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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1921
Page
2
Estimated receipts include hogs 11 000 and cattle 11 000 with holdovers and variable price ranges. Top cattle 10.50 to 11.00, hogs steady to lower, sheep showing strength with lambs and yearlings priced higher. Official yesterday figures show hogs 17 762 and cattle 960 636. Kansas trader K W Wagner Co. reports.
Deficient moisture and heat across Iowa hurt corn after a strong July start. Winter and spring wheat yields dip from last year while oats barley and rye show sharp declines. Potatoes apples hay and other crops also fall short with varied regional conditions and losses.
Oklahoma banks outline a plan to lend to farmers who buy purebred cattle from Iowa with valuation appraisals guiding sale and financing. The program aims to create a double market for stock and requires an appraisal committee led by H. W. Mumford. A Northwestern professor reports progress on red white and blue corn hybrids.
County churches announce 10 a.m. Bible school. Morning preaching and 2 p.m. union service at the Baptist church. All are welcome without a home church. Teacher Training Class resumes after a month break, meets Friday night with two lessons left before examination. FE A Anderson pastor.
New Haven Baptist hosts a 2 p.m. Bible school and 3 p.m. preaching service led by Pastor A. Anderson. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The Prairie Flower Baptist Church invites attendance at a 16 a.m. Bible school with strong summer turnout and encouraging attendance. A B Y P U session follows at 11 a.m. Pastor E. A. Anderson leads the church.
Daily notes show buyers like Jennie Marek and Ed Huff ordering gas ovens and gear wheels, Will McBride purchasing belt, Tucker and Bicher promoting Val dura paints, and Alva Nebergall buying a hay press. Other entries list tractor parts, hoses, pulleys, and a used Money Maker press offered at 390 dollars.
A historical market page lists prices for fresh eggs and poultry. Fees per dozen for creamery items, fresh laid eggs, and per pound rates for hens, springs, old roosters, turkeys, old toms, ducks, and geese are shown with unit costs.
Cool weather last week helped Iowa corn rally from drought damage by filling out stunted ears though many barren stalks will not yield ears. Across eighty three farmers sampled, planting averaged May 12 with silking starting July 8 and 75 percent silked by July 16, about sixty five days from planting to 75 percent stage.
Ruth Law, famed aviatrix, performs on the upper wing looping the loop above the air, a stunt no other woman has done. She will appear at the Iowa State Fair this summer from August 26 to September 2 with a flying circus and two other stunt artists.
Much of the crop is in the dough dent and several caves of prostration follow heavy rain. Final reports on the crop likely reveal one of the poorest harvests in state history. Some grain in the shock is sprouting.
Duluth visitor J. Browning visits L. B. Martin before a trip to Winfield to see his father. Mrs. W. S. Parks returns from Wapello after caring for a newborn granddaughter. Leona Davison stays with the Crumry family near Stockport. Several residents tour Mt. Pleasant and visit the Will Dey home. Frank Dey extends his stay. Mrs. Geo Hanson of Cedar Rapids visits Brighton friends. Mrs. Hanson is formerly Myrtle Richardson. Mrs. Fred Whitmer and two daughters of Juliet plan a visit with Mrs. Mattie Whitmer. George Robison of Batavia travels to visit C. V. Robison as Gladyea Brier and Mrs. Hesaie Day host a bridal shower at the Brier home for Mrs. James Reeser. Mrs. R. S. Wikoff spends the week at Burlington with daughter Mrs. Howard Johnson.
Lesson text surveys Paul and Barnabas in Iconium and Lystra, noting their preaching style that convicts and converts, their perseverance amid opposition, and the attempt to worship them as gods. It highlights the healing of a lame man, the resultant crowd reaction, a stoning incident, and the later establishment of churches with appointed elders on the mission field.
A devotional verse reflecting on the question of human insignificance before divine scrutiny. It ponders why God elevates humans and fixes attention on them each morning and constantly tests them throughout life.
A Biblical passage notes Solomon stating the Lord dwells in thick darkness and that a temple has been built as a house of habitation for the Lord forever, citing II Chronicles 4:1-2.
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