Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
BLOOMINGTON.

Special Correspondence 70 the Herald.
The seed corn contest conducted by
Wnodhouse & BARLEY, bankers Of this
CITY, at the city, nall last Saturday
was a complete success. There. were
137 entries OF ten ears each. Prot
r.. A. Moore Of the state agricultural
college was present and during the
forenoon Judged the corn. The fol-
lowing we'll known farmers were
awarded prizes in the contest Ora
Bennett, first prize, $40; 0. Il.
Martin. second prize, IS, Al. Hamer.
third, S.; W. f. Alderman, fourth,
So; I. d NagIe. fifth, 50; and in the
order enumerated the following re-
ceived awards of 81 each: Arnold
Brewer, Lewis Erwin, VIM. Skinner,
James Garthwaite Jr., Henry Pink,
Nj. B. Lewis, Frank Webb, John
Small, Edward Bedward, Wood Bros !,
Ed. Welsh, Allen Pritchett, Dan
Curtis. Theo. Degsnhardt, A. j.
Smith, Grant Ballantine, Wesley
Oates, Harry Young, j. Erwin, VIM.
Patterson, Erven Ward, Luke Webb.
The white corn predominated, the
Wisconsin No. Z capturing the first
three ard most of the other prizes.
Yellow had some of the prizes and the
ribbon variety got dollar prize.
There was bunch of red corn.
In the afternoon there was regular
program enjoyed by full house
P. Ba1tley made speech welcoming
the guests to the meeting. This was
responded to by VIM. leighton, who
neatly thanked the bank people for
the contest. Messrs. WOodhouse q
Bishop and MINIS. BARLEY and Wood
house furnished several songs. Then
Prof. Moore gave an able talk on
corn, which had the close attention OF
the large audience. After he got
through, quite number of farmers
asked questions relating to the culture
of corn. Then some of the exhibits
were auctioned off to the farmers
present
Prof. Moore said that the exhibit
was a fine one, complimentlng the
farmers of this vicinity for their
efforts to improve the corn crop.
It is the purpose of Woo1house &
BARLEY to have a similar exhibit
every year, and next season they
expect to add barley to the list. They
are to be congratulated fer conducting
such successful exhibition. See full
report in another column.
Casper Auel and wife have moved
to their new home. vacated by w. ..
Smith.
Some of the school children attended
a party at the Richard Bennett home
Friday evening.
On account of the corn contest the
Catholic ladies served dinner and
supper in the Sprague store building
under the city hail. They had a fine
patronage. realizing neat sum as the
result of their efforts.
Mrs. Luther and Mrs. Burr of Du-
buque were guests at the BARLEY
home Saturday. They came up to
see the corn contest and visit their
friends.
Vera Hickok, attending the Platte
Vile Normal, is home few days on
account of the serious illness of the
new baby in the Harley Hickok home.
Mike Brookens put some dynamite
caps in the stove with some wood, and
there was an explosion. A fragment
gIazed Mikes head, but he was not
hurt. The caps had fallen from a
receptacle hanging above the wood.
Will Schwantes reports new boy
at his home on the north prairie.
Michael Mutually is indisposed,
and his son Mike is home from Texas
to visit him.
r. II. HOksins has built a new
garage for his automobile.
Mrs. Leo Ryan writes from
Boulder, Colorado, that Jesse Sawyer,
Anthony Stockert and Will Behlmer
are out deer hunting, and Jesse re-
ported having killed two. Deer hunt
ting seems to be good sport in that
country.
The high school football team
went to Prairie du CHEN and met
defeat by a score of II TO 6
Joe Greer has sold his freight line
to John Adams. who will take charge
in few days.
Mrs. Levi Schell, of Sibley, Iowa,
is visiting relatives in this vicinity