Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — ANOTHER TOWNSHIP HEARD FROM [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER TOWNSHIP HEARD FROM

Lewis S. Alter of Carpenter tp., says he don’t intend for Amos Alb r or any other sand lapperfrom the north to beat him very bad in grain or vegetables, His oabbage will go Amos’s a pound better towttS23 lbs, his squashes are 3 feet and 3 inohea long, has corn that oarries 1 lb and 12 ounces of ear over 8 feet from the ground and tnrnips that measures 25 inches around the waist and will tip the scales at 4 and one quarter pounds and yield at the rate of 400 bushels to the aore. His tomatoes radishes, celery and other garden track inoluding his big yellow pumpkins are all built on about the same pattern. Truly Jasper county don’t take a back seat in live stook or farm preduots.