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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
2
Chicago market notes show hog receipts around 16 000 today with fair activity and quotes from 12 75 to 13 55 for various weights. Cattle receipts near 4 500 with prime quality steer demand up 25 cents while other classes fall 25 to 100. Westerns and calves also cited with price changes across categories.
Grain futures and cash market quotes from Town J. B. Hunt show Dec corn at 1.39, May 1.33, July 1.32 for futures, with oats Dec 0.76 and May 0.79. Cash market lists corn at 1.65 per car, No 4 Y C 1.384 to 1.40, oats No 3 W O 0.79–0.80, and clover March 30.30. Coffee quotes mark March at 15.18 and current at 14.75.
The story follows Robert Winchester Mc Tabb a compulsive liar turned coffin salesman and the gleeful mischief of his adventures. William Russell headlines the film adaptation described as entertaining with humor and action. It screens at the Graham on Monday.
The chief use of any man to the world is the influence of his aspirations. Not achievements alone can determine a man's value to us, but the vision of the ideal he shares in words, on canvas, in marble, and in grand architectural works.
A long list of public and closing out farm sales dates from the Journal's Farm Department. Entries name buyers and sale locations across Washington Keota Crawfordsville Ainsworth Havre and other Iowa towns with dates from December through February. Notable notes mention a near appendicitis scare for Roy Wood and Claire Brook’s typhoid fever in Galesburg Illinois.
C A Brook of southwest of Washington topped the Chicago market on Wednesday of last week with a car load of Herefords. Twenty head brought 20 cents a pound after being purchased in Omaha and fed for several weeks.
Corn reached top prices at the Melo Kallaus sale northeast of Washington with bids at 1.46 dollars per bushel. Charley Brown led a large live bidder crowd as buyers competed while Mr. Kallaus, who just bought the Lina Wood place east of town, plans to ease up after farming over 200 acres a pace he found tiring.
E J Paul, now owning J E Ross place near Washington, plans a pure herd Spotted Poland China sale in February. He is the first Spotted Poland breeder in the area and the sale will be the breed's first in Washington. A temporary sale pavilion is lacking, with several breeders needing a barn or garage for nearby sales until a pavilion is built.
Auctioneer Frank Macon says this season will surpass all previous ones with many public sales through March as January and February lack suitable dates. Prospective sellers should book dates now to avoid spring postponements. A recent surge in farm sales last summer and spring has shaped the current heavy sale program.
rr M Wood of the Ainsworth vicinity has sold his farm to neighbor Robert Quinn and will move to Washington in about two weeks. He has bought the Anderson residence in southeast Washington and will re-
Thursday sale at Stearns Harris advertised in the Evening Journal closes the business partnership. Yellow corn crates fetched 1.20 and 1.27 per bushel, white corn sold for Orry Scott, a 1917 Ford touring car brought 205 dollars, and horses and gear sold including a gray team for 200 dollars. Charlie Brown and Bert Cray of Riverside conducted the sale.
A small medieval castle model carved from soft sandstone sits on a tiny hill on a California beach. The engineer built it in leisure time using a one fourth inch to one foot scale, showcasing several architectural styles in a faithful feudal fortress likeness.
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