Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — A NEW DOCTOR AT NEWLAND [ARTICLE]

A NEW DOCTOR AT NEWLAND

And a New Brick School House Is in Prospect There. Dr. A. W. Downes of Chicago will imove to Newland in a short t|me for the practice of his profession there. Dr. Downes has practiced medicine for the past 17 years, is a member of the Illinois Medical association and served seven months in the army during the recent war. The locating of Dr. Downes at Newland will mean much to that community, which is fast developing into a prosperous faruutng locality. With the building of a new brick school building there this summer—a petition for which has been circulated and unanimously signed by 4 6 taxpayers and patrons of the school district — Newland promises to take on quite a boom once more. It is said that there are over 50 pupils attending the school there at the present time and that the building is inadequate to accommodate them. With the addition of a nuimlber of new families which the present owners of the greater part of the muck land thereabout expect to bring in this spring, the latter state that there will probably be over 100 pupils next winter.