Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — A BIG DAY AT PARR. [ARTICLE]

A BIG DAY AT PARR.

Barbecue Saturday Was a Huge Success Notwithstanding the Unfavorable Weather. The prediction that Parr would have a big crowd Saturday at her celebration of the opening of her new creamery was fully realized, and perhaps the crowd was the largest ever entertained* by that hospitable little town, it being variously estimated all the way between 1,500 and 2,000, Rensselaer sent up a large contingent, and on returning all reported a fine time and a crowd. In the ball game the Rensselaer M. -W. A. team lost to the Parr team by a score of 11 to 10, while the kid team from Rensselaei beat the Parr kids by a score of 7 to 5. Charlie Reed of Barkley won the $1 cash prize for haying brought in the most cream on that day, 256 pounds, and Frank J. Babcock of Carpenter a like prize for having brought cream the greatest distance. .The baby prizes were awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Ocie Nicholson and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Chupp, for the prettiest boy and girl baby, respectively. The day’s receipts of butter fat were given at about 1,300 pounds. / The big roast oy Jc reported to have been cooked to a turp and was handed out with sandwiches freely to all who came, for dinner, but so many more came than'- was expected that it was scarcely enough to go around, and not a whit was left for supper. •" , ■■ ;7