Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1903 — Jasper’s Greatest Traveler.. [ARTICLE]

Jasper’s Greatest Traveler..

James L. Alter, the most ex. tended traveler within the bound of our own country Jasper county ever produced, was in town a few days this week, and is now spenda few days in his old home in Carpenter Tp. From there he Will make the rounds of relatives in Clinton county and South Bend and then strike toward Florida, before the winter gets too sure a cinch. 1 He has been traveling almost constantly for the past ten years, and estimates that his journeying will foot up fully 100,000 miles. On this last triphe has just return ed from, he started in February and went southwestward to Arkansas and then northwestward to Pacific Ocean, and visiting most of the Canadian northwest territories and provinces. On this trip be estimates his travels at about 9000 miles. '* Even before he started this time he had visited every state and territory in the United States, and many places in Mexico and Canada. B e sells books and pictures as he goes along and uot only pays his expenses thereby, but, always comes back with money to the good. In all his journeys he has never lx en in a railroad wreck.

As he goes along he describes the country in a rhyming narrative and this poetical history of his travels will make quite a book, and this he intends soon to have published. It will be illicfttrated by numerous pictures of places he has seen. James is now on the sunny side of 45, though he looks ten years younger. * He has never stayed long enough in one place to get married, but after he gets his book in press he may have a tew weeks of leisure to devote to the matrimonial question. ‘tv* 33-. o _