Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1897 — Situation Serious. [ARTICLE]

Situation Serious.

Wolcott Enterprise: One who recently passed through the country known as the Gifford lands north of here about twenty miles, states that the sight is one that appeals most strongly to man's sympathies. The residents are renters and their crops are entirely destroyed by the late spring rains, and later by the dry weather and frosts, and many will be in a suffering condition before winter. Many of the people have not str nickle with which to buy the necessaries of life and without grain or stoek to sell the situation is indeed a Serious one for them. If this is really true, and our informant is a reliable gentleman, our people who have enjoyed an abundance of the necessities for keeping soul and body together, can easily spare of earnings to help their fellowmen, thus filling the scriptural injunction to “give to the poor,” and the reward will be greater blessings to those who give.