The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-14
BY WILLIAM r. sANHoRN


When so young a man as Sam Ullom
can make enough. money to retire on.
say a million or two, and do 1t on an
eighty-five acre farm, isn't 1t time that
more Of us city folks got back to the
soil? Looks that way, surely. Mr..
Ullom Is to move to town, said town
being Eldorado, Ohio, within sight of
the farm on which he has prospered
In recent years. Having quit farming
he has no further need for an alarm
clock and we suspect he sold that in
strument Of torture on Thursday, with
sundry goods and chattels not to be
needed in his town house.
Any sale at which household goods
are to be sold is apt to bring out the
wives OF those who come to buy live
stock, and implements. This is true
as to the Ullom sale. When the Pal
ladium car halted at the comfortable
farm home, in a drifting rain Thurs
day morning, at least fifty ladies were
showing great interest in the CONVEX
sation Of the auctioneer, who was dis
coursing learnedly on the comfort
ableness of certain rockers and the
prettiness of some pictures and brio
a-brac. Only such goods as were SUI
perfious, or to be replaced with new,
were sold, but at that considerable
"plunder" was disposed Of and carted
OF by satisfied buyers. Say. candidly.
we hate to tell it, but a certain man
named Frank Beard bought the very
FIRST item offered at the sale, lamp,
for-but no. let's forget how little that
lamp sold for. Inasmuch as the Ullom
home plant Is lighted by acetylene,
what matter as to lamps.
Implements Sell Readily
But when we come to talking about
farm implements, versus furniture,
that Is entirely another story. Estey
Kimmel bought a New Idea spreader
for $96.50, and said twas worth more.
Jack Johnson (no, not that J. j. bid
In a Gale 3-horse cultivator at SIS.
while Geo. w. Stump paid $51 for a
John Deere riding breaking pillow. Mr..
Stump has the right idea, any man
who breaks ground is entitled to ride
while doing it. II. e. Banfill paid $44
for dies, and ]. w. Odell $40 for a
hog feeder.
w. II, Harter got good wagon,
with rack at $54.50.
A lot Of corn in the crib was sold
to Mason Kisling at $1.48 and to H.
C. Covert at STAG, the two highest
bidders. Charles Rodgers got the
clover at $40, and timothy hay at $40
per ton. Mr.. Kisling, who lives on
the Centerville road, will remove to
the Ullom farm, and he not only
bought the corn but several other
items on the sale bill.
Interest Shown In Hogs.
The hogs were not reached until
late in the afternoon, but practically
every man stayed to get bid in.
Thirteen brood sows, three of which
were registered. went under the ham,
mer. A sow with four weanling pigs
went to John Fitzwater at SOS, while
S. A. Stump paid $65 for sow minus
pigs. Mr.. Stump also bid in another
of the registered Durocs at $3.50.
Other buyers in the hog ring were:
Conover Gabbart, SOW, $50; F. M. Bill
man, SOW at $57.75; another at $4S.75.
Several gifts sold around $50. A lot
CT shotes sold at good prices, the best
in fact we have noted. Of late, which
shows the confidence farmers have in
the future market for hogs.
The interest in horses centered in
a we'll matched team Of blacks, which
sold separately at $685. and then as
team at SAILS. Ernest Troutwine was
the buyer. A fine brown mare went
to Charles Kessler at $2275O.
Twenty head of Shropshire ewes, in
two lots, sold at good round prices,
there being some sheep men at the
sale. The sale was conducted by ].
A. Troutwine and Son, auctioneers,
and Carl Miller and H. B. Sell as
clerks, all from Eldorado. Nearly
$4,000 was realized, which was very
satisfactory, in view of the many
small items making up the sale. But
three cows were sold, the top price
being $50.
Among those who were present at
Khe Ullman sale Thursday, all of whom
were included in the list of buyers.
were the following: Roy Spencer, W..
A. Mcclure, H. Purdy, w. w. Harter
Glenn Mckee, Chris. Saylor, Warren
Russell, r.. w. Oliver, Frank Lyons,
F. M. Petrie, Frank Parks, Elmer Hap
ner, ]. F.. Frost, Lem Rush, Jack John
son, Peter Swerer, Orville Wilhelm,
L. J. Frost, Perry Eby, Harry Judy.
Andrew Smith, H. A. Peele, Noah
Charlses, Abram Saylor, Conover Cab
bert, Ray Newman, John Fitzwater.
Charles Rodgers, Mason Kisling. F. M.
Billman, Frank Shock, s. A Stump, G.