Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — A LADY SHOEMAKER. [ARTICLE]

A LADY SHOEMAKER.

Fowler Leader: The American women have followed nearly every vocation that has been tried by man, bat the latest addition of the “new woman” is famished by Perrysville, where they have a lady that works at the bench repairing shoes. The lady is Ella Rabb, a daughter of the late Smith Rabb, and a sister of Judge Joseph M. Rabb, of Williamsport. Her father owned a shoe store and on his death she took charge of it. Last spring the store burned down and all that was saved was a shoemaker’s bench and tools. She rented a room and started in the business of repairing boots and shoes. She is not obliged to follow the trade however, but prefers being busy and is ambitious to make herself useful in the world, and has chosen this method.

O. H. McKay has one of the neatest and cleanest laundries in the state, right here in Rensselaer. The public onght to be prond of it.