Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — HOME FOR VACATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME FOR VACATION.

Everybody works these days, even poor old father. Mother has quit taking in washing, and so has sister Ann, and no more la the pljUe of clay doing ‘ overtime'’ between the teeth of the old man. Press wires are carrying the news all over the United States that labor never was so scarce in the country districts. North, East, South and West, the cry is going up that there are not enough farm hands to gather craps. Wheat, cotton, oats, hay, everything is suffering for want of harvesters or caretakers.. Women are obliged to get into

the fields, and farmers' wives and daughters are working side by side with the men of the families. Percy 11 oppergHTSS; son of the wealthy farmer, has had to lay aside his tennis racket., golf sticks, fishing tackle and cigarettes to get busy tying' wheat, hauling hay and all such menial tasks. He has to work every bit as hard as his mother or sister, i ight out In the hot sun, too, side by side with them. This shows to what straits farmers are" be!ng put.—f ’hicinnati Post. ---