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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
2
Chicago traders see mixed cattle and hogs with receipts around 3 000 cattle and 15 000 hogs. Prices rise across fat cattle and hogs, with beef steers up to 2.00 higher and feeder stock advancing. lambs and sheep show strength while dairy and grain quotations are noted for Wheat Corn and Oats with sectorwide price movements.
Mrs E Ogg travels to Havre for Christmas with relatives. LeRoy Schilling remains ill with pneumonia. Mr and Mrs Coppock arrive from Paton Rapids Michigan for a week with relatives here. Bowman couple visit Kinross then Shauenburg home. Olds Independents and Cavalry Troop D to play basketball at Armory tonight at 8. Jonah tale at Presbyterian church Sunday night. Nettie Cox attends sick Brinning family as they recover from two weeks of illness.
A shooting event is planned at the old Mart Essley farm two miles north of Coal Chute and four miles east on Tuesday December 28 at 1 PM. Clay targets will be used and prizes include eighty to one hundred geese ducks and turkeys to be given away. Ed Flanders organizer.
The note thanks friends and customers for support and wishes a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Miss Eunice Acheson arrives from Muscatine to spend holidays with her mother Mrs. Jennie Acheson. Rev and Mrs Leslie Mountford travel to Columbus City to visit friends Rev and Mrs R W Jamison. Mr and Mrs W F Glasscock and daughter Mary Katheryn travel to Hannibal Missouri to visit Mrs Minnie H Glasscock.
A curious flyer suggests choosing anti freeze over alcohol at the City Feed Yard, claiming it does not evaporate. The note hints at alternative cooling options for the summer season.
Journal lists closing out sales near Washington Keota and Mason City along with a rural promotion tale about a missing potato and a note on storing car batteries for cold weather. Includes Iowa State College guidance on charging and maintaining batteries to prevent freezing and advice on feeding dairy cattle.
Data from H. B. Nichols shows 657 farmers joined 137 spray rings across 26 counties to spray orchards. Most rings use hand sprayers, with a few using power units. three to four neighbors per ring is seen as most effective, while some larger rings employ a hired sprayer.
C L Blackman of Iowa State College urges liberal feeding as feed prices have fallen to about half their former value. He says this makes dairying a good business and allows near ideal rations while dairy product prices remain strong.
Local notes list residents and visitors across Marshall town with Christmas plans. Families travel to Hedrick Sigourney Lineville Pleasant Plain and Des Moines while town events include an Armory basketball game and a Presbyterian church gathering. The piece promotes Ideal Bakery specials and Christmas loaves with nuts and raisins alongside local shopping notices and flowers at Jones and McElhinney's.
An owl observer notes the owl sweeping the swale and taking nine Geld mice in sequence, then four more in four hours. The farmer is advised to notice this and spare a chicken as payment for the services rendered.
In July 1920 H. C. Crase warned a passenger train near Black Hawk creek, flagging the track as poles blocked Rock Island rails. The engineer confirmed the danger and a gold watch was sent by the Minnesota division official A. L. Holderman, presented in Waterloo. Crase works at a local packing plant.
Davenport reports three factories idle as one factory closes and the others suspend work while departments relocate to new quarters. The H F Brammer Company has shut down after weeks of reduced activity and movement of units to new facilities.
The text states that the White Lily plant is moving its departments to new quarters and will resume operations after Jan 1. It notes layoffs and that the Voss Brothers plant is also shut down for several weeks with only forty men kept on.
A force of men is moving and preparing for plant resumption at the White Lily facility. The shutdown at three plants impacts about 390 workers as operations pause and plans are made for restart.
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