Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1908 — Letter from Rev. D. A. Tucker, [ARTICLE]

Letter from Rev. D. A. Tucker,

July 80th, 1008. Dear Republican: I promised when at Rensselaer last February that inasmuch as I could not write personally to my many friends in Rensselaer and Jasper county, I would» write« for publication in the dear old RepublicaSvtJd after so long delay I will write a short letter. We ark sweltering with the mercury above 90 degrees, since the 26th and the hpt .weather ia pushing the cprn forward very rapidly and the late corn now bids -fair to make corn. The early planting is promising. 1 With a fail 1 oats erbs/ and bumper hay crop already secured thh outTcfok tot thO farmer is hopefil is a*f@£ tile county and' formerly raise* grgif crops of whtj&t kut for a numffek 1 of yeaiS hds not raisid whisky as thh ci*c# is 1 too uncertain! Tfctf principal crbss heW are haiy, oath and bdrfby. I am the pastf# of Aurbra and Lamdttt Free ; Baptist churches and am getting’ on faiHy weft witfi' my woWc. 1 love tnj pedple and kOobr they reciprocate add appreciate our efforts to 1 help theui to a higher life. Our soil; Lieut BatbA TuCker," Iff located at Santiago, Cuba, and is doing weft.' David Andrew Tucker is attending the surifflfer tefm of school at Chicago University, and will graduate frbfo Parker College situated I'gt' 1 'gt' Winnebago, Mibil. He will teacher also iri J Packer next year. OUr daughter Velma, who taught school at Fair 1 Oaksf lnd-. a few years will graduate on AUfifcst 27 as a trained nurse from Cincinnati Training College, she having taken a three year# course. She is offered a position in the hospital at Rochester, Minn. Fred Is farming In Minnesota, James and Clarence are with us. We anticipate going to the Encampment at Toledo. My addfoss While there will be 426 Oak street, East Toledo. Would'be glad to have the comrades who may'be in attendance to call and see us while 1 thete. D. A. TUCKER.' Aurora, la.''