The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-02-24
THURSDAY BUSY DAY;
COMMUNITY SALES
and FARM AUCTIONS


The auctioneers in this section OF
Indiana were all busy on Thursday,
and few OF them over In Preole
county also had their hands full. IL
was perhaps the busiest farm ana
community sales day of the entlre
season. No very large sales were
staged but each particular sale was
important and interesting from lts
own angle. Despite the conditlon Oh
he roads a great many farmers were
present to bid and in every instance
the friends and neighbors turned out
to make the sale go.
And it is mighty lucky that this
spirit of neighborliness and friend
ship prevails on such occasions. AS
one farmer remarked: 1T helps lot
10 see your neighbors and friends
swarming all over the place on sale
day, even If prices are lower than
YOU hoped for This is especially
true when the rain is falling and the
air is chill, or when snow banks the
roadways and it is blowing a freezing
gale, as is so often the case. In our
experience we have learned that the
sales days and whole lot of farmers
will agree in this.
The New WestvilIe Sale.
The members of the Friends church
at New Westville, Ohio. staged COM
munity sale in that town, on Thursday.
They took the whole countryside into
their confidence. weeks in advance;
told everybody and his wife and fam
lily what their plans were, and just
why they wanted to raise a million
dollars on Feb. 23 1922. Did they
get the money? Certainly, or at least
all they needed, and enough is always
a plenty.
The sale is over and the goods have
been carted home, so why go into
particulars. The assortment was en-
tirely too large to specify, covering as
ii did hundred human wants in a
farm community. There was so much
10 sell that it was thought best to have
three auctioneers handy, said sales
men being, Schwing, Cradle and Aus
terman. well known in the Eaton and
Camden districts.
Good Things to Eat.
II you have ever attended a COM
munity sale at New Westville, or any
large "doings" at that church. you
will remember the dinner 1t was a
good dinner, just as the dinner served
on Thursday proved to be. What did
they have to eat, seZ you? Well, to
begin with, there was chicken, cream
ed chicken and chicken gravy. mash
ed potatoes, the rich and creamy kind,
such as our grandmothers served and
which you even yet sometimes read
about in cook books. And pickles and
nd nin fho,
kinds of pie than there are command
ments in the Bible, if one took time
to count them. Was the dinner a sue
cess? II was, and at last reports about
go people were testifying to that fact.
Now, We are not going to tell you
what the autos brought, nor how many
cords of wood were sold by sample, or
what the top hog sold for nor who
bought the carpet weaver, etc. Perish
The thought. But we will tell you who
provided and served the dinner, gen
tie reader, as you may wish to patron
slze these famous cooks and charming
hostesses on another occasion
The Ladies' Who Served.
The women of the Ladies' Aid of the
church who provided the dinner and
who were present to serve were: Mrs
j. 7. Cox, Mrs. Jerry McCarty. Mrs
Jacob Ketron, Mrs. Earl Maddox
Mrs. Thomas zimmerman, Miss Irma
kuth, Miss Jennie Kuth, Mrs. Heller
t,ox, Mrs. Mary Lancaster, Mrs. Will
Banham, Mrs. Roy Gail, Miss Anna
Gail, Miss Hazel Gail, Miss Florence
laird, Mrs. Myrtle Ray, Mrs. Riley
Hubbard. Miss Layina Breese, Miss
Gladys Ray, Mrs Linnie Ray, Mrs
William Arnold, Miss Fern Banham
Mrs. Edna Campbell Mrs. NJ. C. Ste
sall. Mrs. Laura Shelter, Mrs. J. l.
McWhinney, Mrs. Carl Norris. Mrs
g. A Laird, Mrs. Stanley Gail, Mrs
Frank Wehrley, Mrs. Frank Smelser
Mrs. Elijah Ballenger. Mrs. Johr
Watts. Mrs. B. F. Wehrley and Mrs
Blanches Myers.
ToWnsend-kempton Sale.
The kempton farm. on the Williams
burg pike, three miles north of Cen
teryille was the scene of the j. II
Townsend and f. +. Kempton sale, OF
Thursday. 1t was principally a iv,
stock sale and the net was $1,000. TIL,
top COW, with calf at side, sold 70
$50. No horses were put up. but :
fine lot of pigs found eager buyers .
worth the money prices. or lit!
better. There were 65 head in th
pens, including brood sows, which
brought from $35 to $45 for top Tw,
lots of oats We're on offer, and 40
bushels of the best brought up to 5
cents. A small lot of corn was takel
by John Townsend at 60 cents. A