Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — The Farmers’ Institute. [ARTICLE]

The Farmers’ Institute.

The farmers’ Institute at its session Monday drew a very nice crowd and the speakers were very interesting and instructive. The cold weather has not kept many away. The boys’ corn contset has attraced entries from most of the townships and the display is large and of fine quality. The judge of the corn is here and the corn will be scored Tuesday and the prizes awarded. The bread baking contest will also be judged the same day.

The medicine show that held sway heie for two weeks terminating Saturday night left this morning for Tipton, where they will open an engagement. VV tile we doubt the healing propensities of the dope that the “professor" dispensed while here, we believe In giving the devil bls dues and will say that we have not heard of any deaths among the people who took his medicine, and this Is saying a good deal for a traveling quack. The show part of the company was really good, and two more laughable I fellows than Ed Daily and Gus Clarke, Irish and blackface comedians, never struck Rensselaer. The attendance was good during the entire two wgeks, and there was probably never a fortnight of so much laughter before. Within a few weeks the people who bought the medicine and other things they might have had on sale will probably be back to their normal state of health by the aid of the local doctors, and everything ought to be running all right for the new year resolutions.