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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
2
Estimated receipts for cattle hogs and sheep are listed with opening markets described as steady to slow. Prices range from hogs 16.60 to 17.60 and cattle from 7.15 to 19.50, with sheep prices for prime lambs around 14.65 to 14.85 and feeders 9.50 to 10.65. Receipts and shipments are reported for the day.
A concise reflection attributed to Homer notes that broad effort lightens labor. The quotation emphasizes communal work reducing individual burden and boosting morale during challenging tasks.
Iowa City listing notes J. B. Hunt as manager with contact phone 726 for furnished housing options offered by E. W. Wagner & Co. in Iowa City.
The firm offers 5 percent commission to place farm outputs on the best U S markets and lists many items including butter eggs poultry hides fur wool hay nuts rabbits guinea hens and more. It notes poultry egg cream prices and white wood egg cases and mentions a 27 cent per pound turkey rate and August-like or December 17 quotations.
J J Newlin, in charge of the Journal farm department, will leave for France to join agricultural reconstruction work in the shot over territory. He is preparing in Des Moines and expects the experience to aid later. J H Baird to run a cow sale next Saturday week to close his dairy herd. Glenn G Hayes of West Side Farm plans a Bred Low Hampshire sale on January 24, with high priced stock advertised in the Hampshire Advocate. Chicago stock embargo disrupts shipments. eight cars from northern Iowa delayed, later allowed to ship, with sixty cars halted at Silvis and redistributed. Cars sent to Muscatine, Columbus Junction, Washington, Brighton, and Eldon. feed costs rise for shippers. Historical note of two cars stopped at Muscatine and one at Lauder Kennedy. Hog sale shows initial value $9.24, costs $27.23 per pig, sale value $40.25, net gain $13.01 per animal.
Ames reports 18 year old George Deahl of Exline wins the 1918 Iowa junior pig club contest with a Duroc Jersey-Poland China pig. He fed it 121 days, gained 290 pounds to finish at 332 pounds, sold dressed for 65.56 dollars, and the pig dressed 82 percent.
A Des Moines report cites a letter from Wayne Dinsmore of the Percheron Society of America noting Britain forms a Percheron Breeders' society with eighty members and will send a mission to the United States to purchase Percheron horses to replenish stock depleted by the war. The plan aims to avoid scalp traders and ensure sound stock.
C C Caldwell prominent farmer and dairyman buys a 600 Holstein cow the highest price in Mahaska county He also purchases a 150 male calf descendant of a top milk Holstein A county meeting planned by I N Taylor to set a staple milk price drew poor turnout due to bad roads and featured a talk by Wapello county food administrator Mr Harper
Burlington reports the U S food administration doubts butter pricing and has dispatched J J Ross an Iowa expert to trace cold storage butter and its history. The probe follows storage butter bought at 42 cents now selling 68 to 75 cents with potential consumer pricing violations and will seek accountability from involved owners. Inspectors also examine egg market cold storage conditions.
Community briefs arrive with local updates from residents about events, issues, and activities within the neighborhood. Details focus on gatherings, safety notes, and small-scale happenings shaping daily life.
The column notes local updates from Washington County with items on residents traveling and family events. Dogs shipped out of the country this week. Mrs. Chas. Green ill with heart trouble. Miss Strether mourned as a death affects local teachers. Will Denker sent sheep to Chicago. Will Curl returns from Indianola for his brother's funeral. Miss Muriel Madison ill with flu. Don Bull and family back from Missouri. Bill and Lucile Hanley ill with flu but improving.
New regulations set forth to adjust butter producer profits while aiding cream suppliers and butter buyers. The changes aim for a balanced outcome across production, pricing, and consumer access.
A Methodist church board predicts ratification of the federal prohibition amendment by February 1 after thirty additional state legislatures meet. It lists Alabama through Wyoming as likely ratifiers, with Pennsylvania hopeful New York even prospects and New Jersey probably opposed.
Paris reports that the white book containing official documents on the war origin will be printer ready in three weeks. Carl Kautsky leads data compilation as an undersecretary in the foreign ministry. Dispatches once thought destroyed and notes before the July ultimatum to Serbia are said to be printed in the first volume. The Dutch government seeks measures to guard former Emperor William upon return to Berlin.
The ministerial circular to Lal land burgomasters urges subsidies to form civic guards led by prominent citizens. These guards, drilled by retired military officers, follow the mid era birth of urban self defense as shown in Rembrandt era depictions.
Report from Winnipeg says a tourist coach on a Canadian Pacific train bound for Toronto caught fire after leaving at 9 10 p m It started in a berth occupied by a family party and spread rapidly 13 passengers aboard the coach are missing Other cars on the train escaped damage
Edward Nally of Marconi testified to the House Merchant Marine Committee that more than twenty five wireless stations in Mexico were controlled by Germany during the war while opposing a US government monopoly on radio stations.
Dispatches from Mitylene say Smyrna is in a critical stage with armed bands posted by Young Turk officials. Allied fleets bombarded these positions as coalition candidates Cecil and Protheroe are declared elected to Oxford University’s representational seats.
Experiments show a housefly can reach 160 feet per second about 110 miles an hour in a straight run. The insect is not a natural traveler but can move quickly when motivated.
A brief reflection notes that the brightest scholars are not always the wisest, suggesting value in diverse forms of insight and the limits of academic prestige. The idea invites readers to reassess how knowledge and good judgment are defined.
A basement storage idea describes making a swing shelf with two inch wide slats spaced three inches apart. Papers are tied into bundles on the shelf and then set aside in a corner for sale.
A small boy named Mair shows fearless curiosity as his grandfather tends bees. A guest warns of stings but the boy declares he is not afraid and that the bees know him. The scene captures a rustic, playful moment centered on a child’s boldness around nature.
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