Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — Dr. Hansson Drives in Another flotilla of Overlands. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Hansson Drives in Another flotilla of Overlands.

The writer accompanied Dr. Hansson and daughter Annetta and her schoolmate friend, Ora Kepner, to Soutjlh Bend Wednesday forenoon where they were met by Mr. and Mrs. James Wood of Carpenter tp., and drove back three new Overland touring cars. The distance from South Bend to Rensselaer is about 100 miles, via Walkerton, Hamlet, Knox, Bass Lake and Winamac. It is quite a nice trip and there are good stone or gravel roads —mostly gravel—the entire distance. Crops generally are not' looking very well in northern Indiana. The season is backward and scarcely a field of good

wheat was seen anywhere. Oats look about the same a- here—generally rather poor—and through the muck country, where usually thousands of acres of onions are. grown, only a very small acreage has been put out, due, no doubt, to the wet, backward season. Apparently 25 to 50 acres would coyer the entire acreage of onions in that; locality this year. On the return trip we saw a great many fields of rye that looked very good, but the wheat was all pbor. Quite a bit of mint farming is done up in yie muck regions near South Bend and these fields looked fairly good, ' but the European war has ruined the market for-peppermint oil -—much of the product being exported—and this industry will not be followed as extensively as formerly, it is probable,