Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-09
AVERAGE FOR COWS HOLD HIGH
At SECOND SALE COUNTY
sHoRTHoRN ASSOCIATION.
RED CROSS NETS $5e2.50
AS ITS SHARE OF AUCTION
Male Calf Donated BY E. w. Harmon
Sold Three Times For Net Total
Of S475-Goose Donated is Sold Many
Iimes-F arners increase FED Gross
Receipts by Many Donations of Cash.

Sixty-nine head Of Shorthorns OF
Scotch and American strains the con
tributions of members of the Marshall
County Shorthorn Breeders Associa-
ton, were sold at auction for sl5,220 al
the second sale of the association this
winter held Friday afternoon at Har-
mons feed barn. The sale was the lar
gest ever held by the association, and
the average price paid by bidders es-
pecially for the cows offered, was
somewhat higher than usual.
The sale wound up with an enthus-
iastic Red Cross rally at which one
male calf and a wild goose were sold
and resold. and donations were taken
for the Red Cross until the total taken
in made s5s2.5o.
Cows Average S242.
Twenty eight females, of all ages.
one with a calf by her side, and others
including both aged and young stuff
brought a total of s6,795, an average of
s242, which was regarded as very sat
isfactory. The top price for cows was
s425, and it was of more than ordinary
interest that all of the three cows that
brought the top prices were contributed
by A. C. Nyce, of Hampton, who for
merly lived at Liscomb and bought the
foundation for his herd at earlier sales
of the association. These three cows
cold for Total of $3.50. Z. A. Frike,
of State Center, paid 1926 and $500 for
two, the first being an Swear old COW
and the latter 2-yearold
Bulls Average sos.
The forty-one males sold for sS,425,
an average of sos. the list including
stuff of all ages. The top price was
$3.50, paid by E. G. Shafer, of Tama, for
the herd leader, owned by Ben II.
Thompson, of Green Mountain. No
other male of the sale approached this
price. The next highest price. was
1895, paid by John Bousky. of 'Tama
for 5-year- old offered by G. ". West
fall, of Toledo. The largest buyer was
j. S. Bodt, of Wells, New. Eleven head.
his agent.
Red Cross Bull Brings SAYS.
A 10months- old male calf, Cumber-
land Goods, given by E. W. Harmon,
was sold three times for d net total OK
s415, the proceeds being given to rlr
Red Cross. The animal when first
offered was bid up to $40 by Peter
Mckay, of Delhi, MINI.
IF any one announced Mr.. Mckay
after he had bought the calf, will bid
$3.50 for the bullock, I'll credit him $40
on the price The offer was taken by
F. c. Davis, Of Bangor township, and
others who contributed s. or so each,
and the price of $3.50 was bid. A third
time the calf was put up and Harry
Bruckiacher and Dell F. Baer, Of ,!,e
Dillon neighborhood combined and bid
the calf up to 1925.
Goose Red Gross Game.
A boy, no one seemed to know who
he was, lugged into the sale ring a
goose. He said it was a wild goose and
he wanted it sold for the Red Cross.
The bidding got SO fast and the goose
was sold and resold so often, mostly at
the price of 81 per sale, that the clerk
was unable to keep a record of the
sales, or who finally got the goose. 1t
was estimated that the fowl brought
in total Of $40 or $50 for the cause.
The auctioneers announced that Red
ming so high that the clerk would re-
ceive donations for the Red Cross in a
few minutes. Farmers in the crowd
began passing up their checks for from
81 to 50 each. and when the clerk got
time to count the money afterwards he
found he had s147.5o. The money will
be turned in to the county chapter.
Mokay's Interest in Red Cross.
The interest taken by Peter Mckay.
of Delhi, Mimi, in the Red Cross, in bid
ding in the Red Cross calf and then
turning it over to others in order to
increase the Red Cross fund, is quite
natural when something is known of
a son and six nephews in the Ameri-
can army and some of the boys al
ready are in France. Mr.. Mckay was
born within twelve miles of where the
American soldiers who lost their lives
on the Tuscania were buried.
MIR. Mckay and J. ii. Little, OF Delhi,
have been in Iowa attending Shorthorn
sales. and both bought here At a
Waterloo sale Mr.. Mckay bought the
top animal, at $500. While in the city
the Delhi men were guests Of Miss
Mildred Leonard, Of Delhi, grand
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hobbs
who is attending school here and
ents, Miss Leonard was a member of
Mr.. Mckay's Sunday school class at
| Delhi.