The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
R0SE AND SKY
Give NAMES TO
WILLIAMS HOGS
Bearers of Poetic Applications
Bring Good Prices-Many
Fanciers Attend.
BY WILLIAM r. SANBORN.

Speaking Of poetic names for pigs,
how do these three strike you: Sky
Lark, Sky Light and Sky Scraper?
Frank A. Williams, breeder of Big
Type Polands is responsible for these
names, bestowed on three young
boars who have made home in his
piggery since their advent last
January.
Said youngsters were sold In the pa
Wilton on the Williams place on Wed.
nesday afternoon, and brought $1.430,
as follows: Sky Lark, $405; Sky Light,
500, and Sky Scraper, 1925, and re-
member, good hog buyers, the 3 were
of the same litter.
But let US consider the Rose" fam
lily, which was very much dispersed at
this sale. Moss Rose sold at $3.50;
and Tube Rose brought $425, and Miss
Fall Rose, charmed Caleb G. Starbuck
to the extent of 1910, which marked
the top Of the sale.
Rose Bud sold for $265, Rose Bios
som for $165; Last Rose for $2O5, and
Velvet Rose brought the trifing sum
OF $505. The 4 brothers OF the Rose
family cashed in at $685.. There were
II pigs in this famous litter and the
various buyers paid $4,115 for the
bunch.
1dleD SldTDuCk was also Tic puI~
chaser of Velvet Rose, the third high
lest in price, in the family of roses He
As the owner Of Westwood stock farm,
4 miles southwest of Winchester, and
picked up a number of good ones.
Total Was $11,e75.
According to the handsomely Illus
trated catalog there were so head of
spring gifts and bears to be allotted to
the highest bidders, and of these but
20 were gifts, or the total would have
run even higher in the cash ledger.
AS it was no complaint was due or
coming from any one, either as to the
average price paid for individuals, for
tops, or because a few were added
though not listed. The total receipts
were $11,975, and Porter Pike, the we'll
known Big Type man at Centerville,
acted as clerk and cashier.
Among the hogs which appealed to
Pixies taste was Miss Carnation, dat
ing from March II, which cost Jones
and Pike, $3.50. Miss Violet, of the
same litter, brought S305, and Miss
Aster cashed in at $500. Perry John
son will pay Miss Violet's board in
the future.
Buyers of Tops.
Among those who paid moro than
5000 for their selections were: W. c.
Gammell, gilt, 1915; Homer Manning
gilt, S205; John w. Ring, gilt, 1855;
Bob" Johnson, board, S205; F. M. Will
Hams, Washington, Ind, gilt, $3.50
. Stone and Dickey, of Connersville, paid
1925 for Reproduction" a likely young
boar, while Glen Kirkman, of Knights
town, got good youngster at $215.
A great many of these hogs were
picked up by the field men who came
with commissions in their pockets, au-
thorizing purchases on their judgment,
for buyers in various parts of the coun-
try. There were also several local buy
ers of hogs running from 500 up
Among these were William Miller, OF
AY3oston, boar, S135, and John Peterson
Of the same neighborhood, boar, $3.50
Claude Johnson went as high as $500
Tor his gilt. w. F. Curran got a gill
out of the Rose" family for only $135
and the list ranging between 5000 an6
$500 was quite long and the hogs were
widely distributed.
Colonel Ira Cottingham, Of Abing
ton, Illinois, conducted the sale, as
sisted by Colonel Tom Commit, of Rich
mond, and Colonel Oren Ross Of Win
chester, in the ring. The ladies of the
williamsburg Friends church served
the lunch, which was free to all conner:
at Frank Williams expense.