Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Earl Clouse was in Chicago today. Maude Daugherty has sold her Overland automobile to W. T. Hankins, of Barkley township. Ruth Ames is spending a two weeks’ vacation with friends and relatives at Indianapolis and Madison. Miss Minnie Tinkham, of Wheatfield, came today to attend the county teachers’ institute. The Home Economics Club will meet in the auditorium of the public library Saturday at 2 p. m. In yesterday’s list of casualties was the name of Thomas McCarty, of English Lake. He is a nephew of Lemuel McCarty, of Rensselaer. Mrs. E. L. Clark returned to Lafayette today, afte ra two weeks’ visit here. Word has been received by Mrs. F. D. Burchard that her husband has been promoted to first lieutenant and is at Jacksonville, Fla.

Will Porter, who is running a plantation down near Liberty, Miss., is a hustler, and is generally way ahead of the native Southerner when it comes to getting in crops. The other day he had his first bale of cotton ready to take to the gin and he got up at 3 o’clock in the morning in order, as he said, to get to the gin before anyone else, and thereby avoid a long wait. When he arrived at the gin he found twenty-six wagons in line waiting their turn arid he took his place the twenty-seventh in line. As it takes nearly an hour to gin a bale it was after 6 o’clock in the evening before be was ready to start for home, hungry and not in the best of humor. He says there is one time that the native Southerner gets a move on, and that is at ginning time. They have a good crop of cotton but are finding great difficulty in getting sufficient help to pick it, as the war has made labor in the South very scarce.