Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1920 — ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT IS CALLED [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT IS CALLED

Louis S. Alter of Carpenter township received a mesage Monday announcing the death of hia brother, James Leander Alter, at a' hospital in Little Rock, Ark., where Jie had been confined for three months suffering witii tuberculosis. • The deceased was born upon the old Alter farm sixty-one years ago last June and had been a resident of this county all his life. At the age of seven years he suffered an accident in a sorghum mill in whiclr he lost a hand. After reaching manhood he abandoned farming as an occupation, he confined his attention to the selling of small notions which occupation he followed for a period of thirty years. During this time he traveled in every state in. the union, Canada and Mexico. . Mr. Alter** winters were spent in the s'outh and his summers in the north and he made semiannual visits to his old home here. At one time he published a book, descriptive of his travels and the points of interest he had visited. Few, if .any in the United States, have traveled more than Mr. Altera did. v The deceased united with the Methodist church earty in life and tried to live up to his teachings'. Strictly temperate, he never learned the bad habits that young men Tall into. He wiU be remembered by thousands all over the country for tiie religious and temperance cards which he distributed which nunfberer nearly 100,000. Mr. Alter was unmarried, but ass Funeral services were held at Little Rock and burial was made in that city; 1 V-~r