Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1908 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

* Letter From A. K. Sayler.

! Big Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9, 1908. Editor Republika: Our Rdnseelaer paper with its budget of news again reminds us of our old Hoosier home and friends. | will now try to tell you something about our home in Michigan as 1 promised before I left Jasper county. So far Michigan is all right, and we are all well and satisfied with our new home. Our small grain, rjre and oats, is all cut and stacked ht tye barn, ready for threshing, which will probably be done in a week or two. The grain is well filled will yield a good crop. Corn has all done fairly well, though in need of rain just now. The corn I raised from the Michigan Beed is all eared out and some of it is past the roasjting ear stage, but the Indiana corn, of which I planted a little, is just beginning to ear. The fodder is larger than that of the other but it will have to hustle if it ripens before the frost comes. Have twelve acres of buckwheat that is 1 filling out nicely. Early potatoes are ] the finest I ever saw and the late! ones promise a splendid crop. Altogether our crop prospects are more promisnig than they were in Indiana last year. The fruit crop has been good this year. Bushels of huckleberries and red raspberries were brought to market from the marshes, or cut-over timber lands, seven or eight miles from Big Rapids. Good apples sell for thirty cents a bushel. •Peaches promise a good erop.. There is a seventy acre peach orchard, six miles from my farm where the trfces are loaded. The peach orchards ai'b all situated in the hilly districts. And now perhaps you would be interested in hearing of some of the other Hoosiers who have been transplanted to the Banks of the Muskegon in Mecosta County, Michigan. Could you have attended the Old Settlers’ Meeting at Big Rapids, Aug. 6th, you would have seen them well represented. Just thirty-eight Indianians, all from Jasper and Newton Counties, ate dinner together. With us was an old lady, Mrs. Eliza McIntosh, who had come from Fowler, Ind., to attend the Old Settlers’ Meeting. She was the first white woman ever in Mecosta County and gave an interesting account of her pioneer life. Rev. N. F. Jenkins, of Holland, Mich., gave the address of the afternoon, followed by several accounts of early Michigan life by pioneers. The Indiana crowd seemed to be quite an interesting feature of the occasion, not only to themselves but to the- Michigan people as well. Governor Warner, of Michigan, was present, canvassing for votes, and asked leave to look at the “Hoosier crowd.” Being assured that they were not only good looking people but sound Republicans as well, he appeared to be satisfied with his inspection. I received a home coming invitation yesterday. Much as I would like to attend, I am afraid I shall not be able to do so, as I shall have a lot of work on hand at that time and Russell will start to school “the first of September. I will close, wishing success to the home coming, and the Hoosier friends. SAYLER, Big Rapids, Mich. The Rensselaer cook book pub>lished by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, is now on sale at A. F. Long’s drug store. Appointments made selling them can also be supplied.

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It Pays for Itself Many .Times Over. WHAT ? A Manure Spreader. lam handling the Miller and the 20th Century/ Both are successful machines. Saves labor and enriches the soil, and the increased crop pays the expense. Also call in and see the Camp Portable, Grain Dump. J ust the thing for large corn crops. Don’t put these matters off, see about them now. J. V. COLLINS la the Brick Livery Barn Front and Washington Street!