Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1901 — A YOUNG OLD MAN AND HIS OLD YOUNG SON. [ARTICLE]

A YOUNG OLD MAN AND HIS OLD YOUNG SON.

Geo. W. Harness, of j Kokomo, and his youngest son and 17th child, spent the Fourth with’J. D. Babcock, just west of town. Mr. Harness, who is as tall as a sycamore and straight as a. hickory sapUng, is 82 years old, and the youngest son, above referred to, is a goodly chunk of a lad of about 10. Mr. Harness though himself living in Kokomo has several fine farms in Howard county, and is a noted breeder of Hereford cattle. He also claims that on one of his farms, in a field that has raised 58 successive crops of grain, there is the field of wheat in Howard county, and good for over 40 bushels to the acre. The boy, Russell, above mentioned, is a good deal of a man too, for his years and inches. He has the deed for over 300 acres of fine land, and over a year ago bid off, at over $1,900 three fine Hereforde, at a big cattle sale, in Chicago.