Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — H. E. WADE WELL PLEASED WITH NEW HOME. [ARTICLE]

H. E. WADE WELL PLEASED WITH NEW HOME.

In a letter to John G. Culp, Harry Wade writes from Deerbrook, Miss., amr*says he is well pleased with the country there and. thinks it has a great prospect. He has 20 acres of corn planted that is now coming up, and he is sowing 80 acres of alfalfa. He states that he has been offered S4O per acre for the 550 acres of land he recently purchased there, or SSO per acre for the best 200 acres of it. He paid but S3O per acre. Harry has several negroes working for him, some of whom he pays sl2 per month and a peck of corn meal and six pounds of bacon per week. Others he is paying 75 cents per day, they boarding themselves, of course.