Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — Hanging Grove Tp. Man In Cuba. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove Tp. Man In Cuba.

George W. Hobson of Hanging Grove tp., recently went to Cuba on business, and under date of Feb. 14 wrote a brief letter to E. S. Rhoads; the grocer, and Mr. Rhoads permits us to publish this letter, which follows:

Sante Fe, Isle of Pines, Feb. 14. My Good Friend Mr. Ed Rhoads: I am having the trip of my life, arrived at Havana on time. Passed through the narrow entrance of that old Spanish harbor. Our boat stopped over the point where the Maine was sunk. After the doctor took our temperatures and felt of our pulse, we landed jn the old and very beautiful city of Havana, spent only a half day there and then went on the Isle of Pine, the finest place in all Cuba. I have seen more oranges and grape fruit in the groves than you would sell in ten years. Climate fine, much like June. People mostly Americans. All went to Church except the natives, they went to a cock fight, which occurs here only on Sunday. I was quite sea sick on my way over but lived through it and am fieling extra fine now-. Respectfully, GEO. W; HOBSON.