The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-11-20
COURT DAY
PRICES GOOD
ideal Weather Brings Large Crowd
and Considerable Stock to
City Monday.

and in the number were good
many of good quality. Trade was
very brisk and prices good. The
best 1,O00pound steers brought 10
cents with prices ranging from ~
to 91a cents for steers of lighter
weight; .yearlings at from z to .
cents, according to quality; heifers
at 6ta to z cents; cows at 51a to
61a cents; bulls at Ga to z cents
Gamers at to cents. Good
crowd at the pens with a few buy
ers from Illinois. Central Kentucky
was well represented. The scales
we're busy all day and about all the
cattle that we're desirable were sold
at satisfactory prices.
SALES
We. caught few sales in the
forenoon that will show our readers
how prices ranged: Thornton SMELL
ing sold two fat 7OO-fb. heifers to
Thos. Greene at $7.75; Chas. Nc
Donald sold sixteen SO0-fb. steers to
Simon We'll, of Lexington, at 8
cents; Dawson Tapp sold nine $50
ID. heifers to John Martin, of Clark
county, at Z cents; Lafe Risener
sold twenty 6OO-fb. steers to Robt.
Howell at 8 cents; Thornton SMELL
ing sold eighteen S50-fb. steers to
Simon We'll at $3.50; W. E. Little
sold seventeen 650-1b. steers to "a
M, Halsey, of Clark county, at
$7.35; same party sold eighteen
825-lb. steers to Dan Welch at
$7.35; Rankin Whitsitt bought four
about 1,OOO-lb. steers at 800 per
head, Mr.. Whitsitt was offered $500
per head profit on his purchase;
Sanford Helton sold twenty 550-ib.
steers to Henry Brothers, of Car
isle, at $500; VIM. Davis Sold
eleven 500-lb. steers to S. P. Wade
at $500; Hanlv Raglan sold FIVE
950-tb. steers to John Vice at $3.50,
Mr.. Vice re-sold a short time later
to R. G. Gatewood at 10 cents; HtC. |
Prewitt sold twelve 750-ib. steers To
Thos. Greene at $3.50; John Vice
sold twenty-five 750-fb. steers to
Simon We'll at $500; lies & Co.
sold six 7550-iib. steers to Simon We'll |
at z cents; Henry Lemaster sold
twenty four 800-fb. cows to j. T. |
of Charleston, Ill.,, at |
$3.50; Garnett Allen sold seven 600
lb. steers to Edgar Rose at 1925; |
Joe Hisle sold fourteen 700gib.
steers to Stanley Thomas at %. S15
cents; Lon Cooper sold fifteen 525-
pound heifers to VIM. Hart at $3.50;
Carl Trimble sold six 950-ib. steers
to Chas. Highland at 9 cents; Carl
Trimble sold two 1,000-ib. steers to
Sid Hart at 10 cents; Mike Wilson
sold bunch Of 650-lb. heifers to w.
r. Nichols at cents; Thos. Debore
sold ten 700-ib. heifers to John
Darnell, of Bourbon county, at 7
cents; Lon Cooper sold twenty five
S00-fb. steers to Clark & Welch at
BIZ cents. Trade continued brisk
in the afternoon and the pens were
pretty well cleaned by night.
HORSES AND MULES
The horse market was in better
shape than we have seen it for a
ong time. While no fine horses
we're sold ordinary ones brought
From $40 to sl45; plays at $65 to
800, and there were buyers for all
If them. ~
Good run of mules and prices
we're high for anything in fair flesh.
4 great many small mules and the
bulk of them were thin. Fletcher
Mann, of Lexington, bought a pair
II heavy mare mules Of Thornton
Smelling at $3.50. Mr.. Mann bought
several other pairs at from $3.50 to
500 per pair. He bought 10 or IL
mules in all. Henry Caywood, Of
Paris, bought bunch of mules that
iost around 5000 per head; McClin-
ock q Co., Of Millersburg, also
fought quite a number at about the