Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — Two Minorca Eggs Weigh More Than Hall a Pound. [ARTICLE]

Two Minorca Eggs Weigh More Than Hall a Pound.

Rose Bud farm is always doing something out of the ordinary. Thiß time Black Minorca hens owned by Amos Alter, the proprietor of the farm, get the credit. C.IE. Prior has brought to this office two eggs that weigh Jointly 8% ounces, one being a quarter ounce heavier than the other. To be sure, they are dbuble eggs, but they are mighty large ones, and a dozen like them would weigh a little more than three pounds, whereas the ordinary good sized hen eggs weigh only about a pound and a half to the dozen. The two eggs were laid on Aug. 12th. We have had no interview with Amos and can not say with authority, bdt we will not be surprised if he established a ration as a product from his mill that will make his chickens go into the double egg business right along. It would look pretty nice to see a sign on the Rose Bud farm, reading something like this: “The home of the quarter-pound egg.”

Mrs. O. E. Brown returned yesterday afternoon from the home of her son Bernice, near Klrklin, where she had gone to try to straighten out tho affair between her son Gossie and Ruth Gilmore Possln. She found Mrs. Possin at her son’s house, but Gossie was not there and they said had not been for several days. He claimed to his brother Bernice that he did not know she wee married to Possin until after they arrived in Kirklln. Mrs. Possin said that she would not come back to Rensselaer because of the notoriety her act had caused. She said she would go to her father at DeMotte, but that she would never live with Possin. She said she did not know why she had married him. She spoke of him in a very slighting manner, but did not accuse him of any fault. She said she loved Gossie and could never be happy without him. The girl is apt to remain unhappy for some time, as she will doubtless be unable to get a divorce, and Gossi< and she will have to remain separate.

James Matheson has not been improving at the hospital quite as well as had been hoped for, but be was able to sit up four hours one day this week and the special nurse has been discharged. His daughter, Mrs. George Reed, hears him frequently, and It is expected that he will he brought home either tomorrow or Saturday.