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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1932
Page
2
Hog market active with 5 to 10 cent gains, light weights at 3.30 top. Cattle supply 22,000 with bids down 25 cents. cows and heifers weaker, calves steady, feeders softer. Sheep receipts 20,000 with market steady to weak and lambs at 6.25.
Lodges Washington Lodge No. 26 A F A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday each month with Glenn Mace W M and A W Yard secretary listed. Damascus Shrine No 10 W 8 of J meets the fourth Tuesday monthly at Mason temple rooms with Grace Twinam W H P and J W Bidwell W Scribe noted.
The notice lists multiple rail services with daily except Sunday operations, including passenger trains Nos. 30 12 4 83 82 429 430 and mixed freight trains, plus local and westbound routes. It notes stop rules for Nos. 1 11 4 and lists station stops at Brighton Fairfield Eldon Belknap Centerville Seymour Princeton Spickards Excelsior Springs Liberty and El Paso. Agent signatures L Goollander and J C McKay.
CATTLE: total 2,000 ilower calves steady. Beef steers Choicé 6.00 to 7.50, medium 4.59 to 6.00, yearlings 4.50 to 7.00. Heifers 3.00 to 6.00, cows 2.00 to 4.00, bulls 2.50 to 4.00, calves 3.00 to 6.00, feeder steers 3.50 to 6.00, stockers steers 3.00 to 6.50, cows/heifers 2.50 to 4.00. Pigs 2.75 to 3.25, holdovers 2,000. SHEEP: total 20,000 steady. Choice lambs 5.50 to 6.25, common 3.50 to 4.50, yearlings 3.59 to 4.75, choice ewes 1.90 to 2.50, feeder lambs 4.50 to 5.25.
Combined hog receipts at Des Moines area yards and plants for 24 hours end at 8:00 A M total 60 600, down from 69 000 a week earlier and 79 100 a year ago. Markets steady to firm with higher spots, demand fair, loading light due to extreme cold. Prices quoted by weight class range from 2 38 to 2 95 per pound depending on weight, with deductions for weight shrinkage and filled hogs.
Chicago Produce notes from December 12 show extensive listings in butter eggs poultry and potatoes with numerous car and shipment counts. Yard data include live poultry, turkeys hens and geese prices per pound and car numbers while U S shipments total 460 with no trading due to extreme cold weather.
Grain table from Chicago shows December and May contracts for wheat corn oats rye with mixed figures in open high low and close columns. Prices vary across months with several decimals and percent signs, reflecting early trading data for wheat corn oats and rye.
Chicago cash grain close shows wheat values for several varieties with mixed to yellow and white grades, oats, rye and clover timothy and alfalfa seed levels. Seed market notes list fair to fancy prices for clover alsike timothy alfalfa with overall good trade activity.
D. F. Macon reports community brief items from nearby towns, highlighting local events, small achievements, and upcoming gatherings. The column offers concise notes on people, places, and routines shaping the region’s civic life.
December weather keeps residents busy with shoveling and visits as neighbors from Keota to Crawfordsville help Mr. Cheney gather corn. Local figures share travel, sales plans, hospital updates, and community notes amid cold, snowy conditions across the region.
Grain estimates reported from Chicago on December 12 show wheat at 7. com 122 and oats at 14.
Kalona reports Dudley Allen of Kalona wins third prize in a Washington Journal contest. A. Hasty funds wood for three local churches as groups cut timbers. School sports, church events, births, marriages, and local deaths are listed along with hospital updates and office openings. Helena Kelley, 13, dies of pneumonia and heart leakage. services held at St Patrick's Town City. Kalona Mutual Telephone elects officers. Kalona Lodge 608 F of I meets.
At Mrs Minnie Beck home on Friday evening the R N A elected officers Oracle Minnie Beck vice oracle Mosela Britton watcher Alice Mehaffey recorder Emma Smith receiver Carrie Kessler marshal Mae Snyder inner sentinel Anna Maxwell outer sentinel Violet Kennard delegate to state convention Elsie Miller Installation planned for January at Mrs Beck's house. A car crash on highway No 1 near Frank Fagle farm damaged Martin Kern s Chevrolet couch but left Kern uninjuredMiss Bertha Grady attended a teacher meeting in Washington Saturday.
Kenneth Herr of Xenia dies unexpectedly, drawing Ed Henry and daughter Viola from Norwich New York and Mrs L W Baker from Akron to his funeral circle. The community mourns as neighbors extend sympathy. Corn husking wraps up amid recent favorable weather but a light snowfall complicates gathering. Otto Eden of Muscatine area attends Ken Herr funeral events.
Sale notices show records: December 14 at Buswell Needham Col 744 miles southeast of Keota, December 15 near Ainsworth, and December 17 at City Feed Yard Keota, with a December 21 community sale at Trier Hrog.
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