Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — Seeking New Homes. [ARTICLE]

Seeking New Homes.

Many Dunkards from Pyrmont and east of town were loading their goods and chattels on Great Northern freight cars in the Monon yards on Wednesday, preparatory to emigrating to North Dakota. Next Tuesday 2,500 Dunkards will arrive in Chicago and then proceed northward the same day. They will leave on different roads from Chicago, but from the twin cities they will all go over the Great Northern road, along whose lines all the Dunkards have settled. Five special passenger trains will be used from Chicago and two special freight trains. Th 6 movement will include entire families from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Virginias and they will for the most part go to the’ Mouse river district of North Dakota. This will be probably the largest movement of homeseekers for several years. The exodus is the direct result of the personal efforts of James J. Hill to settle the lands along and adjacent to his lines of railway in the northwest. —Delphi Citizen.