Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

COLFAX — Local auctioneer and junior at Oklahoma State University, Cotton Booker, will be competing in the National Auctioneers Association International Auctioneer Championship in San Diego this Friday, July 29.

Booker, who won the NAA Junior Auctioneer Championship in 2018 at age 16, will be competing against 52 professional auctioneers from the United States and abroad.

Competitors will perform in front of a live audience, and will be judged on qualities such as chant, voice timbre, and body language.

This is not the first time the Booker family has been represented in the internati...