Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1918 — QUITE A HOOSIER COMMUNITY [ARTICLE]

QUITE A HOOSIER COMMUNITY

In New York State, Where) Several Jasper Co. People Have Located The Democrat received a letter Thursday, from John M. Knapp, formerly of Rensselaer but now of Panama, New York. The letter was written Monday and Mr. Knapp said, among other things: “We have been having very warm, pleasant weather for several weeks. Yesterday it became cooler and last night it froze quite hard, and it is cold today. The maple sugar season has been good and quite profitable, syrup $1.75 to $2 per gallon and sugar twenty cents per pound. As summer approaches remember your promise to visit us; we were greatly disappointed that you: missed us last sufmmer. Saw Al Keister and family, also Ira Brown, a short time ago; they live about ten miles from us. The Pecks live about three miles from us, in plain sight, and near them a family from Quntington, Indiana. The Broadies are about eig'ht miles from us, so you see this is getting to be quite a Hoosier community. Lawrence is Inspector at a (plant at Corry, Pennsylvania, where they make certain parts for the airships for the U. S. and British governments. This plant expects soon to take on another thousand men.’’