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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1932
Page
2
Chicago reports hog prices steady to strongly higher with demand for fresh pork at eastern points and top at 5.10 for choice lights. Cattle receipts around 6,000 keep prices steady with strong demand for choice heavy steers for eastern shipment. Grassers weak, cows and heifers barely steady, stockers unchanged. lambs at 6.25 for the week.
Interior towns in Iowa and southern Minnesota reported hog market receipts totaling 9 300 for the 24 hours ending 8 06 a m. Prices ranged by weight from 140 160 for light weights to 350 425 for heavy hogs with 106 130 for pigs and 275 350 for packing sows.
A dense August ledger from Chicago lists butter, creamer, cheese, poultry, and potato grades with varied standards. It records case counts, percentages for firsts and extras, packing stock, and regional grain mentions across U S shipments, including Nebr and Ida ho bliss.
Chicago cash grain prices show wheat mixed with red and hard grades around 55 to 64 percent ranges and yellow and white wheats near 53 to 65 percent. Corn mostly around 17 to 19 percent for mixed and white varieties, with No 2 at 40 to 41 percent. barley quoted 36 to 40 percent.
Knotek Brothers of Riverside will display Duroc Jersey swine in Des Moines as part of the national livestock show at the Iowa State Fair. Officials expect nearly 80 000 dollars in prizes with record animal entries from coast to coast, including about 1 000 pigs in the junior swine show and 800 poultry entries as the fair opens August 26.
City council presided by Mayor J W Applegate approves last meeting minutes and pays bills total by fund. Budget estimate finalized for certification. bids for painting exterior city hall led by Cherry and Bell $240.00 awarded. Wheat 46 cars Corn 51 cars Oats 186 cars.
Cordelle Wellman and Braden Correspondent report on Des Moines K of P grand lodge activities with Wes Webster elected Grand K of R. and 8. Cedar Rapids visitors Mrs. H B Lawrence and her brother Wm Irwin join local residents. New arrivals include Henry Semler and Edward Lewis as newborns.
Journal’s subscription representative D. F. Macon shares brief items from nearby towns detailing local happenings, social dates, and community updates.
A survey of social visits includes Charley Palmer and family with Mrs. W. A. Palmer in Washington along with relatives Charles Hartman and Ray Hartman. Reports mention cattle feeding near Ford, crop conditions, a fire loss near Crawfordsville, an auto wreck injuring two women and a child, travels to see relatives in multiple states, and local news from Aug 3 1938 with a letter from I. F. Lambert thanking the Bethel Bible Class.
The narrator spent days at West Liberty with Mrs. Duskin's sister and relatives in Davenport. Earl Sample of Waterloo visited here, and Mrs. Fisher of Washington, formerly Cora Foreman, joined the Foreman home. L C Miller and Joe McClelland with others traveled to Durant for the Adams reunion at Cedar Rapids where Mr. Adams marked his 61st birthday.
Mrs E W Spessard and Mrs Lily Mathers hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Cates of California as brother and sister. Butterworth and Pressley families visited Des Moines. MFB church women held a bank offering with music readings and a playlet by seven young women. Chihak family from Chicago visited, Johnston family hosted, Wanda Spessard visited Verna Tridle in Keosauqua this week.
Mt Pleasant residents attend the fair with families and guests. Betty Lou Wood returns from a visit with grandparents T H Riley. Marylyn Shaffer visits home from Oskaloosa and various families host relatives from Michigan and Winfield area.
For sale two good used electric washers and one double tub Haag power. Scott Furniture Co. reports a week of activity with Henry Wolfe and family and Lester Kientz and family. Attendees at the Mt Pleasant fair include Earl Smith and family Minnie Crile Dave Baldosier and family Doss Van Winkle and family and Lester Kientz and family. Families visiting and traveling patterns among locals are listed with several couples and grandparents noted.
Mr and Mrs T H Riley and their son Dale and Doyle Sands are listed in a Crawfordsville notices column with Vera L Sands as correspondent. The fragment shows a community notice from Crawfordsville Riley Sands vicinity.
More than 270 head sold at the A Kh Smith farm four miles southwest of Ainsworth. Top milk cows brought 65 with calves from 12 to 25 dollars and brood sows at 22. Hogs vaccinated for cholera. auctioneer was Klotz of Columbus Junction. Several residents and visitors noted in town columns.
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