Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — INDIANA LOOKED GOOD TO HIM. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LOOKED GOOD TO HIM.

Henry Luers Returned Home Tuesday Night From Trip to Germany. Henry Luers of south of Rensselaer, returned Tuesday night from a three months absence i,n Germany. He had but very little trouble in getting out of the country except in securing passage home, all the boats being crowded with citizens of the United states who were anxious to get out of the war zone. He was in London a few days before his boat sailed. He came over on the St. Paul, which was to sail from Liverpool the 12th, but was delayed one day, sailing on the 13th. * His naturalization papers were sufficient to enable him to travel without difficulties. He left Bremen on*,- Sept. 10 and sailed from Liverpool the 13th, arriving in New York Monday. He came directly home, and said that Indiana looked mighty good to him. He had traveled about 5,000 miles almost eontinously. The voyage over was quite rough and many were sea sick, he himself being among the number for a few days. "While Mr. Luers saw none of the active fighting, of course, he saw hundreds of military trains carrying soldiers and munitions of war, prisoners, wounded, etc. One of his sisters has three sons in the German army, while another has two, and still another, one. Mr. Luers’ sympathies are naturally with the Germans, but he thinks that eventually they may be whipped in this gigantic struggle, because of their being so greatly outnumbered, but the allies will find it no easy task to get away with them. This was Mr. Luers’ first visit back to his old home since 1875, and he found much improvement there, both in the country and living conditions. They have fine roads, better farm improvements, the people live better and dress better, and while it used to be that the families in ordinary circumstances only had meat once a day, and were fortunate to have it even then. They now have, plenty of meat and the country seemed very prosperous. Of course the present war will set it back greatly, even though Germany should be victorious. They had good crops there this year, but are now short of feed for stock, especially for hogs, and the price of the latter is about the same as here. Cattle are quite high in price, a little more so than in this country, and almost any knid of a cow will bring SIOO.