Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — PARR BARBECUE SATURDAY; A BIG TIME IN SIGHT. [ARTICLE]

PARR BARBECUE SATURDAY; A BIG TIME IN SIGHT.

'Little City with New Creamery Will Entertain with Fine Program and Lively Amusements.

Parr will celebrate with a barbecue Saturday of this week and the biggest crowd ever gathered in Union township is in anticipation. The celebration is in honor of the new creamery which was built by a stock company of representative farmers. The big feature will be a barbecue, with a whole roasted steer, cooked to a delicious brown by Jack Reeder. S. A. Brusnahan, W. H. 'Myres and L. L. McCurtain are the committee on arrangements. The dinner will be served at noon and supper will be served at 4:30. o’clock.

At 1:30 o’clock Prof. S. E. Sparling will deliver an address. He will be followed by B. D. Comer, Amos Alter. W. L. Wood, and Thos. Netland, the latter an experienced buttermaker now in charge of the plant. John E. Alter, who is always equal to the occasion, will render, in song, a few original verses entitled, “The Old Brindle Cow.” Mrs. Iva Pullins will also render an appropriate solo. Prizes of $1 cash will be given for the handsomest girl baby under one year old, and the same for the prettiest boy baby under one year, contestants to be parents who are creamery patrons.

A cash prize of SI.OO each will also be given to the party hauling the greatest number of pounds of cream to the creamery oh that day testing 30 per cent or better, also to the party hauling the longest distance. There will be a baseball game between the Modern Woodmen team, of Rensselaer, and the Parr team. The creamery stockholders have prepared a good program and ask the people of the surrounding country to come and spend a day in the town that pays one cent above Elgin prices for cream, and where tests are made and checks given the same day the cream is brought in.