Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — “SECOND GARY,” [ARTICLE]

“SECOND GARY,”

Town of Lena Parks, Placed in Receiver’s Hands, and Luckless Investors Lose All. Laporte, Ind., Sept. 14.—Th'e town of Lena Parks, Starke county, passed into the hand's of a receiver today, Henry C. Rogers being named by Judge Vurpillat, of Knox. Thus ended the dream of a “second Gary,” though in the story of Lena Parks hundreds of lot owners lose practically all of their investment. The investors were nearly all poor people who were drawn by graphic advertising. Chicago men bought a tract of a thousand or more acres in Starke countyand platted the land for a city. Excursion trains were run and lots were sold at a fabulous figure on the ground that mammoth industries were to be located. One small industry was started,, but its machinery has long since been idle.