Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1913 — Otto Braun Returns From Long Trip to Southwest. [ARTICLE]

Otto Braun Returns From Long Trip to Southwest.

Otto Braun, the. band instructor, was in Bensselaer today, Tuesday, for a visit with friends and for the purpose of renting a house to be occupied the first of March. He returned to Lowell Sunday, after an absence of six weeks in the southwest, during which time he visited many cities in Arizona and New Mexico and also crossed -into Old Mexico, where at Jaurez he attended the horse races. Betting runs rampant there and no effort is made to stop it. Mr. Braun visited Las Vigas and Albuquerque, N. Mex., Phoenix and Tuscon, Ariz,, and El Paso, Texas. At the lattey place he visited the military prist (named Fort Bliss had a fine time. His health is considerably improved and he believes he will have no further trouble from poor health. / Before he made his trip to the southwest he sold his property at Lowell and after March Ist he will make his home at Rensselaer.