Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy Arrive Home From Wedding Tour. [ARTICLE]

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy Arrive Home From Wedding Tour.

The following interesting letter was received this Wednesday morning from Jerry M, Healy. Mr. Healy and Miss Mary Meyer wefe married Jan. 22nd at Houston, Texas, and will arrive in Rensselaer thm Wednesday evening probably. They have enjoyed a very pleasant honeymoon in the south. His letter Is published in full, Herewith: “My wife and I are back in old Rensselaer once more after a very pleasant honeymoon trip of five weeks in Texas. My wife will continue in the millinery business, at least for a time, and I will return to my position at Rowles ft Parker’s. We will make our home with Mrs. Meyers on Front street. Mrs. Meyers did not return from Houston, where she Is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Donnelly. I think she will remain about two weeks longer. / “After our marriage Sunday, January 22nd, we fbok the afternoon train to Galveston and remained there one week, taking in the* sights and enjoying ourselves the best we knew how. While there we met two of our old Rensselaer friends, Blaine Gwin and Emerson Reeves. They are doing well and seemed glad to see us. Houston, where we spent most of our time, is a city of about one hundred thousand. We were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Donnelly while there. Mr. Donnelly is doing fine. He is one of a company of three who are in the lumber ~ business. They also take contracts for erecting buildings of all kinds. A.t the present time they have ten buildings under construction. Houston is enjoying quite a building boom, mostly on account of a ship channel' which will be dug from the Gulf of Mexico to that city, a distance of fifty miles. The* channel will be twenty-five feet deep and one hundred feet wide. An- appropriation of three million dollars has been made to do the work, one-half million of the government and the balance by Houston and Harris county. Several large, modern fire-proof buildings are being built at the present time. The Rice Institute building Involved an expenditure of severaU million dollars, the 12-story building of the Union National bank $750,000, the new Rice hotel, 18 stories, costing three million, and several others. Ycju can see from this that southern Texas is on a boom. Brick masons get 75 cents an hour, and all kinds of work is plentiful. The city telephone company is putting all their wires under ground. There are a great many people here*from all over the north, and most of them like Houston/ Tdy wife and I have enjoyed splendid health ever since we left Rensselaer and will be very glad to meet all our friendß when we get a little rest after such a Tong trip.” Scott Seward and two younger brothers, Vernus and were Rensselaer visitors yesterday, having taken the train here en route/ to Star City from Mt. Ayr, where they had visited their slstei-, MnT Maud Elijah. Their father was a harness maker and lived In Rensselaer many years ago, going from here to Mt.- Ayr, and later to Star City, where he died about seven years ago. This was the first time Scott had been in Rensselaer for twenty-five years and it was his flrai visit to his mother and his brothers and stators for twenty years. For some time he has been a traveling salesman out of 'Grand Rapids, Mich. He will be remembered by many people in Rensselaer.