Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1909 — PARR. [ARTICLE]

PARR.

This Is a busy week planting corn, and fine weather for it. Clem Fullerton shipped'his goods today and is going to try the west. E. Price Is paying a good price for cream. He is shipping it. The professor from Lowell is here tonight to give the Parr band their first music lesson. Ottis Sheffer got a piece of ironfllling in his eye about a week ago, and had to go to the doctor in Rensselaer, and was Just in time to save the eye. The Skinem Quick Fur Co. closed up the fur trade for the season and are now commencing to buy wool. They got their first consignment yesterday. Two pounds of goat wool —very fine quality. Sherman Renicker left Parr this morning on the milk train for Denver, Colo., via Kansas City, to see what he can find to suit him in the way of a location for farming. Abe Meyers started on the same train for Duluth, Minn., where he expects to obtain a fat Job on a dredge boat. There is a meeting called for Wednesday night at W. L. Wood’s hall to find out how many acres of ground can be secured for raising cabbage for a kraut factory to locate at Parr. Quite a number have already contracted, some have agreed to plant as much as five acres, 66 per ton is to be the price paid by the company.