The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-18
A WINNER.
The Combination Fair and Horse Sale
Promises to be a Great Success.
An Interesting Meeting Monday Night.

or the Combination Fair ana HORSE
Sale of this city was held at The Saul
paugh Monday, and from the enthu-
siasm exhibited it was evident that
they mean to make the affair the sue
cess it deserves, At the sales to take
place Oct. 7th and 8th it is said there
will be great variety of all classes OF
horses, and while choice in every
line can be found, there will still be
those who will be well suited with
others than the prize animals.
The commissions and expenses at
tendant have been calculated closely
and the intention is to make it Suffic-
lent to barely cover the necessary ex-
penses of the sale. The object is not
a scheme to make money-but to es-
tablish a market-place for all classes
of horses with the conyeniences for
both the buyer and seller accomplish
ing sales and purchases with the least
expense and trouble.
The buyers can here see a greater
number and variety of horses in the
two days or even few hours than
they could otherwise in weeks or
months, and with little or no expense.
The sellers can bring their horses to
Mankato with the assurance that they
win meet comparative buyers, and in
two days have more and better oppor-
tunitieS for making sales, than they
could have at home in months, and
that too, when their time is not so
valuable as at some other season.
Some men are natural sellers and
Others buyers, and to get the two
classes together is the object of these
Combination Sales.
Owners of stock will be permitted
to show their own animals personally
or through private representatives.
Good, reliable, competent men will be
furnished by the statesmen of the res
pective classes, to exhibit stock to
buyers without extra charge. Owners
in every instance to make prices and
conditions for private sales to the
statesmen, but in no case to make a
sale except through, or by, consent of
the statesmen for the class in which
the stock may be entered. All stock
not consigned to the secretary, will be
strictly forbidden on the grounds dur
ing the hours of private sale, viz: from
$50 TO u N. October 18th and Sth. All
sales must be reported to the secretary
and no stock will be allowed to leave
the grounds until all bills for feed,
commission, ETC., are fully settled and
Teceipted for by the secretary, except
as by consent of statesmen. All stock
entered for sale must be consigned to
the secretary with complete descrip-
ton.
All stock offered for sale must be on
the ground and properly arranged by
2 p. m. Oct. 9th. Competent statesmen
will offer all stock at private sale in
the forenoon of each day Oct. 7th and
Sth, but no sales will be made without
consent of owner.
Each afternoon of Oct. 7th and Sth
an auction sale of horses by compe-
tent statesmen will be held and the
stock sold to the highest bidder with
out reserve. Owners or consigners
can avail themselves of this method
II they prefer.
4 commission of three per cent will
be charged on all private or auction
sales.
One dollar per head must accompany
all entries to this Combination Sale
to cover advertising, etc. Fifty cents
per day will be charged for stall room
straw and hay, grain at market
prices.) Where desired by the sellers
competent men will be furnished at
reasonable prices to care for their
stock.
Mankato is the most available point
in all Southern Minnesota for the con-
YenienCe both the sellers and buyers
of stock. 1t is reached by the Chicago
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha;
Chicago Northwestern; Minneapolis
& st. Louis; and Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroads. Negotiations
are now pending for reduced rates for
the transportation of stock with a
fair prospect for success.
The board decided that notice be
given to consign all stock to G. FL.
Piper, secretary, Rapidan Mills, Mimi.
Those who have the interest of the
affair at heart say they are making
every effort to get the buyer and seller
together, and by so doing they feel
they are adding stimulous to the
home interests in the Northwest. The
board of directors are:
). G. Curyer, president; G. II. Piper,
secretary; e. NJ. Weston, DIR. Stan
dish, John A. Willard, N. p. Lee, Geo.
Pond, Mankato; Geo. E. Case, A. Karl.
son, st. Peter; @. M.Boynton, Madelia:
Il. e. Gibbs, ST. James: Alex. Gum,
GAINESVILLE; S. +. Hartman; f. Davis,
Rapidan Mills; Ed. Weaver, Mankato
Excursion To st. Louis, Mo.
For the St. Louis Exposition to be
held at st. Louis, No., Sept. End, tc