Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Samuel Holmes Writes Agaiu From Jamestown, North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Samuel Holmes Writes Agaiu From Jamestown, North Dakota.

I thought probably I d wattle ijiy we are still existing. Well the Hoosiers In these parts are an enjoying good health as far da 1 know, except brother Sidney and he is slowly able. We have had eight inches of snow and the temperature has been 16 degrees below aero. It froze jap in October and stopped fall plowing. Quite a number of farmers have sown Winter rye in this locality, as it has been a paying crop of late. There will be lots of this years flax and oats to thrash yet in the spring as the snow came too early to complete 'this fait ~ -7-"777-There was some real good corn raised in North Dakota this year and quite a lot Is in the field yet The wheat was very short around Jamestown. We notice in the papers that quite a number of Hoosiers have returned to God’s country, some because their wives .were homesick, some because their wife’s people were there and others because they had lost out financially. It Is amusing to read about the reason assigned by some, notably a prominent Hamilton redl estate agent. Probably I will be offering my reasons at some future time. Roy Scott and James Stanley left for home on the 20th. Stanley went ■to Pleasant Hill, Tenn., before returning to Rensselaer. Both have good jobs running a gasoline plow outfit next year and they will return here In the spring. Miss Emma Nelson, of Larimore, who has been visiting Bertha and Ethel Holmes and.other Hoosier friends, returned home the 21st There were good crops around Larimore this year. / As ever, an earnest reader of the good old Repubncan, _ ’7'^ it^’r SAMUEL HOLMES.