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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1927
Page
2
Chicago hog prices show activity on Dec 27 with receipts around 50 000. Hogs 200 lbs and up steady to higher on Friday with top at 8 85 while lighter weights move up more. Packers inactive as buyers chase good and choice weights in broad ranges from 7 60 to 8 85 depending on size and grade.
Cattle receipts reach 13 000 with weighty offerings scarce and bulls prizing 15 to 25 cents higher. Vealers, stockers, and feeders firm while shippers push upper values. Sheep receipts 17 090 with strong demand for light handyweights 13.00 to 13.50, top 13.85 for select lots.
The YWCA swimming classes will meet during the holidays at 7708 and 26713. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the M E church meets Tuesday evening with Mrs. N M Sweidel. Miss Bessie Busby will lead.
The journal notes Christmas Day in Quincy Ill and Keota with unusually warm weather and open depots. It recalls village events including a county home Christmas tree, sales and openings in Ainsworth, farm life, poultry and cows, a bakery, a barn fire misfortune, a justice parable, and a Gaelic island community on St Kilda.
Des Moines commissioner of public safety John W. Jenney faces 38 charges of mismanagement and will go to district court January 10. Judge D W Jackson of Muscatine will hear the ouster proceedings appointed by Iowa Supreme Court Justice William Evans. W J Pilkington, president of the American Homes association, filed to remove Jenney from office during the hearing.
A list of closing out sales announced across Iowa towns includes Ralph Tracy’s Dairy Cow sale near Brighton on Dec 28 and John A Gretter two miles east of Keota on Jan 4. Other sales occur 6 miles SE of Washington Jan 5 J C Malichko nine miles north of Washington Jan 5 Allen Schaeffer southeast of Wellston Jan 11 Clarence Work public sale 215 miles west of Haskins Jan 18 John Thompson closing out Jan 18 and Henry Horning near Washington Jan 19.
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