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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1921
Page
2
Hogs receipts 41 000 holdovers. cattle 13 900. sheep 19 000. Market active with hogs mostly 45 to 50 cents higher. Beef and veal values listed. cattle of various weights and grades shown with price ranges. Wheat and corn futures quoted. cash grain traded with modest gains and steady oats.
New York reports coffee consumption rose about 21 percent or 100 cups per person per year since prohibition began. National figures show total yearly consumption at 1,261,610,596 pounds enough for 484 cups per person.
Clinton citizens funded a massive Boy Scout tour to Yellowstone Park involving 260 scouts and 53 automobiles. Costs totaled about 20000 with 5000 covered by troop funds and 15000 donated by local business leaders. One minor accident occurred when a steering gear broke on a mountain trail but no serious injuries occurred.
The report describes traveling on routes other than the mountain trail with minimal tire trouble and excellent road conditions throughout the journey.
Local items list Miss Fay Taylor leaving for Tacoma mission station with First United Presbyterian church and various visits by residents to Fairfield Keokuk Crawfordsville Waterloo and Minneapolis Dean's cafe ads noting best meals and cool dining rooms plus Swift's Produce Review on butter eggs oats and cob by products from Iowa State experts at Ames including potential uses for corn cobs and the furfural market.
Memorial services for more than 1,000 Eighty-Eighth Division veterans who died in World War I will be held August 28 at the first annual reunion in Des Moines. State officials and four former division commanders will attend, with a tablet by the 351st Infantry unveiled at the Lowar Historical Building. Supreme Court members and War Department officers will assist. Chaplain W. D. Kenas will deliver the memorial sermon. Officials say more than 6,000 veterans will gather to honor their dead comrades.
A playful proverb notes that even clever people risk losing money in modern times as financial missteps erode wealth and warn against careless handling of cash.
Journal's Farm Department notes Aug 10 spotting Poland China bred sows and boars in Washington Iowa. Aug 10 night R F Smylie Columbus Junction reports Duroc Jersey ington. Sept 17 W R Gamon Wash Sate announces Poland China sale.
In Cedar Falls W E Albert state fish and game warden released about 40000 fish into the Cedar river, mostly bass with croppies and sunfish, sizes four to twelve inches. A similar carload will be freed in Waterloo soon, including some pike per sportsmen requests.
Iowa State Horticultural Society reports a poor year for fruits and vegetables across the state with apples hit hardest. Overall crop expected around twenty percent of a full yield, with specific lows in apples and notable damage from pests like codling moth and aphids.
Cedar Rapids banks received a warning from the Iowa State Bankers Association about confidence men active in neighboring states. The alert cites bogus farm job seekers and merchants urged to scrutinize payments and checks. One-armed signer and a second collector are named among the suspected swindlers.
A society note reports a yesterday reunion at Mr. and Mrs. H N Boyer near West Chester with guests from Des Moines and Washington, a spring chicken feast marking the day. Additional items recount a C C class meeting at Miss Lois Hauer’s home and an evening at Louis Jugenheimer’s with games, refreshments, and multiple local families present.
A historical mention reports several people shaved by lightning. A famed instance concerns French doctor Gaul tier of Clanbry whose beard was removed as if by a clean shave and then never grew again.
Rock Island railroad in Des Moines announces thirty new steel coaches and five steel chair cars to enter service in Iowa. Innovations include free drinking cups hat check holders improved color scheme and windows opposite each seat for passenger comfort.
A fragmentary line recalls a social quarrel over engagement with George. The speaker notes an earlier promise to marry and a new proposal, revealing a tangled memory or dialogue from a domestic or comic exchange.
Iowa's cannery season is starting slowly with about one third of state plants opening. State officials say packs will be short, lasting only about two weeks, due to reduced demand and farmers' contracts. Labor and market conditions since wartime.
Cedar Rapids Iowa Aug 8 The Cherry Sisters famed for decades announce plans to resume stage work after a two year hiatus caused by the flu epidemic and theater closures They await a salary offer worthy of their name and experience while continuing their bakery business on Third Avenue West and maintain cordial relations with agents and producers.
De Moines August Iowa reports 730 cooperative livestock shipping associations with 166 members in the Iowa Federation of Livestock Shippers. Last year Iowa cooperatives shipped about 60 000 cars of livestock out of 181 000 state total. The federation studies rail shipping days loading yard facilities and car load practices to ease congestion and standardize methods. The next annual meeting will align with the Corn Belt Meat Producers Association with date to be announced.
In England a life sentence is reviewed after 15 years. If conduct has been uniformly good, release is usually granted. This applies especially to murderers, who are often described as well�beloved prisoners.
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