Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — RETURNS FROM AN EXTENDED TRIP. [ARTICLE]

RETURNS FROM AN EXTENDED TRIP.

|sN- S. Schmitter, who left in comliany with Isaac Glazebrook for an overland trip to Texas in Ike’s buggy, returned Saturday evening after a two weeks wandering. They drove only as far as Indianola, 111., where they learned there would be no racing in Texas. Ike’s racing mare was put on pasture near Indianola and they took the train for St. Louis, and from that place to Fort Worth, Brownsville, Huston, Corpus Christi, Point Isabella, Tex., and Matomores, Mex. V Nickffeave up looking for a location with a bakery after a single attempt in Brownsville, where for S6O per month he could have rented a room 9x40. At Fort Worth Ike went to work as a carpenter, getting $3.60 per day for 8 hours work. The unskilled labor in Texas Is chiefly Mexican, and they receive the munificient sum of cents per day for their work The climate, especially at Huston, is swelteringly hot, it being no unusual thing for the mercury to reach 105 degrees early in the day. On the coast the climate is delightful, always a cool breeze from the ocean that keeps the air temperate. Good land is worth from sftO to $l5O per acre near Ft. Worth, and is hard to buy at that price.