Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — VISITED OLD FRIENDS HERE SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

VISITED OLD FRIENDS HERE SATURDAY

Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Hopkins and three children of the latter droze ovfer from near North Manchester Saturday and visited old acquaintances in Rensselaer and Barkley township, where the former used to reside. “Farmer” is looking well, although considerably lighter in weight than he used to he, and wears no heard now, so that we scarcely recognized him. He has rented out his farm for the past few years and is taking life easy.

His own children are all scattered and gone but one, the youngest daughter, Geneva, who is still at home and came here recently with her brother Charles and wife of Michigan to visit friends, and returned home with her father Sunday. Charles, who located at Surrey, North Dakota, some time before the family left here, sold out and moved to Michigan, where he Is now employed in the Buick automobile factory at FlinL John is farming near Flint, Michigan, and owns 600 or 700 acres of land there. Ben had been working in the Buick factory but enlisted in the army and is now at Vancouver, Washington, driving an automobile truck. Anna is married and lives in Wabash county, while Ethel has just completed a course in a business college at Fort Wayne and is employed as a stenographer in that city.