Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1917 — Women Shuck Corn For Benefit of Church. [ARTICLE]

Women Shuck Corn For Benefit of Church.

There are other ways for raising money for the churches by the women than oyster suppers, cafeteria lunches, Saturday markets, etc., as one section of the Ladies Aid at Otterbein has proved. Forty of the members of the society, all of them prominent ladies in their community, went to the farm of Joe McKinney, near Otterbein, and getting an early start had husked and cribbed 200 bushels of corn by noon. The ladies went into the fields prepared for action, having discarded their cumbersome skirts for overalls and protected their hair by wearing caps. The owner of the corn paid them the top price, ten cents a bushel, and they will have S2O to put into their treasury for the benefit and support of the church. Aside from thejlabor expended it was clear gain.