Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

George Hemphill, of Chicago, spent Sunday here with his father, I. N. Hemphill and his sisters Minnie and Lizzie. Charles Pefley .will furnish you trees for fall planting direct from Rochester, N. Y. Every tree guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge. Phone 475. Gaylord McFarland, jof Barbersville, Ohio, is here on account of the death of his wife’s mother, Mira. Michael Kanne. Thomas Lang’s oats averaged sixty bushels to the acre and Lonergan and Thornton’s averaged fifty-five bushels to the acre. Captain and Mrs. J. L. Hagins have returned from a very pleasant visit with friends and relatives at Wolcott, Reynolds and Seafield. At Wolcott they visited -the family of Mrs. Hagin’s daughter, Mrs. Edward Irwin, i If any of your stock dies be sure and promptly call A. L. Padgett, Phone 65.

Wesley Hinkle'brought a load of wheat into town Saturday, which was priinounced by the elevator man, to be the best and cleanest threshed wheat they had received this year. The wheat was threshed by a neighborhood outfit belonging to the following men: Vilas Price, Frank Schroer, Mark Schroer, W. H. Pullin, George McElfresh and James H. Chapman. This outfit consists of a 12-20 Advanced Rumley tractor and a Red River Special, threshing machine. The best wheat threshed by the owners of this outfit was that belonging to Mr. Price ancLMr. Chapman. The wheat of both of these men averaged thirty-five bushels to the acre. The wheat threshed for all of the six owners averaged twenty-eight bushels to the acre.