Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — Down Where the Darkies and Cotton Grow. [ARTICLE]

Down Where the Darkies and Cotton Grow.

Mrs. Sadie Galbraith writes to have their Democrat changed from Rensselaer to Elaine, Ark., and says: “We are right down here among the darkies and cotton fields. The queer little shacks of the negroes look very funny. - They plow with one mule only and plow right in among the trees, i When night is On one wouldn't know there were any negroes, but about daylight they spring right up from everywhere. “We are down in the Mississippi bottoms where the water overflowed when the levee broke. It must have been an awful place. It washed the railroad out. Just been running about a week. The water was six feet deep in the houses.”