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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1927
Page
2
Chicago market data shows hog receipts 28 000 with uneven trade. Hogs 210 lb down to up for various weight ranges, prices mostly 8.50 to 10.80. Cattle receipts 11 000 with steadier fat steers around 14.60 and vealers 14.00 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 20 000 very slow with fat lambs near 13.50 to 13.75 and feeding lambs 11.50 to 13.75.
Chicago cash grain quotes show futures for wheat corn oats lard ribs and rye with Sept Dec Mar contracts and daily open high low close figures. Market levels indicate modest moves in wheat and corn while fats and meats trade within narrow ranges.
Daily grain quotations show wheat with varied hard and white types trading between about 1.38% and 1.56% futures, yellow and mixed corn entries from 1.05 to 1.19, and oats near 0.99. The report also mentions a 59 year old clock mechanism note, describing the balance wheel and hairspring oscillating 18,000 times hourly.
Aug twenty second Wellman notes detail Mrs C C Gardner leaving for St Paul to attend the national W C T U convention and visit her daughter Mrs W E Baker, with her husband to follow for the Minneapolis and St Paul Fair. Calvin Griffith Burrell Berry return from a west trip via Estes Park and Denver to the Black Hills. E C Hambright reports rain in Colorado and snow on Pikes Peak. crops and grain moisture good.
The district court of Washington County Iowa holds a petition by R F E Brinning seeking to quiet title to the SE quarter of the NW quarter of section 31 township 75 north range 8 west along Out Lot Six Grace Hill. Defendants include numerous Gatlin Frain Moreland Gordon Henry Anderson and others with unknown claimants. If no appearance before noon the second day of the September 1927 term default and a decree will be entered.
Aug 23 reports Elmer Cherry helped brother Charley haul clover hay last Friday afternoon. Robert McKee arrived from Forest Park and is spending a two week vacation at the Vincent home.
August notes describe a two-row sprayer on a moving wagon and two-horse work by Spencer Reed, plus sightings of brood mares, fillies, yearlings, and a heavy gray mare. Various locals visit, auctions planned for WFM S quilts, reunions at Carris Pella and Sunset Park, and residents like Tom Wolf, O D Norman, Eli Neiswanger, and George Carnot featured.
Public sale announced to satisfy storage and warehouse liens on machinery furnaces and other goods held for E G Mason and Mrs C A Calhoun. Sale set for September 10 1927 at 2 PM at the former Mason Transfer warehouse in Washington Iowa. Liens owned by Commercial Savings Bank of Washington Iowa, per Iowa code. Sheriff C M Denison listed.
In Dublin on Aug 24 various local families and visitors are listed with activities from reunions in Keota to picnics at Sigourney and Valley. Notables include Roy Sowash of Moline and en route travel by J H Soethout and Nick Tinnes families amid visits by Dr. Andrew Robertson and Washington trip for dental work.
An Ada family visit occurred last Sunday with brothers named David and Willis present at the Chris Schwartz residence in town.
Wyoming authorities pursue large scale capture of wild horses across public lands. The plan aims to reduce herd numbers and manage grazing and habitat impacts while balancing wildlife protection and ranching interests.
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