Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — IT WAS A BIG SALE. [ARTICLE]

IT WAS A BIG SALE.

The Thompson & Lawler sale east of Pleasant Ridge Wednesday had a big crowd and the property sold rapidly at big prices. The sale totaled some $3,358, which probably makes_Lt next to Steve Comer’s ! record breaker, the biggest Sale of the season in this region. The only sensational prices were brought by the elephantine mules. The 2,900 pound team brought $436, which was probably the record price up to date for a pair of mules in Jasper county. Wm. Washburn of Rensselaer bought them. He must have wanted them for “breeders”. The other big mule teams sold to Bob Michaels, of Rensselaer and C. D. Carpenter, of Morocco, at $320 and $3lO respectively. Another big sale and perhaps about the biggest of any for what might be called an ordinary farm sale, was W. W. Aurns, in Barkley at which the crowd was actually so large that they were in each others way, and thus interfered with the sale. Billy thinks that printer’s ink worked a little too jstrongln his case and gut him “ar bigger crowd than he would use conveniently. His sale aggregated some $2,300.