Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1909 — Letter From S. P. Thompson; Starts Back Home Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Letter From S. P. Thompson; Starts Back Home Saturday.

Dear Republioan: Your visits during our sojourn here ' 'OTI • have kept us in touch with home matters. We will start home via the Northern Pacific on the 12th instant, and reach Rensselaer about the 21st. In this city, within four months, there have been three elections, two bond, waterworks and high school, and one recall. The statute provides that on a petition of twenty per cent of the voters any public officer can be recalled to private life and his successor elected. Mayor Harper was thus supplanted by Mayor Alexander. Another election to determine whether San Pedro and Wilmington shall be annexed so as to' make this city a sea-port city will take place this month. Neither of us have ever been in the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana or North Dakota. Our route passes through each of these states with a day light stop at Portland. We have been kept quite close to our room. Former residents of Jasper have called to see us as follows: Henry Thompson, B. O. Gardner, Ed Purcupile,. Ellas Strong, Charles W. Harding. Winfred Deming and Mrs. M. B. Halstead. We have lodged in the same room since December 22, 1908. Please change our address to Rensselaer on and after your Tuesday issue of April 6th. S. P. THOMPSON, 759 Ottawa St, Los Angeles, Cal.