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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1920
Page
2
Openings show fat livestock receipts around 63 000 with cattle 27 000 hogs 53 000. Prices amid mixed trends with calves and lambs varying. wheat corn oats and rye futures quoted with Chicago cash bids listed for multiple grades and regions.
In Brighton area notes Mrs Emma travels to Cromwell Iowa to visit her brother and two sisters at the stepmother's home marking a rare gathering. L S Guy plan a five to six week southern trip visiting relatives in Florida Texas and Oklahoma. Riley Grecian and Boyd Lantz harvest 800 bushels of corn with helpers after sickness and injuries slowed work. Mrs Julia Nordyke goes to Columbus Junction to help care for a new baby at the Elmore home.
The town reports $124 from the Joy Zone on Friday and shows visitors including Davidson back from town duties. Washington residents Woodbum and the Holmes family visited, while Harold Ross and family from Dakota enjoyed a Saturday in town. A Crissinger store Olive Branch coffee demonstration featured an aluminum coffee percolator giveaway to Mrs Inam and others from Ainsworth and nearby areas.
Journal's Farm Department details sales dates and locations from Dec 14 to Dec 22 including Clege Bros Columbus Junction and Fred B Weekly near Washington with closing out sales. Livestock prices shown as very low with wide fluctuations across beef cattle hogs and lamb markets and notes on supply demand and regional market volatility.
Over Sabbath Farrel Young took his brother Clarence back to Iowa City yesterday with Mrs Hall.
Montezuma December courtroom reports E D Rayburn found guilty of assault and battery by a Poweshiek county jury. Judge Wagner sentences him to a one hundred dollar fine. The case stems from a June shooting of Dick Morgan after a political quarrel with Rayburn claiming self defense.
Dwight N. Lewis, chair of the railroad commission, will introduce a bill next session to abolish grade crossings in Iowa. He cites recent statewide accidents including one at Van Meter as the impetus for the measure. The legislature convenes next January.
A speech by Lewis cites four deaths with three killed at Modale as he argues grade crossings should be abolished. He says eliminating them would be expensive and offers no substitute details for his bill.
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