Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Visiting Relatives In This Vicinity. [ARTICLE]

Visiting Relatives In This Vicinity.

Mr. and Mrs. George Jessen, former residents of Newton county, but now residing near Sanford, Canada, 22 miles from Winnipeg, have been visiting relatives of each over about Morocco for the past couple of weeks, and came Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh in Jordan tp. Mrs. Jessen is a relative of Mrs. Welsh, and the latter and her husband visited them for a week while on their way to the Pacific I coast a few months ago. Frank said he told Geprge that the only way he would ever get even/would be to come and visit them, he didn’t think he would take him at his woid and come so soon. Mr. Jessen is farming 960 acres of land. Half of this, understand, is summer fallowed, and therefore he has crops each year on only about one-half of the total acreage, that farmed this year being summer fallowed next year, and vice versa. He reports that they raised fine crops this year and he had about 10,000 bushels of wheat and 3,000 bushels of oats and barley. His wheat averaged 41 bushels to the acre, ana some of it went as high as 53 bushels. This was machine measure, and it weighed out better than this, even. His bill was sl,072.95. Mr. and Mrs. Jessen will return home in a week or ten! days.