Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — Mayor Meyers Talks of His Health Seeking Visit to South. [ARTICLE]

Mayor Meyers Talks of His Health Seeking Visit to South.

Mayor Meyers states that is was quite cold during all the time he was at Chattanooga and consequently not so pleasant for getting around as he had hoped. He was sick when he reached Chattanooga and for a few days was scarcely able to be out of bed. He soon felt better, his appetite Improved and he began to regain strength and he came home feeling much better than he had for some time. He was surprised to see the hogs running at large through the south, especially in the cities, where they are a menace to health as well as distressing to the eye. At Nashville he ran across George Krug, who was called “Jug” when he resided in this county a number of years ago. Hh is a sergeant on the city police force. At Manchester, Tenn., where he spent a short period, there are several former Jasper county people, including Dave Shields, Ira Gay, George W. Hershman and Frank Iliff. The latter moved there this spring. All live in the country. Land about Manchester is cheap for the most part and correspondingly poor, being known as "blackjack” land. He . remained all night with Mr. Hershman one night. Mayor Meyers did not see any of the other former Jasperites, but inquired about them and learned that they are getting along fairly well. Dave Shields, who some years ago was a promising young man, filled with ambition, is said to have lost his desire to be a great man in the affairs of the nation and to be living some distance from Manchester in a little southern shack, that does not look either prepossessing or prosperous. Poor Ddve, a few years ago he was a school teacher, a democratic campaign orator and we believe one of the founders of the Jasper County Democrat. The fire of youth seem 3 to have abandoned him and he is said to be controlled by the inertia so common among the self-satisfied whites of the south and of which we have a fair sprinkling in the north. Mayor Meyers’ trip to the south wa9 entirely for a rest and he did not go there to invest in land. He investigated land values naturally and found a great variation in prices, ranging from |3 or 24 per acre for some of the poor land to 2150 per acre for good bottom land. He was much gratified at the improvement to his health. The water used in Chattanooga is supplied from pure mountain springs and is both wholesome and healthful.