Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1915 — Kentland Man Invests In Farm Land in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Man Invests In Farm Land in Texas.

Newton County Enterprise. J. P. Barr and Arizona Brees arrived home Sunday night from Texas. Mr. Brees bought a hundred acre farm 'adjoining the twentyeight hundred acres of the Barr brothers and John Kassabaum, of Chalmers, son of Henry Kassabaum of this place, also purchased a farm. Mr. Barr brought home samples of oranges, lemons, corn and other products of their farm to show his friends. One lemon weighed two pounds and three ounces and looked like it might be second cousin to a Newton county pumpkin, in size at least - . Frank Kassabaum, formerly of this place, is on the Barr ranch and will commence planting corn next week. On Jan. 18 Mr. Kassabaum planted ten acres of watermelons. Last season he tried one acre and after supplying four fapailies with all they could eat, sold $39.40 worth, the melons bringing only 5c apiece. The country is rapidly developing and in the Irrigated districts vegetable growing is carried on largely. During their two weeks’ stay there was •a light frost, not sufficiently heavy, however, to injure the fruit.