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Glen Elder City Hall
213 S Market, Box 55
Glen Elder, KS  67446

Phone:
785-545-3322
Fax:
785-545-3342
E-Mail:  glcity@nckcn.com


 Public Sale! - at Tom Gilbert Farm - October, 0917
     
                                                                 Taken from the: Glen Elder Sentinel


 

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Contributed by
Bob Phillips

Nolensville, TN

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Posted
May, 2010

 

In the late 1950’s and early 60’s as a young boy I remember sitting on the front porch of my grandfather’s house (he then lived in Jigger, Louisiana) and listen to him tell stories of his younger days in Kansas. He told the story of following the wheat harvest and my grandmother owning a dress shop in town. 

 

They previously had lived in Arkansas (in late 1800’s) but had gone back to Kansas.   He said they had to sell out and move back to Arkansas due to her health (the dust in Kansas made her sick).

 

This past weekend I was visiting my uncle who is 83 and talking about some of those stories and he went inside and pulled out a poster that was in an old trunk that my grandfather had. 

 


(Note: H.A Rush's sale took place on Tom Gilbert's farm.)
 



                                                                                                    Glen Elder Sentinel, Tuesday, October 23, 1917

PUBLIC  SALE
 H. A. Rush
(not certain if Rush is having the sale on Gilbert's farm or if Gilbert is having the sale)

 

...on Tom Gilbert farm, located 10 miles south and 1 ½ miles west of Glen Elder
and 3 miles North and 1 mile east of Blue Hill and 7 miles east of Tipton
 

11 head of horses

20 head of cattle

24 head of hogs

Feed - 50 shocks of corn

Various misc items (cream separator, beds)

 

Terms: If credit needed  $10.00 down  and $10.00 a month
           at 8% interest up to 10 months
 

Col. William Myers, Auctioneer
 

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