Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — FORMER RENSSELAER TEACHER DOES HER “BIT” [ARTICLE]

FORMER RENSSELAER TEACHER DOES HER “BIT”

Mrs. Elizabeth Kaub, who formerly taught several years in the Rensselaer primary department, writes from Watertown, Wis., where for the last 4% years she has made her home with her son Verne, who graduated from the high school here in 1908. , v She says she wanted to feel that she was helping in the world’s work of saving, serving and conserving, so she is working with the Watertown Canning Company, a plant which employs over 200 workers, the larger part of which are girls and women. As in everything else, the women have taken up the work of the men, who are serving their country “over there.” More than twice as many women are employed this year than last year. The season only lasts from four to six weeks, but the output is tremendous. So far this season the largest number of cans put up in one day (24 hours) was 186,000 July 3rd. There are two sets of workers, one who works days and the other at night. Besides the main plant here in the city, there ,are five outlying stations, called vineries, where the peas are shelled by machinery. After being delivered there -by the farmers in wagon loads like hay. # The equipment and facilities for quick work are truly wonderful and the WatertoWn brand of peas are shipped all over the world. You may find yourself eating some of them during the coming months. In considering the results of such a great industry, there is satisfaction in the thought; “I helped.” Mrs. Kaub states that her health . is better than it has been for several years.