Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — Return From Dakota Trip. [ARTICLE]

Return From Dakota Trip.

L. A. Harmon returned Wednesday from his trip to Mitchell, So. Dak., and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nagel and Adam Nagel got home Thursday. They had a very pleasant trip and visited practically all the former Rensselaer people now living in that vicinity, A. J. Harmon taking them in his auto all over that section of country. All are well pleased with the country and happy and prosperous, for while their crops are less this year than usual they are not a failure by any means. The Nagel boys think it a mighty fine country, but say the Iry weather has hurt the crops considerably this year, which is unusual there. Joe says he saw no better corn any place along the line between here and Mitchell than we have right here, and he_ did see a great deal that was much poorer, in fact a great deal that was completely ruined by the drought. William Kenton had just returned from a visit with his brother " Jasper in Kansas, and in that -vicinity crops were very short and it was predicted corn would reach $1 per bushel before another crop was raised there. Joe thinks this is to be a short crop year all “over- the country, and says if there is going to be any great corn corn crop in the west he doesn’t know where, it is. Illinois and Iqwa are both gonig to be'way short and reports from Kansas and Nebraska are the same.