Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1915 — CAST BOTTLE ON THE WATER [ARTICLE]

CAST BOTTLE ON THE WATER

After Many Days It Came Backfilled to the Neck With Choice Whisky.

Virginia, Minn.—A. B. Coates, a well* known mining man, got a surprise in the express the other day. It was a bottle of 'whisky from a Kentucky distillery that he had not ordered. The odd thing about the gift was that the liquor was in a bottle that Mr. Coates emptied with a party of friends while steaming down the River Nile in Africa about a year ago and threw into the murky stream. In the bottle he had placed a slip of paper bearing his name and address. Someone found the bottle and forwarded It to the distillery, where It was filled and sent to Mr. Coates with the liquor factory’s compliments. The original bottle was presented to Mr. Coates by a local friend when he started on his African trip.