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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
2
Hogs estimated receipts 32 000 with holdover 10 758. Cattle receipts 6 000 and sheep 7 000. Beef and veal prices listed with weights and grades. Futures and cash close notes from Chicago market, with official yesterday and tomorrow estimates for hogs, cattle, and sheep.
Route three activity includes John Kurtz visiting Mt. Pleasant and Plant Landau family taking measles not yet spread. Neighbors Palmer Schilling and McGlone family at parental home. Will Wellman husking for Earl Smith. Henry Horning returns from Keota visit. Jorie Schulty at Walter Smith home. Larson Perry families gather with Henry Bowers. Brianine and Bartholomew husking for Walter Smith.
The page lists farm sales by Clegge Bros and others in Iowa from Dec 14 to Dec 22, including closing out sales near Washington and Riverside, plus a Ka lona Spotted Poland China Sale. It also presents 1920 state agricultural data: wheat and oats yields, spring and winter wheat acreage, potato output, tame hay value, and pasture worth, with year to year comparisons.
Mrs H F Sameon of Washington visits Brighton to aid with Miss Viva Kilgore’s care. Mrs George Chambers from Des Moines arrives after her daughter Mrs Loring Martin’s operation at the county hospital. Mrs Martin’s condition improves. accompanying family at hospital. Mrs F S Leeds of Fairfield plans a visit with Mrs Melinda Bridwell. Falk Motor Co. promotes nationwide Ford sales as territory lines vanish.
Official figures from the Iowa Weather and Crop service show 1920 field crops valued about 400 million dollars less than 1919. Corn yield reached 473,800,000 bushels at an average price of 47 cents, with 46 bushels per acre. Oats yielded 229,850,400 bushels.
Farmers gathered for a tractor demonstration last Wednesday to compare makes and plow depths. The event drew several interested observers as two and four cylinder outfits showcased performance. Willits City claimed the four cylinder honors.
A brief note mentions a two bottom outfit taking a first pull in black gumbo at a nine inch depth with substantial reserve power credited to John Jackson.
The Iowa state fair posted a profit of 90219 for the year, with 54000 set to finance the cattle barn and sales ring for winter pure bred stock sales. Secretary A R Corey called the 1926 fair the most successful financially, though attendance of 383836 was 24311 below last year due to weather, labor shortages, and high prices.
Mason City Iowa Dec 10 A heifer owned by F W Drury of Rowan Iowa and a half sister of the junior champion bull at the North Iowa fair last August sold for the highest individual price at the Polled Hereford show selling for 812 025 in Chicago.
Hereford cattle sold at Chicago last Tuesday for 12 025 dollars as best stock gathered for the exhibit. William McArthur of Mason City sold two yearlings at 875 and 430 dollars. The junior champion ball at North Iowa Fair is owned by G W Grimm and Son of Clear Lake. McArthur’s farm lies north of Mason City with average sale price per head at 470 dollars.
The ad lists paying prices for poultry and eggs including fresh laid eggs per dot, cream per pound, old hens per pound, old roosters, springs, ducks, geese, turkeys per pound, and old toms. Prices are partially garbled but indicate multiple bird types with per pound rates.
Dec in World War II era notes list Miss Mary McCall visiting Morning Sun with Mr and Mrs J Ho McCormick and Emma Bennett coming from Washington to see Steve Jones home. N L Long returned to his Washington residence late last night.
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