Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1914 — “Wall Street” Is Looking Fine This Spring. [ARTICLE]

“Wall Street” Is Looking Fine This Spring.

We took an automobile trip Sunday afternoon up through Barkley tp., and Pleasant Grove to Francesville. There is a good gravel road all the way and one passes through some mighty nice country. This road runs along through what is popularily known as “Wall street” in Barkley tp., so named because all the farmers along there have waxed fat in worldly goods and the farm improvements are among the best to be fbund anywhere in Jasper . county. It is certainly a very prosperous locality, and to us poor devils in town it looks mightly good to be a farmer. What is generally known as the Francesville prairie, west of Francesville, has sure become a splendid looking farming sectton, and it would seem that anyone, owning a qi'arter section of land any place along the route ought to be' happy.