Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1899 — Parr’s Wonderful Oil Well. [ARTICLE]

Parr’s Wonderful Oil Well.

The Republican has received from a muoh esteemed subscriber ’at Parr, a sample bottle of the product of a wonderful oil well just discovered at that place by Dr Kirk. This well, or rather spring, is in a hole in a cellar under Logan Wood’s store. The hole holds several gallons and if dipped empty soon fills up again. The party who dipped our sample dipped just a little too deep, as all of the contents of the bottle is water except an inch of the oil, on top. But this oil, what there is of it, is unmistakable. It is very limped, and one sniff at the open bottle would convince the most skeptical that a pint of it, rightly applied in the kitchen stove, at fire building time, would send the average hired girl up the golden' stairs as and as expeditiously as anything she could buy in the coal-oil line at the corner grocery for 10 cents a gallon. No doubt this is a valuable discovery, and it would pay somebody to look up the “parent vein” of this oil well. Especially it would pay Logan Wood, for he conld then ping up the leak in his coal-oil barrel.