Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1912 — KANSAS WOMEN BUILD ROAD [ARTICLE]

KANSAS WOMEN BUILD ROAD

Break Rock With Sledge Hammers and Unload Road Material for Indifferent Men. Leans. Kan. Women wielded sledge hammers to break rock for the building of 800 feet of roadway here. Undaunted by the refusal of the men of the town to take up the work of building the thoroughfare, the women enlisted the aid of small boys and unemployed men of neighboring towns, paying the visitors for their work out of their “allowances.” A number of the women also put on "jumpers” and helped unload wagons containing the road material obtained in the vicinity.