Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — Coonskin Brought High Price. [ARTICLE]

Coonskin Brought High Price.

A coonskin trapped in southeast Missouri recently sold at $875 at a London fur auction. N. Goldsmith, head of a Cairo (Hl.) fur company, sent a shipment of skins to London and Included a particularly pretty coonskin. He requested that It be sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds donated to some war charity. He was informed by cable that the pelt brought £IBO. the money being given to .the prisoners-of-war fund.