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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
2
Chicago market notes show hog receipts 23 000 with direct 9 000 and ranges from 7 65 to 8 00 for various weights. Cattle receipts 2 000 with steers 604 to 900 lb at 10 06 to 14 00 and vealers 7 50 to 10 00. Sheep market 7 000 receipts, fat lambs 7 50 to 8 00, ewes 2 00 to 3 75, feeding lambs 6 75 to 7 50.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 10:00 a m at 22 concentration yards and 5 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 12 290, down from 29 200 a week earlier. Prices ranged across weights with bids from 6 00 to 7 75 per cwt, depending on weight and class, with heavier hogs generally at lower levels and sows quoted 6 60 to 7 00. Freight and delivery conditions affected truck and rail price differentials.
Chicago grain report shows steady range movements with Wheat and Corn futures. Prices indicate open highs lows and closing values across several contracts including Dec and Mar months, with percent changes noted for Old and New positions.
Chicago cash grain closes with mixed to firm quotes across grains. Wheat bids show 1 hard around 79½, corn 2 mixed near 721/2, oats values range 5 to 41/2, barley 47 to 70, timothy 800 to 875, and clover 1500 to 2275 with varied bids for white and yellow variants.
Toledo feed prices list grain and hay for December close with contracts for December February and March. Clover varieties Clover old and new prime choices and different delivery months are shown along with Alsike prices and Timothy hay per cwt.
Columbus Junction reports approval of Articles of Incorporation for the Iowa Melon Growers association adopted December 1 in Muscatine. Dr I K Melhus and other Ames College scientists led wild watermelon development at Conesville plots. About four thousand pounds of seed produced in 1930 will be sold to growers. The Luckey estate implement store on North Front street was bought by Frank E Jennings who will take possession this week.
December report notes an eighty mile drive near Fairfield and Crawfordsville with fall plowing praised. Joe Utterback and wife shopped in Washington while the Journal bemoans expenses and profits. Clegg Bros Pine Grove hosts a notable Shorthorn cattle sale on December 18.
The Crawfordsville church sale hosted by Mr Wenger and his congregation raised generous funds with Dr Lease on hand and Miss Harper and Mrs Buxbaum handling money. Lois Harper displayed fifteen painted pictures in the bank window as part of a festive scene plus a lunch with winnies provided by Geo Yeager. The town plans a carload poultry shipment to Chicago on December 17 with Bob Shaffer collecting from December 15.
Don Darbyshire of Crawfordsville attended the Presbyterian ladies sale held in the Fletcher building and let go of a sizable portion of his Christ note: partial OCR makes details unclear.
Members will hold a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Frank Hauenstein Wednesday. Mrs. R E Huber will entertain the Philathea class of the Presbyterian Sunday school Tuesday evening. Repair work on the Methodist church parsonage damaged by fire began Monday. Lawrence Richards won first prize a two pound candy box for best essay on Jacob and Esau in Columbus high school history class led by W G Robertson. Elizabeth Mewhirter, Maurine Shearer, and Mary Louise Wilmering won second through fourth prizes.
Curtis Peterson and Vern Anderson announce Peterson & Anderson a new produce house with equipment for handling cream. The partners say they are now permanently established at their location south of the southeast corner square.
Paul Hurst stars as a genial, slow witted but good hearted "Beauty" in Tiffany's The Third Alarm. The reviewer praises his clever characterization and notes the production as excellent entertainment with dependable local appeal. The show features a smart actor delivering a humorous, self deprecating performance that elevates the Tiffany presentation.
Mrs. Robert Preeman Riley and Mr. and Mrs. David Riley thank friends and neighbors for acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy shown after the death of Robert R. Riley.
Chicago reports a real estate survey showing 104 dude ranches operating along the Northern Pacific line. The findings highlight western vacation spots attracting travelers and investors, reflecting growing tourist interest in rustic lodgings in the early era.
East Highland news by B S Marshall reports rain improving roads in Wast Highland. J W Coon found a red fox in a trap. Oscar Jesse and Willie Coon visited parental home. J W Coon hunted rabbits and cut bee trees. Gale Murdock sawed wood for Brice Marshall. Mike Murdock and Lewis and Leonard Moberly tiling for Jim Swails. Gale Murdock now drives a Chevrolet. C C Raymond, once sick, shows little improvement. Bruce Marshall received hig
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