Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1904 — Some Fine Maggie Murpheys. [ARTICLE]

Some Fine Maggie Murpheys.

Nelson Ducharme, from the J. G. Frazee farm, in Barkley biought in a load of potatoes, Thursday, th .tin siz*. uniformity' and fine shape, would surely be prize winners at i potato show. They wera of the kind the Irishman described as being as big as his two fists, and a dtzen would make any man a meal. Their special name also suggests the Irishman, for thev are not only “Murphyp” in general, which all Irish potatoes are, but these arfe Maggie Murphys, 1 in particular, and evidently named after the old man Murphey’s very handsomest daughter. Like the mosquitobe in the wild’ lands the missionary! was describing, many of them' weigh a pound, and three or four, especially large ones weighed a pound and a half each. Mr. Ducharme says it is a peculiarity of the Maggies to erow large and fine, but few in the hill.