Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

Edward Carr, an old citizen of Chalmers, and a brother of Judge Benjamin F. Carr of the CarrollWhite circuit court, died Sunday afternoon from hardening of the arteries, after &n illness of six months. His age was 58 years. The top price for the year-,was reached on hogs in the Indianapolis market Saturday, when J. H. Pierson of Oakland, Illinois, sold a bunch of 299, "averaging 246 pounds at 120.50 per hundred weight Later—■‘•Another top notch was reached Monday, when one lot of choice hogs sold at >20.80 per cwt. Although many people believe t,hat every Chinese in China eats rice every day, millions of Chinese, living in Shensi, Shansi and northwestern China, where rice is not grown, have never seen or tasted rice, and millions more in the rice producing districts can not afford to eat it regularly To be sure, rice is the staple article of diet in south and central China, but there is reason to believe that in the dietary of the Chinese people as a whole tlhe sweet potato occupies a more important place.