Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — Nearly 1,000 in Family. [ARTICLE]

Nearly 1,000 in Family.

Hiawatha. Kan—The biggest family in this county has almost 1,000 mem* bers. It is at Reserve, nine railed north of here. Reserve is a small town of 200 or more people with an average Kansas population in the coun, try surrounding for an area of six miles. Yet in the town and the entire area of country within six miles of the town there are than ten families who are nos related to each other by ties of .blood or marriage. Of these ten fandilies nearly all are strangers who have moved ■ int* the community in recent yean.