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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1931
Page
2
Receipts 9 000 hogs with 3 600 direct and varied weights. Cattle and calves receipts 2 000, market steady to firm across killing classes with best steers 8 25 to 9 50, yearlings up to 9 90, cows and heifers active. Sheep receipts 6 000, market fairly active with natives and western lambs strongest 8 00 to 8 50. lambs 7 50 to 8 75 for light weights.
Des Moines digest reports combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8:00 A M total 9 200, down from 21 100 a week earlier. Markets show unevenly steady to 20 cents higher, mostly 10 to 15 cents up with light weights discounted yet many sellers holding firm on prices.
The report lists price ranges for hogs by weight and grade from 290 to 550 pounds, noting good and choice quality. It explains that long haul shipments with weight shrinkage or overfilled hogs affect sale prices, and that buying on shipping point weights is excluded from quotations.
Chicago August 14 market update shows varied produce with mixed receipts across categories. beef prices unchanged while poultry and cheese show small shifts. potatoes list 139 cars tracked with Idaho russets and Missouri cobbler prices noted amid overall market softness.
Wheat and corn futures show varied moves with Sept contracts around fifty to sixty cents. Oats and rye edge modestly higher, while lard and roes drift without clear direction amid a choppy trading session at Chicago futures.
In Toledo on August 14 the list shows Clover prime at 12.00, Occtober 12.00, Alsike cash 8.25, August 8.25, December 8.50 and timothy hay per cwt at 1.25. Prices reflect bids and current market values for farmers.
Grain receipts list 241 cat wheat 57 ears corn and 130 ears oats in a concise market update.
Chicago cash grain closes show mixed quotations across wheat and corn. Wheat values range from 41 to 63 and corn from 50 to 52, with several grades oscillating in narrow margins.
The fragment lists crops with color coded grades and percentages: yellow greens 50 to 52 percent and 52 to 562 percent, white samples 62 percent, oats totals 23 percent, old 25 to 2614, white 21 to 96 for Barley 37 to 53, Rye No 2 at 37 percent, Timothy 30 to 350, Clover 1000 to 1650.
Radio Pictures presents a new dramatic theme in Richard Dix’s The Public Defender now showing at the State theater. The piece aims to meet filmdom’s demand for novel material with unusual plot twists enhancing screen appeal.
Hoot Gibson stars in the new western Clearing the Range produced by M. H. Hoffman Jr. for Allied Pictures at the Fox theater. The production showcases authentic western life with Gibson a former rodeo star and real cowhands from his Saugus ranch.
In Washington County Iowa the District Court lists Ik C Temple as plaintiff and Cornelius Houck Sarah Houck Jonathan Brinton and the unknown surviving as defendants in a civil action. The filing triggers further process and potential hearings as the case proceeds.
Lodges Washington Chapter No 98 OEK Regular meeting second Thursday night monthly Ida McDaniel W M Ernestine Denison secretary Visiting members welcome Damascus Shrine No 10 WS tri Regular meeting fourth Tuesday monthly at Masonic Temple Mrs Chioa Spies W P Hazel Haven Worthy Serbe Washington Lodge No 26 AFP A F A M Regular meeting first Friday monthly Harry C Ward W M A W Yard Secretary Cyrus Chapter No 13 RAM Regular meeting second Friday monthly J W Eastin H P A W Ward secretary
Railway timetable lists arrivals and departures for multiple trains including Golden State Apache and local passenger services. Shows times for westbound and eastbound trains, freight and mixed trains, and notes daily except Sunday or specific days. Agents Goodlander McKay and Bell are referenced as station agents.
The note recounts a trip from Rubio Wisconsin and Iowa near August 14. It mentions a card from Rice Lake, Huber, a man with a fish, and a neighbor Cy. The group visits A. J. Morgan in Clay, Mrs. Elder promises a Journal write up, and locals like Ralph Beliels and L. B. Luithly are noted. Ardith Luithly faces an appendicitis operation at Ottumwa hospital.
A tall corn stalk grown near Rubio reaches thirteen feet two inches with ears so high Bill would need a ladder to harvest. The river south of Joe Hartnells runs exceptionally low, revealing a large turtle. The piece notes a run of local roads from Washington to Route 2 and mentions Charley McKinstry's saddle horse left in the road and a John T. Malingle sale on Saturday at 1 20 east Washington.
An United Press analysis outlines Cuba's political fault lines against President Machado y Morcales. It notes four opposition groups including young intellectuals, the old aristocracy, business leaders, and unemployed labor, with Mario Menocal as a leading opponent and Col. Carlos Mendeza leading the Union Nacional. Machado’s 1924 election and 1928 reelection are highlighted as key moments.
The petition filed in the District Court of Washington County Iowa seeks to quiet and establish fee simple title to the described real estate in the plaintiff. It names spouses heirs representatives or devisees of move named defendants and unknown claimants as parties. It states errors in the record create adverse claims which the plaintiff asserts are invalid and requests judgment to bar all named defendants and unknown claimants from any right or title to the property. It warns defendants to appear before noon on the second day of the next term beginning September 1 1931 at the Washington County Court House or default will be entered.
Quotes from locals reveal where individuals were born and what drew them to Washington. Evra Goodwin recalls Harrison Ohio birth in 1874 and moving to Deep River in 1875 where he met his wife before relocating to Washington in 1906. Clarence Logan mentions birth west of Crawfordsville and being brought to Washington as an infant. New air service route information notes Burlington as a recent traffic point on the Chicago to Kansas path.
An 11 year old race horse named Doctor Abbot remains under guard by a deputy sheriff until its owner William Kum mer pays a debt of 288.42 to a furniture dealer. The horse may continue racing with winnings applied to the bill. The related notices also include a Sturgis furniture dealer seeking 14 060 bushels of wheat at double value and a Springfield hotel chef treated for a shingle nail in the appendix after surgery.
The passage notes that the chevalier devoted himself to a lady and sought her love, expressed by troubadour language through the single word domnel derived from donna and related to dormina, meaning lady or mistress.
Detroit News notes the Ojib wa origin of Muskegon meaning marshy water or wet prairie, with one authority suggesting Tamarack to reflect riverbank trees. It also mentions a popular myth of a hunter dropping his musket and exclaiming musk et gone.
Aeronautics department engineers announced the route to be inaugurated in Burlington will be lighted for night flying and operate starting tomorrow.
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