Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — To Help Nebraska Sufferers. [ARTICLE]

To Help Nebraska Sufferers.

A PUBLIC MEETING CALLED. A successive failure of crops over a very large portion of western Nebraska, and of adjoining territory in other states have left the population without food to keep themselves and helpless children from starvation, and without money to buy fuel to keep them from freezing. Their horses, their cattle and their hogs are all sold or given away or killed, for the earth produced nothing by which they could be fed. Even their wagons and their farming implements have been sold in many cases, for means to sustain life a little longer. The extent, of this destitution is appalling in its magnitude. Over whole tracts of populated country as large as some eastern states, men have traveled and beheld only the “blackness of desolation” and the barrenness of the desert We know of no people in this whole land that have been better blessed with abundance this year, than those of Jasper county. Let us then do something for this cause and do it at once. Atfthe request of citizens, a public meeting has been called for Friday evening of this week, at the court house, in Rensselaer. Let it be well attended.