Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — Farm Help a Scarce Commodity [ARTICLE]

Farm Help a Scarce Commodity

Farm help promises to be scarce and is becoming quite a problem to the farmers of this vicinity, yet free employment bureaus say the farm hand is better paid than the average city employee. Few farmers offer less than S3O per month and board, room and laundry added with other emoluments. Acording to figures giv en by an Illinois bureau it costs a man in the city $1 a day for his meals, sl2 a month for his room and $3.25 for his laundry every thirty days. This, it is calculated, amounts to $45.25 a month, and clothing is left out of the consideration. The city m?,n who receives S2O to $25 a week does not have as much money left at the end of the month as the farm hand who has $35 a month with the extras included, the employment bureau officers figure. The General Van Rensselaer Chapter D. A. R. will met with (Mrs. A. F. Long on Monday afternoon, March 26, Mr. A. W. Coen of Chicago will talk on “The Home.” Mrs. G. H. Jones of Redkey who has been herewith her daughter Miss Margaret Jones, sister of Mrs. F. D. Burchard, went to Monticello to spend the day with relatives. Miss Jones has ben quite sick ever since her arrival here some two weeks ago. Stallion Record Books on I sale at The Republican office.