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Show and had wide experience in sales of livestock (other than sheep) in the older states. It was hard at times to keep an excited buyer from raising his own bid, but the crowd was soon charmed with the idea-and selling at auction was permanently established at the first Salt Lake Ram Sale. Providing a unique experience in the lives of John K, Virginia, Pearl and Aleen, it began a pattern that was to form a vital part of their lives. Attendance at the Ram Sale would become traditional in this family. The entire event was one to challenge the imagination, and they were all fascinated with the cigar-smoking auctioneer, Colonel Dwight Lincoln. He was from Marysville, Ohio, and was himself a sheep man. He also served as Secretary to the American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders Association, with offices in Marysville. His wife was the efficient person in charge of the office and that all-important job of receiving registration applications-recording and filing them, and of issuing the official registration certificates to individual breeders via the mail. Virginia appreciated the scope of her responsibility. Mrs. Lincoln attended the Ram Sale with her husband who was so well known in the auctioning world. He always entertained his audience with a particular choice of gusty words spiced with an occasional swear word-or one called dirty in those days. To hear him drone on and on as he 142 |