Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — POULTRY SHOW ON IN FULL BLAST [ARTICLE]

POULTRY SHOW ON IN FULL BLAST

Finest Exhibit Ever Shown in Rensselaer—Many Features to Interest All Who Attend. The annual poultry show is now going on at the armory and every person in the town and country should attend it The quality ol the show is the best ever held, according ,to the judge, Harry Pickett of Greentown, who was also the judge a year ago. See the splendid full blooded chickens and compare them with the carelessly raised barnlot chickens and it will be a big help to you. The Purdue exhibit has arrived and is now on display and worth your closest examination. This shows the methods developed at Purdue. There s nothing for sale; it is the educational feature that should attract you. If your chickens are run down, you may want to put new life in them by securing some new cockerels and you can meet the breeders at the poultry show and there are some birds there for sale. A pair of chickens is given aw-y each evening to some person who has attended the show during the day, - -7 - i The men who are behind this enterprise are not in it for money but as a means of advancing the poultry interests of Jasper county, and they need your assistance to make it pay out. Take your families and visit the show. The cost is only 10 cents and you will get much more benefit than that.