Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — PAYS $5,00 FOR SHORTHORN BULL. [ARTICLE]

PAYS $5,00 FOR SHORTHORN BULL.

Ex-county commissioner William Hershman returned Friday from Tipton, Ohio, where he had purchased of Frank Edwards, a shorthorn bull, paying for the same, $5,000. Tins is the righest price bull ever brought to this county hnd is undoubtedly one of the finest Animals in the breed. The animal is twelve months old. He is white in color and * beauty to behold. He won the first prize at the 1918 state fairs at Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio and Topeka, Kansas. He won second at the International stock show in Chicago last fall. A brother of Mr. Hershman’s bull was sold at the Chicago show for $9300.