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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
7
Chicago markets report hogs 12 000 head with direct 7 000. prices mostly 10 to 15 cents lower. Best 11 50 to 11 65 for 11 50 to 11 65. Cattle 7 000 and calves 1 500 with weak sales and losses across grades. Yearlings down. stocker and feeder trade slow. Sheep 8 000 with fat lambs slow and declines. Estimated Friday receipts 1 000 hogs, 3 000 cattle, 7 000 sheep.
Commutity sale scheduled for August 26 at Wesley Hendricks’ yard located 1 mile northwest of Brighton. Auction at one o'clock. Local residents urged to attend.
Fragmentary OCR shows prices 8.25¢ per dozen and 265¢ per dozen with garbled context and terms. Readable pieces mention bargains in goods and a mislabeled monetary unit. Unable to determine full item or exact source. preserves price figures as read.
Egg market steady with receipts 6 899 cases and dirties 21 percent. Butter market firm with receipts 13 590 tubs and varied grade spreads. Poultry market steady to firm with 42 trucks and mixed fowl categories. Potatoes on track with weaker market as arrivals and shipments mix.
Chicago August 22. Cash corn No 1 yellow 81 percent to 81 and No yellow 81 percent to 81 percent. Receipts 20 cars.
White Oak Iowa August 22 the county finished graveling the road from Dublin to G H Mayers. Local residents report visits and gatherings at multiple nearby homes including the Homer Mayer and George Augustine families. merle and hubert spent time fishing and Eldon Fair attendance noted.
Whittaker and Son Cp and FL Macon announce a community sale on Saturday August 24 featuring yearling cattle fresh cows and springers hogs Shoats piggies sows and boars lambs bucks hedge posts cedar posts furniture tools winter supplies veal calves and sheep hens offered at 12 per pound regardless of weight buyers welcome to set own prices and sell at market rates
Report from Macon area by D F describes local happenings and community items gathered by the newspaper's subscription team. Brief notices cover residents, events, and short items of interest in the neighbor city.
Evelyn Chalupa recalls a handshake at church with Macon, then identifies the man as Rev Willey. Ed Chalupa notes Macon absent and praises Evelyn for her clarity amid lingering accusations and thanks Miss Harriet Logan from West Chester for daily home delivery.
Walter Statler Foxes mornings cool in Keota. Claude Rhodebeck helps ready Young America school property. Fred Bauer's barn gets a new roof. Emma Cherry grows tall pole beans. Frank Romine has an exceptional sweet corn crop. John Gretter digs 200–300 bushels of potatoes and sells some at 1.25 per hundred. Keota residents attend sales and fairs. W F Hagist supports Evening Journal. Daering near Blatt Hawk notes time to expire and looks forward to Wesh Hendricks sale.
Fragments show names and places including A. A. Richardson Washington R.4 and Lester W. Times Keota with brief remarks about a newspaper evening journal edition.
The letter column lists residents and visitors including W P Bowers Keota R 2 thanking the Evening Journal after nine years of patronage. It notes appearances by Mr and Mrs Lindenmeyer West Chester Geo Simering Keota D F Henderson Hickory Grove Washington R 8 and S W Carrick Crawfordsville rural route. It also mentions Wayland homecoming plans and local farm chatter including Jim Baird Washington R 1 and Ralph Wagner.
Mr. and Mrs Clyde Keiper sons Ronald and Leta travel to Minnesota for a fishing trip. Orville Thoma family heads to Lake Okoboji for a short vacation. Mrs Sadie Day of Nebraska is noted in the report.
Mrs. E W Spessard visits relatives with family. Nettie Gupton heads to Washington for a week. Everette Shearer and spouse visit Ollie then Tama to see the Sackett couple. Jr McCaleb from near Danville returns home for Sunday. Carl Gadsen and family from near Louila stop briefly en route to Muscatine. Dave Peterson of Waterloo visits relatives here over the weekend. Ted Orris and children return from Crawfordsville area. J A Marsh helps granddaughter Cleo Russell celebrate birthday in Iowa City.
Gray Iowa August 22 The H H Club hosted an ice cream supper at Louis Rath home as part of the community fall after threshing tradition. Families including Mr and Mrs Smith Theo Orer family and others visited local homes this weekend with several residents hosting gatherings.
D J Godsoe of the U S S Indianapolis explains in Collier's Weekly how the command Show a Leg became a custom on British men of war around 1800. Women aboard were given an extra hour of sleep and signaled by hanging a stocking clad leg over their hammock each morning.
The report describes a Tensas river area in Louisiana with a burnt cotton plantation legacy, a farmer shelling 2000 bushels of corn for a neighbor, and local road work near Crawfordsville by the Gray school. It notes a Ladies Aid meeting with Mrs. Chas McKay and a Sunday visit from Fred Weekly, who aids a neighboring relative near Winfield.
Jerome Crain and Linda, aboard a quarantined yacht owned by Thomas Tucker near San Cristobal, scheme to escape as a plague scare closes in. Butterworth the quartermaster weighs risks while a tropical storm looms and the couple plans a risky retreat by small boat into the night.
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