Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities* BAD CONDITIONS IN BOHEMIA But People Hope for Better Times, ' Writes Mrs. Dvorak. Joe Kosta of Union township has received his first letter since the war closed from Mrs. Dvorak, his only sister, residing at their old home hi Bohemia. Her husband, a village blacksmith, was forced into the Austrian army in the beginning of the war. He, with 100,000 other Bohemians, was willLpgly captured by the Russians. Then, with the rest of his countrymen, <he enlisted in the Czeeho-Slovak army and kept on fighting In Russia until about a year ago, when she last heard from him. She writes that prices of food and clothing are almost prohibitive in Bohemia. Rye has sold as high as 600 crowns per bushel, and the clothing is in most part made of paper. She writes of many old schoolmates of Joe’s and their sons who gave up their lives for their country. However, now the people there are living in hopes of better times since they have gotten their freedom. Those not loyal to the new republic lost their land, Includiiu; the emperor. .