Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The farmers of the neighbor-f hood of Hiawatha, Kan., are burning curfi for fuel, finding it cheapei than coal. Corn is sold on the farm for twenty cents per bushel, while the a erag> price of coal delivered at the farm ranges from twen ty-one to twenty-three cents per bushel. The farmers’ al • liance brought the attention of the farmers to the relative prices of the two commodities, ( and advised that half the corn crop be used as fuel, thus advancing the price of the other half and saving money in their fuel bills. The farmers have begnn to act on this advice.

Three men being unable to drive or drag a 400 pound pig from its pen at Reinhold, Berks county, Pa., they called in the assistance of John Berk* i©y, a giant in strength. He deliberately picked the kicking porker up and carried it out unaided.