Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — VENERABLE LADY OF BARKLEY TOWNSHIP DIES [ARTICLE]

VENERABLE LADY OF BARKLEY TOWNSHIP DIES

Mrs. Malachi Comer, of Barkley township, died at her late home at 1:00 a. m., Thursday, September 19, 1918. The funeral service will be held at the Aix church Saturday, September 21, at 2:00 p. m., and interment will be in the Dunkard cemetery. ' . The deceased was the wife of Suire M. P. Comer, one of Jasper county’s oldest and most respected citizens. She was born September 15, 1849.

Thomas McGowan, at one time city marshal of Rensselaer, and who gave up the position of marshal to move to his farm in Union township, has developed into a first class hog raiser. A reporter of the Republican happened to stop at Tom’s farm Wednesday and found him feeding the finest bunch of hogs that we have seen in a long .time. He had a herd of thirtythree Hampshire shoats weighing about 100 pounds each, several smaller ones and several registered sows, some with young ones. Tom has about given up farming, only raising enough corn to feed the Logs, as he is firmly convinced there is more money in raising goofi hogs than in raising, grain. »