Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Return From North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Return From North Dakota.

Reuben and Simon Snow and Walter*, Adams arrived Saturday night from Ransom county, No. Dak. The two former got off the train at Rensselaer, but Adams went on to Remington, his* former home. The Snow boys are sons of Henry Snow, formerly of Barkley tp., who went to North j)akota five years, ago. Bhey state that their mother and two sisters and brother Roy came with them to Chicago, where they are now Visiting Mrs. Snow’s daughter, Mrs. Chas. Driver, for a week or ten days before coming on to Rensselaer. ■.<. Mr. Snow is visiting his brother, Benjamin Snow, at Princeton, Minn., while on his way back to Jasper county, and will come on soon. The first few years the Snows were in North Dakota they had good crops and done well, . but ’last year the dry weather fixed the crops and this year the wet weather got in its work, causing a black rust on the wheat which practically ruined it. They farmed three-quarters of a section this year and had it in oats and wheat. Their oats were good, but the wheat that they harvested only averaged about 7 bushels per acre, and the family decided to come back to Indiana. Three of the boys, Alva, Emerson and Jacob are still in Ransom county and will try it another year. at least. All are married and doing, vev well. Jake was married about a month ago to Miss Zelda Mallatt, a daughter of Richard Mallatt, formerly of Fair Oaks, and he and Mr. Mallatt will farm together next year. .< Mr. Snow, Sr., expects to rent a farm here and try it again in Jasper county, and the two boys who came Saturday night will go to work at once husking corn here.