Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — Jasper County Looks Good to “Mont” Ritchey. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Looks Good to “Mont” Ritchey.

w. H. Ritchey returned Sunday evening from an extended western trip, and gives The Democrat the following for publication: “From Billings, Mont., where I went, to visit my daughter, Mrs. Edna E. Gray, and daughter, Thelma, I also went to Burlington, via Basin, Wyo., to see John Michaels and George and Frank Nicholson. They are satisfied with their location and are doing well. In Billings I saw Frank Wood, at Hart, Alban Co.’s department store. He is fore, man in basement, has 21 people under him. He is happy and prosper; ous. Overtook Dr. Traugh, formerly of Remington, on way to Burlington via Ford auto route.

“On my trip returning from Lincoln, Neb., to Galesburg, 111., a distance of 450 miles, an Immense rain had fallen. The wheat was about two-thirds cut, mostly in shock, and the rest was down. The oats in most places were almost flat, and the corn from Lincoln, Neb., through all lowa and in the most of Illinois was quite small and some of it weedy. Some corn in lowa had just come up. 1 believe the corn on an average would not be over 14 or 15 inches high. The wheat in Nebraska, Iowa? and Illinois was good. In Nebraska, and mostly in lowa, the, shocks were all standing in perfect order, but were not capped. In the eastern part of lowa they had one bundle and the rest of the way they were double capped. Saw only two men in the fields working. One of them was on a hill.

"The corn in eastern Illinois was fair. Reckon 1 came through the best corn section in the corn belt, on the C. B. & Q. R. R., 4 and I am of the opinion the crop will be less than expected, since coming home I saw the Indian school wheat, and I honestly believe it will yield onefourth more to the acre than any I saw, and their corn Is also exceedingly good. And when I say this I am satisefld there is plenty of fields just as fine, and this is in good old Jasper county, Indiana.”