Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — “Jack Lawler Rapidly Improving His Real Estate. [ARTICLE]

“Jack Lawler Rapidly Improving His Real Estate.

J. J. Lawler, the well known Chicago stockyards man, who has purchased several thousand acres of land in Jasper county during the past few years, is rapidly improving his land in the way of tiling, fencing, new buildings, etc., and the improvements made are extra good and substantial. He is painting the buildings a light yellow or lemon color, and having the name of each farm painted on the barns, after the order of George Ade’s farms over near Brook. ' ——— The farm at Pleasant Ridge station is called “J. J-. Lawler’s Pleasant Ridge Farm”; that east of Pleasant Ridge, where the brick house is, “J. J. Lawler’s Jasper County Headquarters Farm”; that still fur“J. J. Lawler’s Hanging Grove Township Farm”; that north of Pleasantt Ridge, near the Pinkamink ditch, “J. J. Lawler’s Pinkamink Farm.” The buildings on his two farms west of Rensselaer have not yet been painted, but soon will be, and they also will be appropriately named. Mr. Lawler is spending a great .deal of money in improving all of ibis farms. He buys the heavy woven wire fencing that he is using and the fine large cedar posts, by the carload. Many old osage are being pulled out and neat woven wire fences taking their place. These improvements are in charge of Mr. Lawler’s able foreman, Mr. James E. Walter, of Rensselaer, and are being made in a very substantial manner. In a few years “Jack” Lawler’s Indiana farms will be almost as noted for their handsome and thrifty appearance as are those of George Ade, and we are glad to note the interest Mr. Lawler is taking in improving his extensive real estate holdings in this vicinity.