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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1950
Page
5
Markets show hogs salable 9 000 head with gains to 25 cents. top hogs 24.85, most good and choice 20 to 26 0 lb 24.50 to 24.75. Sheep at 500 head with steady to strong tone and lambs around 28.00. natives 27.50 to 28.00. Cattle supplies 10,000 with calves 400, steers uneven 25 to 100 higher, cows steady to strong. prime 1326 lb steers 22.00 to 25.00, heifers 28.50 to 30.50, cows 22.25 to 24.00.
Open high low close dates show wheat corn oats and soybeans with Sept Dec Mar May contracts. values include percent ranges and odd formatting from OCR. Key figures include wheat around 223 to 228, corn near 151 to 162, oats mid 70s, soybeans near 244 to 250 with several months listed.
Mrs Raymond Bonar was a business caller in the city today. Friends of Harold south will be glad to know he has returned to Washington following major surgery in Chicago a few weeks ago. The Bootas are guests in the parental C B Reed home until Thursday, when they will leave for their house in Afton. Mr and Mrs Louis Dusenberry and son Dick of Davenport visited Mrs Dusenberrys mother and the Willard Reschley home in Crawfordsville. Harold Jarvis of Washington Dorothy Swartz and Wald Swartz of Buffalo and Beverly Shannon of Davenport were dinner guests in the Hubert Fry home in Fairfield. Lawson Crone of Rock Island visited the Al Crone home. The Bell family spent Sunday in the Oscar Hughes home near Columbus Junction. Janice Bowen and Gloria Swisher of Rock Island were guests in the Maude Koehler home and at Will Kendrick's house. Everette Dillon, Jack and Sue Ann and Donald Ann of Iowa City were mentioned. John Caldwell and Mrs Caldwell and her mother Mrs Van Ness of Centerville were Sunday dinner guests in the Glen Wilson home.
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