Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1915 — BANKER STARTS HOG BOOM [ARTICLE]

BANKER STARTS HOG BOOM

Gets Texas. County Worked Up and His Bank Deposits Increase Amazingly. Temple, Tex. —During a recent campaign for diversification of crops in this (Bell) county it developed that, notwithstanding Its unusual advantages for hog raising the county last year sent away $613,157 for meat. Forthwith H. C. Poe, president of the Temple State bank, communicated with breeders of fine hogs and then announced la * newspaper advertise-

ment that he would distribute a hum dred to the boys of th-' county, taking their personal unindorsed notes, payable out of the net profits from the pigs. Before the newspaper was off the press the printer's devil made an application for a hog. After that the applications piled in on Mr. Poe until he was fairly swamped. Mr. Poe says that the deposits tn his bank have increased >200,000 within ninety days, or coincident with the hog distribution.