Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1903 — Myrt A Good Auctioneer. [ARTICLE]

Myrt A Good Auctioneer.

County surveyor Myrt B. Price is exercising bis talents in the auctioneering line. And it is likely be will run Col. Fred Phillips a close raoe when it comes to crying sales. Thus be sold at pnblio outcry in the commissoners room at the oourt bouse this afternoon at two o’clock the oontraot for the reoleaning of the Marble Lateral, to the Wheatfield ditch. It was sold to Horaoe Marble of Wheatfield at 14$ cents per sqnare yard. There is about two miles of the work and it ia to be completed by December Ist.