Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — A Rubber Story. [ARTICLE]

A Rubber Story.

There was a Granger convention somewhere near the line between Indiana and Ohio, and, as a matter of course, a little bragging was done by various farmers as to what each State produced. Among those who bragged was Farmer Johnson, from Miami Reserve, in Ohio, and who, by the way, is somewhat notorious for tolling large and wonderful stories. During tho course of his remarks, he said; • “There is a farmer living on the Miami Reserve who annually manufactures onp million pounds of butter, and ever two million pounds of cheese. r This caused great sensation and some laughter by way of derision, os much as to say the crowd did not Swallow all of Farmer Johnson’s story. He took fire at once, and appealed to Farmer Jones, of Ohio, to verify Ins assertion by giving the name of that great butter and cheese maker as Deacon Brown. v Farmer Jones slowly arose, and, in a drawling, farmer-like twang* said: “I know Deacon Brown makes a good deal of butter and cheese—l do not know the exact number of pounds—but thiß I do know—he runs seventeen saw-mills with the butter-milk.”— Carl Pretzel’s Weekly.