Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1902 — Corn Show Prizes Awarded. [ARTICLE]

Corn Show Prizes Awarded.

The prizes at A. F. Long’s second annual corn show were awarded Friday evening. The judges were. Jud Porter, B. F. Ferguson and C. W. Coen, all of whom have hadampleopportunity to lekrn what good corn is. The different exhibits were numbered bnt the names of the owners were removed; and thus the judges knew nothing about whose corn they were passing judgement upon. Each judge went carefully over the exhibits, and, without consulting the others, each one marked down, independently of the others the numbers of the exhibits which he thought were entitled to the first, second and third prizes, respectively. Strangely enough when they came to compare their selections, it was found that all the judges had made exactly the same findings. Thus for Ist prize all haa selected exhibit No. 12. For second prize No. 22, and for 3rd No. 55. On looking up the names of the owners of these prize exhibits, they were found to be as fellows:

First prize, a gold watch, winner, Frank Welch, of Jordan Tp. Second prize, 25 pounds of red barn paint; winner Irving L. Jones, of Marion Tp. Third prize, 25 pounds of condition powders; winner, T. F. Dunlap, of Newton Tp. The first and third prize winners were yellow oprn, the second white.

The total number of number of exhibits this year was 57 as against 101 last year. But though the number was smaller, the qualiiy of corn exhibited this year was better. Burl Richardson, now school principal at Plymouth, Wis., has applied for the Ist prize exhibit to show at Wisconsin University.

A Methodist Protestant Church. The Methodist Protestants, who already have churches at Rose Bud, Union Tp„ and Egypt, Jordan Tp., will soon have one in Rensselaer. They have bought of the F. W. Baptists their old building, at the corner of Van Rensselaer and Cullen sts., and will move it to the corner of Van Rensselaer and Clark, where they have just bought a lot of Monroe Banes. They paid 1200 for the building and 1250 for the lot. By some expense, the building can be made into a very serviceable church. Bev. Laßounty, pastor of Rose Bud and Egypt, will also be pastor of the Rensselaer congregation we understand. The Rensselaer school trustees have contracted to purchase the lot where the church now stands, for S6OO. It is a very desirable addition to the school house grounds, and will make a splendid site for a high school building.