Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — KNEW McCRAY 40 YEARS. [ARTICLE]

KNEW McCRAY 40 YEARS.

John Bower of Benton county has known Warren T. McCray for forty years. Twenty-five years ago Mr. McCray bought his original farm in Newton county, just across the road from where the buildings on Orchard Lake stock farm are located, and where Mr. Bower then lived. Five years later Mr. McCray bought Mr. Bower’s farm, when he moved to Benton county. The Orchard Lake stock farm, according to Mr. Bower, is where Mr. McCray has made most of his money and it is where his chief interest Bes at this time . When a young man, he became a clerk in his father’s hank in Kentland,later buying and conducting a grocery, and still later entering the grain business. When his father re-tired as president of the bank, he quite naturally took his place. Finally, when he was able, he bought a tract of land, With a view to establish a pure bred stock farm, which had been his plana for many years. The whole country knows what he accomplished there. His big stock farm is known all over the state as the home of one of toe finest herds of pure bred Hereford s m the country. He has done much to advance the cattle business to this never done business with a more fair or square business man. He is an honest Christian gentleman, and if elected governor of Indiana, will give the people of the state of Indiana, an efficient business administration,” says Mr. Bowers. —Benton County Tribune. * . ' .n" - J f