Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1913 — Farmers Elevator Talk Being Indulged in at Town of Parr. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Elevator Talk Being Indulged in at Town of Parr.

B. D. Comer, W. L. Wood and Firman Thompson are reported to be agitating a farmers’ elevator movement at Parr. Babcock & k .Hopkins are the grain buyers th&re,-- maintaining a branch for their elevator here. They formerly had an elevator there but it burned down about three years ago and has not been rebuilt, although the owners have often planned to do so. Last summer a foundation was put in and part of the lumber is now on the ground and The Republican is informed by Messrs. Babcock & Hopkins that the machinery has been bought and paid for and Is now stored in Rensselaer and it has been their intention to put up an elevator there this spring. The militia basketball team won a game Saturday night from the Hammond Hubbards by the very narrow margin of 28 to 27. The visitors arrived here with only four men, one of their number having missed the train. They were given the services of Fred Hamilton, who put up a good game with them. The soldiers showed the result of lack of practice and their work was not nearly up to the standard set in the game with Delphi and Monticello. The visitors, too, were mighty good players and with their fifth man would quite certainly have won the game. It was a clean and sportsmanlike game and from the spectators* standpoint the best game seen here. The first half stood 21 to 11 in favor of the soldiers and in the second half the visitors got busy and climbed up to 27. In th(* meantime the local five got 7 more points and the game closed with only a point between the teams and fortunately the soldiers were | at the large end.