Phillips County, Kansas Newspaper Articles

PHILLIPS COUNTY, KANSAS

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MAYBE GRANDAD WENT TO THIS FINE SALE

Farmers of Morgan county are familiar with the type of goods usually offered at farm sales in Morgan county. They pratically always list a few horses, a tractor perhaps and most certainly some kind of machinery or other. Here is a copy of a farm sale that was printed in the Adams County, Iowa, Union Republican advertising a public sale that took place on September 26, 1850.

Having sold my farm and intending to move to Missouri, I will sell at public sale, 1 mile west and 4 miles south of Harrison, Ky., on Saturday, September 26, 1850, the following described property to wit: one buck nigger, 25 years old, weight 225 lbs; 4 nigger wenches from 18 to 24 years old, 3 nigger boys six years old; 13 nigger hoes; 1 fine sled; six yoke of oxen, well broke; 10 ox yokes with hickory bows; 2 ox carts with six inch tires; 1 saddle; 3 double shovels; 2 stump plows; 10 and 12 inch; 15 one gallon whiskey jugs; 100 gallons of apple cider; 1 barrel of good sorgham; 2 barrels of soap; 2 barrels of kraut; 1 extra good nigger whip; 2 tons of tobacco, 2 years old. Sale will start at 10:30 o'clock sharp. Terms cash. I need the money. Col. H. W. Johnson, auctioneer. Bill Crawford, clerk Joe Corley, Owner - Fort Morgan Herald. (Submitted by Linda Outhet Chang)

RELICS OF THE PAST

The following clipping was handed to us for publication by Sidney Pitt and no doubt will stir the memory of many of our oldtime readers:

Mrs. Michael Schallmo, 440 North Topeka, Friday received a clipping from the Republican, Watonga, Okla., paper, which carried the following sale bill issued in Kentucky before the Civil War.

Having sold my farm and am leaving for Oregon territory by oxen teams March 1, 1849, I will sell all my personal property except two oxem teams. Buck and Ben, and Lon and Jerry.

The sale consists of the following: two milk cows, one gray mare and colt, one pair oxen, one yoke and one baby yoke, two ox carts, one iron plow, 800 feet of poplar weather boards, 1,000 three-foot clap boards, 1,500 ten-foot fence rails, one 60-gallon soap kettle, 85 sugar troughs, made of white ash timber, 10 gallons of maple syrup, two spinning wheels, 30 barrels mutton tallow, one large loom made by Jerry Wilson, 300 poles, 100 split hoops, 100 empty barrels, one 32 gallon barrel of Johnson Miller whiskey, 7 years old; 20 gallons apple brandy; one 40-gallon copper still; four sides of oak tanned leather; one dozen wooden pitchforks, a one half interest in the tan years; 32 caliber rifle, bullet rounds and powder horn; rifle made by Ben Miller, 50 gallons of soft soap, hams, bacon, and lard, 40 gallons of sorghum molasses; six head of fox hounds, all soft mouthed but one.

At same time I will sell my six negro slaves - two men, 35 and 50; two boys, 12 and 18 years old; two mulatto wenches, 30 and 40 years old. Will sell all together to same party as I will not separate them.

Terms of sale, Cash in hand or note to draw 4 per cent interest with Buckston Allen security. My house is two miles south of Bowling Green, Ky., on the Allen's Ferry Pike. Sale starts at 8 a.m. Plenty eat and drink. (Submitted by Linda Outhet Chang)