The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-12
lover $4,000 IS Melted AT
h0DC|N AND Van AUSDALL SALES
BY WILLIAM r. sANeoRN

BY WILLIAM r. sANBORN
Two charming and motherly women
began selling cigars for the first time
In their lives, we imagine. on Tues.
day. The chances are that they have
already retired from the cigar bust.
ness, as they had but two boxes to
dispose of, and the Ollie Hodgin sale
Is not q continuous performance.
These ladies are members Of the Pyth-
ian Sisters, over at New Paris, a group
OF whom served lunch at the Hodgin
fiesta, and were the busiest women in
ohio during the recess hour. The
Hodgin sale ranks among the big"
ones and a hungry bunch of men
clamored for food around the noon
tide, as men, having no better sense.
are likely to do. How in the world
the farmers wives. with brood Of
youngsters, ever get time to cook all
the food the men who attend farm
sales will eat, is beyond our solution.
Even at that we meet farmers now
and then with mud on their rubber
boots who have lean and hungry
look, confound them, when they get
all the food there is, free gratis and
for nothing" and also have it cooked
to order
But such is life in the rural regions
and country folks must make the best
Of it, as they have been doing ever
since Adam treked out of Eden and
went to raising radishes.
They had raft of stuff to sell at
/, the Hodgin sale and so began business
early. that is to say at 10 o'clock. A
\ big tent was provided, because the
weather man Is utterly unreliable in
March. also during the other eleven
months Of the year. He is likely to
jump in with an off-brand of weather
and spoil even Sunday school picnic,
let alone a farm sale. But in this in
stance he provided fine, large day,
suitable to the season and occasion,
and the farm sale bugs" left their
haven't got any. The rascals are
weather-proof, anyway, and their wives
monopolize the rainsticks.
Sale Nets $10,510
A sale which brings in $10,510 can
be accounted among the headliners OF
the past season and means a busy day
for auctioneers and clerks. There
were three auctioneers. Commit, Wad-
die and Conway, while the accounts
and cash receivable were taken care
of by Chas. w. Jordan and John e.
Healey. of the American Trust and
Savings, of Richmond. These gen.
tlemen were among the last to leave,
of course. and found that sale hours
are not bank hours, by a whole lot,
when they got back to town.
1t was written long ages before the
Palladium was evolved that "a city
set upon hill cannot be hid" Just
SO with a house. The Hodgin home
stands upon hill, or plateau, and
faces south. 1t is a substantial brick
structure, calculated to withstand the
shock of wintery winds or autumn
gales. It is pleasant and comfort
able old home, and is fitted UP in
cheerful and honey" fashion, indica-
tive of rest and comfort, to all of
which every American farmer is just
ly entitled, of course. and is more able
/ to possess and enjoy than any other
agriculturist on the footstool. The
farm is located one mile north of
Westville, on the National road.
1t was here the clans gathered on
Tuesday The big sale tent and the
showing of cattle, hogs and sheep,
reminded one of country fair.
About fifty head of cattle, more than
one hundred hogs and eighty sheep
went under the hammer in the long
double session, for the works shut
down for nearly an hour for lunch,
as the Ohio labor laws permit. Dur
ing this shut down the Pythian Sisters
of New Paris served lunch to all
corners. We noted, too, that man
as big as the side of a house, paid no
more for his dinner than the smallest
chap on the grounds. Did he get any
70 bnn hn oil
did you ask? He did not, come toI
think of it. The ladies present and
serving were: Mrs. c. M. Mitchell,
Mrs Thomas Melody. Mrs. John G.
Aud, Mrs. Charles Dagler, Mrs. Geo,
Kuth and Mrs. Nelson Barton. Mrs
Oliver Hodgin and her charming
daughter, Miss Esther, lent all pos
sible assistance, and also turned over
all the dishes and kitchen appliances
to their guests to help make the oc-