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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 42 000 hogs 28 000 cattle 32 000 sheep. Market slow with top hogs around 13.85 and feeders trading 7.75 to 12.25. Beef steer prices 11.00 to 18.25 with lighter weights 13.25 to 29.25. fat lambs 15.25 to 17.35. ewes 4.50 to 26.25. Official Saturday figures show hogs 8985 cattle 3905 sheep 6283 with shipments 22 maybe.
Dr W E head of the Bible department at Parsons College will supply the pulpit of the Presbyterian church in Fairfield. He recently returned from Kobe Japan where he was pastor of the Union church for two years. He will serve until a regular pastor is found.
Des Moines Dec 15 Lieut Colonel Claude M Stanley of Corning says he will be a candidate for governor not entering politics this year. He told friends he has given up his plan to enter politics and will stay in his present post. Branley Alan told friends at the Minneapolis American Legion convention that he would not be a candidate.
A Pike County house demolition uncovered pitch pine floorboards about 180 years old and two feet wide and an inch and a quarter thick. The find astonished carpenters and was noted in American Forestry Magazine in Washington.
The Journal lists cattle hog and dairy sales and public auctions across Washington and surrounding townships with dates from Dec 16 to Feb 26. Entries name sellers such as Fred Donaldson F M Wood J F Striegel Manford Wilcox Benn and Helwick Wilson Lemmon C R Johnson and more, noting closing out sales public sales and hog dairy and duroc events near Washington Ainsworth Brighton Havre Crawfordsville and Keota.
Public sale of Duroc hogs conducted by I K Beal in Ainsworth Washington on February 27. The event features described stock offered by Beal and local buyers expected to attend.
Records from Black Hawk county on a 120 acre farm show stock share renting benefits both operator and owner. The operator earned 2812 dollars and the owner 2841 dollars in income with equal half shares in livestock machinery and feed. Both share purchases and sales equally while taxes and extra labor costs are split. The program fosters closer owner operator relations, supports farm improvements, and helps soil fertility.
A county structure was built this year using wood and tile materials. The brief note records construction activity within the county and identifies the year of erection.
In New York an itemized statement by John D. Rockefeller’s attorney protests a New York tax assessment of five million dollars by valuing personal effects at about one million. The report lists bank balances near fifty thousand, home contents at twenty thousand, Pocantico Hills assets at over five hundred thousand, paintings, horses and carriages, office equipment, and about six million borrowed deposits.
The Iowa Farmer reports on labor income after farm expenses plus living furnished by the farm, valued at about 800 dollars per family. Data from 200 farms in Tama Grundy Blackhawk and Warren counties plus earlier studies in nearby counties are cited to gauge earning power of land.
In Union county Iowa Carl Brothers of Creston built 23 silos averaging 40 feet high and 14 feet in diameter. A Blaine Peterson farm silo near Creston stands 64 feet tall and 16 feet wide with over 300 tons capacity. Peterson notes similar dimensions for future projects but cites silo waste and removal challenges. More than 50 cement silos exist in the area.
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