Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1915 — LAWRENCE BAKER VISITS OLD HOME [ARTICLE]

LAWRENCE BAKER VISITS OLD HOME

Prospector From Arizona With Long Hair and Broncho Hat Here to Look After Interests. Lawrence Baker is here from Miama, Arizona, t olook after his interests in the big estate of his father, William P. Baker, who died some two years ago. Lawrence is now about 48 years of age and with the exception of one visit made about ten years ago this is his first visit 'home since he left about eighteen yeai;s ago. It is understood than an with his father caused him to lrave home and for a long time he did not correspond with them and when his father and motner died h§ did not return home to attend the funerals. Next came the death of his brother- ‘ in-law, Taylor Boicourt, but he did not return then. He wrote to an attorney t.odispose of his real estate, half of the fine Baker farm north of town, and other property including a big farm in North Dakota. He borrowed money on his part of the estate and put the land on the market. He is here, he says, to sell it and to look after his crop. __ He came here Saturday wearing a broad-brimmed .cowboy hat with a leather strap about it. His hair has grown long and hangs in curls to liis shoulders. He carried a cane , and to one who did not know him he would have appeared very little, like "the of SIOO,OOO worth of lne real estate. He says that he has been engaged in prospecting and will continue to make his home in the west.