Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — FOR NEBRASKA SUFFERERS. [ARTICLE]

FOR NEBRASKA SUFFERERS.

A meeting satikbay afternoon. Though the charitably disposed . people of the country Lave done much to relieve the destitution in Western Nebraska, yet so great was the work to be done, so large was the scope of afflicted country, that much still remains to be done. Over an area nearly as large as the whole state of Indiana, the crops have tot’-’ ally failed, two years in succession, and the population must be support-1 ed until they~~can raise this year’s crop, and they must also be furnished seed for their land and feed for their teams. Mr. S. B. Yeoman, a former resident of this county, now of Elwood, Gosper county, Neb., from the very center of the douth district, is now here, in the interests of these suffering people, and at a meeting to be held at the court house, at 2 j>. m., next Saturday afternoon, March 16, fie wiirtell us, of his own positive knowledge, the exact facts of the situation. The meeting should have a good attendance both from town and country.