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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1939
Page
7
Sold plants include strawberries raspberries blackberries currants grapes and asparagus roots. D F Sayre contact RS8-51. Used Allis Chalmers tractor and plow at Washington Implement Store phone 352. Lot for sale on 2nd Street price 125 call 628 6005. 1929 Ford Sedan runs good priced to sell call 184 red.
Mrs J B Moore reports a large crowd attended Friday evening’s eighth grade play at the West Chester schoolhouse. Washington visitors Mr and Mrs Walter Leet Wm Embree and Mr and Mrs Lyall Moore attended Monday. Clarence Timming and Raymond Hamond had wood sawn Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Wm Carr attended funeral services of
West Chester reports Mrs W B Munro hosting a W C T U Silver Tea on April 25 with Mrs Nellie Scearey assisting. Ladies of the community invited. Also notes eighth grade play Ma ma's Baby Boy and local families visiting from Pella Williamsburg Ames.
April 25 notes show farmers and wives raking lawns gardening and plowing with guests like Mr and Mrs M C Robertson and families visiting Wayland. Trades include hedge clearing and fence work while neighbors share farm memories, a ten thousand five hundred dollar sale and town social updates.
Journal column by D F Macon reports short items from nearby towns including social events school notes and local updates. It highlights a few personal notices and community happenings likely of interest to readers of the Journal.
Mrs Armour Griggs and her mother Mrs Van Dyke of Route 3 were seen shopping here Monday. They now live on a thriving 240 acre farm that marks the community’s improved appearance.
A dialogue reveals a boss pleased by punctuality and a man who bought a parrot to wake him. Local notes mention Pat terson’s Washington daily subscription, farm activity with horses and mules, and neighbors near Straw College. Mentions of Clyde Kennard, Guernseys, and locals Harlan O Loughlin and Louise Shaffer O Loughlin in community updates.
Mrs. Ed Turnipseed eyed a makeshift fence post near her garden as she chased chickens. Mrs. M. L. Harbison and Modell e visited Mrs. Eugene Arns at 216 Cantlandt St. Waterloo. Mr. Van Dorin at the county home planted potatoes with two mules in good ground. A local friend Skinny greeted the writer, joking about age. Wilbur Schantz of Crawfordsville traveled to Washington for news of his daughter Joan.
Hogs steady to ten lower at 13 000 head with top 7.10 and 6.90 to 7.10 for 160 to 250 lb. cattle demand weak with calves 2 000 head and biddings 50 lower. weighty steers around 12.75 top, 9.00 to 11.25 typical. Sheep 8 000 slow with bids 10.00 to 10.10 for wool lambs. Estimates for Wednesday: cattle 8 000 hogs 10 000 sheep 6 000.
Chicago grain table shows May July and Sept futures for wheat corn oats and rye with quoted high low and closing values. The report lists May price ranges and July and September figures across wheat corn oats rye with percentages and fractions in a compact open market format.
Chicago grain prices listed for April 25 with Wheat Corn and Soybeans quotes. Wheat yellow hard and northern spring shown with dollar per kilogram ranges, Corn mixed and yellow varieties priced, Oats and Soybeans presented with color codes and percentages. Corn receipts total 88 cars.
Chicago markets show overall steady trends for produce and poultry with strong receipt counts. Eggs reach 231,052 cases with unchanged quotations while poultry receipts total 29 tracks and prices hold steady except spring chickens down 9 to 21 percent. potatoes weaken with rivals at 71, on track 276 shipments 569.
In America Limburg suggests cheese but in Holland Limburg is famed for its churches monasteries and some of the finest old castles seen anywhere.
The note expresses optimism that Joan will soon improve and recover. It highlights the daily wish for her health and well being, conveying care from family and friends.
The secretary reports a caller seeking the businessman’s secret of success. The magnate pauses, asking whether the visitor is a reporter or a detective before admitting him.
The Journal notes Midway Sale Co Columbus Junction with sale every Wednesday and Community Bale every Friday. The listing includes a metre case and related notes.
Riverside April 25 Alicia Leeney daughter of Mr and Mrs C Leeney and a Riverside St Marys high school graduate earned honorable mention in a statewide health essay contest sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary to the Iowa State Medical Society. The subject was Good Health and How to Maintain It.
A snapping turtle snaps with fierce force, sometimes unbalancing itself as it lunges. The animal shows swift, powerful strikes and abrupt movements as it defends territory or feeds.
REISTER'S MARKETS advertises Sweet Cream 7 to 7 1b per pound No 1 sour cream 19c No 2 sour cream 17c Hennery Brown Eggs 114c a dozen Hennery White Eggs 14c a dozen No 3 Megs 10c per pound We pay 2c per pound for delivery to plant All No 2 poultry with crooked breasts bare backs water blisters on breasts or extremely thin poultry bought at value Poultry disposal terms noted.
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