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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1939
Page
7
Buyer alert lists about 400 White Leghorn baby chicks offered April 24 at $5.75 per 100. Also offers a gray enamel USPd Rock Island range in good condition and volumes of American Education school books. Contact J Alliman Wayland 5512 or 728 East 2nd Street 552.
Journal subscription representative D F Macon reports on community happenings in nearby towns. Brief items highlight local events, updates, and changes affecting residents and readers.
Report from Wednesday ride to Riverside and Muscatine area highlights injuries and hospital stay of Randle Neill, improvements in roads, a farm land visit by Mrs. Frank Wilson of Montana, and multiple local residents at a sale. Mentions wheat and rye health, corn being shipped to Muscatine, and farm activity near Washington and Kalona.
Chicago on April 20 reports hogs at 11,000 with prices 10 to 15 cents lower. top 7.15. Bulk 160 to 250 lb hogs 7.00 to 7.15. Packing sows 6.00 to 6.50. Cattle receipts 4,000 with calves 2,000 and fed steers 9.00 to 11.00, early top 11.50. best fed heifers 10.15. bulls to 7.40. light weights 8.50 down. Sheep 11,000 with fat lambs around steady 10.00 to 10.25. woolskins 16.50 to 10.60. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 1,000 hogs 6,000 sheep 6,000.
Chicago grain table lists wheat corn oats rye futures with May July and September quotes. Prices range with wheat around 69 and 68, corn near 49 to 51, oats near 80 to 30, and rye around 41 to 44 with various high low and close figures.
Chicago April 20 C UP cash grain prices show corn 1 yellow 51 2 yellow 51 to 51 3 yellow 50 4 yellow 49 with white corn 57 2 white 67 and oats 2 white 35 38 white 33 to 34 4 white 32. Corn receipts 83 cars.
Chicago buyers see a steady market as total receipts reach 27 026 cases. Poultry data show one car and 49 trucks received with ducks 12 to 15 cents, geese 12 cents, hens 164 to 19 cents, leghorn hens 164 to 19 cents, spring chickens 20 to 22 cents, roosters 12 cents, brooders 18 cents, and turkeys 4 to 0 cents per unit.
The passage thanks Mrs. Glen Cherryholmes of Crawfordsville and Marie Welsch of Cedar Rapids for home daily subscriptions. It notes a farmer east of Washington and Harry McConnell near Havre renewing his home news, reflecting community ties to automobile selling and city life.
Elizabeth Meadows parks before a meter and cannot pay. Patrolman Giglia finds a note under the wiper reading Five pennies are on the seat of the car I didn't have a nickel to put in the meter. The story hints at curious quintuplets progress and public interest.
Marie Dionne, the smallest Dionne quintuplet, gains four pounds to tie Yvonne at 48 pounds in Cal lander Ontario. The five records list Annette Cecile Emilie Yvonne and Marie with weights from 48 to 50 pounds and heights around 40 to 41 inches. A stray query asks about speeding arrests in Washington County and a judge’s not guilty verdicts.
A driver named Ora Pr. Hathe from Indianapolis claimed he was en route to pay income tax when charged with speeding. Judge Charles J' Karabell found him not guilty after the alibi was presented.
Havre residents share weekend visits and meals with neighbors and relatives. Numerous gatherings include Clyde Tucker from Des Moines visiting the Allen Bradford house while local families attend services and funerals and host relatives at various homes.
Des Moines April 20 40 The Senate and House approved a resolution to appoint a 15 member committee to study farm tenancy problems. The panel named by the governor would report on enabling farmers to acquire land checking commercial farming and ending short term leases. The measure came from the special Senate agricultural relief committee.
The Washington county Sheep and Wool Growers' Association met at the Farm Bureau office to set dipping operations for April 24 with Orville Campbell as operator at 10 cents per head for the first 100 and 9 cents thereafter. Glen Dunbar was elected secretary-treasurer. J. W. Chandler was tasked to gather wool pool information for the next meeting. Last year about 6,000 sheep were dipped. inquiries to the Farm Bureau office are welcome.
Police say Amelia Tarquino 45, a steel worker, confessed to slaying his housekeeper Evelyn Bird Rice of Peachville and Augusta, buried her head and torso in his rose garden and other remains in East Baltimore sewers.
Des Moines reports the appointment of Kurl W. Fischer of Vinton as the first commissioner of Iowa’s new public safety department has been well received by lawmakers. Both parties praise Gov. Wilson’s choice and early reactions statewide are favorable with no local criticism near the statehouse.
Old age pensions totaling 1,018,762 were paid to 51,234 Iowa residents in March. Average check 19.84. Blind pensions distributed to 1,318 people totaling 50,628.64 with an average 23.24. Washington county saw 387 old age recipients receiving 7,831. Jefferson county had 402 pensioners and 8,004. Blind pensions in Jefferson county included 12 payments totaling 279. eight blind pensioners received 155.
Iowa House approves no work no relief amendment by 75 to 4 as part of a bill creating a state social welfare board to control emergency relief funds. The measure, already passed by the Senate, goes back for further action in the chamber.
Representative Herman Knudson of Cerro Gordo pushed a measure as the chamber voted 67 to 21 in favor of adoption. The outcome reflects party alignment and support from key committees.
The period felt wintry with chilly temperatures and light cold rain. Precipitation totaled a tenth of an inch as temperatures ranged from 40 to 56 degrees in the last 24 hours. By noon the sun began to hint at breaking through the cloudy sky.
REISTER'S MARKETS lists price quotes for Friday with No. 1 Sour Cream 20 cents, Wh. No. 2 Sour Cream 18 cents per pound, Hennery Brown Eggs 14 cents per dozen, Hennery White Eggs 14 cents per dozen. It notes 2 cents per pound for delivery to a plant and states No. 2 poultry including stocked breasts and other defects will be bought at value.
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