Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — Six Ornish Families Emigrate. [ARTICLE]

Six Ornish Families Emigrate.

Six Ornish families, numbering 27 men, women and children, took the milk train at Surrey Monday evening going to Monon and thence to Mcihigan City, and from there they were going, to northern Michigan. The families had been living on hte Mt. Ayr prairie and they had recently bought land in Michigan to which they were moving. David Hostetter, was the leader of the emigrating party. They were among the most thrifty of the- tenant farmers and were good citizens.