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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1919
Page
2
The market opening notes on April 2 show hog receipts estimated at 17,000 with 9,363 holdovers. Cattle appears with estimated receipts of 6,500 and 7,000 other units. markets reflect mixed supplies for the session.
Receipts today near 17 000 hogs with holdover 9 percent and strong market, tops at 0.15 over yesterday. Bulk sales 19.85 to 20.10. light weights 18.00 to 20.05. heavy weights up to 20.15. Beef cattle show steady to higher trends with calves, feeders, and stockers listed. Lambs and sheep markets mostly 25 cents higher with prime Colorado fat lambs at 20.50 and ewes 6.00 to 15.50.
Iowa City market report shows corn prices up by a few cents with No 4 yellow at 1.58 to 1.59 per bushel and oats advancing 2 to 3 cents with 110 car lots. Clover futures for April and October quoted at 25.00 and 17.80 respectively.
Phienge announces Honor Sunday School Head for April 2 to 6 to memorialize EE Warren a longtime Inter national Sunday School association member and Three Oaks Michigan manufacturer who died at nearly seventy two years. Marion Lawrence Chicago general secretary hopes thousands of schools devote a moment at opening exercises to remember this guide and worker.
The Journal reports Robert and Francis Rhodes and Keith T. Swisher applying for Successful Farming loans to start stock raising and rabbit ventures. Swisher aims to reuse a pen of Belgian hares after past losses. Rhodes brothers plan to buy a sow and litter under a partnership. The piece notes corncob by products in agriculture, including crystalline glucose, cellulose, alcohol from cob glucose, and by products like acetic acid from adhesives.
A Case Tractor model 15 27 has arrived and is displayed by B F Dixon on North Marion Avenue. It pulls a 3 and 4 bottom plow and is noted for reserve power.
George Steen reported at a farmers institute that he sold six unprofitable cows last year. He paid 3.25 per hundred for milk production and found one cow yielded 2.40 dollars in feed value while another gave only 0.58. Steen aims to reduce costs further in 1919 by more clover and alfalfa.
Farm Crops section reports soy beans may yield profits when drilled like small grain and cultivated two to three times with harrow or weeder. Planting in the afternoon prevents brittleness and allows rough handling without injury. Ground should be harrowed before and after planting to boost hay and seed production.
A Midwestern plant will adopt USDA developed corn cob adhesive for fiber board and paper boxes. The gummy brown material yields up to 45 percent by weight from cobs for grade A and 30 percent more for grade B. If adopted nationwide it could meet demand using only 3 percent of ecorncobs.
Carrots need deeply prepared rich soil and a spring sowing window after frost risk. Sow 14–18 inch drills with 10–12 seeds per foot, cover 1/2 to 3/4 inch, thin to 2–3 inch spacing after two inches high. Parsnips follow similar methods and can stay in ground over winter. plants in late spring or early summer.
The piece argues that high wages and wartime stimulus have boosted purchasing power for housing. It notes lower material costs relative to wages and urges building homes soon, from modest workers’ houses to luxury residences, using surplus funds for comfort and early ownership. It cites wealth increasing postwar profits as justification.
The passage urges workers to promptly invest savings, whether in Liberty bonds or banks, to build a home for themselves and their families. Delays risk wasted earnings. It stresses that immediate, wise investment is prudent for working people and their households.
Washington reports the Federal Board for Vocational Education says thousands of positions in technical agriculture await retrained disabled men. Roles include associates assistants helpers extension workers and county agents with prospects of promotion and higher pay in agricultural colleges stations and extension services. The program aims to replace current workers lost from student bodies faculty and staff and to train veterans for outdoor specialized agriculture fields.
Waterloo, April 2. Iowa men form the Iowa Grayton Beach Club to establish a country club with a family hotel and garden plots seventy miles east of Pensacola Florida. The association aims to provide bathing hunting fishing boating golf and other recreations at little cost to members. Officers include FE S Johnson Webster City president and H G Speery Fort Dodge trustee. Membership limited to Iowa citizens.
A font of our type weighs 50 pounds and costs $5 while a font of Chinese type weighs half a ton and costs $100, illustrating the scale and expense in historical typography.
Uncle Sam will conduct the fourteenth farm census on January 1 1920 instead of April 15. The change aims to avoid spring busy periods and breeding-season disruptions, with improved crop and livestock data and new questions on land use, drainage, tenure, mortgages, irrigation, and dairy and wool production. The Census Bureau and Department of Agriculture seek full farmer cooperation for accurate results.
A brief Chicago Tribune snippet shows a mother and her child Daniel discussing appreciation for practical gifts. The boy quips that his appreciator is not large enough to cover shoes and similar items, highlighting a humorous exchange about modest presents and parental expectations.
Berlin reports a state of siege proclaimed for the Ruhr with troops advancing to shield plants and workers from terrorists. In Frankfurt mob violence frees prisoners, plunders, and fires courts. records and furniture are burned amid food shortages triggering the unrest.
William Mitch secretary-treasurer of district No 11 United Mine Workers denies any planned protest strike over Eugene V Debs imprisonment. Mitch says the issue has not been before the union’s executive board and reports of a strike lack authority.
A brief reflection notes that illness brings trials but also blessings and hope. It emphasizes resilience and positive perspective during hardship.
A humorous London anecdote recounts a music student who, late at night near Queen’s Tall, slithered up to two long-haired professors seeking learned talk. One professor quips that it would cost ten cents each and not even fresh dialogue would come.
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