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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1920
Page
2
Hogs estimated today 4,000 with holdover 1,830. Cattle receipts 2,500 and sheep 1/%. Market slow with pigs mostly steady to 1 off. Hogs top 15.75, various weights show 14.00 to 15.75. Cattle and calves quoted across common to prime ranges with multiple weight classes. Receipts today hogs 2,906 cattle 2,605 sheep 622 calves 186.
Grain market report shows corn opening with slight gains across contracts May July and Sept while oats trade mixed with July and Sept futures near unchanged. Cash market activity lists 13 cars of feed grade corn at 1.65 and 14 cars of oats at 1.00 to 1.01 with December clover at 23.00.
Prague will soon have its first policewoman as one of twenty eight graduates from a Prague social service program run by American YWCA secretaries at the request of Dr. Alice Mazarye. The school drew 200 applicants for 28 spots, with graduates taking roles in policing, playground direction, child welfare, nursing recruitment, and other new social service positions as women begin higher education and national service.
Camels and their kin have been brought into Virginia since 1701 but failed to thrive. Poor understanding of habits and improper care led to unsuccessful attempts, with most introductions ending in disappointment.
Journal notes rising British imports of American honey driven by sugar scarcity. In 1914 UK imports were about 2.6 million pounds. by 1918 they reached 436.5 million pounds, valued at $13.15 million, with the United States supplying 16 million pounds worth $5.5 million.
More than 191000 head of Navajo livestock in New Mexico will be bred only to pure bred sires. The female stock includes 3000 cattle 8000 horses 150000 sheep and 30000 goats with smaller numbers of swine and poultry. Indians support the Better Lives Better Stock movement aided by the U S Department of Agriculture supplying literature on livestock improvement.
Damage suits totaling 12,200 were filed after an attack on W. M. McKenzie manager of the Englert theatre and two showmen. Prof. E. D. Starbuck of Iowa University and S. LeRoy Close are behind the suits naming McKenzie Wolff and West in claims alleging malicious arrests over an alleged immoral show.
Report notes stammering affects about one quarter as many women as men and highlights gender disparity in speech disorders. The observation emphasizes a larger share of male stutterers in the population studied.
Clyde Maxwell and A. B. Carr shipped loads of hogs and cattle to St Louis on Tuesday. John McCall and his daughter visited in Havre and then left for Minnesota for Mayo Brothers consultation. Washington visits included Mrs Hazel Keller and others traveling Tuesday.
Har vey Coil returns to Mt Hamil after time with father Levi Coil. Miss Belle Brinton returns to Grinnell from a week at home. T Gowey ships a carload of cattle to Peoria. Mrs L B Shidler visits relatives at Sigourney. Mrs Margaret Freytag of Ottumwa visits Eugene Ingham.
Federal agents destroyed five moonshine stills with 220 gallons daily capacity in Letcher county along Pine Mountain and Cumberland River area. No moonshiners were captured after signal gun warnings. Officers also seized 1000 gallons of beer, 70 sacks of bolted meal, 15 bushels of mash, two horses, and 5 bushels of malted meal in the operation led from Lexington.
Mrs. Jones shows Mrs. Smith a week of meat saving by using 40 pounds of chuck beef to make pot roast, croquettes, and leftovers. She details costs for spareribs, calf liver, hamburger, and frank steak totaling about 3.02 dollars for a family of five, then compares with Mrs. Smith’s higher weekly spend of six dollars and fifty-seven cents for similar meals.
A 160 acre Howard County Iowa farm is offered for sale with high quality land and fair improvements. Interested buyers are urged to visit the listing at room 30607 Farmers and Merchants Bank Building and contact J W Warner in Washington Iowa.
Bishop Matthew T. Hughes son of T D Hughes former Bloomfield pastor died of pneumonia in Cleveland Ohio Sunday evening He was born in Parkersburg West Virginia and was about fifty He had just begun his fourth year as bishop and was en route to a bishops meeting in Kansas City April 23 He was a brother of Mrs W B Taylor of Bloomfield Read the Evening Journal.
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