Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

BEST HOG SALE EVER HELD HERE John R. Lewis Goes to Front as Breeder of Hampshire Hogs—Brought Average Price of $56.25. The sale of pure-bred Hampshire hogs held Friday at the John R. Lewis farm in Barkley township, was the best hog sale ever held in the county and some who were there say they never saw as good a sale any piece. There were buyers here from many other places and of the fifty hogs sold twenty-one are to be shipped out. Mr. Lewis is comparatively new in the—pure bred Hampshire business but he bought the Vest registered hogs to start and has kept his herd up to a high standard and has built a name for himself in this connection that’ is going to be worth a lot of money to hiril and the interest of the buyers from other places in the sale of Friday shows the high honor in which he is held in the business. He sold fifty head of hogs and they brought an average price of $56.25 per head. The auctioneers were F. H. Hulick, of Tipton, Ind., Andy Nagel, of Chalmers, and W. A. McCurtain, of Rensselaer. E. C. Stone represented the Hampshire Advocate at the sale. J. N. Leatherman was the clerk.