Public Auction Sale

The undersigned will sell at public auction Two miles north of Brookfield Juntion & two &one half miles west of old Butler near the Pewaukee Road on

Wednesday Dec. 20th 1916

at nine o.clock A.M. Shapr the following described proerty, to wit

8 head of cattle

Two fresh cows with calves Three cows coming fresh before Jan 1 Two yearling heifers One two year old bull

4 horses

1 mccormick grain binder

1 mccormick corn binder

1 new Johnston mower with side delivery

1 new hay tedder

1 Mccormick hayrack

1 Van Brunt single dic drill

1 appleton seeder

1 case corn plant

1 Keystone potatoe planter

1 moline Sulky plow

2 sets iron drags

2 Walking cultivators

1 one horse corn drill

1 osborn disc harrow

1 New Wagon

1 truck Wagon

1 Wagon Box

1 Set wagon Springs

1 Set dump boards

1 buggy

1 two seated buggy

1 bob Sleigh

1 cutter

2 sets double harnesses

1 Rowell feed cutter

1 horse power

one 1400 lbs platform seals

1 new beet cutter

1 corn sheller

1 fanning mill

1 grind stone

1 hay fork rope and pulleys

1 incubater and Brooder

1 Stone boat

1 galvanized stock tank

1 Iron oil drum, 4 milk cans

Some grain bags, 14 tons timothy hay

5 tons clover hay, 100 bushel oats

100 baskets ear corn 10 baskets corn seed

a quantity of corn stalks

6 tons Mangles

And many other articles too numerous to mention.

 

Lunch will be served.

Terms of sale

All sums of 10.00 or under cash. Over this sum bankable notes bearing 6 per cent interest.

 

Joe Cordie Wm. Bradee

Auctioneer Proprietor

 

 

The Bradee Family lived on what is now Bradee Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The farm had belonged to the father of William Bradee's wife Mary Somer. Her father Carl Somer lived with her and the Bradee family in 1910, when Somer (or Sommer -- now spelled 'Sommers' by descendants) was listed as the farm owner, 90 years old, and insane in 1910.

Photo © 2005 Penny Ziemer Ford

Carl Somer was born in Schoeningen, Hannover

This statue of a salt miner is in the main square of the town today.

 

 

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