Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — Letter From Jerome Andrus. [ARTICLE]

Letter From Jerome Andrus.

Under date of April 11, J. G. Andrus writes from Shelby, Mich., in renewing has subscription, and among other things says: "We are having fine, weather now and everybody is getting busy as we have had a very backward spring aifter a very long cold winter, but I- guess we will pull through until grass comes if nothing happens. Snow was very deep here last winter. People here don’t shovel any more snow* than they have to, but keep climbing on top of it. I had a path to the barn that was about four feet above 1 the ground. We are right in the* snow belt. ' “I guess we wiD have lots of apples if nothing happens from now on. Other fruit is hurt, some very badly. “How do you folks like to eat potatoes this spring? They must* taste good. I tell you it makes us 1 feel good to get a dollar a bushel. I Not like selling for 10 cents per bushel. “We are now taking out our apples from under the snow, as nice as last fall. The snow was five feet' deep. “We turned the republicans upside down this spring. They didn’t* get a smetl in our township at the spring election, although it is very strong republican.”