Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1907 — LONG REVIVES THE CORN SHOW [ARTICLE]

LONG REVIVES THE CORN SHOW

Prizes OffereP for Best Corn Grown By Jasper County Fanners. Entries Closed Nov. 10. Do you grow corut Are you proud of itt t)oe8 your neighbor excel you in the corn he raises? Is it because he plants better seed! It he does excel you, do you want to find oat whyt If you will enter six ears, either yellow or white, in A. F. Long’s annual corn show contest many of these questions may be answered, and yon may learn something that will be beneficial to you in future years, and you will if your corn is Elected as the best win a valuable prize. And if you don’t win a prize and don’t acquire any valuable infor* matiou you will have been rewarded by having helped make a creditable corn show that will be pleasing to corn growers and to residents and visitors of Rensselaer. The conditions of the corn show are printed in Mr. Long’s advertisement in this paper, and every reader of that 'raises corn should go out and select a hJf dozen ears aud enter them id the contest. Every township should strive to secure the prize. Death of Nathaniel Henson, Sr. The following biography of Nathaniel Henson, Sr., father of Nathaniel Henson, of copied from a Chicaf* newspaper: Tcf t Mr. Henson was boning corre shire, England, Aug. o the Preside and married Mary Annf now render England in 1845: camCT f interests nf A»"untiflao/ nois, in which state they have since made their residence. Mr. Henson leaves behind him a remarkable career. He was the father of EL children, of which eight survive him, the youngest of which is 41 and the oldest 60 years of age. Twenty-two grand children and eighteen gieat grand children lament the demise of this grand old man. Six gfand children, all of which are of age, acted in the capacity of pall bearers. Rev. Parsons rendered a pathetic sermon over the remains of Mr. Henson at the First Baptist church after which the remains were placed in the Steger Cemetery, at Steger, 111. The sons and danghtere that survive Mr. Henson are: Mrs. John Ball. Mre. Alfred Williams, Mrs. Clara Wright, Mr. Wm. Henson, all of Chicago Heights, Ill.; Mr. Nathaniel Henson Jr., Rensselaer, lud.; Mre. M. E. Fonrney, Chicago; Mrs. Alfred Brorofield, Chicago; Mrs. Joseph Simmons, Grant, 111.