Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1920 — CHAUNCEY WOOD FEELING SORRY FOR US [ARTICLE]

CHAUNCEY WOOD FEELING SORRY FOR US

In writing from McAllen, Texes, to which place he went about a year and a 'half ago, Chauncey Wood has the following to say about his adapted Ethiopia: Dear Friend:— Find enclosed check for two dollars for which extend our subscription for one year. We want to see how cold it gets, and feel very sorry for you when coal gets scarce. We are getting along nicely and the weather is ideal here. Farmers are planting corn, cotton and broom corn. We have a little corn about three inches high. Our strawberries are beginning to ripen now, and in a few days the early orange blossoms will be coming out. Excursionists are coming into the Valley every day and land is getting higher. I see Mrs. Parkinson quite often. The Chamber of Commerce at McAllen gave a banquet a few evenings ago and raised over <20,000 by subscription for the developing of the town. Don't you think that looks as if there is something to the country? Would like to trade- you a strawberry Short-cake for a snowball. Yours truly, CHAUNCEY WOOD.