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Aid
For Perkins County
Elsie,
Perkins County, Nebraska
December 31, 1834
To the
Editor:
And my
be sent, freight free to the destitute people of Perkins County, Nebraska, by
applying to Rev. Ludden, Secretary of State Relied commission, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Aid
maybe sent to Rev. John Madely, Frank Pearson, and Leslie Pearson, of Elsie,
Nebraska, a committee appointed to receive and distribute aid for the destitute
people of Perkins County, Nebraska.
A carload of supplies from Richardson Country has been received and distributed at
Grant, the county seat, eighteen miles west of here. It contained flour, cornmeal, vegetables, 100 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of wheat, a quantity of clothing, and some fruit.
Cold
weather has commenced in earnest at last, and we need four car loads of coal for
the destitute people of the county, but we cannot raise the money to pay for
it. Horses and cattle are grazing on the
prairie, and are doing exceedingly well.
If we should get a deep snow, and
it remained with us long, stock would suffer as feed is scarce.
Drought is the
cause of destitution in the Western part of this state. We have some soil as good as can be found in
the work, and it produces well when we get sufficient rain to raise a crop.
Some people are burning their fence posts for fuel. I asked for aid my former letter, and people that have plenty and some to spare. I
ask you again to aid the destitute of our county. The well-to-do people in cities frequently lay
their clothing to one side and never use them any more, when in reality they
are not more than half worn out.
A car
load of this kind of clothing would be useful in destitute districts and while
they are loading a stout car with such light material as clothing, might be
induced to put in a few barrels of flour, cornmeal and meat – a heavier article
to keep the car down so it would not likely to run off the track before it
reached out town. The flour, meal and
meat would be as useful to the destitute people as the clothing would be.
I say thanks for the people of Perkins
County
for the aid we have already received.
Elijah Carlin
Inter Ocean - January 11, 1895
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