John Phillip Heckman farm sale (1938)

HECKMAN, HECKMANN, JENSEN, PEPPERS, SCHWARTING

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 6/5/2013 at 20:21:18

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Jan. 20, 1938, page 7

Closing Out Sale

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As I have rented my farm, I will sell at public auciton on the place lo-
cated four miles south, two miles east and one-half mile north
of Exira and ten miles north of Anita on
MONDAY, JAN. 24 (1938)
COMMENCING AT ONE O'CLOCK SHARP

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2 HEAD OF HORSES 2
Bay horse, 10 years old, weight about 1500; gray mare, 12 years old, weight
1600.

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13 HEAD OF HOGS 13
Twelve brood sows and one male hog.

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One Whiteface Heifer
275 BUSHELS OF OATS 4 BUSHELS OF SEED CORN
ABOUT 150 BALES OF ALFALFA HAY

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Farm Machinery, Etc.
7-12 Farmall tractor, tractor cultivator for two styles of work, Little Genious
2-bottom tractor plow, 14-inch; 12-foot tractor disc, John Deere corn planter
with 160 rods of wire, John Deere endgate seeder, seeder cart; 8-foot Mc-
Cormick-Deering binder, 4-section harrow, 16-inch walking plow, Moline side
delivery rake, Rock Island hay loader, lumber wagon with box, hay rack, 70-
gallon hog waterer, set of work harness, hog troughs, some tools and many
other articles.

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TERMS OF SALE--CASH
No property to be removed from premises until settled for.
John P. Heckman
John Wm. Jensen, Auctioneer W. E. Peppers, Clerk

Note: John Phillip Heckman (1906-1944) was the son of German immigrant Johann Christian "Chris" Heckmann, Jr. and his wife, Anna Katharina Schwarting, whose father was a German immigrant. John died of wounds on May 15, 1944 in WWII at Anzio Beach, Italy in the war against the Germans.

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