Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1907 — SMALL HOUSE INSTEAD OF MANSION. [ARTICLE]

SMALL HOUSE INSTEAD OF MANSION.

Rankin Halstead returned Saturday from a trip to near Soudan, Va., where he owns a large tract of land near the big plantation of ex-county clerk J. F. Major. He states that Mr. Major has built a small house on his farm in place of the mansion that was burned last fall, but is undecided as to whether he will build another large house or not, as he is talking of selling his farm to an electric power company which proposes to dam the Soudan river, which would cover with water a large portion of his farm. Should he sell his big farm he will buy a smaller one near by. Both Mr. and Mrs. Major are enjoying better health there than- they did here, and have no intention of leaving that country.