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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1940
Page
7
A collage of for sale and rent notices from a local newspaper page, including an electric range and coats for sale, bird cages, a suburban farm for sale, and rental apartments. Also listed are used bicycles, Kansas City produce market figures, poultry and egg prices, grain quotes, hog prices, and government bonds with no notable market moves.
Wheat and corn futures eased briefly on December contracts then recovered as lower quotes and renewed buying supported grain values. July wheat led the rally with gains while December prices fell, and open interest rose in both wheat and corn amid expanded shipping and strong activity in the Chicago market. Kansas City livestock bids and cash grain quotes for wheat and corn are also noted.
Potatoes arrivals at 87 on track 356 total U S shipments 380. Idaho Russet Bur banks and U S 1 1.40 55. Colorado Red McClures U S 1 1.40. Nebraska Bliss Triumphs U S 1 1.50 80. Minnesota North Dakota Cobblers 85 percent or more U S 1 1.05 10. Bliss Triumphs 75 percent or more U S 1 .90 1.45 Wisconsin Kathadins U S 8 15 20.
Local residents report visits to Old Mexico San Antonio Tulsa and Topeka. Naomi Johnson returns home to Erie as home demonstration agent. David Meredith spends winter in McLouth with relatives. Thanksgiving dinner held at the Council home with Casebier family present. Howard Produce market taken over by Leonard Lobb. Red Cross sewing clubs and Home Arts work underway. Oskaloosa high football team crowned trophy winner over McLouth with new uniforms for drum majors and pepsters.
A school dinner hosted by a nomics teacher and class featured informal discussions with school faculty and board members led by Superintendent R. R. Slagel and Board Chairman A. A. Webber. Warren Teel county agent reviewed his busy year alongside Farm Bureau units and 4-H projects. Town merchants opened Wednesday evening December 4 with holiday window displays as Christmas lights lit the square.
Grangers from the area attended an open Pomona Grange session in Pleasant View Monday night where new officers were installed. Rosemary Jackman begins as operator with Len Nothdorf assisting. Social hour followed a luncheon after an afternoon program hosted by Mrs. Iona Huddleston.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Reynolds hosted a supper for Mrs. Postma and Vera, then attended a Brethren church program by McPherson college youths. Irene Hoover visited from Lawrence during Thanksgiving. Many locals shared turkey dinners with relatives in Tonganoxie Lone Star and Stafford areas, with extended family from Ottawa and Lawrence also included.
Walter Kampschroeder and children from Clinton join Miss Madeline Swanson of Kansas City and Alice Hoover of Lawrence for Thanksgiving at Rev W A Kinzie’s Morill home. Roy Kinzie of Lyons attends. Other gatherings include visits by Mr and Mrs Asa Postma with Vera and Clara Postma, and Dorothy Mowder family. Melva Dean Hoover visits Lone Star. Melvin Percival ill with measles. Lois Craik visits family in Lawrence. Hoover relatives shop and call in Lawrence.
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