Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — PURTELLE WAS HERE AND GHOST WALKED [ARTICLE]

PURTELLE WAS HERE AND GHOST WALKED

Interurban Promoter Dropped in on Hurry-Up Trip and Brought Joy to Employees. He came, he saw and he quite overcame the office force of the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. The person who came was Eugene Purtelle. The persons who were surprised were C. W. Batthews, engineer; John Moore, assistant engineer, and Miss Harriett Landers, the stenographer. The cause of the visit and of the surprise was to pay the employees for their services for the past two months. Mr. Purtelle was here only between trains. He arrived on the 11:09 train from Chicago and took the 2:00 o’clock train to Indianapolis. He talked briefly to a reporter for The Republican, saying that he planned active building operations in the early spring.