Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — NEWLAND ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND ITEMS.

Bt has never been publicly announced that Mr. C. V. McKinney came here from a large farm near Bluffton to take up his duties as foreman on the Jasper County Land ■company’s farm near Neiwland. Mr. McKinney .has been operating a big farm in northern Michigan during the past two years. He has taken two courses alt Purdue university and one art Ohio State university. Mr. and Mil. McKinney are making their home at present with Mr. and Mrs. Kuppers on the ranch. John W. Wood, assistant foreman, has commenced his duties on the ranch. Mr. Wood is a graduate of Missouri university and was in the aviation corps during the war. Clarence White is from Greenfield, Ind. He was an officer in the U. S. army during the war. He will graduate next year from Purdue university as a mechanical engineer. Wellington Sicetr, of New Albany; Raymond Robinson, of Indianapolis, and Fay Hardy, of Indianapolis, are working on the ranch. All three are members of the U. S. Workers Reserve. , Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Frazer, of Chicago have taken charge of the ranch store at Newland. Mr. Frazer was formerly a clerk in the union stock yards at Chicago. There is a lot of firing going on at the ranch, hut it is noticeable that all the good hands are still on the job. Pickle picking will soon start on the ranch.

A straw stack at the Alfred Hoov# er farm was destroyed by fire Tuesday when it was ignited from a spark from the threshing engine owned by Clouse brothers, of Remington, who had just completed a run at ‘the Hoover farm. No grain was lost A similar fire occurred a tithe Albert Tobin farm the previous day where a straw stack was mAho destroyed in addition to damage done the separator. This fire also was caused by the Clouse machine.