymour and visited the parents of Rev. Rainier’s wife. They returned home by way of Frankfort, Logansport and Monticello. At Logansport they visited George Raub, formerly of Chalmers, who is now engaged in the banking business at Logansport. George is a nephew of Mrs. S. R. Nichols and has many acquaintances in this city, who w'll be pleased to learn that he. is getting to the front financially. Mr. Rainier says that the country south of Indianapolis has lost heavily because of the drouth, which has been much worse there than it has here. The oats was practically a total loss, the wheat, which looked like it would run 30 bushels to the acre, was not filled out well and ‘was making only about 18 and 20 bushels. The corn was badly rolled and there was danger of an almost total loss of the crop.