People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Laborers at a Premium. [ARTICLE]

Laborers at a Premium.

Arcola, 111., Aug. 29. —Broom-corn hands are at a premium in this locality. Monday night’s Vandalia train brought an extra coach filled with men looking for work and by midnight over 200 strangers were in the city By 9 o’clock Tuesday morning not an idle man was in town. Eyery train that comes into the city is met by farmers who are looking for help to harvest their crops before it gets too ripe. Tuesday night’s Illinois Central fast mail brought in about 100 men and they were all hired before the train left the station Five hundred more broopi-corn cutters could find work here at once.