People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — LUTHER L. PONSLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LUTHER L. PONSLER.

The above illustration is of the comfortable home of L. L. Ponsler on his farm of 225 acres situated two miles north of Rensselaer. Mr. Ponsler is one of the thoroughly active and modern farmers of this county; was born in Newton county 38 years ago and has been a resident of this county for fifteen years. He is doing a general farming business, keeping fully abreast

This amount was divided into 150 shares. There has been added to the building a cheese room and the necessary fixtures, and a cold storage building, making a complete outfit for manufacturing milk products. The amount of business done at the creamery has varied somewhat with the seasons; the first year the supply ran up to over twenty thousand pounds. One of the drawbacks the first year was the lack of necessary capacity to handle the milk. Two skimming stations have been establised, one at Marlboro and one at the 3. F. Irwin farm in Jordan township. These stations were established to accommodate outlying districts. Jasper county is well adapted to dairying and if the people are rightly educated it will make one of the best in the state.

with improved methods and new ide%s. Mr. Ponsler was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Robinson of Marion township, and their union has been blessed with three children. He has never “run for office” and never expects to; he has never had a case in court, and never been before the grand jury. Politically he is a rock rooted populist, being chairman of the county central committee. He was originally a republican.

RESIDENCE OF L. PONSLER.

FARM RESIDENCE OF JAMES YEOMAN, SEE SKETCH, PAGE EIGHT.

HOME OF C, E. MILLS, SKETCH, PAGE SEVEN.

FARM RESIDENCE OF REV. M. R. PARDIS, SEE SKETCH, PAGE TEN.