Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1907 — AN INTERESTING TRIP. [ARTICLE]

AN INTERESTING TRIP.

Tom and John Bissenden expect to go to Attica next week where they will build them a house-boat and go down the Wabash to the Ohio and thence to the Mississippi, their final destinay tion being Crystal City, Mo. Their boat will be 6x24 feet i n size, fitted up for living, sleeping and cooking, and will be driven by a four-horse power gasoline engine. They will move along by easy stages, tying up at shore at night and stopping at town along their route to canvass for rubber stamps which they will make on the boat. John will be the cook, we understand, and bread, bacon, beans and canned delicacies will constitute the chief articles of diet. It is expected that it will take them about ten days to build and equip the boat and that the trip will take about two months, The “skeeters” will probably interfere somewhat with the pleasure, of the trip, but they will undoubtedly enjoy even these pests.—— —