Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — A Busy Day in Bluffton. [ARTICLE]

A Busy Day in Bluffton.

Will Barr, who is endowed with a mathematical curiosity set four pieces of fly paper yesterday in the Top store. In the afternoon he counted the catch and found that he had landed 6,500. Today the operation was repeated and an equal number was landed. Almost any merchant would be willing to bet that 18,000 flies never roosted in his store, but the figures will prove a revelation to them. — Bluffton News.