Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — AUTO JOURNEY THROUGH OHIO [ARTICLE]

AUTO JOURNEY THROUGH OHIO

Mrs. Alda Parkinson and Guests Have Delightful Trip. .Mrs. Alda Parkinson returned Tuesday night from a very pleasant auto trip to various points in Ohio. She'was accompanied by Miss Mary Yates and Mrs. Stella Ketchum of this city and Mrs. Smith of Lafayette, with Bert Avis as chauffeur. They left here on Friday morning, visiting Sidney, West Liberty, Zanesfield, Columbus, Cleveland, Delaware, Bowling Green and other points in Ohio, covering a distance' of about 1,000 miles. At West Liberty Mrs. Parkinson visited the locality where her mother was born and raised and also * where her grandfather and grandmother Spry werb buried. She met while there a Mi's. Avaline Magoon and her son Elmer, Mrs. Magoon being an old schoolmate of her mother, and the’only resident who still resided there at the same time as her mother. At Zanesfield they visited the General Simon Kenton, a distant relative of her father’s people, and Isaac Zane 'monument, a large brown stone monument with the name of General Simon Kenton engraved on one side and Isaac 2ane on the other, they being two of the most prominent early settlers and Indian fighters of that section. Mrs. Parkinson took a kodak picture of the monument. They reached Columbus Saturday afternoon, visited the state capitol building and other points of interest, going from there to Delaware, where they spent Saturday night. At this point they visited the old home of forme/ President Rutherford B. Hayes, which is still standing. On Sunday

they went to Cleveland, where they spent Sunday night with a friend of Mrs. Parkinson, Mrs. Fuhrmeyer, who, with her daughter, accompanied them on a drive about the city on Monday morning, pointing out the places of interest. They drove down Euclid avenue, said to be one of the most beautiful avenues in the United States. Along this avenue are many fine c’d brick residences w?/ch are nowbeing used as Red Cross headquarters and homes for officers • and soldiers; They saw two companies of soldiers/ one white and one colored, drilling at the camp there. Just before getting to Cleveland they passed by the famous Oberlin college and campus, which is. one of the most beautiful places they saw. anywhere on their trip. They came home by way of Cedar Point and Bowling Green, reaching here about 11:30 Tuesday night They report the corn all through Indiana as being very good, better than in Ohio, but fields after fields of wheat and oats in Ohio that were very fine. They were told that new wheat was selling there at $2.10 per bushel.