Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — EARLY DAYS IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

EARLY DAYS IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA.

Goodland Herald: John Ade has an interesting column of reminiscences in the Enterprise this week. Noting the fact that fifty-two years ago he started from Cincinnati for Morocco, he says: Probably no period of fifty-two years in the world’s history has been as progressive and full of interest as these fifty-two just passed, and in a lesser degree the changes in what is now Newton county have have been marvelous. Then not a church building or school house belonging to any organized body existed, but one postoffice in the county. Beaver Lake and its overflow covering a large part of the north end of the county, no railroad within forty miles of Morocco, much of the lands still on the market at $1.25 an acre. Now the county is dotted all over with church buildings and school houses, daily mails to the homes of a large portion of the people. Beaver Lake and its surrounding marshes in cultivation, six railroads now touching the county, and much of the land selling for SIOO per acre and upwards. These are only a few of the changes that might be named.