Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1907 — WINNERS AT COUNTY CONTEST [ARTICLE]

WINNERS AT COUNTY CONTEST

Nunes of Boys and Girls Who Won From Entries in Each Township. There are a lot of good bread bakers in ethbryo iu Jasper county 1 , and there are a lot of school boys just old enongh to follow the plow who have demonstrated their abil ity to raise good corn and to select good ears for the contest. These two features of the county farmers’ institute last week were among the most interesting of that educational work, and we are p eased to publish the naiflesofthe parties selected as the most pro ficient girl bread bakers and boy corn growers In each - township. ~ Bread Bakers Corn Grovers Barkley Township 1. Ruth Bull, 70 2. Bessie McElfresh, 62 3. Ethel Marlatt, 55 1. Chester Arnold 2. Paul Norman 3. Vannie ‘Arnold Carpenter Township 1. Frank C. Babcock 2. Victor Sigo 3. Joe Sigo Gillam Township 1. Regina Burris, 65 2. Lizzie Watson, 61 —- 1. Ronald Pullins 2. Roy Hermanson 2. Paul Spangle Hanging Grove Township 1. Cecil Jordan, 76 2. Jennie Parker, 75 3. Blanche Cook, 55 1. Willie Montz 2. Robert Cook 3. Chester Miller Jordan Township 1. RuthJPruett, 78 , 2. Leota Williams, 69 3. Kate Welsh, 68 1. Melvin Tanner 2. Geo. Williams, jr. 3. Orville Huff Kankakee Township. 1. Maymie DeArmond, 68 2. Nelda Hendrickson, 63 3. Ethel Mason, 47 1. Clar’nc Stalbaum , 2. Ernest Asher 3. George Stalbaum Keener Township 1. Dora Feldman, 77 1. Otto Lobotski 2. H. E. Frame 1 Marion Township 1. Ruth Wood, 79 2. Alice Worland, 743. Gladys Reeve, 69 1. Lee Adams 2. George Bond 3. Louie Bachmann Milroy Township 1. John McDonald 2. Johnie McDonald Newton Township 1. Bessie Clemens, 71 2. Grace Kelley, 62 3. Marguerite Zimmer, 54 _j + 1, Roscoe Halstead 2. John Worland 3. Ralph Rejal Union Township 1. Marie Comer, 76 2. Ocie.Wood, 75 3. Bertha Reed, 74 1. 2. Yern Davisson 3. Roy Marshall' Walker Township 1. Katherine Karch, 69 2. Mable Karch, 67 1. Albert Kerns 2. Vern Hanna 3. Elmer Kerns Wheatfield Township 1. Emma Short, 61b 2. Carrie Short, 6()l 1. Lewis Misch 2. Harold Kennedy 3. Willie H. Myers Based on this grading the winners in the county contest were selected, as follows: Bread baking— ~ Ruth Wood, Marion tp., Ist, Ruth Pruett, Jordan tp., 2nd Dora Feldman, Keener tp.,.3rd v ' Corn growing— Lee Adams, Marion tp., Ist Melvin Tanner, Jordan tp., 2nd Frank CJBabcock, Carp. tp.,3rd In the bread contest there were 60 entries from the various townships, while in the corn contest there were over 100 entries. In th§ bread contest it was the plan to send score cards to each girl who entered the contest but the cards were misplaced so as to make this impossible, so only the total score could be given. Lack of time pre vented any of the corn from being scored in detail and only the best three were selected from each township and then from the best in each township the best in the county were selected. After the contest the corn was all sold to the highest bidder, the entire amount bringing $16.45 while the heat ten ears brought $2.25. There was no selection made for the best ear in tne county.