Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — Mt. Ayr—From the Pilot. [ARTICLE]

Mt. Ayr—From the Pilot.

J. -P., Clark, postmaster at Morocco, made a short stop here Tuesday while enroute to Rensselaer. Frank -Leek, in company with a couple of friends, came over from Rensselaer last Saturday in his automobile. ’ Joe Moore of northeast of Rensselaer came Sunday for a week’s visit with his second cousins, Roy and Orte Willey. | Jap Wright has sold his farm two miles north of town to Mrs, Kate Yeager, and according to rumors will Boon became a resident of this town. It seems strange that Mt. Ayr and vicinity should be visited by so many Kentland politicians who claim to be writing insurance, it just this time pf year. * • j J. M. Hufty and R. J. Yeoman have purchased a large steam engine and saw mill and a feed grinder, and according to reports will erect a building here in town and do a general grinding and mill busness. The Bank of Mt Ayr has rented the Mrs. Nichols building and is having the same remodeled and repaired and put into a first class condition. The fixtures that were formerly in the Hdme Bank at Goodland have been purchased and when completed we will have as nice a bank as can be found In any of our neighboring towns.