NEWS: Jennie LINDSEY, 1918, Foot of Ten, Blair County, PA

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FARMER GIRL HOLDS HER BROTHER'S JOB

Miss Lindsey Making Success of Work at Foot of Ten Since Soldier Left Home

  At Foot of Ten there lives a brown eyed farmer maid for whom no service 
flag has been unfurled but who is nevertheless playing a star part in this 
business of winning a war.  Going about the job in overalls and with the 
glint of determination in those same brown eyes, pretty Jennie Lindsey has 
assumed the role of an elder brother who was called to France and plays well 
the part of a successful tiller of an eighty acre farm.
  Miss Lindsey is a daughter of E. N. Lindsey, whose time is fully occupied 
with state road duties and whose farm at the foot of the mountain beyond 
Duncansville was handled by a son who is now in the army.  The soldier - 
Telbert Elder Lindsey - was so successful an agriculturist that he has won 
fame as the Foot of Ten trucker.  He is putting the same vim into fighting 
the Hun and is known to have recently sustained a slight wound in battle on 
the western front.  Trucker Lindsey is, however, still busy on the big job on 
the western front and his little sister is with like patriotism nobly filling 
his place at home.
  Although only twenty years of age and of girlish physique Miss Lindsey 
early last spring announced that she would be the farmer.  Once said was 
enough and the plucky Blair county girl confiscated a team of mules from the 
Lindsey barn and started for the fields.  All alone she ploughed and harrowed 
and planted big crops and truck gardens and for weeks she has been reaping 
the reward of her toil.  She has fifty tons of hay in the barn and owns an 
oat crop that would be a credit to anybody.  Eighteen acres she planted in 
garden vegetables and, with the assistance of her mother, she now makes 
deliveries of produce a couple of times a week to Altoona, Gallitzin, and 
Oresson markets.
  Jennie Lindsey is a modest little Pennsylvanian of about the heft of an 
average high school girl.  Her summer of farming was not planned as an 
ornamental escapade and she wears regular overalls about the daily business 
of issuing orders to the mule team and prying into the secrets of the soil.  
She is, however, plenty easy to look at - a picture of health and tan that 
figures in the splendid results of her energy.  She was busy at her stand in 
the Altoona market house last evening but found time to give a newspaper 
woman a very pleasant smile and a few modest words about the farm.  The big 
brother in France reads the Tribune and we were cautioned to say that she is 
not working too hard.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday morning, August 22, 1918, page 10