Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — ThE Poultry Show. [ARTICLE]

ThE Poultry Show.

The show of poultry at tho Tair j last week was the second best held in the county. The exhibition 1 at the Remington fair two ago was the best. There were' seventy odd pairs of chickens, sides several cqops of turkies ducks. The Plymouth Rocks, as a] variety, lead in number, and there j (were a number of very fine fowls lon exhibition, and in fact no inferior * [ones. I Dr. Maxwell took first premium. lon fowls and chicks; N. Warner 2d' [on fowls, and Dr. Washburn 2d oh [chicks. Mrs. C. M. Campbell enr[ried all the premiums on A. W. Cleveland took first on Light Bramah fowls and J. H. Willey on chicks. Dr. Maxwell took first on Dark Bramahs and Os. Richey sec-] ond. Os. Ricliey took first on Buff Cochin fowls and EmmOt Kan*ml second. On chicks Dr. Maxwell got second and Richey second. On Partridge Cochins D. H. Yeoman [took first and Alton Grant second. (On Black Cochin fowls John A.] [Clark took first and Dr. Washburn] ■second. 011 TV liite Leghorn fowls IDr. Maxwell took first. On White ■Leghorn chicks G. B. Chappell [took Ist and 2d. G. F. Bloom got [first on Brown Leghorn chicks. IDr. WashUtlrn took Ist and 2d on [Black Leghorns. Os. Richey car[ried everything on Wlnto Faced [Black Spanish. On Black Breasted [Red Games G. B. Chappell took (all. J. H. Willey’s fine display of (Golden Sebright Bantams took all [the premiums and the attention of [the people, too. They are beauties.' [Mr. Bloom's Silver Gray Dorkings [and Dr. Maxwell’s Rose Combed g Dominiques received premiums [according to class. Chas. Pullins’j [Frizzled chickens were not in pair (nor full bred. Jack Halloran’s i ■Black Breasted Red Game Bantams [were not full bred. There were no [geese on the ground. I The interest manifested by the [people and the many inquiries for [prices on poultry showed that department was receiving much more (than the usxftil amount of attention. | The list can be greatly improved, [and probably will be sou next year [without adding any expense to the [society, a Eds. Republican: —Rumor has [it that a number of our old and [young men are patronizing a gam-! [filing hole kept in the Hemphill building. I am* told that it is open’ nightly, and that Sundays are not excepted. The passion for gam-’ filing is one that more thoroughly demoralize a man than any other. Men are more hardened and made more reckless by it than any-] thing they do, with the one excep-] tion of murder. It often leads to‘ murder. The citizens of Rensselaer should not tolerate it if there is any 1 legal way of abating such a debas-j ing practice. Gambling hells fol- 1 low in the wake of saloons, and too 1 many who patrqmzo the latter will also the We hope the ■prosecuting attorney will bring the ■matter before the grand jury and ■investigate the matter thoroughly, 1 Sand bring to punishment those men ■ who are so low down as to start a ■gambling place. Good citizens ■should be willing to give such in■formation as will lead to the breakSing up of all such places, ns we do ■not need them in Rensselaer. Men ■who have the good of the cominun■ity at heart ought not to counte■nance or in any way aid or sustain

■any such blighting curse.

O. I. C.