Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1916 — A. L. Bouk, of North Dakota, Visiting Here. [ARTICLE]

A. L. Bouk, of North Dakota, Visiting Here.

Albert L. Bouk, of Minot, N. Dak., arrived in Rensselaer Idst Saturday. He ccme down from his home to Chicago with about two hundred other prosperous Dakota farmers to take in the International Stock Show. This parey traveled in Pullmans in two special trains. The cars were parked near the show and the farmery made them thir home -while in the city. Prosperity has come to these farmers right and they are enjoying it, as they should. Mr. Bouk has three hundred and twenty acres of choice land and has had splendid success since he went west. He had a fine crip this year and he still has twenty-three hundred bushels of wheat for which he will receive about two’Tlollars a bushel. Mr. Bouk, while here, is visiting his wife’s father, N, S. Bates, also the family of his wife’s sister, Mrs. Jennings Wright. Later in the week he will go to Walker township to visit with relatives and old friends. Mr. Bouk -was for a number of years one of Jasper county’s very best school teachers. He served a tprm as trustee of Walker township. Since going west he has added to his weight about forty pounds. He is, along with his material prosperity, enjoying the very best of health.