Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1911 — Former Rensselaer Preacher a Good Thing for Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Former Rensselaer Preacher a Good Thing for Newspapers.

Benton County Review. When Rev. C. W. Postill was a resident of Fowler, there was seldom a week passed that he wasn’t responsible for a good live news item for the newspapers, and in scanning the pages of the Attica papers we find that the newspaper boys of that city have discovered his genius in that line and they are not overlooking a good bet. The following from the Ledger is the latest: “Miss Allie Whitehall, while in Ravine Park Friday, discovered a bright yellow fungus, or tree mushroom. on a black oak tree near the, west end of the park, that attracted her attention from the strangeness of the growth and the brightness of its yellow color. She did not know what it was, but reporting the discovery to Rev. C. W. Postill, he went down and upon examination, identified it as a splendid specimen of the sulphury polyporus, a mushroom, which when fresh' and young, is both edible and palatable as any of the ground varieties. It is generally believed that the highly colored mushrooms are poisonous, but this variety is an exception. Usually too, this fungi grows on dead trees, but the specimen in question is on a live black oak.”