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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1940
Page
7
Craven Strain Leghorns available from Wolfe Hatchery. Hatchery offers sanitary, separate hatcheries to ensure stronger, healthier chicks. Provides custot hatchine service and contact at Wolfe Hatchery, 220 4013MH.
Lieut John Coulter is reassigned from Little Rock Arkansas to Nacogdoches Texas and will stay in Texas for six weeks. Weekend guests include Homer and Don Coulter of Peoria Alabama. Local families James White and many relatives traveled to Afton and Shannon City for visits with friends. Yom Kippur described as the most sacred Hebrew holy day occurring late September or early October.
Mary Pfeiffer of Hoboken New Jersey trains captive spiders to unwind their silk rather than spin a web and winds the fine strands onto spools. The silk is sought for making cross hairs in surveying instruments.
The article notes Jamaica as a key mahogany producer shipping 521 300 feet of logs to England in 1753. It adds that North American colonies also received substantial mahogany shipments that year, underscoring Jamaica's role in colonial timber trade.
Hog demand steady to firm with top hogs at 5.60 and weights 180 to 360 pounds selling 5.38 to 6.35 while light sows bring 4.40 to 4.85. Cattle receipts 16 000 with steer trade steady to 25 cents lower and feeders competing with killers at 9 25 down. Fed steers top at 11 50 with 12 00 bids and cattle volume steady. sheep receipts 9 000 with unshorn and shorn lambs opening steady and most sales at 10 65 to 11 00 with best 105 pound shorn lambs at 9 25. Estimated next-day receipts: cattle 7 000 hogs 16 000 sheep 6 000.
The YWCA invites the public to the final book review in YWCA rooms tomorrow at 7:34 PM. Thelma Luther will review Country Lawyer by Ballamy Partridge, the fourth in a four part series previously presented by Mrs. H C Hull Mrs. J N Tewin and Mrs. C J Roberts.
Mala Mae Clark, 29, told Des Moines city jail she threw a brick through downtown store windows and stole about $3,000 in jewelry and furs. She described the act as if another person guided her, while Mare Clark, a former rural teacher, admitted breaking four windows in a downtown incident.
Alpaca garments derive wool from the alpaca, a partly domesticated South American hoofed mammal in the camel family. The animal’s fleece is woven into clothing, reflecting traditional textile practices linked to Andean cultures.
Chicago grain table shows May and July futures for wheat corn oats rye with open high low and close figures. The report lists daily percentage changes and price points for wheat corn oats rye across several months and contract months.
Grain report lists corn samples with yellow 62 64 percent and 62 63 percent, yellow 63 percent range, and white 79 4se oats with mixed samples at 39 40 percent and 41 42 percent, plus white samples 44 45 percent and 42 45 percent.
Chicago markets report steady produce flow with overall receipts for fruits and vegetables, poultry volumes listed by category. Poultry figures show varied counts across ducks, geese, hens, and turkeys with many percentage notes and lots ranging by type.
Wellman residents report a joint Iowa County American Legion meeting in Williamsburg. University of Dubuque students Marian Durst and Tena Maganya stayed with Marian Durst's parents. Local news includes guests at the Miller home for a music contest and a Wellman PTA breakfast. Wellman schools take a weeklong vacation with teachers returning home. Frances Smith and Miss Stuart visited Wellman while in town.
Cotter High School beat Ainsworth 15 to 12 in the season opener on Friday April 5. Both squads showed inexperience with frequent errors in fielding and base running as Cotter prepares to meet Columbus Junction on April 11 at home.
Miss Smith to teach third and fourth grade in Wellman schools next year at Ainsworth. Joyce Miller re elected to teach English psychology and dramatics in Rutland schools. Local families from Humbolt Sask to Malcom and LaPorte City attend gatherings. Royal Neighbors, A L C Club and Grandview P T A held meetings with officers elected and programs planned.
Today's high was 76 degrees, up from Sundays 75. The 24 hour minimum dipped to 50 degrees.
Matt Braunshausen and sister Mrs. John Adrian of Pleasant Plain spent today with Mr and Mrs. John Braunshausen, visiting in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Milo Patterson of Lexington welcome a seven and three fourths pound son born Saturday morning at home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dann between Washington and Kalona announce a son born this morning weighing seven and three fourths pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Muck traveled to Davenport Saturday evening to spend Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bailey and Mrs. Frank Anderson of Fresno California visit Fairfield and Pleasant Plain with Anderson relatives. She arrived last Thursday to see her mother Mrs. John Good ill at his son Arthur Good’s home. Anderson relatives held a dinner yesterday at the George Foster home in Living Lake honoring Mrs Frank Anderson.
A Columbia University Press study traces living Celtic tongues to Gaelic speaking Irish and Highland Scots with remnants in Armorican Welsh and Breton speech. It notes distant linguistic ties among these groups and their historical spread.
The notice lists sale days at Midway Safe Co Columone Junction every Wednesday and Friday with details for J F Marsh’s closing out sale of household goods at 505 South 2nd Ave starting at 1 30 o'clock on April 25.
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