Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Kansans Back to Visit Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Kansans Back to Visit Jasper County.

The 1:46 train today brought to Rensselaer, J. C. Pearson, wife and daughter, Wm. Hammond, wife and son, J. W. Laing and daughter and John W. Jacks, all from Coats, Pratt oounty, Kans. T hey, or at least the heads of the families, are all former Jasper oounty residents. and moved to Kansas about 16 or 17 years ago. They have returned for a visit of about six weeks with relatives. In their immediate vicinity in Kansas the suffering from the drought *is not so very great. Good crops of wheat and oats have been harvested and there is plenty of buffalo grass cured on the ground for cattle fattening purposes. They report the eastern part of Kansas, where corn is the chief produot, in a very bad condition. The visitors will be welcomed back to their old county by |tnany relatives and friends, among the relatives being, Charles Dean and wife, Henry Wood and wife, and Stewart Hammond.