Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — Kansas Editor Tells of Improvements in Jasper Co. [ARTICLE]

Kansas Editor Tells of Improvements in Jasper Co.

Mr. and lk|rs, T. F. Downing returned tb their home at-Ljttle River, Kans., this week and in advance their coming The Monitor, the home paper, gave Foster the following writeup: A wireless postcard which we expect to receive tomorrow fipm T. F. Downing, who is still helping his wife visit relatives in Jasper cdtmty, Ind., says: “Rensselaer is alot bigger town than when it first started, and several new families have moved in since we left there thirty years ago—of course a few have moved away, but no -one has grown any older. In passing through Chicago I fioticed that they have electric lights, in that city, -and also have street cars on Main street; think they had just had an awful rain there, anyway Lake Michigan was almost bank full. There is no end to good things to oatj back here, and I have gained almost a quarter of a pound in five weeks, and the weather is so nice and cool that 1 am wearing my heavy clothes. This is a.great country inhabited by a good many people, most of them our relation, but Little River, Kans, is the best place on earth, Europe not excepted ever) in times of pence. Will try and get home before the watermelons {ire all gone—if .not save me a few sixty-pounders.”