Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. RETURN FROM TRIP TO COAST Speedometer Shows Over 12,000 Miles Traveled by Remingtonians. John W. Taylor of Remington, accompanied by his son Russel and daughter, Miss Stella, passed througn Rensselaer Sunday afternoon on their way home from an extendeo automobile trip to the Pacific coast, and the speedometer on their car when they reached Rensselaer showed that they had traveled 12,004 miles since they left Remington 10 months ago. They made the entire trip in their Oakland car, and while traveling camped out practically all ot the time.

Their car was decorated with many old automobile license plates of different states they had passed through and which they had picked up as souvenirs. They tried to get a plate from each state, but mtlssed a few. The front of the radiator of the car was also decorated with fr pair of mammoth elk antlers wired thereto and which Russel had secured by chopping them from the head of an elk he had found dead on one of the mountains. Readers of The Democrat will remember the Interesting account of the going trip of the Taylors, which was published in this paper several months ago, and of the mention In that article of a Shepherd dog which had taken up with them while they were on the road in California and was still with them when that letter was written. Well, this dog accompanied them all the way back to Indiana and also os all their journeys in California and the Pacific coast country, riding contentedly on the running board and apparently enjoying himself as much as did the occupants of the car. The Taylors left Long Beach. Calif., last April and have since visited in Portland, Seattle and other coast cities, traveled through Yellowstone national park, spending about two weeks there, and visited many other points of interest and stopped again in Montana on their way home. While all were cqnslderably tanned of course, from their long tirp and out-of-door life, they were looking fine and Miss Stella, whose health was quite poor when they left here, has apparently fully recovered and has gained 13 pounds in weight. They enjoyed the trip immensely as a whole and saw practically everything that was worth seeing along the route.