Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — TO USE A GANG PLOW. [ARTICLE]

TO USE A GANG PLOW.

New Owner of McCoy Hanging Grove Tp. Lands to Turn Six Furrows at Once. John Herr, late of near Marion, Ohio, who bought the former McCoy lands at McCoysburg, comprising 1,300 acres, was in the city Monday to see about "ordering a steam gang plow to use on his big farm. He thinks of buying a 6-furrow gang. Mr. Herr has recently moved to McCoysburg with his wife and twelve of his sixteen children. Five of the boys have, left home and are now hustling for themselves, but he still has five girls and seven boys at home. Mr. Herr informs us that he expects to greatly improve his real estate here. He has bought a steam tiling machine, he says, and looks for it to arrive next week. It will have a capacity of digging the drain and laying 120 to 130 rods of tile per day, in any size from 3 inch to 12 inch. He had a finely improved farm in Ohio which he sold, but he still owns about $150,000 worth of city property in Marion, Mansfield and Columbus. He expects to close this out and bring all his assets here and improve his real estate, and will build a fine new house'next year if Jasper county suifs him. On the farm he left in Ohio he had a fine 22-room house, steam heated, hot and cold water all through, modern and right up-to-date in every way. He will build nothing but the best here. While he never had the advantages of an education and started

at the lower round of the financial ladder, Mr. Herr seems to be a shrewd business man and has been very successful in accumulating considerable of the “filthy lucre” as well as a pretty decent sized family. He has always been a hard worker, he says, and now does as much work with one hand—he lost his right arm near the elbow in a corn-shred-der 12 years ago—as most men can do with two.

Mr. Herr is a democrat, and it’s up to the republican patriots of Hanging Grove to get a hustle on themselves or he and his numerous progeny will change the political complexion of that township altogether.