Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — MISSES THOSE FAMILIAR FACES [ARTICLE]

MISSES THOSE FAMILIAR FACES

Of Former Rensselaer Patrons of Beaverville Thirst Parlor. William Johnson and family of near Donovan, 111., drove over Thursday and visited Mrs. Johnson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hitchings, also Mrs. Orval Hitchings of Hang* Ing Grove, who is a patient In the county hospital. Mr. Johnson says that crops look fine In his vicinity. Wheat Is good, there being no evidence of fly damage so far as he has learned, and other crops are looking well also. Mr. Johnson Ilves on the once famous road to Beaverville, for some time the oasis to which pilgrimages were made regularly and often by people from all over northwestern Indiana who were afflicted with ther thirst habit, and he states that this road is little traveled now, since last July 1, when the entire country went "dry,” and he mdsses the familiar faces from Rensselaer and other towns In this vicinity that he used to see so frequently passing his place.