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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1928
Page
2
Receipts total around 10 000 hogs with prices 10 to 25 higher than Tuesday. Sows top 12.85 per 100 pounds. butchers and pigs show varied gains across 90 to 130 pound ranges. Cattle totals about 10 000 with calves at 2 000. steers and yearlings steady, heifers steady, feeders steady, and various slaughter class price ranges listed from 900 to 1700 across weights.
Washington Produce Markets lists cream per pound at 44e and various poultry prices from Leghorn hens six cents to large ducks twelve cents per pound. Beef hides sell by the pound while horse hides fetch five dollars each. One cent extra paid for poultry delivered. Markets offer to market sick or crippled birds.
Receipts 17,000 head with fat lambs opening 15 to 25 lower and most sales about 25 cents off. Sheep and feeding lambs steady. Lambs good and choice around 92 pounds quoted 123.00 to 142.50 while medium 115.0 to 130.0. Ewes average 4.25 to 7.25 for 150 pounds and down. Feeder and good choice lambs quoted 125.0 to 141.5.
Fragmented grain prices and grades for Wheat Corn Oats Rye Barley Timothy Clover with mixed figures and percentages across several lots. Listings include hard mixed white yellow and SG grades with varied values and ranges, reflecting unsettled cash market quotes.
Market item list notes Clover cash 1700 QOet 1759 Dec 1730 cash imports 1400 Timothy cash 205 Dec 250 Alsike cash new 1790 Oct 1809.
A brief classified style item notes acts for sale and rental notices and a lost or wanted section. The text lists local business names an address style contact numbers including J M Kyle Willard service station and Dr T J Pease dentist with blue street references. It mentions a journal line about an act drawing a large audience daily.
Excerpts argue livestock farming as the backbone of future prosperity and criticize nomadic tenancy. Chicago Live Stock Exchange is praised for maintaining open markets. Salesmen and buyers are seen as key to producer profits and market integrity.
Prominent American authors turn to film with Ben Mecht adapting for the screen. The Big Noise, First National Pictures, is now showing at the Fox Theatre with a cast led by Chester Conklin and Alice White among others following Mecht’s Underworld.
Chicago Ange reports cattle receipts about 6 000 hogs 17 000 sheep 11 000 and holdover hogs 6 004 for the next market.
Brighton Iowa August 22 The annual Moore Woodford reunion was held at the Clay church last Sunday. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. A W Woodford and Mildred Mr. and Mrs. Allen Meacham and family Mr. and Mrs. Roy Woodford and family and many Woodford relatives plus others from local households.
August 22 reports fine roads after Monday storm and hints at improving infrastructure. Mentions Big Bill Allen aiding travelers in Wayland, Magdefray Bros. cattle sales to Ottumwa buyers, Col. Rinner and Donald in Washington for Calf and Pig show, and Des Moines fair preparations. Highlights county agent Montgomery and Journal coverage, local stock show participants, chautauqua crowd, and a humorous anecdote about Lew Embree I L Sembree.
The account describes Harrison Modder and family meeting Herbert Hoover in West Branch with many locals present. It notes torchlit bridges, estimated crowd near 25 000, and Hoover’s likely vote, while neighbor Dr. Tom Thompson reportedly disagrees. It also mentions past livestock sales led by W A McCall and family ties in the area.
The W A McCall sale six miles NW of Washington yielded strong prices with cows $109 to $106 50, mule colts $107, broad sows up to $40. McCall retires from active work as sons assume farming. staff and machinery sold. Rev Dr Finney of Fayetteville Ark and family visited. Brookhart spoke at West Branch and Col J Wilson prompted applause with a loud cheer.
Mrs Lloyd Kenedy of Rockford Illinois visits with her mother Mrs C H Fishburn. Miss Seyle Edwards and a friend reach Seattle after starting a westward hike two weeks ago. Earl Ferguson leaves Monday for Lenox Iowa to visit relatives. H D Cherryholmes accompanies him to Creston then on to Omaha. Frank McCoy and son Joseph Arthur of Stanwood arrive to spend two weeks with relatives after returning from taking Mrs McCoy and Helen to Superior Wisconsin to escape hay fever.
A long list of visits and travels from Milwaukee to Independence Iowa City and beyond includes Fitza Wheelock and the Jones family in Batavia and many more visiting relatives in Muscatine Oskaloosa Alhambra and Cedar Rapids. Weekend trips take residents to Waterloo Clear Lake and Des Moines while Chautauqua attendance and grey family reunions mark gatherings.
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