Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1913 — Returned Traveler Finds Home Rolling oh Skids [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Returned Traveler Finds Home Rolling oh Skids

CHICAGO. —Anton Baca, formerly of 624 West Harrison street, cams home the other night after a few weeks spent with a railway construction gang in Montana, to find that his happy home had disappeared. Enoch Arden at least found his house on his return from his wanderings, but all that greeted Baca was a vacant lot. Where a few weeks before had been a happy fireside, a wife and five children, and a family cat, was now an aching void —a nothingness—a vacuum. Baca made inquiries of the neighbors as to where his house had gone, but none of them was able to give an intelligent answer. Some hinted that perhaps the railroads had bought up the property, while others intimated that Baca’s "home” was a castle in Spain. Reaching South Hatoted street in his quest, he inquired of a policemen: "Have you seen anything of my bouse? It was here a while ago." "Move on, my man," was the discouraging reply. “Youll wind up in the station house unless you're careful." f

Wandering over in De Ko ven street, the homeless one espied afar off a Mlm. shadowy hulk looming up in the middle of the thoroughfare. As he approached nearer, the light of intelligence dawned on his face. Here—on skids and rollers, was his long Jost home. It had evidently been taking a Journey. Jf he had waited it might have come to meet him. A light still burned in the' window. Climbing up on the skids, he peered in. and to his joy, discovered the wife of his bosom, surrounded by the little Bacas. Mrs. Baca explained that during the absence of her lorT and master the agents had decided to move the house, "I couldn’t tell you,” she said, "because I didn’t know where you were."