Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-12-13
COUNTY NEWS.
Herald Correspond ,nts Cont .ibate
Interesting Letters.
BLOOMINGTON.

one OF the most successful sales OF
the year. Mr.. Abraham has been
renting the farm for three seasons,
and being a good farmer he had
large amount of property to sell
There were 100 cattle, 100 hogs, IS
sheep, IS horses, hay grain and
some machinery. In order to make
a good sale he did the right things.
In the first place he did lot of
personal advertising, which is the
best as far as 1t goes. Then he had
several hundred large bills printed
and posted, and several hundred
large postal cards printed and
mailed. Then he placed large ad-
Vertlsements in the Bloomington,
Fennimore, Lancaster and Cassville
papers. Nature favored him with
good day, and Auct1oneer r. N.
Hoskins did the rest, which was his
full share, as usual. There was
large crowd, including people from
every town in West Grant, thanks
to the publicity given the sale.
Mr.. Hoskins, who is quite an orator,
and considerable of wit, command
ed the closest attention of the crowd
during the entire time consumed in
disposing of the large list of prop
erty.
The few PARTICLES of machinery
were sold at fair prices. The 600
bushels of oats brought 26 cents
per bushel. A lot Of corn brought
SO cents, barley 80 cents, timothy
seed $1.45, timothy hay 81. 80 ton,
another stack $40, and some
clover $3.50. Hogs sold at from
$3.50 per cwt. for shoats to SIS each
for brood sows. Fred Wetmore
paid a top notch price of "a. 81 1-2
for a bunch of big ones, and other
buyers were Perry Knapp, j. E.
Humphrey, Mat. Neiss, Mat. Ertz,
Fl. Hurlburt, Will Myers. The
highest bidder on sheep was offered
his choice of the flock. Geo.
F1nney was best man, bidding
1925, and taking the entire IS,
leaving two bucks for S.. Wallert
and J. Tiff. Cattle of all ages sold
for $12 to $35. Fred Weumore
bought a bunch of II 2-year old
heifers at $2625, and Grant
Ballantine 81 2-year old steers at
1874. other buyers were Rob. Den
son, Fred Cooper, Roy Oates, Nose
Lewis, HI. Fisher, B. Brookens, G..
w. Stone, C. Garthwaite, B.
Retallica, q. Alderman, HI. Voss,
y. Brookens, w. J. Ball, j. E.
Humphrey, John Hale, I'll. M. Hic-
kok, E. Wilkinson, Fl. Boorman,
j. L. Morkln, H. Hurlburt, T. D.
Maggie. Horses brought $50 to $3.50.
R. M. Donnelly bought good team
for $500, w. Schloesser another for
$282,and others buyers were Elmer
Wager, P. Ell. Murphey, John Seipp,
G. H. Knapp, A. Williamson, Roy
Bailey, Geo. Finney, A. Koschkee,
G. L. Knapp and G. Garthwaite.
A feature of this sale was the
large number of ladies present.
They were banqueted in the house
while the men ate a lunch. Henry
Seipp presided at the head of the
ladies' table.
The sale of SIS, 900 worth of mis-
cellaneous farm property in 31-2
hours is considered remarkable
feat, and Mr.. Hoskins is to be
congratulated on the dispatch with
which he disposes of property at
good prices. He has cried twenty
six sales since Sept 30.
Jennings Brady has been quite ill
with typhoid fever, but is better.
John Gates, pneumonia patient,
is improving.
The lecture course show, 'Morphet
q Stephenson, Friday evening, was
we'll attended and greatly enjoyed.
The next number will be toward
spring.
Joseph Horsfall was in Flandreau,
South Dakota, last week, visiting
his brother Allen. He reports a
pleasant trip.
Reported that Frank Newman
and wife are starting this week for
Brownsville, Texas, to pass the cold
weather season. Their daughter,
Mrs. E. K. Goodrich, will be visited.
Will Mulrooney has a new mirror
door screen in his saloon.
Orion Brady, son j. L. Brady of
this place, in company with another
clerk in the same store, Mr.. Mcleod.
has bought out the drug store in
which he was employed at Ocean
Park, California, the Dutton Drug
Co. by name. We are glad to