Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — RUS TOPS MARKET WITH S. D. STEERS [ARTICLE]

RUS TOPS MARKET WITH S. D. STEERS

A. J. Harmon Has Picture “Took” After Selling Load of Cattle at " Pinnacle Price.

Col. A. J. (Rus) Harmon, now Of Mitchell, S. Dak., where he Is engaged in the cattle business, sold a load of black steers at the top price paid in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago last Monday. His brother, A. L. Hannon, of Rensselaer, was in Chicago that day to meet him. Rus was pleased at his success, as, also, willbe his many friends hero After his success a pencil artist sketched Iris picture and it was published in The Chicago Post the following day, with the following write-up: Away back in 1888, when the National was in its infancy and the vigor and far-reaching policy that has made it a “power in lite stock circles” were just beginning to be felt one of its regular and successful shippers was A. J. Harmon, who was then located at Strawn, 111., which is about 100 miles south and a little west of Chicago. Some years later he removed to Rensselaer, in the northwestern part of Indiana, there to embark in other pursuits, principally the selling of Are insurance, but he always retained a strong liking (for the live stock industry and devoted part of his time to the raising of purebred stock. In 1907 he, hearkened to the “call of the wild” and made another move, this time to the thriving town of Mitchell, in the southeastern part of the great state of South Dakota, where he returned to his “first love”—i. e., the buying, shipping, fattening and feeding of live stock. His energy and ability soon enabled him to “forge to the front” and handle a large share of the live stock shipped from that section of the country. He watches the game closely, ships to the market that “nets the best returns,” and evidence of his skill as a cattle feeder is the tact that he TOPPED THE MARKET in Chicago on Monday, June 1, with a load of 1,560-lb. steers of hte own feeding that sold at $9.25 per cwt