Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1915 — Morocco People Not Pelased On Fruit Farms in California. [ARTICLE]

Morocco People Not Pelased On Fruit Farms in California.

The Morocco Courier tells of the return from California after a winter’s stay of J. W. .Smart and wife. Mr. Smart brought with him an air salsa root which resembles, accord- , ing to The Courier,' the root of a good sized osage orange tree. Mr. Smart said the alfalfa roots had been known to grow 200 feet long. The crop there is cut from 6 to 7 times a year and this year the hay sold for $2 to $5 per ton. Mr. Smart indicated that persons who had left Morocco and located in California were not getting along very well. In fact, he cited the case of Z. H. Russell, whom he said had lost SB,OOO in the past two years and was sick and despondent. Hiram Gragg does not like it there and is not doing well financially and desires to sell out and return to the east. There was no market for the fruit 'last year and fine vineyards and apple and peach orchards are being destroyed and the ground put in alfalfa. Mr. Smart visited B. F. Roadruck a few days before Mr. Roadruck’s : > death.

Visiting Day at the Rensselaer Public Schools.

To the patrons of the public schools: As you no doubt remember the Patrons’ Day in the public schools last year was Thursday, February 26th. On that date more than two hundred people visited the schools, but it was the opinion of many that had it been a little later in the year many more would have visited. This year the date is later, being this coming Friday, April 9th. We are sending you this note to remind you that the time is almost here and we are expecting you to spend a part of the day with us. You will be welcome in any of the buildings and rooms. For the convenience of all, will say that the primary building has the first five grades. The grammar or old high school building, the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, also the domestic science and commercial departments, while the new high school building has the high school and manual training departments. The work to be given Friday will be the regular school and not special work’ for that day. In the high school, the last period in the day, beginning at 2:45 p. m., will be given over to one of the regular literary programs which will be in charge of Mrs. Alice Shedd Randle, assisted by Catherine Watson. Besides giving you a chance to see regular, school work we are anxious to have you here for the following reasons: a. To become better acquainted with the teachers. b. To see what we are trying to do. c. To arouse more of an interest in the schools. d. To have you offer any suggestions regarding the work of the schools. Pupils will be on duty in the halls in the different buildings to assist visitors in finding rooms and teachers. If you can only stay fifteen minutes we will be glad to have you stay that long, but stay longer if you can. C. R. DEAN.