Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-10-03
Letter From Canal Winchester. Ohio.

Letter From Canal Winchester. Ohio.
To The Jimplccute:
/ have been thinking of writ
ing and telling you Of some
things ! see daily, but am so
poorly, having been sick almost
IL months with water diaibetis"
nervous breakdown, an awful
constipation and other minor
diseases, so never will be strong
again, now about 60 years old.
This little town of good people
has the best buildings of any
town of its size / was ever in; 4
splendid brick churches, L. y e,
M. E., Lutheran and German
Reformed, a $4,000 new brick
school house, a very large lum-
Der yard and planning mill, a
very large canning factory, can
ming peas and sweet corn only,
but buy and ship carloads of to-
matoes to it's other branch at
| Circleville, O. These have the
reputation of putting up the best
corn to be had. Lands are rich,
growing il fast, makes it tender.
It's almost laughable TO stand
and watch the great wagon loads
OF tomatoes, sweet corn, old, or
last year 1911 field corn, some
loads making 50 to 60 bushels,
and wheat so to % bushel loads.
l think the price is Sl.O0. For
corn 90 odd cents. Loads of
timothy hay baled and shipped
on traction and on wagons to
Columbus, o., 100, 1000 people,
with lots Of races buns and
gam blers)' fruits and melons
(nutmegs only and vegetables
on traction to Columbus, O. and
many tons Of soft coal taken out
to the farmers for fuel and tons
and tons of fertilizer for wheat,
some loads of lumber, as not all
farmers have fine houses, but
most do, and many ascetiline or
other house lighting plants,
while here in town we have natu
raj gas for fuel and light, the
finest | ever seen and cheap,
30c and 10 per cent Of for cash,
and it would seem as if 1 4 to
1-3 of the farmers have their
autos. | set on my front porch
one Sunday night, Z to s p. m,
and being on the corner of
streets where most travel is,
counted So autos pass in as many
minutes, but think that a half
more than the average, at same
time nearly as many autos as
buggies pass, but our roads are
fine in summer, mostly pike and
gravel roads and no sand; they
were not always so; it took work.
The town is prepared and has
been sprinkling the principal
streets of the town, having a
steam engine to pump and fill
tank sprinkler, but this year
council borrowed, or at least got
the use of a coal oil sprinkler
from some place and sprinkled
the streets with coal oil (unre-
tined) and it's very much better
and no more cost, if so much.
This is what Jefferson ought to
do. Only one good sprinkling
for the the year You have Oil
near; suppose your people try it
1913. They will stand the cost
ever after. | think.
Yes, | forgot to say we also
have one of the largest burned
clay tile factories to be found,
making tile 3 inch up to "a inch
diameter. These tiles are what
make our lands dry and thus
bring crops. They also aid in
retaining moisture and with all
of these benefits, our township
refused to allow the women to
vote and thus aid in making bet
ter laws and the execution of the
same. And still some of them
(women) own and pay taxes and
can't have a voice in defending
their property and children and
person. Slavery, white, the
bum gamble, white slave dealer,
drunkard makers, robbers of
husbands and homes, whether
taxpayers or not, can do all the
dirty voting they choose, and
yet, with all this evil, men of the
churches ; mot Christians will
vote for the sale of intoxicating
liquors to be made and sold.
Why not as we'll turn a house
thief or any thief at liberty?
They can do no more harm. It
will not do for any Christian pro-
fessor to associate himself with
a non Christian when not neces