Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — VISITING HERE FROM OKLAHOMA [ARTICLE]

VISITING HERE FROM OKLAHOMA

E. W. Maxwell and son, H. E. Maxwell of Blackwell, Okla., came Saturday, the latter to remain and work for his brother John Maxwell of Barkley township, and the former to visit here a couple of weeks and look aftex his residence property at Lee, when he will go to South Dakota to visit his daughters, Mrs. Samuel Parker and Mrs. Ed Leech. He will also visit relatives In Nebraska and will not return to Oklahoma until November. Mr. Maxwell says the heat in his locality has been very oppressive lately, and reached aB high as 112 at BL&ckwell, something unusual. The corn has been practically all killed in streaks by the drought and hot weather, but in his locality, where they got rain, it is going to be a bumper crop. The state over, as well as the state of Kansas, will not have more than a half a crop. Wheat was only about half a crop in his vicinity, and potatoes and fruit of every description Is a complete failure.