Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — HELPING DEFEAT THE KAISER [ARTICLE]

HELPING DEFEAT THE KAISER

Local Patronage Should Be Given the Iroquois Roller Mills. The citizens of Jasper county and adjacent vicinity are beginning to realize that flour, and mighty good flour, too, can be made trom home grown wheat. A glanee at the names on the exchange book at the Iroquois Roller Mill will show that farmers are coming here from all directions and sometimes as far as thirty miles to have their wheat made into flour. John Merritt, bookkeeper at the mill, is authority for the statement that during the last month the mill put out 49,000 pounds of Blue Ribbon flour to the farmer trade alone, and that fully seventyfive per cent of them were “repeat’’ customers. This does not include sales of flour. In addition to their flour business the mill also does an enormous business in feed. They also make other brands of meal and have ea-

tablisbed a state-wide reputation on their “Old Fashioned Brand Pure Buckwheat Flour,” which is, cause for satisfaction and makes Mr. Sprague, the proprietor, and his corps of assistants feel proud. In war times such as these Jasper county is indeed lortunate in having a well-managed, up-to-date mill, and it should be liberally patronized from a patriotic viewpoint if from no Other, but this is Trot necessary for the quality of the product and the convenience, not to speak o's the economical phase, makes it worth one’s while to patronize this local industry. By so doing it will be possible for Mr. Sprague to purchase all of the home grown wheat and will make Jasper county independent of the rest of the world for its flour supply. A great saving can thus be realized in transportation alone for when you use a foreign made flour you pay the freight on the wheat to the mill and again pay the freight on the flour from the mill to your home town. Frorq this viewpoint alone Blue Ribbon nour should be used by every housewife in Jasper county and also sold by every grocer in tile county. Here is one enterprise that can do more for Jasper county and its people than any other, and to best serve them it needs- and is deserving of unstinted patronage. In order to care for his increasing business, Mr. Sprague has recently employed a miller of ability and with a life-time’s experience, Charles Bracker of Rockville, Indiana, ■who was employed by Round Bros, for many years. Mr. Bracker states that'Blue Ribbon flour, in his opinion, has no superior on the market.—Advt.