Wetzel, Frank - 1937

Sale Register
Mar. 16 - Pubic sale of farm stock along road leading from Plainfield Church to Ackermanville, known as the Frank Wetzel Farm by Howard Kessler.
~ The Nazareth Item, 04-Mar-1937, Page 7, Column 5

Public Sale of valuable Farm Stock and Household Goods
The undersigned will offer at public sale on the road leading from Plainfield Church to Ackermanville, on the farm known as the Frank Wetzel farm, on Tuesday, March 16, 1937 at 1 P. M., the following, to wit:

Three horses, 1 gray horse, 8 yrs. old, weighing 1400 lbs., 1 black horse, 12 years old, weighing 1400 lbs., and 1 black horse, 14 years old, weighing 1200 lbs.; 19 head of cattle, 12 milk cows, mostly fresh by time of sale, 5 heifers and 2 stock bulls; 25 chickens.

Farm Machinery
Two 2-horse wagons, one with rack and one with body; McCormick binder, 7 ft. cut; Osborne corn binder, International manure spreader, McCormick drill, 10 tubes; 2 grass mowers, 1 McCormick and one Deering; Simplex corn planter, Oliver riding plow, walking plow, International cultivator, hand cultivator, Oliver tractor plow, hay rake, hay tedder, land roller, one 3-section spring tooth harrow, spike harrow, corn sheller, Messinger thresher, 26 in. with carrier; Dodge belt power engine, Dilinger corn stalk shredder, Dilinger feed grinder, 3 sets harness, 4 bridles, 5 collars, hay rope 125 ft. long, 2 sets of traces, double trees, shovels, rakes, forks, corn by the ton, a lof ot milk cans and pails.  The above machinery is practically new.

Household Goods
Beechwood range and many other articles too numerous to mention.

Terms will be made known at time and place of sale by
                                Howard Kessler
Wm. Mabus, Auct.
Walter Schiegel, Clerk

~ The Nazareth Item, 04-Mar-1937, Page 7, Column 7