On July 15 we will be conducting Don Latham’s public auction. He is moving to town after living on the farm 47 years. All kinds of treasures are being unearthed among the barns and outbuildings. Click on the auction calendar to see pictures and a small list of items. We will be running two rings during the entire auction. Come and enjoy!

Cara said it couldn’t be done, but we were finished before nightfall! We started at 5:30 and in three hours, with the help of my good friend, auctioneer, Bill Beck, we sold 425 lots of personal property. With the economy the way it is, many bargain hunters were happy to come away with good, usable household items for their homes.

Can you believe the year is half over? It seems like the older I get, the faster time rolls by. Hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe 4th.

We are finding that with fewer people reading newspapers these days, our best advertising seems to be the Internet. We invite you to join our e-mail list so that you can find out about upcoming auctions. We only send out our auction notices–no other “junk”!

If you are in the market for a new home, we will be offering a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath lakeside home in Eads Subdivision. It has a full finished walk-out basement and a 2-car attached garage as well as another 2-car detached garage. It’s at the end of a quiet street with the adjoining property owned by Crestwood school district. We’ll also be auctioning the personal property–furniture, collectibles, glassware, appliances, and household items. Date will be announced later this month.

Thanks to all our bidders who braved the rain and the mud on Saturday. We had 117 registered bidders despite the weather. Ellen Church’s historic trunk was purchased for the historical society in her hometown in Iowa. In fact I’ll be delivering it to them as I travel to Wisconsin for a furniture auction next week. The hits of the auction were the old Colson calendars. Our regular cashier had to be away because her father passed away, but our 12-year old daughter, Susannah, stepped up and learned how to do the job. Way to go Susannah! She got a chance to practice again on Sunday at our 850 lot coin auction (which we finished in a record 6-1/2 hours!). We had almost 200 registered bidders on the floor and online. Thanks to auctioneers, Greg Parrott and Tucker Wood, for helping us with both auctions. The coin and precious metal market is still strong as evidenced today as gold went over $1,200 an ounce, an historical high. Even though it’s a lot of strain on the family to produce a coin catalog, it’s a lot of fun to see the end result.