Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1912 — Will Move to Kankake After 30 Years Residence Here. [ARTICLE]

Will Move to Kankake After 30 Years Residence Here.

Mr. and Mrs. Matt Zimmer of Gillam tp., were in the city Friday. Mr. Zimmer thinks he is getting a little too old to farm, he being in his 80th year, and his wife is 81, so he has traded his 160 acre farm in section 34, Gillam tp., to Guy M. Farr of Kankakee, 111., for two good residence prop- 1 erties in Kankakee, one of which rents for $24 per month and the other for $lB, and gets about $12,000 difference, his farm being 'put in at sllO per acre. Mr. Zimmer expects to move to Kankakee soOn, and Jasper county will lose a good citizen. A man from Illinois will move on the farm vacated by him. Mr. and Mrs. Zimmer came to America from in 1857 and settled on the outskirts of Chicago. He had been used to working for 15 cents a day in the old country, but with the opportunities here and .their natural thrift, they soon got on nicely. Mr. Zimmer mowed grass with a scythe on the prarie of what is now a. part of Chicago for five years, marketing the wild hay in Chicago, finally buying himself a team and mower after which he got on much better, arid when he left Chicago and went onto a farm in Will county, 111., he had $4,090 in cash. From Will county, after ten years residence there, he moved to Jasper county and bought the old Mike Cook farm northeast of Remington, laying $25 per acre therefor. Eleven years ago he traded this farm for the 160 acre farm in Gillam Which he recently disposed of and got $2,600 difference!. Mt, and Mrs. Zimmer have resided in Jasper county for 30 years and The Democrat joins their friends and acquaintances in wishing them many years of happiness in their new home. '