Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1916 — Miss Grace Peyton Writes From Palma Soriano in Cuba. [ARTICLE]

Miss Grace Peyton Writes From Palma Soriano in Cuba.

Palma Soriano, Ote., May 14, 1916. The Republican, Gentlemen: For some time I have intended renewing my subscription with you but have put off doing so until quite late. I sincerely hope I shall not have lost any numbers. We are in the midst of a Cuban “temporal” at present. Hoosiers in Indiana have no idea of what rain is in comparison to this. Can you imagine three and one-half days and three nights during which the rain has not stopped for more than one hour at a time, and enough clouds in the sky for three days more? But quite often these storms last a week or ten days. Soon I shall have finished one year in Cuba, and what a busy, happy year it has been, and a year full of all sorts of experiences and changes. My work in church and school is progressing as well as can be expected under our many perverse circumstances. We have just three more weeks of school; then come three months of language study, preparations for next year, and rest. I expect to divide my time between Palma Soriano and El Cristo, and instead of “resting”, to visit points of beauty and interest in ! this part of the island. Lately I passed a‘convention week in Las Tunas, where I learned much of the Baptist work in Cuba, finding we have a quite extensive work and a corps of. workers, both American and Cuban, of whom our denomination may be Las Tunas was almost entirely destroyed during the Spanish-American war, and even yet has many ruins, which are rapidly being replaced by new structures. Here, too, we saw side by side the old thatched-roofe I huts and the modem brick buildings, the old and the new. f am awlays deeply interested in the news of your columns, and wish now to extend through these same columns regards to my Rensselaer and Jasper county friends. Sincerely,

GRACE PEYTON.