Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — John R. Lewis Prizes On Display at Rowles & Parker’s. [ARTICLE]

John R. Lewis Prizes On Display at Rowles & Parker’s.

John R. Lewis, of Jasper county, who bears the reputation of being the Hampshire King of America, has on display in the window of Rowles & Parker’s department store his prizes for the year 1916. A large blanket is completely covered with ribbons signifying the positions he has won in the many different events he has entered in the year just closed. There are probably in the neighborhood of 200 ribbons, coming from shows throughout the United States. Mr. Lewis made a tour of the south recently and during that time visited many shows, at each of which he carried off a goodly portion of the prizes." He also attended the International Stock Show at Chicago; where he was equally as successful, and the National Sroripe Show at Omaha, Neb:, probably the show that offers the keenest competition of any held in this country. . . A trophy of which Ifr. Lewis :s extremely proud is a silver cup, about two feet in height, which was giver him at the Indiana show as a reward for having the best four pigs bred and exhibited by an Indiana man. The ribbons, of which Mr. - Lewis has so many, come frop many states, including the Carolmas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois. _. v “The success which Mr. Lewis has encountered during the past years in the hog world has been remarkable and has won for him the recognition of being the best hog raiser in the world today. Mr. Lewis was recently elevted president of the Hampshire Breeders’ Association at Indianapolis. Mr. Lewis is to have a big sale at his Oak Lawn .Farm on February 14, and it is probable that many of the leading hog raisers of the country will be here on that date to get some of this valuable stock. 1