Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1909 — A $10,000 Public Sale. [ARTICLE]

A $10,000 Public Sale.

It pays to advertise. Charles Moody didn’t spare printer’s ink in letting people know about the big sale of the Parkison & Moody farm stock, and notices of the sale were published in some 15 or 20 cities and towns besides Rensselaer. Lafayette, Attica, Frankfoit, Delphi, Monticello, Winamac, Lowell, Morocco, Kentland, Fowler and papers published ih many of the nearer towns helped to advertise the sale and the result was that a monstrous crowd was gathered Wednesday. The fact that it was the 13th of the month did not worry Mr. Moody; and the buyers did not seem to care about it. The day was ideal for a sale, and everything went high, way high. There were 16 head of mules and 30 horses, and they were all good stuff, and the buyers knew It/ and they went right after it with a vim. Auctioneers Fred Phillips and J. H. Hepp, the latter of Winamac, cried the sale and J. H, Chapman and R. D. Thompson clerked it. The highest price paid for one animal was $550, this was for a thoroughbred and pedigreed Percheron mare, bred to a thoroughbred horse. There werei others wanted her, but Mr. Moody ran her up to $550 and bought her for that figure. Another mare looked good to several bidders and was finally knocked off to Gutwein brothers, of near Francesville, for $277. Mules were bought by parties at Winamac, Attica, Hoopeston and Dwight, 111., and several teams brought between $350 and S4OO. The sale totaled more than $lO,000, and the sale is considered one of the best that ever took place In this county.