The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 September 1947 — Page 2
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THF DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTIE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1947.
GOVERNMENT STUDIES FOOD PRICE BOOSTS
| Tiio problem was how to ac-
Demo Editors In Fall Meeting INDIANAPOLIS, Inti., Sept. 10. i INS) The 1048 gubermtrrial contest was beinR discussed today ns the politicos prepared for the fall meeting of the In dlanfl Democratic Kditoiial As sociation at French Lick Friday
and Saturday.
Hundreds of editors and pub-
lishers and party loaders have} The lBW of sll ,,. made reservations for the week- ply an(1 d< . nia nd said prices' end gathering in the Orange j w01l)(1 rise HS dornand increased, county hills. jAnd demand appeared certain to Social events will predominat. j st< [> up with the government and Friday, with the more serious' public competing for available
I rogram scheduled for Saturday.!supplies.
A breakfast of editors will be, -pbo government attack 0.1 held Saturday morning, with prices branched out in all dircc-
Prof. Roy V. Peel, director of the Institute of Politics of Indiana University, as chief speaker. Prof. Peel served in the Office of Strategic Services, the highlyconfidential organization of
World War II.
Aftowards, there will be a meeting of the Democratic state committee at which registration, the campaign for the Tenth District special congressional election and the municipal elections will be considered. Among th** expected topics is the remarkable Democratic registration in Indianapolis where Al Feeney, Democrat, is said to have an excellent chance to he elected may-
or.
A style show for women is scheduled Saturday afternoon. Former Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, a wealthy oil man with national political possibilities, will be the chief speaker at the banquet Saturday night. Marion T. Ayres, of Shelbyvillc, association president, will preside m l short talks will be mad< by Frank M. McHale. national committeeman; Mrs Samuel M. Ralston, national committeewoman; Pleas K. Greenlee, state chairman, and Mrs. Edna Bingham, state vicechairman. Those who go to French Lick hope to learn definitely whether former Governor Henry F. Schricker will consider running for governor. Insiders say tlv odds are against his entering the contest because of his excellent business future as vice-president
j THE DAILY BARKER HERALD CONSOLIDATED
"It Wave* For All”
Entered in the postofflee at!
Greencastle, Indiana as second j class mail matter under act of I
The government launched March 7, 1878. Subscription price, multiple campaigns today to 15 cents per week; $4-00 per force grocery and meat price® year by mail in Putnam county, down and find more foo l for a S5.00 to $7.80 per year outside hungry world. Putnam County.
S. R. Rariden, Publisher.
SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
17-19 South -lackson Street
tions. These were the new point*-
of attack:
1. Attorney-General Tom Clark asked the people to repon any price-fixing attempts to local district attorneys. He ordered his district attorneys to campaign against price agreements which keep the cost of living out
ot range.
2. The Commodities Exchange authority launched a “pressure campaign” to cut down grain speculations. It asked the nation’s big grain exchanges to double margins in grain transactions. Margins are the down
payments.
;i. A congressional committee investigated high prices at Providence, R, I. It hoard pleas for the return of price controls and an end to government support of
farm prices.
TODAY’S RIBI.F. THOUGHT I I Those who are fearful and I flustered are defeated before j they start. Isaiah 30:15: In quietness and confidence shall be i your strength. I
Personal And Local News BRIEFS
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Rainhridge Club In Annual Plrnlr The annual picnic of the Cainr bridge Community Service Club was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and son, Tuesday evening. Sept. 9. Fifteen families were repreI nentod ar.d thoroughly enjoyed i the hamburger fry alter which j water neion was served by* the j hostess. | The Club president, Mrs. Wari ren Caywood, conducted a sho. t | Lusin.ess session, after ward distributing the five birthday gifts for the month of September. Club meetings will be held in the evening during the winter months. The next meeting will be held Tues lay evening. Oct. 13 at the home of Mrs. Fred Thralls. 4- -t- + Mrs. Jefferies Entertains The Thursday afternoon Bridge Club was entertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Herbert Jef-
feries.
The house was beautiful in Fall flowers. There were four
Trieste Becomes
A Free State
l >a, 'le(l this lif e j
TRIESTE. Sept. 16-(UD) - MY D RF A , Tire United States and Britain I love to cl rr .* m formally proclaimed Trieste a ' little " free state today and ordered nights libera! application of the death When eyes oeralty to make it peaceful. snir . '” or '' 'll
sptrea sight*.
As ranking Allied officers Am ’ a " the stars ur British Maj. Gen. Terence Ain, Al "* speak in mp.i proclaimed Trieste a free city at God’s eternjb i
10 A. M. (3 a. m. EDT.) That ▼ ,
1 to dream f,
Nttlc window,
window I
was an hour after the Yugoslavs wetY supposed to have taken over Venesia-Glulia, which surrourds Trietse, except on the side toward the Mediterranean.
eights,
Whon • ■■’rs arc tuned
vine delights,
And voices sweep
skys, s\y„et Voj j
But Marshal Tito’s swaggering
troops took over Venezia-Giulia One voice is fine il nine hours before they were sup- voice I Wn . p
posed to, in a move officially de-
scribed as a deliberate attempt 1 lov ‘' *° dream fn
to Embarrass the British armies.
U. S. and
Charles B. Edmonson was a visitor here from Clayton Tuesday. Mrs. Evelyn Cline is confined t<' her home in Belle Union by illness.
Air. and Mrs. Cecil have returned from a trip to Colorado.
Sutton
by Mrs. Betty Sutherlin, Mrs. Elsie Irwin and Mrs. Tress Hutchins’, Mrs. Elizabeth Shannon Won guest prize. Other guests were Miss May Carpenter, Mrs. Fredda Robertson and Mrs.
The engagement is announced of Miss Beth Traynor and Elizabeth Shannon. William Howard Stein. The announcement is made by the bride-to-be's mother, Mrs. Luther D. Traynor of Danville, Kentucky. i
The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert DrAltA A. Stein of Marion, Ohio. Both Miss Traynor and Mr. Stein are | (JHvC I lUIIC students of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. Miss Traynor _
Double Death
Reading the proclamation that formally made Trieste a free state, General Airy announced
tables cf bridge. Prizes were won) that death would be the punisii-
Mrs. W M. McGaughey has returned from Bay View, Michi-
4 Clinton Anderson, Secretary gan, where she has spent the ot Agriculture, said the Presi- past month.
has been employed in th? Administration of DePauw University,, vacation during which time she made her home at 1008 South College j
Avenue.
The wedding is to be Friday, December 19, in the Gobin Mem* j orial Church on the campus of DePauw University. The Rev. Bibb' Traynor. uncle of the bride, will read the vows at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. I
ment from now on for unlawful possession of arms, assaulting Allied troops, inciting teh people
to Insurrection, organizing public j Bl . Uv , rn (h ‘'
little windowlit nights That there between J me * in glad (mil CnuM I but clearly ( Is niy own darlmi-1 alone with him I The other glories 4
he,
Oul there i n glad fJ
stars I
Go:l give me eyJ
demonstrations and trying
cverhtrow authority.
If this decree had been, in force j Mrs. C. John PrfcJ yesterday, when five pAople were Stella Gay Bradtw
end graddaughters.]
CHICAGO, Sept. 16 —(UP) — From scanty clues, police at
re-weave the
killed ard more than 30 injured hy bombs and in riots, many would be liable to death, i * a
Almost at the same time wider j ® v r + + + + + | application of the death penalty ! * ANNIVERt was ordered, the Communist-con- !•+ + 4 + + + + 4 l trolled Labor Confederation calf ( 1 ed a strike in a shipyard, a dock- j Blrtlwla,| yard and a brewery as a protest ' , ,r ' n S
dent’s cabinet would meet Monday to discuss a price report an t a report on the American export
program.
The price picture turned international in scope. It hinged around foreign policy and tlrfeeding of people faced with
starvation.
The Agriculture Departmen* estimated that 40 per cent of the saleable wheat crop would be exported. The CEA was concerned with the diminishing buying power of foreign dollars in Am-, erican markets. | That tied in with the wheat market. After skittering at the end of last week, the wheat market soared skyward again
Mrs. Oscar A. Sallust under-, went a major operation at the j Putnam county hospital Tues- J
day morning.
Bethel Club Met W'lt.i Mrs. Cheney
September Meetingof The Good Cheer Club
Mrs. Elma Cheney was hostess The Good Cheer Club met to the Bethel Community Club Thursday afternoon Scptembt-*-, Barbara
at her home on Wednesday. Her 11th with Mrs. Amos Fine. j Their nu ,j e bodes were found! assistants were Elsie Clones and | Nine members responded to j in a barricaded Loop Hotel room
of , roll call with an item of ‘'Cur- yesterday.
Coroner A. L. Brodie said the
Three members who have re-j c °uple apparently died from
I tempted today to ^ ^ ^
- story of a love affair that led to “machinegun killing ! the death of Frank Ries, 40, and j ^ a-yeitr-old girl Saturday i Rob, ' n t la beautiful red-haired svoman. u . vas ( . xpeCtPd that the St ; ^ ^ ' who was believed to be his wife, w(wk , 900n bp ma > gen- ! ^eddy Barit, son
eral.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Snapp and
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Person, at- °rsl Crcsby. In the absence
ten led the Midget Races at P r esident, Mrs. Chas Marts | rent Events.
Speedway Monday evening. j presided and minutes of the last
*■» - M ” er.nl. Dorn,-,
. ... -’I back at thfti meeting however anm rs vvi Kiir Times othf , r member, Mrs. Christine
reminiscences.” After the busi-
A1 though February is called the month of presidents, rtrdy three, U. S. presidents were born then; five were born in March and four in April.
Ted Book.
Route 1 4 years to Randy L Grimos, |
Sept. 29th.
Wedding |
Mr. and Mrs. E I years today, Sept, li
are expected to return home today- from Bay View, Michigan
where they have spent the sum- I n,-ss meeting the program comrnt * r ' I mittees. Maradean Miller, Alta Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Shuck! and Grace Sillrry, present-
What details there were led, ) police to believe the deaths were ! the result of aweird suicide
and Mr. and Mrs. Ora Turner and family spent the week-end in Michigan City and Niles,
Mich.
of th? Fletcher Trust Company! yesterday. It climbed to $2.81 a
of Indianapolis. His closest bushel.
business associates say he will' And wheat tied in with the
not run.
In that event, a number of editors will boost John A. Watkins.
“d State Fair complete with vegetable and stock show. While every one was in the women’s building admiring the lovely needlework, the call to lunch was heard and hamburgers, hot dogs, ; eokes and lee tea was served
Clark, is, at present, ill and in
the Patna,m. County Hospital. pact But authoriti „ ad7 nittei After the business meeting the] the ^ m , ht haV(> been a. com,
members enjoyed a pleasantsocial hour during which the
Watkins gave the politicos a scare by threatening the care-fully-prepared nomination of
former Governor M. Clifford food
Townsend for senator in 1946. Townsend is reported to have told friends that his health will not permit his to run for gover-
nor.
Others mentioned for the nomination are Shirley Wilcox, of New Albany, federal internal ivvenue collector for Indiana; Federal District Attorneys Al<*y. Campbell, of Fort Wayne, and
State Fair ticket. The next meet
in P will be Oct. 1 with Mrs. Ski.nnierhorn that he has been ^ ^ >aWir ^ at I-J0CSI. rpo-
l I gram will be sewing and hand- ; work and members are asked to
promoted to Sergeant. Amos stationed at Fairfield, Calif. ( bring aprons, patterns or
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray [ hand work or suggestions
Hunter and son, David, Miss j Christmas gifts. \ 1.^, VI.... W .. .. • ers- »• it.
any for
returned Mrs. Myrtle Myers. Mrs. Letha i
Medford McBride and Richarl Sutherlin were in St. Louis ove r
general food price picture which ^ New YmV Giants | ^7 Unm"Ttyde ‘cnssue’ Sper^v depended largely lupon the grain st Lou,. CRrdinal _ I cnssie Sperry , . W ' ^° u ' a ^aru.najs, won the door prize, which was a market. The corn crop will be I - r • ""s ■* Bloomfield pubiisher and former j small this year. Without corn Mrs. Cora Skimmerhorn restate commander of the Ameii- to feed to livestock, farmers may ceived word from her son. Amos
can Legion, for the nomination, feed wheat, raising the price of
that grain even higher.
With the price of grain up, it was natural for prices of many
commodities to climb. If
high-priced grain was fed to
cattle and other livestock, meat C( .n e Diederich have on the hoof would climb. If live- home after a week’s vacation at stock were brought to market B ,. aV er Dam, near Warsaw. In I.
thinner, meat would become
scarcer. Prices would climb. I ^ r - an< I ^ rs - C arl Snapp of The same high grain prices Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Walter would result in higher prices In Graham and family of Washingbutter, milk, eggs, bread and ton - ^ Mr. and Mrs. Earl j lir{1 , Copenhaver. Mrs. Nannie Snapp ' The campaign against buying and R ’ J8S « 11 S" 8 ™ of
F> Howard tpaughran. of Indian-! high-priced foods continued to ,i9 ’ s P t ’ nt Sunday with Mr. and apolis; former Senator Samuel! grow. Joseph Salerno, president M’ 8 - Harry Diitz, Indianapolis. D. Jackson; Congressman Ray of the Massachusetts state CIO. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McCulMadden, ot Gary, and Greenlee, j said unions could beat high food j OU gh of Reelsville have arrived[ Hostess To Club
prices by buying groceries home after spending several wholesale and selling it to mem- da ys touring northern Michigan hers at cost. [and parts of Crtnada. They went In New York City. Mayor Wll- by the way of Sault Saint Mari ’
hostess seived dainty refreshments + + ♦ + Women's Circle Will Meet Thursday
bination of homicide and suicide.
The Women’s Circle of the Presbyterian church will open their fall program with a covered dish luncheon at the home of Mrs. L. H. Dirks. 620 East Washington street, Thursday,
September 18, at 1 o’clock.
Members please bring dish of
food and table service.
Mrs. Edward Mayo of the Indianapolis Presbyterial will be the
House detectives at a Loop Hotel found the bodies after ' maids had tried to enter the | J room for several hours. The door i was bolted and barricaded With'
! two chairs.
Pushing ihto the room, officers, found the woman's body lying on ! the bed. Rie’s body lay cm the
floor.
Police were .unable to identify | the woman positively. They sa.1 J' she probably was Ries' Wife. A ' farev?ll note, written by thei man, was found in her pocket-1 book. It was addressed to "Bar-)
DORIS HINKLE’S SCHOOL OK THK DANCE Reopens in October School h open for enrollment mm. PRlV.Vffc AND CLASS LESSON*. Phone 763-J or 28.1.
ALLEE’S POUND CHINAS WIN BLUll
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bara Ries.”
Ries was identified ns a Los j Angeles and Miami photoghaph- j or from California and Florida
driver's licenses.
Police said the farewell note indicated the two had separated and that the man, despondent be-
tharking Mrs. Sanders for her 1 ( — “> at | cause he could not locate her, lovely hospitality. I nr ' U ^ nwn P la ^ e had de cided to take his life. They
The next meeting will he held I servioe *“’ ^ meeting will be'
O'Conner and Mrs. Lillie Wor- j I*- * **'• Meeting
rick were duly honored.
Refreshments were served and
at the close of nan enjoyable , „ social hour all departed, \ ach !' dlnner mePtin * at 7:00
| Wednesday evening and
T» Be Held Wednesday
Members are reminded of thei
sharp |
that
with Mrs. Letha Ladoga, Oct. 4th.
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Mrs. Sanders
Oliver in 1 at t / h€> hom, * of
. Wright.
Miss Minetta
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| l-'ederated Rending j C’ lh Will Mert
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tjl ESTION FOR DEBATE LAFAYETTE. Ind., Sept. 16 "Resolved, that a Federal world government shoul i be established will be the intercollegiate debate proposition for 1947-48, is was announced today by Dr. P E. Lull, director of forensic activities at Purdue and chairman of the Nations! Committee on Intercollegiate Discussion and
Debate.
The subject w’as chosen. Dr. Lull announces, from approximately ioo topics suggested by debates and debate coaches on the basis of a ballot in which
Mrs. Deryl Sanders was hos- Tho R< * adin * Club toss Saturday afternoon, Sept. | Wl11 meet w edne.sda> afternoon 6th. to the Roachdalc Home 1 I C 16 City library. Mrs.
Economics club. The assistant •
Ferd Lucas will review
Waah-
liam P. O'Dwyer read a report and North Bay across to Sa^n.a ( j ington's Tapestry” by Olive from his special committee in- and Port Huron and home. | son. Mrs. Raymond Crosby ana ! Cl«PPcr- The Reading Course vestigating the city’s food costs, — Mrs. Benford BloyJes, who sub- | this y‘‘ ar ia b y
HOSPITAL NOTES | st ituted for Mrs. Oscar Batman. ’ the American Ubrary Associa-
• Mrs. Batman could not be pres- I C° n ’
then proposed that the city re turn to its war-time policy of
two meatless days weekly in] Wilfred Allee. Coatesville. was, ent ber;)USe of an af . cldpr . t public eating places. He sug- admitted Monday. An unu8uall large numbrr of gested the plan as a method of, Aaron Tubbs, Indiana Btate mornbor ., am , one guest. Mrs. combating rising prices. I Farm, was admitted Monday. I Coleman, were present when RAataurant operators endorsed, M rf) . Thelma Cannatro, Chi- Mrs wm. McMullen, the club the plan The NEW YORK Ho- iCag o. was admitted Monday. j president, opened the meeting.
John Huffman, Greencastle ' Thp song of thp mon th, Put
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tel Association was to discuss it
today. O’Dwyer said he would' wa s rlismissed Monday.
name a committee of restaurant-
332 colleges ami universities p«r-l < u „ anfl hotpl men to work 01lt
ticlp.'ited. By the same process,
the committee selected the intercollegiate discussion subject for 194T-4i8 w’hleh will be “What Should be done to insure peaceful relations among the nations of
the world?”
The committee was composed of members of four national forensic fraternities, Pi Kappa Delta, Delta Sigma Rho, Tau Kappa Alpha ard Phi Rho Pi. Its personnel. In addition to Dr. Lull, consisted of Lionel Crocker. DenUon University; W. Roy Diem, Ohio Wesleyan University; T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama: G. A. Kuhlmann, St. John’s University ; Clifton Lines,
the plan to eliminate meat from menus Tuesdays and Fridays. The committee’s report to O'Dwyer said food costs in tho city had rinen 40 per cent in the
past 20 months,
A THANK YOU NOTE 1 want to thank everyone for the nice cards, also the nurses and nurses aids and especially Dr. Wiseman and Dr. Rhea for all they did for me during my stay In the hospital. Mrs. Dorothy Gooch pd
'on Your Old Gray Bonnet" was
Miss Ann Gerneth. Greencns- sung b y the dub with Mrs. Aliff tic, was dismissed Monday. „t the piano. Mrs. Retta Silvey James Robert Riddle was dis- gave the history of the song, missed Monday. I After the flag salute, the roll Sarah Jane Scott was dismiss ] was called- Roll call response, eri Monday. "My Favorite Heirloom and
Why,” proved to
Plfer was dismissed
CARD OF THANKS
We want to thank our friends
General Beadle State Teachers, and neighbors for their nice College; R. D. Mchaffey, Lin- , Kifts, cards and flowers sent to field College; Richard Murphy. on °ur golden wedding anniUniversity of Illinois, and For- : versary.
rest Rose, Southeast Missouri
State Teachers OrVTtege.
Fred
Monday.
Pansy Rogers, Greencastle
was dismisssed Monday. Gary Higgins was
Monday.
Mrs. Wilbur Lucas and daughter were dismissed Vuesday
morning.
Dorothy Staley, Cloverdale, was dismissed Tuesday morning.
be very in-
teresting. many members having prized heirlooms. ' The secretary's report and the
dismissed) treasurer's report were given,
after which lessons and plans for another year's activities were dis
cussed. + + + +
Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Club Meeting
The American Magazine re veals the development of a 12-lnr | one-tool for the hone—adevice that can Ire used as glass cutter, magnet, file, nut wrench, screM driver, staple puller, wire strip-
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cope per, bottle opener, rule, and knife
pd sharpener among other things.
Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Club will meet with Mrs. Ernest Collins Saturday, Sept. 20th, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Karl Sourv.lne will be the assisting hos-
tess.
LET BANNER ADS BELL IT
Chib Held
Interrating Meeting The Practical Nursing and Child Care Club held its first i meeting following the summer vacation Wednesday evening,
Sept. 10th.
Officers elected for the coming year were, Miss Miude Sutherlin, president- Mrs. Betty Burks, vice president; Miss Ruby Wells, secretary*-treasurer. The program committee is as follows, Mrs. Betty Burks, chairman, Mrs. Martha Lewis and Mrs. Lilly Green. The objectives of this group are (1) To meet the call fot home nursing and chiki care: (2) To Improve the efficiency oi their individual service: (3)To cooperate with other agencies for better community health. The rext meeting of the club will be held Oct. 13th.
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Golden Link Oub Will Hold Meeting The Golden Link Club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Walter Brown. Mrs. Maud Snider will have the
program.
said the note suggested the two
had discussed a suicide pact. GIRL ON STRND IN MURDER TRIAL
SANTA ANA. Cal., Sept. 16--tUP) - Beulah Louise Overall, 18, was scheduled to tell the jury today exactly what she did the day the state contends she and her fiance, George (BudI Gollum,
21, murdered her parents.
The college girl heiress took the stand unexpectedly late yesterday in defense of the state's charges that the young lovers murdered Mr. and Mrs. Walter Overell on their yacht to satisfy
their "lust and greed.”
She said that her mother had approved and encouraged hei love for Gollum and that he was welcome on the yacht Mary E where the elder Overalls died six
months ago.
She denied the truth of the
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Pearl's Defender was first prize Senior V*' 4 _ (■<, :hampion and Grand Champion sow .at the Pu lr - t|a j She was first senior yesrllng sow placing at the i 11 also first sow in Indiana to place when * hr, ^' n . ‘ group where she placed third, Being defeated t>y • inols and ohe from Ohio. "American Beauty" ll J^' ,t i Yearling Boar and Reserve Grand Champion o™
testimony of her Uncle. Emanuel Indiana State Fair and first prize aged boar this r Jungquist, that she immediately j Indiana State Fair. He is a half brother to wanted possession of her moth-' "Going My Way" the boar that stood third last . ,
Yearling class at the Indiana State Fair was year In the aged boar claas. He is sired by "P rin . ( ' rd Key Note and Alice’s Queen a sow from this n v
possession
er’s property after her death and wanted to make Gollum president of her father’s finance corn-
fender is a granddaughter of Flashy Design whir'’ ( sister to "New Lass" the Grand Champion • s0 ' w „* vw State Fair 1939. ’ Flashy Lass" a daughter °\ .041 Grand Champion sow at Kentucky State Fa’ 1 ; ^ gilts pictured here are Blue Boy’s Susan. Allee s 8 , Model, and Gorgeous Lady. They placed fint, . fourth at the Putnam County fair, and third, ^ 'yal sixth at the Indiana State Fair. But due to the ruur* ( exhibitor can have but two placings in any one allowed only the tw 0 placings, third and fourtb rt , r pig. senior boar pig that was first prize s?nior bo* r Champion, and Reserve Grand Champion boar County Fair was sixth at the Indiana State Fair f another senior boar pig shown waa ninth. ,
Uif
Aliee'i I
class of senior boar pigs. In fart It was a *trong through in almost all breeds of hogs There
show »D]
js ref which ’
about five thousand hogs exhibited at the fAlr.. |t(K j it one of the largest shows ever held in the uaJ ky I above hogs were intended to be shown at the Kenu* , but several were sold at the Indiana State Fa |r ana
not taken on to Kentucky.