Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — $1,000 INDIANA TROPHY. [ARTICLE]

$1,000 INDIANA TROPHY.

To Be Awarded Annually for the Best Ten Ears of Corn Exhibited at the National Corn Exposition. j At a meeting of the special agents and the commission appointed for the National wra Exposition to be held at Omaha December, 1908, a movement was started to secure funds to purchase a trophy to be awarded annually for the best ten ears of com exhibited at the National Com Exposition. The value of this trophy is to be. as decided upon, SI,OOO. Through the winnings of Indiupai corn growers at the National Corn Exposition held at Chicago last October, and those made at other national shows, Indiana hgs placed her-, self in the front rank of. the com states. The offering of this trophy at this time gives the state another opportunity to maintain the lead in all movements for better com. Already the best artists and designers of the country have been put to work on this corn trophy and it is hoped to secure one which will Eclipse all trophies of the kind ever offered. It is intended that this trophy will bring mtfch advertising and glory, not only to the state but to the com growers. The special agents of the counties of the state have each agreed to contribute $lO toward the trophy. This means that the interest in this trophy will be state wide and that It is well termed an Indiana Com Trophy. The interest among Tndiapa corn growers for the National Corn Exposition is running high at this time and it is felt by those interested, that a mammoth exhibit will be made by this state at the exposition in December.

Here Is a story of a boy in college who was about to graduate. He wrote back for his mother to come. She replied that she could not do so. She said her clothes were worn out and she had no money to buy new ones for the occasion. The boy said come anyway. The poor mother went in her best but was net stylLh. The commencement was in a fashionable church. The son was proud.r of lis mother than his honors. He w Iktd down the aisle with her to ore of the best seats. The~e wre tears in his eyes, and she bu st out weeping when her son pronounced the valedictory. The president pinned a badge on his coat, but he took it and pinned it on his mother’s faded dress, as he bent and kisssd her wrinkled face. The boy with this kind of pride will be an honor to his country and his God. May his number increase and the shadows of his loveliness cover the world.

Pianos —Get our prices and terms of payment. Ist door south of City Fire Dept. Bldg. , MEYERS PIANO CO., 0.5-2tsw Factory Distributors. Do you know what we think is the best story in the bible? It may surprise you, but, its about Noah and the flood. We say this even in the faces well educated folks, who turn up their noses and declare the story a fake. You remember, Noah had to work a long time on that ark. It was uphill business, too, at best, to go on toiling and sweating day after day, in the hot sun, building a boat away out op dry land, while the local anvil and hammer club sat around, spitting tobacco juice upon his lumber, whittling up his pine boards with their jack-knives and telling him what a fool he was to expect a big rain in a country that was too hot to grow alfalfa. But he kept at it. Finally the flood came and every mother’s son of the croakers was drowned. This is the only case we know of, either in sacred or profane history, where a bunch of knr ckers got exactly what was coming to them.—Ex.