Crowley auction for War Chest Benefit. J. W. Ragland of Mansfield, auctioner at Crowley

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20031525

Description

Crowley auction for War Chest Benefit. J. W. Ragland of Mansfield, auctioneer at Crowley. A man on stage speaking into a microphone, gesturing with his hands. Behind him is a man at a table and next to that table is a portable record player. Another man is standing almost out of the frame, and in front of him are people seated watching the auction. He is wearing light colored trousers, a light color cloth western jacket, a dark dress shirt and a dark diagonal tie. His Stetson hat is also light in color. There is a watch chain showing near his pants pocket, and he is wearing a wedding ring. Clipping reads: "They Paid High Prices: War Chest Gains $1,454 From Auction at Crowley. The Fort Worth and Tarrant County War Chest gained $1,454.94 Wednesday from an auction put on by citizens of Crowley where a chicken sold for $52 and a box of 25 shotgun shells brought $13. Citizens of Crowley contributed cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, quilts and homemade cakes for the auction originated by E.C. Hampton, dairy farmer who raised $3,300 for the Red Cross by the same procedure several months ago. Most of the articles were sold over and over as the buyer donated them back to go on the auction block again. The hen, which was sold 19 times to bring the total to $52, was donated by 14-year-old J. B. McLain, who told the crowd that he had sold a two-day-old calf at the Red cross auction for $109 and hoped to get that much for the chicken. J. N. Clark paid $13 for the shotgun shells. Fast-talking auctioneer J. W. Ragland of Mansfield, who donated his services, kept the crowd laughing with his remarks about individual buyers. He would close a sale quickly if the buyers offered to let the item go up for sale again, but if they planned to keep it he would make them pay a higher price. R. E. Harding paid $12 for a gallon of Prestone [anti-freeze] and then upt it up for sale again. Highest price pad was $65 for a bull, which in all brought in $135 as Elam Henderson, representing Leonard Brothers, first bought him for $70 and then let him go for resale. A colorful quilt brought $41 total in two sales; a jar of pickled beets went for $3; a white-faced heifer calf which was up for sale 10 times finally got tired of it all and lay down. Cecil Green, with the Sloan Lumber Company of Fort Worth, spoke to the group telling them of what the War Chest stands for. He was wounded at Guadalcanal and received a medical discharge from the Army. Crowley women served luncheon to the group with the proceeds from the sale of the food going into the War Chest. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hampton are chairmen of the Crowley War Chest committee, with Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Champman and E. C. Hampton, co-chairmen. The Crowley community of hardly 100 families has 45 men and women in the armed forces. The Negro division of the War Chest Wednesday reported almost one-fifth of its $10,000 quota when six of the 11 groups reported the following pledges: general business, $434.75; house-to-house canvass, $101.90; TP [Texas and Pacific Railroad] dining car employees, $250; beauty shops, $30; churches (13 of the 32), $950; professional group, $230.50. Another report meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday at the Colored YMCA." Stamped: Star-Telegram Morn. Nov. 11, 1943.

Archival Date

1943-11-10

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-295

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Ragland, J.W.; Auctioneers; War Chest; Fundraisers; Auctions; Phonograph players; Spectators; Microphones