The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-09

About Town
How'd you like to find a SIS
war bond which you thought
had been lost for four years?
That was the experience last
week of Mrs. Walter Runyan
near Rosedale. The bond came
up missing in 1946 and after look
ing for it everywhere she could
think, Mrs. Runyan gave it ur
for lost.
Il looked high and low for that
bond" Mrs. Runyan recalls, ever
places where / knew it could
Mt possibly be-"
Last week, the missing bono
turned up. Mrs. Runyan founo
it in her quilt box, where it had
apparently been for nearly -four
years.
The PARROT Brothers, Don
and Chet. are planning their
annual John Deere Day show
for Feb. Is. which is next We'd
nesdaY. The PARROTS are John
Deere farm machinery dealers
in Redwood. and their John
Deere day show always draws a
mammoth crowd. This year it
will be held in Richwood's
American Legion Hall.
In connection with this John
Deere day. it is interesting
to note that the first John Deere
tractor ever sold in Ohio was
sold by the Redwood dealer
ship. That was back in 1923.
long before the Parrott boys
came on the scene. The man
who bought the first John
Deere tractor in Ohio is Ray
FrYman. widely Y-known farmer
of the Richwood community.
The Parrots. by the way.
have had the Richwood John
Deere agency since January.
l946. when they bought it
from Tom Navin.
They're probably old stuff to
most of our readers, but we
couldn't refrain from inquiring
about, and passing on the infor-
nation, concerning the gayly
colored sacks used ow-a-days
to hold feed.
The interest was aroused by
piles of feed out at Colonial
Hatchery, the bags being about
every color and pattern imagin-
able. Between Jim BoWin, man.
ager of the Colonial plant, and
Marion Cameron, salesman for
Wayne feeds who happened to
be there at the time, we picked
up little information about
them.
Seems like colored feed sacks
came into use about 1887, and
Marion thinks it was one of the
smaller companies which first hit
upon the idea of using dress
materials for sacking feeds. Its
one time" he said, when a small
outfit set the pattern for the big
ones.
But regardless of who started
1t, every company now puts its
feed up in sacks which can be
used afterward by the farm-wife
for making dresses, aprons, cur
tains, towels, or most anything
else she wants.
In a way, it has worked a
hardship on the dealer, both Mr..
Cameron and Mr.. Bowin agree.
The dealer has no choice of, or
control over, the patterns which
come in shipment of feed.
1T takes about three sacks to
make a dress, "Mr. Cameron
pointed out, "and if a dealer gets
only two sacks of a certain pat
tern which a woman would like
to have for a dress, there's a
chance for an unhappy customer"
Of course, all dealers are in the
same boat so far as that type of
situation is concerned, so it isn't
any worse for one than for an
other.
Our biggest problem with the
colored feed sacks" Mr.. Bowin
laughed, comes when a woman
likes a pattern clear on the bot
tom of the pile. And that hap
pens quite often, too"
Strangely enough, materials in
feed sacks were better for a per-
lod during the war than at any
other time, Mr.. Cameron said.
Then, fabric manufacturers had
trouble getting the materials for
cheaper sacks, and so the feed
manufacturers were really get
ting top-grade stuff.
Not that materials in feed
sacks today are cheap; to the
they are a good-quality
cotton print which
is used extensively by house
wives. Burlap sacks, in fact, arel
Fast disappearing from general
use, Mr.. Cameron said, and may
'omeday be thing of the past.
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