Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sale Bill ia a Curiosity.

J. N. Gunyon, of Parr, hands us the i, following copy of an old sale bill which will prove interesting reading for those of the present generation: "State of Missouri, county of Pike. To whom It may concern: The undersigned will on Tuesday, September 26, A. D. 1846, sell at public outcry, for cash, on premises where Coon creek crosses the old mission road, the following chattels to-wlt: Six yoke of oxen with yokes and chains, two wagons with beds, two colored women, four colored men, three colored boys, two prairie plows, twentyfive steel traps, one barrel of picketed cabbage, one hogshead of tobacco, one spinning wheel, one loom, thirteen fox hounds, a lot of coon, mink, and skunk skins, and a lot of other articles. Am gwtne to California.” The newest up-to-date Sterling clothing made for 1908, at one-third less than many other plasm, at the Chicago Bargain Store.