People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — The Coat Was Appreciated. [ARTICLE]

The Coat Was Appreciated.

When the goods were recently shipped to the sufferers of drouth stricked Nebraska, W. L. Wishrad put in a good coat, and put a letter in one of the pockets, addressed to the one who should receive the garment, asking for information concerning the * condition of affairs there. The following extracts are from a man 80 years old, who expresses his gratitude for the coat. “I am in the middle of the state, east and west, and have never seen anything to compare with the present conditions. We have raised no grain, or nearly none; corn wont make a bushel per acre; small grain no better; hay none; no vegetables; stock dead on many farms, and the worst yet to come. I shall enter ray eightieth year the 18th of this month, still have a little grub, and in as good condition as most except my age. If any one sees fit to send us something

all right.

T. C. DORMER.

Minden, Nebraska ”