Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — Mrs. Mary E. Lowe Returns Home From Trip to the Vest. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Mary E. Lowe Returns Home From Trip to the Vest.

Mrs. Mary E. Lowe and niece, Miss Mary Jacks, arrived home Friday evening from their trip to west. They were absent about three months and had a most delightful trip. They first visited relatives in Omaha, Springfield and Elmwood, Neb., and then went to Colorado Springs for two weeks, where they "visited Mrs. Clara Lutz Bickford and the family of Herbert Toops, who formerly lived southwest of Rensselaer. He is prospering in his new home. Mrs. Lowe and Miss Jacks then went to Ogden and Salt Lake City. At the latter place they enjoyed an organ recital in the Mormon tabernacle. They then- went to Sacremento and then to Los Angeles and Pasadena for a week. Then to San Francisco for four days, Portland for three days, and thence to Seattle and Walla Walla. At the latter place they visited the family of D, O. Rader, formerly of near Wolcott, and his son-in-law, James Hoel. They are engaged in fruit farming and;are doing well.

They then went to Townsend, Mont, where they saw Sam Pullins and family, who have a fine crop of wheat and oats and other crops. They also saw Lee Jessup and family, near Townsend. They next came to Jamestown, N. Dak., where Mrs. Lowe’s sister, Mrs. Sidney Holmes, and family reside. They enjoyed a fine visit there, seeing a number of former Jasper county people. Sidney has a fine crop of barley, excellent corn prospects, and good late oats. The wheat and early oats were almost total failures. Mrs. Lowe thinks the country where Sam Pnllinß is has about anything she ever saw beaten for crops/ and she brought home with her some fine samples of oats. Sam is prospering with a big capital P.