Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1920 — NEWLAND REGION TO BE ACTIVE THIS YEAR [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND REGION TO BE ACTIVE THIS YEAR

H. P. Kuppers, manager for the Jasper County Farms Company, which has two thousand acres of land near Newland in this county, was in Rensselaer Tuesday and expressed himself as enthusiastic about the outlook in that region for the coming year. He has secured about twenty-five families from Tennessee and Kentucky and an attempt will be made to get the larger part if not all the holdings of the Farms Company’s' land in cultivation this year. It is planned to put about one hundred fifty acres in onions. Mr. Kuppers says he is anxious to get good industrious people as tenants and thinks he has secured them for the coming year. Most of the people he has for the coming year owns small farms and are accustomed to the kind of work that will ‘be required of them. Two new families have already moved upon the company’s land, Isaac Smith and family, of Pendleton, but formerly of Virginia, and Ohris Hanson, of Griffith. He has also secured .the services of Washington Postman, a single man. It looks very much like this re-. gion is to be developed by the land company and that it is to ’be some of the most fertile and best producing farm land that can be found anywhere. The land company is interested in this region to the extent that they are anxious to better all conditions. They are urging the improvement of the roads, better school facilities, with a possible consolidated school with the large room to be used for the many activities of the community.