Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — Gone to India as a Missionary. [ARTICLE]

Gone to India as a Missionary.

Miss Rose Cox, a former teacher in the Pulaski county schools, started last weak for Yeotmal, in the province of Berar, India, where she) goes as. a missionary of the Free Methodist church. She, is employed for a term of seven years though failing health or anything of that sort, would enable her to terminate the contract sooner. The sfclary is not large, S2O per month and her transportation paid, and also her board while enroute addition to $75 given her to prepare for the trip. Once at her destination she must board herself. She goes with Rev. J. T. Taylor and wife of Chicago and at New York they will be joined, by a Miss Southworth of that state, making a party of four, all going as missionaries. They left New York Saturday going to London where they will take a vet sei for Bombey, from which place they will travel by rail 500 miles and by ox cart fifty miles into the, interior. The trip from New York will require about five weeks’ time.