Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — MORE CARPENTER TP. FARMERS EMIGRATING. [ARTICLE]

MORE CARPENTER TP. FARMERS EMIGRATING.

Henry Huffman, a substantial German farmer of west Carpenter, was in this city on business Thursday. Mr. Huffman has traded his 160 acre farm in Carpenter tp., for three-quartere of a section of land three miles west ot Lisbon, No. Dak., and will move to that place the latter part of next month. The farm he gets there is said to be one of the best improved farms in Ransom county*. It has a tbree-tory brick house that cost $5,000, flowing well, etc. The improvements alone are valued at sß,ooo. Mr. Huffman figures the place costs him $23,000. His son-in-laws, Herman Robbins and Henry Simonin, will go to North Dakota with him. Mr. Robbins onto a half-section he has rented % mile south of Mr. Huffman’s big farm, and Mr, Simonin to Grand Forks county, 100 miles further north, near Larimore, where he and his brother John have bought 480 acres. There are also some nine or ten other families from near Remington who will move to North Dakota the coming spring, and in their removal Carpenter' tp., and Jasper county will lose some of her best citizens.