Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — FROM NORTH CAROLINA. [ARTICLE]

FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

‘ln a letter to her mother, Mrs. Wm. Warren, of Walker tp., Mrs. Hattie Grube writes interestingly from Chadbourn, K.; C., where her husband, who is a civil engineer, now employed by the Brett Engineering Co., is at present located. ‘ Mrs. Grube

will be. remembered by many Rensselaer people as Miss Hattie Warren, as she formerly resided here with her parents. Mr. Grube ns superintending the building of a Big ditch and has 114 men at work under him. It has been very hot and dry there. New potatoes have been on the market for some time and being shipped north./ Everyone who had oats cut them a month ago. Nearly all edibles are shipped in to Chadbourn. Butter is 35c a pound and not plenty at that. Indiana is a paradise. Mrs. Grube says “compared to some other places,” and we presume she means North Carolina. All the women do down there is to sit around and wear fine clothes, the men drive about <and take it easy while the “niggers” do all the work. “It seems strange,” she writes, “not to have any Decoration day, and will have no Fourth of July either, but Ben will get off that day and we plan, to spend the day at some lake.” At the end of the job on which Mr. Grube is nOw employed he will get a month’s * vacation, which they will spend with their relatives in northern Jasper.