People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Monthly Home Sale. [ARTICLE]

Monthly Home Sale.

Walter M. White and Fred Phillips have inagunrated regular monthly horse sales, the date of the first sale to be given in next week’s issue of the Pilot. Sale yards will be fitted up in the year of. White & Son’s new livery barn, find accommodations will be furnished free to the patrons for the day. This is an enterprise that will be of marked benefit to the farmers of Jasper County. It will stimulate better prices, as all the regular buyers will attend and sharp Competition and an opportunity to pick jjp a load in a single day will prompt the highest bids; Other towns have been holding regular sales with marked success and there i 8 no reason why Rensselaer should not be right in the swim. Both Messers White and Phillips are thorough horsemen and will undoubtedly build up these sales to notable business events. Seveaal farmers are already fitting their horses for these sales, and expect to become regular patrons. Those who have taken horses from this vicinity to the sales in other towns have realized satisfactory prices.