Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1904 — Fine Horses and Vehicles. [ARTICLE]

Fine Horses and Vehicles.

The First Public Sale of Assignee Cfaap= man an Interesting Function. The first and undoubtedly the most generally interesting of all the public sales to be made of the MoOoy property, real and personal, was held Saturday afternoon, in Harrison street next to Duvali Bros.’ livery stable. It attraoted a good orowd of buyers, as well as numerous spectators, in spite of the rival attraction of the Field Meet. It has been long years if ever, since so large and typioal a public sale was held within the limits of Rensselaer and these of

our citizens who did not attend missed a decidedly interesting occasion. A publio sale, especially when oonduoted by so witty, lippy and good-natured an auctioneer as Col. Fred Phillips, is sure to be both interesting and amnsing. The following is a list of the more important artioles and animals sold and their prices. When cost values are mentioned, they are not always official but according to the best information we could obtain. A $125 set of harness sold for $46, having been bid off for Jaok Lawler for $46, A $125 road wagon, also bought for •Jaok, for $42.50. A $350 Goddard phaeton was bought for a 350 pound man and was bid off by Bruce Moffitt of Fair Oaks, surnamed King of Nubbin Ridge by Col. Phillips, for sl7l. He buying it for big Jim Craig of Thayer. A $225 Stndebaker Stanhope was also bought for Jaok Lawler for $135. A $325 two seated Stndebaker trap, also for Lawler, brought $l6O. An SBS outter, said to be only two years old was bought by C. G. Spitler for s2l. Another outter of same original oost, used one season, was bought by Dr. Potter, of Lafayette for $36. Douglas Maid, the high bred trotting and breeding mare, 10 years o l d, and not long ago reputed to be worth SI,OOO was bought by Conductor Brownell of Indianapolis for $385. It took much dramming by Col. Fred to get her to that figure and Ray Thompson, who bid S3BO, was not sorry when his bid was raised,

The s>Bs three year old jogging cart she was drove to was bought by Geo. Strickfadenjjj^lsso. The two year old Maid filly, by Axtell, wps boUjgJ|Lby Dr. S. 0. JohnsoD, of Rensselaer, for $232.50. The yearling stallfon of the same breeding, bought by W. F. Smith, for $220. Big Ike, the Jumbo Wilkes bred roadster, who shows a whole segment of blie sky under him, was bid off by Alt Padgett, for Will Rath, at S2OO. He got the most horse for his money of any man on the job. For The earth it trembles, When Big Ike Comes a’speeding Down the pike,

Capt. Sigsby, a small but neat Wilkes bred all-around driving horse was sold to Hill & Olymer pf Lafayette for $l3O. A dove colored, gazelle eyed $l5O registered Jersey oow, was bought fry Warreh Robinson for S6O. The oelebrated sorrel Kentuoky riding horse, ooveted by President MoDoel, of the Monon, was bid off by Padgett for Mike Lawler, for $227. The entire sale, which included quite a number of other less important items, footed up $2284.50. When the assignee sale proper was . ot'et Unole Mao put up his little white family driving mare, buggy and harness, and it was explained Wilt w*» selling them to gat

money to live on. Col.’ectively they brought abbut $150; and after j being sold Lawler Brothers and Delos Thompson offered to buy the outfit baok and give it to Unole Mao, but he refused to aocept the offer.