Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — EDITOR GOES TO NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

EDITOR GOES TO NEW YORK

Will Spend * Few’ Weeks Amid Scenes of His Hoyhood. Editor and Mrs. F. E. Babcock and son, D. J. Babcock, left Rensselaer Wednesday morning in their Hudson auto for New York state, where they will spend a few weeks among the scenes of the former’s boyhood, visiting a sister and two brothers and other relatives in Otsega county. They also plan to visit other places of interest there, with possibly a side trip into Massachusetts. From Rensselaer they were accompanied as far as Fort Wayne by G. M. Babcock, and between here and there they encountered some rather muddy roads and considerable rain, like conditions existing as far east as Defiance, Ohio, according to a card received here from the travelers. One other noticeable feature of the first stages of the journey—the crops being about the same to somewhat poorer than here —was the increase in the number of hogs on the farms after leaving this immediate vicinity.