Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Young Traveler Comes Home After Trip to Spokane, Wash. [ARTICLE]

Young Traveler Comes Home After Trip to Spokane, Wash.

TJje Hoosier Limbed brought Lee Richards to Rensselaer Monday night/ after almost a' year spent in the we3t and northwest is doubtless the most extensive traveler in Rensselaer and for ten years or more he has spent A large amount of his time seeing the United States. The desire to travel seems inborn with him and when he was only 11 years of age, he used to slip into some concealed place on a paksenger , train and make trips of long distances. His parents, Mr: and Mrs. W. S. Richards, would be ' alarmed about him and. for a Jong time feared that he would be maimed or killed, but he always turned up all right and be has never received a scratch in any cf his trips. Of recent years he has largely traveled on the inside of passenger trains and has worked in some of the big boom cities of the northwest. Tills last trip he went to Spokane, Wash.,, but did not find very much work there and he came back tb St. Louis, where he found employment in an automobile' and carriage paint shop. He attained hie majority while away this time, arriving at bis 21st milestone on Feb. 14tb. He expects toj remain at home for a time and to work with his father during the spring at the painting and paperhanging business Lee will cast "his first vote next tall and be will probably be the lightest weight voter in JaspeV county. as he weighs only a little over a hundred pounds. . ; 7