Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1908 — WENT VISITING WITH MOTHER [ARTICLE]

WENT VISITING WITH MOTHER

Eleven Years Old Son of Will Hoover Went to Delphi and Father Thought He Was Skating. Great alarm was felt by Will Hoover and many of his friends and relatives last Saturday, when no trace of his 11 years old son could be found for several hours, but he was finally located in Delphi, to which place he had gone with his mother on the Saturday afternoon tiain. Mrs. Hoover had planned a visit to Delphi and Victor, the son, had planned to buy himself a pair of skates. Mr. Hoover took his wife to the train and then drove away as the team lie had was spirited and he did not want them to be near the depot when the train came in. Shortly after he had leit the depot the boy put in his appearance there and coaxed his mother into taking him to Delphi with her. She telephoned to a relative to have her husband notified, but the message was forgotten, and when Mr. Hoovei and his other son arrived home at about 4 o’clock and did not find Vic, they felt uneasy. They knew he had purchased a pair of skates and that he had planned to go skating on the big slough, and they traced his movements to the purchase of the skates, but there lost track of him. Mr. Hoover visited the slough, and there was a big hqle broken in it and he easily surmised that the boy had been drowned there Several persons in town were sure they had seen the lad during the afternoon, and following the departure of the 2:04 train, and all circumstantial evidence pointed to his having been drowned. Mrs. Hoover had no thought other than that Will knew where the boy was and Will was afraid to call her and notify her of the boy's disappearance, for fear of tin effect it would have on her, and be instituted a search and the news of the boy’s absence spread all over town. Finally, at about 9 o’clock the story of alarm reached the ears of the party that was to have called Will up, and the belated message was then delivered and it brought the search to a happy conclusion and eased the mind of the diefl traoted father. The chap returned home Sunday afternoon to be ready for school Monday morning, and he was not aware of all the anxiety he had occasioned.