Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — ONE GOOSE SOLD FOR $59.25 [ARTICLE]

ONE GOOSE SOLD FOR $59.25

Had Been Downted tn Red Cross and Auctioned Off Thirty Times. Ont at the John Eilts sale in Union township last Wednesday, a young calf was donated by Mr. Eilts to the Red Cross and put up and sold four times, it being again donated by each purchaser, even unto the last, and is still the property of the Red Cross. Mr. Eilts will pasture the animal during the season free of charge and it will be sold at auction at the first public sale in that vicinity next fall and tMe proceeds turned over to the owner. The calf has already brought some $25. At the same sale a goose donated to the Red Cross by Mrs. John i Krieger was sold thirty times, each time except the last, when it brought $1.25. at $2. and each purchaser donated it back. C- T. Otis of Chicago was the last purchaser. The total amount, received for the goose was $59.25. This sale was in a German Lutheran neighborhood and most of the purchasers of the calf and goose were German*. They are certainly to be commended for their liberality to this worthy cause, as evidenced by the handsome sum realised.