Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1919 — DESCEND ON ONION FIELDS [ARTICLE]

DESCEND ON ONION FIELDS

ED. OLIVER PILOTED PROSPECTIVE LAND PURCHASERS TO TOWN SUNDAY. Colonel Edward, king bee onion grower of Newland, in fact the man responsible for there being a Newand at all, came to Rensselaer from Chicago Sunday piloting sixty prospective onion land purchasers who made the trip in a special car which was set off here pending their return to the city. Mr. Oliver is carrying on an extensive advertising campaign in the Chicago Tribune which will continue for the next three months through which he hopes to obtain enough buyers to dispose of his large land holdings at Newland which consist of about twenty-two hundred acres. It is thought that at least one-third of the prospects who were here Sunday will make purchases. Mr. Oliver entered the onion business at Newland several years ago and has been responsible for many citizens of that place locating there. The land about Newland is especially adapted for onions and it is believed that if the proper methods are used that the new purchasers can make it one of the leading onion centers of the universe.