Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1902 — The Two Colonels Met. [ARTICLE]

The Two Colonels Met.

Col, Fred Phillips arrived home on the late train Friday night from hie auctioneering trip out west. He officiated as one of the auctioneers at the sale gs 90 ? head of Hereford cattle, at the lowa state fair, at Des Moines, at an average es $2lB per head. And in selling 85 head at the Nebraska state fair, at Lincoln, at $162 average per head. Crops are great out there, and Fred, like , everybody else, thinks lowa is about the garden spot of the earth. At Lincoln he had pleasant interviews with F. J. Sears, Zimri Dwiggins and Dr. O. C. Link, of the Rensselaer colony. He also had the pleasure of showing the contents of the Hereford bargain counter to W. Jennings Bryan, a somewhat noted agriculturist and stock raiser of that region, and an occasional candidate for president, on most any old ticket. Col. Bryan and Col. Phillips got along very nicely together, and Col. Phillips sold Col. Bryan a Hereford cow for S2OO, and for which Col, Bryan paid the good gold standard cash. Our colonel found the Nebraska colonel an exceedingly pleasant and affable gentleman to meet personally, as do all other people, Bo far as we have ever heard of.