Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Kouts, Too, Was Shut Off From World. [ARTICLE]

Kouts, Too, Was Shut Off From World.

Joseph Luers, of Kouts, who had gone to Chicago to try to get some trace of his father-in-law, who had left Hattiesburg, Miss. on January 10, came to Rensselaer Tuesday night. He was greatly pleased to find that “ Mr. Nowels was safely in Rensselaer. Mr. Luers reports that the highway into Kouts had been blocked, but that the farmers had organized companies and had cleared the roads into Kouts and that the country travel was about normal Tuesday. The two railroads through Kouts were blockaded for a time. The Pan Handle was idle but one day. The Erie had also kept trains running most .of the time. This was done by putting on thtee or four engines and a snow plow on each train. The train on which Mr. Luers went to Chicago had five engines.