Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Hogs reached th© remarkably high price of S2O per cwt. in the, Chicago market Tuesday, but have since shown a tendency to decline slightly. Earl Bruner lineman for the Morocco Telephone company has purchased the Baroda, Michigan, telephone plant owned by A. L. Clark. Mr. Bruner is a good telephone man and wall no doubt make an excellent thing of the new purchase as he has a fine territory to draw from. He will move to Baroda and take charge of the plant as soon as another lineman can be secured by the local company.— Morocco Courier.

of Fowler have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Elmore s _of this city. Mr. McCullough is editor of the Benton County Review and is just recovering from an attack of ptomaine poisoning which he suffered at Fountain park where they stopped to attend the assembly, while eproute to this city. For a time his condition was alarming.— Monticello Herald. The draft list in Pulaski county has r yielded forty-three who passed the physical examination and did not claim exemption. One hundred eighty-two men were summoned under the first call and of this number forty-three were discharged as physically disqualified and 142 found physically fit, of which number eighty-one claimed exemption. The county’s quota is ninety-one and another call of 180 is now being made to make up the quota.

E. G. Perrigo and Charles Sears came home the latter part of the week from a several days stay in Columbus, Ohio, where they had gone to attend the Ohio joint stock and sheep sale. Mr.: Perrigo was fortunate in getting a couple of imported Hampshire rams for which xye are informed he paid a good long price. One of them is of the Dean and the other of the Steven strains. The Dean ram is a half brother to the ram that sold at Salt Lake City, Utah last year for the fabulous price of $675. Mr. Perrigo is rapidly developing a fine herd of Hampshire sheep and is now recognized throughout this section of the country as a good breeder of good ones for which he Is able to command a fair price.— Morocco Courier. There are nearly half a million Italians near Beunps Aires in the Argentine.