Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1900 — A Good Thing to Push Along. [ARTICLE]

A Good Thing to Push Along.

Col. Fred Phillips, the auctioneer has been holding auction sales every Saturday afternoon, for several weeks past, and finds them such popular features that he expects to make them permanent. They are held at 2 o’clock Saturdays, on Washington street, fronting the public square. He sells horses, cattle, wagons, harness, farm implements and such property, at auction, for a small commission. Has a competent clerk and no notes are taken except those that are absolutely good. <# Thus people who have property of the kind mentioned which they wish to dispose of, but not enough to make a public sale, can bring it to town Saturday with the certainty that it will be sold to good advantage, either for cash or reliable notes. Mr. Phillips beleives that these Saturday sales will now become a regular and constantly increasing feature, and if so they will be a benefitjboth to farmers and business men. There will be no sale next Saturday on account of a prior engagement but after that they will be held every week.