Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1915 — Mr. Jones Gives His Side of the Story. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Jones Gives His Side of the Story.

G. C. Jones, of Lee, was in town Monday and gave his side of a story that appeared in a recent issue of The Republican. The article in question stated that a thrashing ring in Newton township had discharged him on account of the delays caused by the alleged condition of his machine and his failure to have it repaired. T At the time Mr. Jones was thrashing on the Carr brothers’ farm, he says that the Carrs told him to set the machine where he pleased but that after the machine was set, a son-n-laiw of Art Arnott, who had an interest in the grain, told him that the machine must be set in another place, but as this would have meant to set against the wind, which was very strong at the time, Jones refused to do so, as it would have been impossible to have thrashed against the wind then prevailing. Mr. Jones says his machine was in perfect condition and cites as proof of his assertion that he thrashed 5,526 bushels of grain in less than 4% days, an average of 1,375 budhels per day, and much of the grain at that time was very bad, some of it being hauled out of the water diredt to the machine.