Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1904 — Lowell’s Big Day Thursday. [ARTICLE]

Lowell’s Big Day Thursday.

The Lowell Knights of Pythia9 and citizens generally gave the visiting crowds, from Jasper county and elsewhere, a good show for their trouble, Thursday. The parade was the great feature, which not only was large, but very finely planned and executed, with many very fine floats The outfit which seemed to attract the most attention consisted of a wagon with a little jersey cow and a half grown pig, as the passengers. The pig and the cow gave a continuous vaudeville performance, the pig sitting on his haunches, and bracing himself with his front legs against the oow’s legs, and helping himself to jersey cream, without further invitation. There was a label of some kind on the wagon, just what we are unable to say. It might properly have been, however, the familiar advertising phrase, “Direct from the producer to the consumer,” or else the well-known restaurant sign, “Warm meals at all hours.” There were two good games of base ball, in both of which Jasper county teams were engaged, and victorious both times. The Wheatfield Juniors played the Lowell Juniors, and Wheatfield won by a score of 21 to 11. The other game was Rensselaer vs Lowell, with a score of Rensselaer 14 to Lowell 10.