Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1909 — Saw Many Former Jasper People in Western State. [ARTICLE]

Saw Many Former Jasper People in Western State.

Dr. Washburn, who has just returned from a' 1 trip to Colorado? increased his Investment in the SanLuis valley. Along with John Paxton he made an automobile trip into the country where the Paxtons have considerable money invested and for the Irrigation of which mammoth reservoirs have been built. He is more enthusiastic than he was after his earlier trip there as so much land is being sold to thrifty farmers from all over the country. It is evidently a country of great future. The doctor was accompanied to the west by Mrs. Washburn and they had a pleasant social .visit with former Rensselaer people. At Longmont they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Paxton and met Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Timmons and his father, John N. Timmons, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Nowels and family and Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Nowels and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wheeler, who went there from Flora, she being a daughter of W. R. Nowels of this place and a sister of Chas, and Gaylord. The Nowels family went to Longmont for their health and all are delighted with the results attained. Mr. Wheeler, who suffered from catarrh, now weighs 15 pounds more than he did when he left Indiana. Chas. Paxton owns a good farm only three miles out from Longmont on a gravel road. He has been prospering in the cattle feeding and selling business. Will Timmons is getting along nicely, has charge of a big automobile establishment and his employer is mighty glad that he sent to Indiana to get Timmons. All the Rensselaer people are doing nicely. At Boulder, Colo., Dr. and Mrs. Washburn took dinner with Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Ward. He was a former pastor of the Rensselaer Christian church in this city and is now pastor of a church of that denomination at Boulder. Their two sons at home and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover, of Boulder, but formerly of this city, were also guests at the Ward home, and so was Prof. Ben Coen, now a member of the faculty to the Colorado agricultural college at Fort Collins. Mrs. John Paxton was also at Boulder with Dr. and Mrs. Washburn and the occasion was made a reunion of former Rensselaer people. The Boulder contingent are also gating along nicely. Boulder is a city of about 12,000 people.