Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1911 — Picks Us Up on Our Faulty Geographical Knowledge. [ARTICLE]

Picks Us Up on Our Faulty Geographical Knowledge.

Commenting on the article recently published in The Repulican about the Eden families going from central Michigan to Houston, Texas, overland, the Monticollo Democrat points out a glaring geographical error. The Edens said that they were going overland to St. Louis, thence by river boat to Mobile and overland to Houston, and the interview formed the basis of the article in The Republican. The fact that Mobile is half as far east of the mouth of the Mississippi as the city of Houston is west of it, would make the trip rather “roundabout,” as the Monticello paper says. We doubt if a tenth of the grown people of the county could tell without consulting a map the location of either Mobile or Houston and admit that we accepted Eden’s statement without giving the geographical position of the cities any coqslderation.