Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1901 — Providence Don’t Forsake Us Now. [ARTICLE]

Providence Don’t Forsake Us Now.

The Crown Point Star continues i its column of “Old Time News,” from an early paper. For the week from March 10 to 17, 1850, is, among others, this item: The paper said this week that the recapture of Shep Latin and “Curly” was about given up, as it had been learned that they had safely crossed the Kankakee swamp and arrived in the wilds of J asper county, “a God forsaken place,” and a great resort for law-breakers. Well, if Jasper county was, in some parts of it, a “God forsaken place” in 1850, it has its full share of the smiles of Providence now. And has as good society and as few law-breakers as any community in the country, not to speak of the best crops this year of any county in Indiana.