Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — Thinks Kansas Is All Right. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Kansas Is All Right.

C. M. Hopkins, better known as "Cash” Hopkins, who Is paying the first visit to his old home in Rensse-

laer in eighteen years, will leave the first part of the week for Hutchinson, Kans., to spend a few days at the Kansas state fair before returning to his home at Greensburg. “Cash” was one of the first settlers in Kiowa county, Kans., and was fortunate enough to locate bls claim on what later proved to be the town site of Greensburg. He laid out his claim into town lots and succeeded in disposing of them during the “boom” days of Greensburg at the high prices prevailing at that time. He invested some of the proceeds in a good farm near' there and now “has from rents sufficient to keep him without work. Later the Greensburg boom “busted” but “Cash” was not caught in the crash, as were a number of investors in town lots from Rensselaer ana other places, who had hundreds of dollars when the crash came. Greensburg has nearly recovered now that the country has caught up with It and things are moving along nicely. Mr. Hopkins says that the early settlers who were not driven out by the dry times of the early days of that country, and stuck to It, have prospered, and are now able to live in comfort and many of them own automibiles and are enjoying life. “Tod” Hopkins, his son, who was only about 15 years old when he moved form here, Is now 41 and has a family of grown children. “Tod” has also prospered and owns a good farm in Oklahoma, but st ill lives in Kansas, as he considers the climate there more healthful than in the part of Oklahoma in which his claim is located. He reports that C. D. Nowebs, who moved to that state a few years ago, after trading the Nowels House here for farm land in Kansas, struck it rich. The land was traded to Mr. Nowcis at a low price and could today be sold at an advance of several thousand dollars over the price paid for it will happen, but the bestregulated families keep Dr. Thomas* Eclectrlc Oil for such emergencies. It subdues the pain and heals hurts.