Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — VISITED FORMER RESIDENTS [ARTICLE]

VISITED FORMER RESIDENTS

And Found Them Doing Well and Happy in Their New Location. John Lane and Simon Hochstetler and son Harry returned Friday evening from their trip to Buchanan and Niles,*Mich., where they called on a large number of former Jasper county people who are now located In that vicinity. Among the number visited was Henry Gowland, Omar Kenton, Barney Kolhoff, John Dale, James Reed, Fred Schultz, Dave Yeoman, Will Whittaker and Sam Holmes. All seemed well pleased with their new location and they have very good crops this year. The fly has played havoo with some of the wheat, but there are still many good fields of wheat there. It had been quite dry, but the night they reached there a good rain came and continued *t intervals for two days. Henry Gowland, Mr. Hochstetler says, has an ideal farm of over 300 acres. It has splendid improvements and Henry has excellent crops —extra good wheat, good oats, alfalfa and lots of hay. Omar Kenton also has a finely Improved farm and has a large part of it in grass. He is not in the stock business very extensively; says that the hay will bring him as much or more money and is less work. Barney Kolhoff had the best corn they saw there, and it was at least as good as any corn here. A big factory at Buchanan employes about 1,000 people and makes the farm labor problem a difficult one to solve in that vicinity. There are several former Jasper county young men employed in this factory and farmer County Surveyor Myrt B. Price of Remington is also employed there about the grounds. Land values have advanced considerably in the past year or two aqd it takes more money to swing a deal for a farm there now than it did, Mr. Hochstetler says.