Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1918 — WILL HELP HARVEST CROP [ARTICLE]

WILL HELP HARVEST CROP

RENSSELAER BUSINESS MEN WILL ASSIST FARMERS * / IN HARVEST. A movement has been started in this city to assist the Jasper county farmers in the harvest fields. Arrangements are forming to ask the farmers to let their wants be known and the men of the city will arrange to give them all the assistance needed. —• Never in the history of this good county has such a harvest been promised the farmers. It will take a great amount of work to prepare and take care of this almost assured bumper crop. At this time of the year the men in the city are not so busy and are perfectly well, yes, anxious to help save the crops of the farmers. The demand for economy is becoming so severe that many of the business men of the city can spare some of thbir help and let it go to the needed industries of the county. While the business men of all towns and cities are being hard hit, great prosperity is assured the farmers. They have products that are needed in the prosecution of the war and everything must be done to make those products as plentiful as possible. We find that this movement of cooperatidn between the rural and city people is spreading all over the country and we clip the following from today’s Chicago Tribune: Lowell, Ind., June 10.—This town of 1,800 people will close up its business houses two days a week during July and August and the bulk of its merchants, clerks and professional men will help the surrounding farmers harvest their crops because of the shortage of labor, according to plans which became known today.