Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — S. T. Comer and Amos Alter Return from Coast [ARTICLE]

S. T. Comer and Amos Alter Return from Coast

• Stephen T. Comer and Amos Alter have returned from their winter stay on the Pacific coast. The former arrived Tuesday and the latter Thursday afternoon. They speak with delight of their stay in sunny California and both came home feeling splendid in point of health. They were together all the time until Amos stopped off at Salt Lake City for a'short visit with his nephew, Cecil J. Alter. They were at Santa Monica much of the time and took daily trips from there, spending much of their time at the coast, fishing, and indulging in? other pasttimes. They found pleasure in gathering moon stones, and brought home a number of very beautiful ones, many of which they have had polished’ and mounted as watch charms, stickpins and rings. Amos helped land a Jew fish weighing 455 pounds and Steve verifies the story for he was there and witnessed the feat. It was not Amos’s fish, however, but Amos helped operate the windlass that brought it to the shore. The fish most commonly caught are cod and the fisherman uses from 6 to 14 hooks on a line and some times catches a half dozen fish at one time. Mr. Comer is feeling very much improved in health. When he left here four months ago he could scarcely walk a mile but he is greatly Invigorated and Amos found that he was almost able to keep up on the long tramps in California. He balked only once and that was when he had gone 13 miles on a 14mile trip. He was so greatly benefitted by the trip that he expects to go there again next winter.