Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1917 — Is Well Contended With New Home In Mississippi [ARTICLE]

Is Well Contended With New Home In Mississippi

! The following is an excerpt from I a letter, written by Harve J. Robinson, who is now located on a farm near Liberty, Mississippi: “We are breaking new land for cotton now. The wheat, oats and rye looks fine. We planted the spring wheat and flax a few days ago. We will set out the fyuit trees in the morning. The ‘niggers’ are all gone now. They take a full week for Xmas. We have 45 or 50 chickens now. We set two hens' already, Fate Spears, the negro, and his family, and going to be with us and will move soon. We have moved, but are not straightened up yet. We have so much furniture, we don’t know what to do with it all. The Eonies are doing fine, and are in the ig, pasture. We have had over a week of the finest weather. It was warm and nice out. We got a good rain Xmas eve and also a cold wave today. We hunted Xmas day and had a fine mess of birds (quail) today. I decided my gun was too much ‘choke’, so cut off two inches of the barrel and can hit' nearly all the birds I shoot at now. We don’t get time to hunt much, but usually take Saturday afternoon off and get a mess for Sunday. I haven’t been homesick a minute and never have been any place where I felt better or more contented. There was a bunch went fox hunting the other night, and as I usually try everything once, I went along, riding Mr. Lea’s horse. We rode eight or ten miles to the place, six of us, with seven fox hounds. On the road it rained and all the trails we found were ‘cold’. I felt like I was split from my feet to my neck when I got home at 2:30 in the morning, and have decided to hunt on foot in the future.”