Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1909 — LETTTER FROM W. B. YEOMAN, [ARTICLE]

LETTTER FROM W. B. YEOMAN,

Columbia City, Ind., Feb. 27. Dear Editor—-Will write a short letter giving a brief description of things here. We got through sooner than we • expected as they put our car on the through freight. We arrived at Raber at 1 o’clock a. m., and got all of our stuff moved the same day by the help of some of our neighbors. We were lucky to get in as good a neighborhood as we left, which is quite an item. The sleet storm was not as bad here as it was with you. It broke a few limbs off the trees, and in Columbia City broke some telephone poles where they were pretty well loaded with wires, but the country lines were not damaged much. Sugar-making is all the go here now. A great many of the farmers have sugar camps and one can see buckets hanging on trees all through the woods. We have a fine lot of trees but did not have time to open our camp this spring. If any of the Rensselaer people want some simon-pure maple syrup they can send me an order and I can get it right from the camp. We like this country first-rate so far. It is a great deal more thlckley settled here than there, and most of the improvements are better. On next Friday, March 5, Whitley county votes on local option, but of course we cannot vote. The supposition is that it will go dry. Yours very truly,

W. B. YEOMAN.