Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Mis. C. V. Hamacher Writes Interesting- Letter From Texas. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 21, 1918. Editor Babcock, Dear Sir:-—Am Writing -to have you change the address of my paper from Cuervo, New Mexico, to El Paso,* Texas, 807 N. Kansas St. Have not received the last few papers and I miss the old Jasper county news. I have enjoyed very much the letters from our boys in service. My brother, Fermon Schultz, is in the service in France, but I have noP heard from him since. September 6. El .Paso is a pretty city and the weather here is grand. Everything is nice and green. I am out here for my health. It certainly is an ideal place for sick people and there are a lot of them here, to©. The influenza has been quite bad and has spread again considerably after the “peace’’ celebration here. Fort Bliss is still undpr quarantine. I’ve gained 16 pounds in two months so you see the..climate here agrees with me. We were on a government claim in New Mexco with my. husband’s fatn'er for a month. I don’t like the prairies, or deserts, rather. I would 'rather have a sandhill on my Daddy’s farm than a whole 320 acre government claim. You can at least raise soup beans on the sandhills in good old Jasper. It is awful hard to raise a slim half crop of “mile ’o maze’’ Cane, and freeholders (Mexican beans), or Sudan grass, and it takes acres and acres to graze just a few cattle. They call it dry land farming, and if they get a little snow during the winter months, they get out with a sort of plow and do what they call “listing” (plowing the snow under), and the ground holds the moisture longer. Many

claims are given up because the people can’t make a living and the means of educating the children is so poor. Of all the country I’ve seen in my traveling this far, nothing or none of it compares with our dear old 'Hoosier State.. It will be a happy day for us when “Our Boys’’ come home. "Got wasn’t with the Old Kaiser” after all, was He? Wish I was one of the U. S._ A. boys marching toward Berlin so I could sing with them, “Hail! Hail! the Gang’s All Here.” Greeting to all my friends in .Jasper. • .MRS. C. V. HAMACHER. Editor’s Note—Mrs: Hamacheir is a daughter of August R. Schultz, a well known German farmer of Union township.