eaving here because
of the school accommodations for children as I have five and want
to educate them the best I can. Prehaps you can find me a
position of some kind if so kindly let me know I will be ready to
leave here this fall after the harvest is layed by. I am planting
cotton.

GRANVILLE, MISS., May 16, 1917.

_Dear Sir_: This letter is a letter of information of which you
will find stamp envelop for reply. I want to come north some time
soon but I do not want to leve here looking for a job wher I
would be in dorse all winter. Now the work I am doing here is
running a gauge edger in a saw mill. I know all about the grading
of lumber. I have abeen working in lumber about 25 or 27 years My
wedges here is $3.00 a day 11 hours a day. I want to come north
where I can educate my 3 little children also my wife. Now if you
cannot fit me up at what I am doing down here I can learn
anything any one els can. also there is a great deal of good
women cooks here would leave any time all they want is to know
where to go and some way to go. please write me at once just how
I can get my people where they can get something for their work.
there are women here cookeing for $1.50 and $2.00 a week. I would
like to live in Chicago or Ohio or Philadelphia. Tell Mr Abbott
that our pepel are tole that they can not get anything to do up
there and they are being snatched off the trains here in
Greenville and a rested but in spite of all this, they are
leaving every day and every night 100 or more is expecting to
leave this week. Let me here from you at once.

PELAHATCHEE, MISS., April 27, 1917.

_Dear Sirs_: I see through the Chicago Defender that you have a
reputation of furnishing employment to men. Kindly give me the
particulars. What class of work do you get men? I am writing you
to know that I may obtain an; employment through you. I want a
good paying job that I may be able to educate my children. Kindly
let me hear from you.

DEO VOLENTE, MISS., April 30, 1917.

_Dear Sirs_: I am expecting to come with my family to your town,
or some smaller town near you, in the near future. Would like to
farm near Chicago or some small town near Chicago where my