Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — Aged Couples’s Long Travels. [ARTICLE]

Aged Couples’s Long Travels.

With plenty of money at their disposal and more in a bank at home, John and Maria Skinner, seventy-eight and seventy-seven years old respectively, and married for half a oentury, are traveling from Los Angeles, Cal., by wagon, drawn by a pair of steady farm horses, and have arrived at South Chicago, where they intend to rest for a day or two. The couple will then oontinue their travels on eaßt. ward to see tho country and experience the delight of out door life, their ultimate object being to discover the whereabouts of an old army comrade of Mr. Skinner.