Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — J. J. Montgomery Returned From Southern Trip Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

J. J. Montgomery Returned From Southern Trip Tuesday.

J. J. Montgomery returned Tuesday evening from an eleven days’ river trip. While gone Mr. Montgomery traveled over seventeen hundred miles by water and visited many'of the old historical places of the south. He left Lpuisville, Ky., by boat and went up the Ohio river to Paducah, Ky. From Paducah he went up the Tennesee river to Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing as it is called by the southern people. While there he visited the historic battlefield and also the Shiloh national cemetery, where over four thousand Union soldiers are buried, and also visited the grave of General Johnson. He brought back some of the bullets which were used in the battle. From Shiloh he went to Cornice, Miss., with the intention of taking a boat there for Chattanooga, but was unable to take this trip by boat as there had not been enough rain fall to make it possible to float the boats. During the trip the boat which Jack was on was forced to tie up on account of storms. .He mailed about forty postcards at Shiloh to his Rensselaer friends, but the postoffice was blown down a short time later and none of the mail reached its destination. Mr. Montgomery was in St. Louis and reported that convention prices were prevailing in every line of business.