Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — May Move to Michigan. [ARTICLE]

May Move to Michigan.

Mount Eaton, 0., April 9. —The Amish people, a strange religious sect, which constitutes a large portion of the farming population of Whyne and Holmes counties, are planning an exodus into Michigan. Ten of the leading men of the sect are now looking for a suitable location in the peninsula of Michigan, and if their report is favorable the entire company will emigrate there. The Amish are bitter in their denunciation of compulsory education and the school tax, do not send their children to school, >nd are very conservative.