Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — Stand Back, Men; Don't Crowd. [ARTICLE]

Stand Back, Men; Don't Crowd.

Is the old reputation of the Newton county natives for honesty and minding their own business a thing of the past? MAN—ATHLETIC, WELL BRED, college man, American, Jvith nerve and shotgun, to prevent trespassers on cattle ranch near Chicago. Board and good home for such service. Ample time for study, hunting, fishing. Man using tobacco not wanted. Prefer one with agricultural knowledge, wishing to learn the business, taking a son’s place. References and particulars required. CONRAD RANCH, Conrad, Newton Co., Indiana. This was the advertisement that appeared in a Chicago Sunday newspaper. Things, indeed, have come to a pretty pass if the ranchmen of our sister county have to hire collegebred gunmen to awe übiquitous neighbors. Or can the trespassers be some of those wild boot-leggers of Jasper county whose activities along the banks of the Kankakee still keep that noble river on the list of frontier streams?—Hammond Times. The » “ranchman” jn this case, brother, is a woman—nice looking, stylish, well educated, wealthy, and not too old to love and be loved, as it is presumed the advertiser is Jennie M. Conrad, the owner of the ranch, which bears her name. If the advertiser had only published her picture with the ad, northern Newton county would be over-run with college bred young men seeking this position. The ad has probably brought many responses ere this, for the owner of the Conrad ranch is quite well known, throughout Indiana and Illinois, especially.