Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1918 — Randle Had To Furnish The Food. [ARTICLE]

Randle Had To Furnish The Food.

Last summer when every one was tearing loose every foot of ground at all available and planting * therein beans, potatoes and other useful vegetables our fellow townsman Ed. J. Randle felt sure that there would be a great amount of this crop that would not be used. In talking to his good friend Edward P. Honan, he said that potatoes would be so plentiful that they would sell for fifty cents or less, a bushel. Honan said not so, for there would be a great demand. The discussion we are not able to give, because cold black ink cannot 83 ve proper emphasis, ended in the parties agreeing that if potatoes were under fifty centy a bushel on January 1, 1918, Honan was to serve a potato dinner to the directors of the First National Bank, and if they were over fifty cents a bushel Randle was to furnish the dinner. Honan of course won as he most always does. You can’t beat the Irish and last night Mr. Randle feasted his fellow directors and their wives at a most sumptuous dinner at his home on Cullen street.