Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1904 — Back From Arkansas. [ARTICLE]

Back From Arkansas.

Lewis 8. Alter returned from Arkansas last Monday, Feb. 15th, after two weeks trip on business. His son John J. accompanied him. They stopped over at St. Lon is and visited the Worlds Fair and he says the prospects are for a fair far superior to the one at Chicago. The buildings are well along, Indiana building nearly done. The only nation that has its exhibits on the grounds is the plnokv little Japanese, for pash and enterprize they have no equal outside the United States. The weather in Arkansas was warm and pleasant. Larks, robinl, bine birds and frogs all singing gaily and no question about, them bring gennine meadow larks either as the the country swarmed with them all winter there. Landis still cheap bat rising rapidly io prioe, some bargains in land there yet. No negroes are in that part of the state, largely northern settlers there. Good society and schools. At present lambering is the principal industry. Cattle have been fed but very little and hogs have lived well in the woods all winter as the hickory mast last fall was simply immense.