Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — A HUSKING MATCH. [ARTICLE]

A HUSKING MATCH.

'iCXhere was a husking match out at Clark Bros., north of town, last Monday, the contestants being John Richards, Frank Swartzell, and Duke Nichols. The prize was in the form of a “jack-pot’’ in which each put in *2, and the 3 cents per bushel paid for the corn husked. Richards won out with 98 bushels and 55 pounds; Swartzell % bushels and 35 pounds, and Nichols 87 bushels and 20 pounds. The field of corn was rather poor, it is alleged, and all corn waß unloaded for the contestants.