Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1915 — TRAVELS WITH MULES; TALKS PROHIBITION [ARTICLE]

TRAVELS WITH MULES; TALKS PROHIBITION

Walter Reason and Wife and Daughter On Overland Trip From the i Yellowstone Park. Traveling by means of a mule team and giving stereopticon lectures in the cause of national prohibition is the occupation of Walter Reason. His wife and daughter are traveling with him. Mr. Reason and family arrived in Rensselaer today, Friday. They are a pair of mules hitched to a prairie schooner. But this is the only kind of schooner that Mr. Reason thinks shouW be tolerated. He is bitterly opposed to the kind that is used in bar rooms and he lectures against crime of the liquor traffic. According to his story he purchased his traveling outfit at Missoula, Mont., and has driven all the way from there* a distance which he estimates at 2,300 miles. He delivers his lectures in country churches and schoolhouses and in the public halls of small towns* taking up a collection to aid in their traveling expenses. They have a fully equipped camping outfit. They cook their own ineals and have beep enjoying the best of health. Mrs. Reason’s maiden name was Mary Sharp and she lived here when a girl, her father being Henry’ Sharp. She is related to the Richards families and they will spend a few days here visiting them. They expect to start back to the west within a week or so

and he will spend several months lecturing in Minnesota. N. C. Shafer returned yesterday from a business trip to Chicago and Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Lewis and daughter, and Mrs. C. J. Hobbs and Mrs. P. A. LaFond, of Kersey, motored to Rensselaer this afternoon in Mr. Lewis’s new Studebaker Six. Rev. Parrett was down from Hammond Friday and performed the marriage of Miss Bessie May Darrow and Mri John Humphrey, of Wolcott. They will reside on a fym belonging to the bride’s father.