Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — Made Trip to South Dakota Looking For Long Lost Son. [ARTICLE]

Made Trip to South Dakota Looking For Long Lost Son.

S. R. Nichols returned Sunday from Gregory, S. Dak., where he had gone to look for his son, Orth Nichols, from whom he has not heard for several years. All effort he has made to locate Orth has failed. He went so far as to write to the Wlar Department in Washington to see if Orth had enlisted in the army, but learned that he had not done so. When last heard from, Orth was in South Dakota, and “Doc” thought’ that he would go there and see what he could find out. He learned nothing while there, but after coming away he met a man on the train who said that be knew Orth well and that he lived on adjoining farms. Her said that Orth had taken a claim and improved it and was getting along splendidly. It was a great relief to “Doc,” who'began to feel that something direful had happened to his son. Why he don’t write to his father is a mystery, but the supposition is that be did not want any one to know where he was until he had proved up his claim and then he would surprise them. While at Gregory “Doc” registered in the big Rosebud land drawing. “Generally debilitated for years. Had sick headaches, lacked ambition, was worn-out and all run-down. Burdock Blood Bitters made me a well woman.”—Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moosup. Conn.