Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — TRAVELED 10,000 MILES AND THROUGH 22 STATES. [ARTICLE]

TRAVELED 10,000 MILES AND THROUGH 22 STATES.

Mr. and Mrs. ’G. W- Gordon of Hobart, Oklahoma, left Monday for Missouri to visit awhile, after which they will proceed to their home. Mrs. Gordon was formerly Miss Rosa Coen, a daughter of Hugh Coen, of Rensselaer, and they have been visiting here for three weeks with the Coens and Yeomans. Mr. (Jordon has been located in Oklahoma for 25 years, long before it was opened for settlement, going there from Texas, and is pretty well supplied with this world’s goods and owns one of the finest homes in Hobart or Kiowa county. He is a typical southern gentleman, and at the request of Superintendent Warren of the Rensselaer schools, made a little talk to the pupils one day last week. When Mr. and Mrs. Gordon get back home they will have made quite an extensive trip, being gone several months and having traveled 10,000 miles—for Mr. Gordon, hebeing called home from Washington by the sickness of one of his daughters by a former marriage—and-. 8,000 miles for Mrs. Coen. They will have been in 22 states, and have visited the Seattle exposition and many other points of Interest 6n their trip.