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Credited to the Bates County Record
Appleton City Journal, Appleton City, Missouri · · page 4
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A COMPANY composed of twenty of the leading farmers and horse breeders of Southeast Bates, has purchased an "English Shire" stallion of the celebrated importer of fine horses, O. O. Hefner, of Lincoln, Nebraska. A committee selected to make the purchase, consisting of Wm. Burrows, John Hedges and David Sweazey, went to Lincoln and returned with the horse the first of last week. The horse is a four year old, a dapple bay and weighs 1,800 pounds. Price paid, $1,900. The members of the company are William Burrows, Francis Gilbreath, Geo. Brown, John Hedges, William P. Lane, G. W. Neafus, J. C. Lane, J. W. Gench, F. L. Gench, Daniel Hutton, J. C. Hirni, F. H. Diel, L. Hegnauer, W. A. Siggins, Henry Grobe, W. H. Maltby & Son, Fred Fix, F. Schapaler, Martin Rapp and David Sweazey.—Bates County Record.
A COMPANY composed of twenty leading farmers and horse breeders of Southeast Bates, has purchased an "English Shire" stallion of the celebrated importer of fine horses, O. O. Hefner, Lincoln, Nebraska. A committee selected to make the purchase, consisting of Wm. Burrows, John Hedges and David Sweazey, went to Lincoln and returned with the horse the first of last week. The horse is a four year old, a dapple bay and weighs 1,800 pounds. Price paid, $1,9[00]. The members of the company are William Burrows, Francis Gilbreath, Geo. Brow[n], John Hedges, William P. Lane, G. […] Neafus, J. C. Lane, J. W. Gench, F. […] Gench, Daniel Hutton, J. C. Hirni, F. […] Diel, L. Hegnauer, W. A. Siggins, Henry Grobe, W. H. Maltby & Son, Fred Fix, F. Schapaler, Martin Rapp and David Sweazey.—Bates County Record.
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10. Appleton City Journal, Thu 10 Sep 1891, p. 4 (863246546). The item is credited to the Bates County Record, where it appeared on 5 Sep 1891, p. 2 (999294362).
Identity: probable for the father. The son was a 19-year-old Academy student, and Luzius was 71.
A4. The Appleton City Journal, Thursday 10 September 1891, p. 4 (image 863246546; newspapers.com/image/863246546), credited to the Bates County Record. The same item is in The Butler Times-Press, 5 Sep 1891, p. 2 (image 999294362). NEW; possible.
The right edge of the column is cut off in the ACJ image, so the bracketed letters are missing.
Identity: possible, but Leonhard is much more likely. Luzius was 71 in 1891, and the company's members are Leonhard's known associates.
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