People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Use For Hard Heads. [ARTICLE]

Use For Hard Heads.

Use for “dornicks”, and hard heads has been found, and J. M. Winters has made a contract with S. Casparis at Kenneth quarries to furnish 5,000 yards or 208 car loads of them. At that place the stone is pul.ver- 1 ized almost to a powder and shipped to Indianapolis, where they are pressed into mantles, tomb stones and for other purposes of a similar nature. Mr. Winters pays 10 cents per yard for the stone, which is a good price considering the fact that they will then be out of the way and will no more be the means of breakmg up a man in keeping his farming utensils in repair. Arrangements can be made to have the stone delivered either at Wolcott or Rem ipg ton or Seafield. One hundred and nineteen loads of stone were marketed here Tuesday forenoon, and it is getting to be a common thing for a farmer to bring a load of “nigger heads” wdien he comes to town for the mail. Joe Buiiey, living six miles north of here is going to clear his farm in this matter. — Wolcott Enterprise. It is a source of wonder as to where farmers can deposit the vast sums that must accumulate al “10 cents per yard.”