Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — NOW A WESTERN CATTLEMAN. [ARTICLE]

NOW A WESTERN CATTLEMAN.

Charles H. Porter, a native of this county and until last spring one of Jasper county’s progressive farmers, jut now a full-fledged westerner, owning and operating a large ranch near Harrison, Montana, is spending a few days here with his wife. Charles is not wearing a heavy leather band on his hat nor has he had an addition put on the rim of the same, but he is enthusiastic about the West, where cattle and hogs grow sleek and fat without wasting high priced corn, and where alfalfa is the principal diet of all stock and possibly of most of the people. Charles says that this is a great potato country and many of the tubers when full grown and ready for the table or hog pen weigh as much as five pounds, avoirdupois. Potatoes are selling at 60 cents per bushel, and this helps to provide money on which to keep up the high living. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Horsewood went West with Mr. Porter and are still with him. They like the country very much but the elimate does not agree with Mr. Horsewood’s health and they will move elsewhere in a short time. Mr. Porter shipped three car loads of cattle to Chicago and came through with them v He expects to return west the first of the week. His wife and her mother, Mrs. Jay W. Williams, are planning to spend the winter in the South.