Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — VISITING OLD FRIENDS HERE [ARTICLE]

VISITING OLD FRIENDS HERE

Albert Book, a former trustee of Walker township and also a teacher in the Jasper county schools, arrived in t Rensselaer Saturday night and will spend the week visiting friends and old scenes in Jasper county. Albert is now one of the leading and most progressive farm'rs in North Dakota and this is his first visit back to Jasper county in nine years. He is located near M’hot and came through to Chicago with 646 other prominent farmers and stockmen to visit the International Stock show. They came on a special train of two sections and their Pullman cars were parked near the stock show for their use during their stay in Chicago. The train carried dining cars and all convenience for the travelers. Albert is looking well and but little older than when he left Jasper county, although he is some fifty pounds heavier in avoirdupois. Generally speaking crops were rather poor in North Dakota the past season, but were the best- in Albert’s locality of any part of th** state.