Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Girl Follows a plow [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Girl Follows a plow

Migs Kate Thomsen, a pretty sixteen year-old girl, has been freed from farm work by an edict of court, says an Omaha telegram. Judge Vinsonhaler has appointed John F. Odefey her guardian. Last fall Miss Thomsen rebelled against hard work on her father’s farm and came to Omaha, securing the position of companion of Mrs, Odefey. The girl’s father demanded her return or the $3 she received weekly. Odefey applied to the court to be made the girl’s guardian, claiming that her father had forced her

from her home by cruel treatment. She performed, she says, the work of a common farm laborer, such as following the plow and making and The Judge d^l F ed that if this was the custom he would give no encouragement to making farm hands of Nebraska girls.