Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — RAINMAKER RITCHEY. [ARTICLE]

RAINMAKER RITCHEY.

Well Known Farmer’s Fame Extends Beyond Jasper County’s Limits. The mention of O. K, Ritchey’s reliability as a rainmaker in The Democrat recently prompts the Indianapolis News correspondent at Morocco to send the following dispatch to the News: Jasper county farmers say that, as a rain maker, O. K. Ritchey, near Rensselaer, has few equals and perhaps no superiors. If there is a drouth, Mr. . Ritchey comes to the rescue by getting ready to thresh his grain, when invariably it rains before the job is finished. This season, crops were badly in need of rain, and as a last hope, Mr. Ritchey e neighbors persuaded him to thresh. The usual result followed -—it began to rain within an hour after the threshers reached his place, and kept it up until, as Mr. Ritchey’s neighbors assert, the machine; had to be moved to the next job in order to prevent a deluge. Mr. Ritchey, it is said, has failed only once in fifty years to bring rain in the manner stated.