North Judson, IN.

Dec. 7, 1898. Jamison & Heldrich, of Peoria, Ill. Have purchased from Danielson & Ellingson, of Hamlet, this county, 1,1890 acres of land for $30,500. It is proposed to establish a beet sugar factory if the coming Indiana legislature passes a bounty law. Sugar beets testing 22.9 percent, sugar was grown on this land last year. Jamison & Heldrich have a further option on 1,900 acres owned by the same firm, and it is said, on several thousands acres of individual tracts.

North Judson, IN.
Sept. 6,1898. The vice presidents of the Kankakee Valley Sugar Beet Association and other interested in the development of this industry will hold a meeting at North Judson, on Tues. Sept. 20, to consider the best method of advancing the cause and to take up the subject of presenting to the next Legislature a bounty law in the interests of the beet sugar industry, similar to the one now in effect in the State of Michigan. The session will be held at Burch’s Opera House, from 1 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m.