Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — THE GOOD LAND MUSEUM MAN [ARTICLE]

THE GOOD LAND MUSEUM MAN

Drives Over to See Mastodon Head Unearthed at Newland. Attorney A. D. Babcock of Goodland, who has a most interesting collection of antiquities which he has been gathering for the past 36 years, read in The Democrat about the finding of a mastodon’s head in dredging the Oliver ditch, near Newland, last week, and drove over Wednesday afternoon to see same. He pronounced ft a very good specimen, Indeed, but was afraid that It would be completely ruined unless means were taken to preserve It by covering it with a few coatß of coach varnish to keep the air from dlslntregating the bones. Bones that have been burled a long tfme crumble up and decay sometimes very rapidly after becoming exposed to the air. Mr. Ward, who found this head, was offered SIOO for it, It is Bald.. No further search has been made for the rest of the skeleton, The Democrat was informed Wednesday evening.