Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — WANTS TO GO BACK TO BURROWS CAMP SAWMILL. [ARTICLE]

WANTS TO GO BACK TO BURROWS CAMP SAWMILL.

Chicago, Sept. Nellie,” said a pert little fifteen-year-old girl, when the police found her in a freight house helping to ship horses, her slim frame enveloped in the dirtiest pair of overalls that ever appeared in the Cook county juvenile court. “Well, what you doin’ in boys’ clothes?” the police asked, and Nellie said she thought it-would be better as long as she was traveling with her brother. “I’m from Indiana,” she explained, “and my and her husband hate me. They don’t likemy brother, either, and he’s George, and he’s twenty-six. He loves me and he’s the only person on earth I love. They took us to the police station, and George had to go out and put the two horses we bought in a stable somewhere. I wish they would let him come and see me,” and the starch seemed to leave the upright figure and it crumpled into a sobbing heap.

“I don’t stay with my sister any more. My brother works at a sawmill in Burrows Camp, Ind., and I help him there. There’s a shanty in the woods and I help cook for all the men who woric there. We need another team and George and 1 came to-buy one. We paid 417bfor two horses on Milwaukee avenue this morning, and it cost so much to ship ’em I toild George to go ahead and send ’em away and sell ’em. I like the sawmill and I like to stay there.” Nefllie said’ she never went to school except through the first grade. “My sister don’t pay no attention to me. She don’t take care o’ me at all. I don’t love her, either,” and Nellie looked desperate. “I just love George and I wish they’d bring him to me.” At the detention home Nellie was placed in the care of Matron Mary Collins.