Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — PARR ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

PARR ITEMS.

Farmers are generally done with oats sownig and farm - work is in good shape. to have an elevator by grain marketing time and pot be compelled to shovel the grain. An infant born to Ray Elmore and wife Sunday evening died in a short time. Burial .was made Monday. The creamery is about to start up again and Ed Gilmore Will probably be in charge. Jack Wilson moved away. The farmers held a meeting last week to see about the elevator and report that they now have at least $3,000 guaranteed for construction. They are of one mind and that is D. E. McCurtain, a former Parr boy, is now the cashier of the Miners State Bank at Superior, Wyo., and is getting along With true Jasper county progress. Superior is a hustling town and the News of that place states that it has a payroll of SIOO,OOO. A. C. McCurtain, another brother, is located at Rock Springs, near Superior. Parr Odd Fellows are preparing for their annual celebration next Sunday and Rev. Winn, of the Rensselaer Christian church, will address them at 2 o’clock that afternoon. Arrangements are. being made to have some band music and members of the Rensselaer band will be asked to help out the reorganized Parr band. Odd Fellows from all over the county and visiting members of the order are invited to spend the day at Parr. The rifle range has not been used so far this year, but the soldiers are expected a week from next Sunday. The 800 and 1000 yard ranges are not to be used this year and the firing regulations have changed, making some variation over previous years. It is possible that the battalion match will be held here this year, so Captain Healey reports, and this would bring about forty soldiers here for a th?ee-days’ camp, probably the last of May or the first of June. The battalion consists of four companies, commanded by Major George W. Freyermuth, of South Bend. The companies are located at South Bend, Rensselaer, Monticello and Plymouth, and all sharpshooters are entitled to compete and a team of fifteen is selected to represent the battalion in the regimental match at Indianapolis.