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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1912
Page
2
Estimated receipts total 23 000 with 6 250 left over from yesterday. Market outlook shows five lower with light goods trading 6 90 to 7 25 mixed 6 95 to 7 30 heavy shipping grades 6 90 to 7 32 rough 6 90 to 7 10. Cattle receipts about 4 000 with prospects 20 to 50 lower than last weekly close. Sheep receipts 18 000 with prospects steady at yesterday’s close.
Hog receipts today 23 000 and yesterday 35 103 with 6 250 left over. Cattle receipts 5 000 and western cattle 5 25 7 50. beef values range from 5 50 to 9 85 for Beeves. Sheep receipts 17 000 with steady to higher tones and lambs quoted 6 20 8 20. Overall market slow to weak at opening across hogs cattle and sheep.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered numbers and phrases like percentages 47 48 32 336 18.00 18.60 494 33. It mentions corn and meal per hundred, a 10-lb sack, and various unreadable words. Context and meaning are not recoverable.
Tarkio college in Missouri announces an extended travel schedule covering over 3000 miles across nine states. Ten games are planned with stops at Birmingham Athletic Club, Colum bus GA Y M C A, Mobile Y M C A, New Orleans Y M C A, Bessemer Athletic Club, Christian Brothers College St. Louis and other venues. The squad will be chosen from players including Peterson Gow dy Baird Osterstrom Graham Thomas L Boettner Hansen Murchie R Lunan Coe Arhott and will depart Friday morning December 20.
Wayland reports visitors to Chicago Washington and Peoria by residents including Wenger Freyenberger and Koebel families. Notables include Rev Musselman leaving for Des Moines meeting and two local weddings at home of the bride with planned residence on Herzog farm Noble. New Haven lists shoppers Washington and Frank Smith visits plus social events a candy social and Christmas program announced for December 19 and 24.
West Chester reports show church union meetings planned after January 1. Leroy Waddell and wife visit locally while Dr. Henderson relocates his home to the telephone office lot. D. R. Munro travels to Missouri to inspect cattle. John Spangler returns from a ten day vacation. Ruth Schwartz resumes school after a two week break. L. S. Bennett’s sale totals seven thousand dollars on the 11th. Mr. Bennett, wife and child plan a year of travel for health. Loren’s health has failed with long labor. Mrs. J. D. Dayton and D. D. Dayton visit the Nelson home in Keota. Bert Rittenhouse visits from 76 by auto. J. T. Coffey and son extend their lumber shed by 30 feet to store more lumber. the yard is described as fine.
On Sunday residents visited relatives across South Washington and nearby towns. Families including Kepharts Foss and Stiles shared meals and road trips, with Elmer Kephart selling corn to Howard Sigafoose. Mrs. Gudeman and baby joined Tom Nicholson’s guest list as the Ladies Aid prepared lunch.
Crotona Lodge 365 hosted about two hundred members and guests in the new Castle hall with third degree work by a Washington team and Orion Lodge 75 members. A special train carried visiting knights from Washington and West Chester. program led by P. C. Charles S. Thomas. Event adjourned about midnight to allow travel home, with local reports of painting and decorating by Louis Baird and various residents attending activities.
Noble residents share Sunday visits and church gatherings through mid December 1912. Harold Rich visits Burlington. Graber and family travel to Washington. Amish groups host gatherings with more than thirty attendees at John Wagner's. Christmas post cards and a church entertainment are planned for December 24 at the Noble church.
Crawfordsville notes a flurry of visits and travels with residents and visitors from Des Moines Stronghurst Mt. Pleasant Ainsworth Grant Wyo Chicago Havre Corpus Christi and Galveston. Rev W G Robertson preaches at United Presbyterian church and many locals take Washington trips or host visitors.
The bazaar by the ladies of the Methodist church in Ainsworth drew large crowds for both dinner and supper. About $180 was raised. Visitors included Mrs. Coffman of Washington and Mrs. Fleischman of Chicago, who spent the week with local relatives.
Des Moines Indiana December 17 Little Mary Ellen O Grady winner of second prize in a local beauty show last fall is seriously ill at Mercy hospital The child under three underwent an appendicitis operation several days ago described as one of the most serious of its kind
Mrs Will Iske died instantly when the automobile carrying her family left the road near Ira and overturned after crossing a bridge. Her husband was seriously injured with five broken ribs but expected to recover. The Iske children in the tonneau were unhurt.
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