Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — GREAT SUCCESS WAS MONTHLY HORSE SALE. [ARTICLE]

GREAT SUCCESS WAS MONTHLY HORSE SALE.

Big Crowd in Town and About Sixty Head of Horses" Changed Hands With Big Prices Prevailing.

Nothing has ever taken place in Rensselaer that gave, better general satisfaction than Wednesday’s* horse sale, which was the second of what it is intended to make regular monthly sale days. To begin with there was a big crowd of representative farmers from a radius of thirty miles from Rensselaer, and a lot of buyers from the leading markets. There were many horses brought in for sale and a lot of others that the owners did not care whether they sold or z not.

There were a great many speculators among the sellers, who realized that there is now and will be for the next month a big local demand for horses and they did not care whether they sold or not. They priced their animals plenty high and it looked for a time as though there would not be much business done, but along in the afternoon the sellers and buyers got together and about 60 head were sold. Sometimes, however. It does not pay to wait. At least in one instance a farmer was offered SIBO for a good mAre, 10 years old. He did not care to sell at that price, he thought, and he put his mare back in the barn, but later he sold her for $175 to another buyer, The man who made the SIBO offer had said that if he put her back in the stable, he would not renew the offer and he did not.

Two of the most active buyers were Jessie Briggs, of Flora, and Ora Freeman, of Monticello. They bought 12 head, paying $2,640 for them, or an average of $220 per head. These were taken overland to Monticello and it is expected that some or them will be sold in that place. The others will be shipped to other places. Claud May, of Remington, bought a mare of Chas. Pullins for $300; W. V. Porter bought a fine mare from Elmer Wesner, of Wheatfield, for $250; one gelding sold for $235. B. F. Moore, Frank Welsh, Bert King and others sold good animals at good prices. The livery stables and hitch barns were filled, the restaurants and barbershops were kept on the jump, and every other business had a day equal or better than the ordinary Saturday. Many .of the visitors to Rensselaer were from some distance away and not regular traders here, but most of them made purchases while they were here and every business man interviewed by the Republican expressed himself as much pleased with the big crowd that was attracted by the sale. The next sale will be the first Wednesday in April, which is April 6th. Every merchant should help advertise the sale. It is to be held the first Wednesday In every month and can be made a great thing for the town and for the farmers in the surrounding country.