Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — FIND NEW ORLEANS A VERY DEAD TOWN [ARTICLE]

FIND NEW ORLEANS A VERY DEAD TOWN

Home Seeker* Visit the Crescent City On Sunday and Wish They Hadn’t.

Rex Warner and Earl. Leek returned from their Mississippi trip yesterday. They are well pleased with the country and both may invest in lands there later. The section they visited is badly in lifeed of rain now, and is one of the few .spots in the south which has not had an. excess of rain. The balance of the party have not yet arrived home, but are expected home at any time. Sunday they visited New Orleans but were not pleased with their visit there, as some reformer had been stirring up things there and had forced some of the forgotten blue laws to be put in operation and they could not even buy a post card to be sent home. The streets were deserted on that day, and but few automobiles were seen on the streets. This was in vast contrast to the New Orleans of old, with its population of pleasure seekers and transient population of tourists.