Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1916 — DAKOTA BOY IS FINANCIER [ARTICLE]

DAKOTA BOY IS FINANCIER

Lad Fourteen Years of Age Makes Good Profit in Sheep in One Year. Ipswich, S. D.—Gerald Pershin, fourteen years of age, gives promise of being one of the financiers of the country. On September 5, 1914, the boy went to M. A. Slocum, a friend, and told him that he had a chance to buy 25 old ewes from Robert Jones a bargain. Mr. Slocum went with the boy to the bank and signed a note with him thereby enabling the boy to get the funds. > This week the boy entered the bank, paid over >83.60, his note, with Interest, and remarked that he had cleaned up >IIO.BO clean profit on his sheep during the year. He had sold >2B worth of wool and had sold his original purchase and their increase, less five sheep the coyotes had killed, for >166.40.