Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

U. M. Baughman Merges His Business With Largo Concern. The Democrat received a personal letter a few days ago from U. M. Baughman of Oklahoma City, Okla., formerly of Rensselaer, in which Mr. Baughman states that he has merged his mortgage and loan business with that of the Oklahoma Farm Mortgage Co., of that city, with whom he will hereafter bo connected. This is one of the oldest and most relia ble concerns in the southwest, and Mr. Baughman’s many Indiana friends wish him success in his new venture. Among other matters touched upon in his letter, Mr. Baughman says: “I enjoyed the Christmas number of Jhe Democrat and especially the letters therein of old friends and acquaintances. It is wonderful (how we can get scattered in so few years to so many sections of the country. An amusing 0 and interesting feature of it all is, that about nine out of ten of the writers of these letters were quite confident that they had found the choicest spot on God’s whole footstool. And the most consoling thought of, the whole matter is, that ‘a contented spirit Io more to be desired than great riches.’ I think this letter proposition should be continued annually, and believe it will be not only a source of satisfaction to the readers of your valuable paper but that it will also have a tendency to increase its already large circulation.”