The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-19
PROCEEDS PUT
MILLER SALE
AMONG BIGGEST
Example for Childless Homes
Cared at Auction Sale Near
Dublin.
BY WILLIAM r. SANBORN

BY WILLIAM r. SANBORN
Before we tell you of the top" on
cows, and the prices teams brought at
one of the largest sales Of the season.
we are gong to talk for a moment
about two children who attended that
sale. They are brother and sister, the
sister being six and the brother but
four years of age. There is more than
the mere fact of these children being
present to tell you; there is a story
of heart interest in Gods little ones
and moral to all who need to take 1t
to heart.
These bright little tots came from
Knightstown, Ind. Nothing strange
about that, you say; there are lot
OF children in that well-known old
town. There are indeed, far too many
OF them; dear little tots who are en-
titled to better home than the or
phanage at Knightstown affords, and
to the love and care that no state in
sitution anywhere provides, mores
the pity. Some day we are going to
make pilgrimage to Knightstown for
the specific purpose of seeing and
talking to these children, these or
phan wards of the state. Then we
are going to tell you more about them
a story devoted exclusively to these
little folks-and to those who care for
them. 1t should be interesting read
ing to the entire Palladium family, to
which every reader of this paper be-
longs.
Wanted One and Took Two.
A very motherly looking woman sat
in big rocker in the Horace NJ Mil
Ter parlor when we entered the room
Cuddled closely in her arms were the
two children referred to, and they
were calling her Mamma" Now, as
a matter of fact, Mrs. Clint Stone
cipher is grandma; she proudly adj
mits 1t. But she loves children, little
children in particular. and her home
seemed lonely without them; so she
and her husband journeyed to
Knightstown. A little girl who need
ed home and mother love was her
quest After selecting the little girl
she was willing to adopt, little boy
came into the room, ran to the child
seated on her knee, called her sister
and kissed her. His fate was decided
then and there for she couldn't bear to
think of separating them. This was
in July of last year.
Papa and mamma Stonecipher are
happy because of their love for the
little folks and the children have for
gotten all the troubles of the past To
see the affection and trust those chill
dren displayed for their foster parents
was sight to warm the cookies of
the heart. If there be a moral or sug-
gestion of an opportunity for greater
happiness in this story, it is freely
yours.
HORACE M. MILLER SALE
The Horace NJ. Miller sale was held
Tuesday at the old Miller homestead,
2h miles northwest of Dublin, Ind,
on the state line road. 1t was some
sale, a livestock sale, If you please,
with fringes and trimmings. No, it
wasn't a good day for a sale, nor
were the roads inviting, for mud lay
mile deep over all the landscape, by
algebraic calculation. But no matter
as to that. Men who attend sales are
Injured to all kinds of weather and
conditions, and if intent on buying
they are present, regardless.
The Miller sale was essentially a
livestock sale. though a few nipple
ments and odds and ends were offered
to warm up the crowd. There were
fifteen head of horses, 100 of cattle
and forty of hogs listed in our adj
vertisement Of this sale, and evident
ly none of them got away 1t was an
all-day sale. Five auctioneers were
on the grounds, working in relays;
otherwise they would have been
breathless. The auctioneers were Col.
Tom Commit, Vanderbeck and Son,
Glenn Conway and Everett Button.
Oliver l.. Macy was clerk, and Hawley
Hall, of the First National bank at