Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1914 — Visits Old Home For First Time in Ten Years. [ARTICLE]

Visits Old Home For First Time in Ten Years.

E. J. Hurley arrived Thursday evening from Spokane, Wash., where he has lived for the past ten years. This is (his first trip back to his old home, which was northeast of Rensselaer on the farm now owned by his cousin, Willis Hurley. Since he located in Spokane Mr. Hurley has been engaged in the carpentet business and his trip at this time is to attend the national conven-’ tion of carpenters which is to convene at Indianapolis on Sept. 21st. Ed will visit his brother, John, west of town; his cousins, Willis and Clarence, the latter in Walker township, and his father, Jacob Hurley, in Clinton county, before the convention. Business in Spokane is not good but there has been some building all of the time and Spokane has continued to grow and thrive. Oh his way here Mr. Hurley stopped off for a short visit with C. D. Norman, at Willow Creek, Mbnt. “Doss” is living on a farm of 320 acres and is raising flne crops and enjoying prosperity. He spent two or three years in the Dakotas after leaving here and now wishes he had gone direct to Montana. ♦