Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — “BILL BAT” BACK FROM OLD ALABAM [ARTICLE]

“BILL BAT” BACK FROM OLD ALABAM

Had Difficult Time Getting Out of Cincinnati and Advises Others to Remain There. ♦ _ . ’ / ■ — —. v A John E. Alter is back from Alabama. : After being marooned at Cincinnati for a week he got out of there Thursday and reached Rensselaer Friday evening, going to his home at Rosebud, Union township, this Saturday morning. John has promised to write his experiences and the sights he witnessed for The Republican and it will doubtless ’be a mighty good “Bill Bat” story which we do not want to spoil by recounting any of his experiences. He suggests, however, that we advise-any persons who have friends in Cincinnati to advise them to remain there, as the travel conditions are yet so bad that it is unsafe, as well as mighty inconvenient th make the trip. For instance, at Hamilton, all passengers on the C., H. & D. had to lea«e the train and walk six miles, carrying the baggage. But we will let “Bill Bat” tell it in his own inimical way.