Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1901 — Can’t Lose Father Thrawles. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Lose Father Thrawles.

There was something of an excitement here Wednes. night over the supposed fact that our venerable but capable civil engineer, J. C. Thrawles, had got lost in the marshes and underbrush out in Newton tp. He was out near Swaney Makeever’s place, helping a party of viewers lay out a ditoh, When night came on, Mr. Thrawles started to the house, alone, carrying his transit. In the fast gathering gloom, however, he missed the house, and then kept on till he struck the Monan traoks, which he then followed down until he reaohed town. There was never any time when he did not feel able to take care of himself; through there might have been a short period during which he, like the noble red man who had missed his bearings, a few miles, he might have admitted, not that he was lost, but that the wigwam had skewed around a little from where he had left it. He reached home all right, at 8:30, when the fact of his arrival was communicated by telephone to the friends out at the Makeever place, who were then considerably but unnecessarily concerned as to his whereabouts,