Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — SELLS HAMPSHIRE BOAR FOR THOUSAND DOLLARS. [ARTICLE]

SELLS HAMPSHIRE BOAR FOR THOUSAND DOLLARS.

John R. Lewis, Jasper county’s famous breeder of Hampshire hogs, left Tuesday evening for Des Moines, lowa, where he will attend the National Swine show, which is the greatest show of its kind in the world. Mr. Lewis was at the Tri-State fair at Memphis, Tenn., last week and was a good winner as he has been at many other fairs this year. Some of his winnings were: Junior‘sow, first; aged sow, first; herd, second; junior board, third; under six months old boar, first; aged herd, second. At this fair Mr. Lewis sold one of his boars to the Cossett Hampshire Farms, Cossett, Ark., for ? 1,000. If you need a Duroc gilt or a Spotted Poland China gilt or sows, attend Duvall & Morlan’s public sale October 9 th.