Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1918 — ENTHUSIASTIC IN THEIR PRAISE [ARTICLE]

ENTHUSIASTIC IN THEIR PRAISE

RETURN FROM RIO GRANDE REGION AFTER MAKING INVESTMENTS. Harvey Davisson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rains and Mir. and Mrs. Henry Wilson returned Saturday from a trip to the Rio Grande region in Texas. All are very enthusiastic over this region, and to diow that they have great faith in this land each roade an investment. Mr. and Mrs. Rains and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson both bought forty acres near McAllen, Texas, and also a city lot in the city. Mr. Wilson has leased Mr. Roms land and lie and his family will to that country early in January. Mar. Rains and family are planning on making McAllen their winter home and may go to that city a little later this year. , .. _ Mrs. Rains’ brother and wife, Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Griswold, of Galesburg, HL, acompanied the party to the suriny' Southland, where crops follow one another in maturity without waiting for a change of season. The Doctor made a large purchase, buying eighty-five acres and also a city lot in McAllen. The crops raised in this valley are com, broom com and cotton, and reliable farmers claim that toe yearly profit on this land is never less than one hundred dollars per acre.