Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1913 — 27 Cents a Dozen a High Price for Egg Gourds. [ARTICLE]

27 Cents a Dozen a High Price for Egg Gourds.

Charley Warner bought a sack of fresh eggs from the country > one day the past week, (paying 27 cents a dozen for them. When he arrived home he was surprised to And that a number of them were egg-shaped gourds. As the eggs were left in the office of the lumber yard for a time after their purchase and as Tommy Grant is supposed to know the location of a gourd patch, Charley has not lost confidence in the farmer who sold him the eggs, but it is a subject he don’t care to talk about very much.