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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1940
Page
5
Pilotburg notes a Christmas program at the Pilotburg school with Marion Stransky and Bulah Freel guiding ten pupils. A Santa figure distributed gifts as three boys doubted the giver. Sunday church service by Kev. DeKoning and Mr. DeKoning is mentioned. Roads remain passable but rough.
Christmas dinners and gatherings are reported across Kalona and nearby towns. Relatives and neighbors, including the Stransky, Maas, Oldfield, Anderson, and Nejedley families, share meals at multiple homes. Daryl Oldfield plans major surgery in Rochester with family traveling to support him.
Prairie Center report notes Esther Wolfe remains with her parents for Christmas vacation while siblings and relatives from Decatur and Washington attend family gatherings and dinners at Koehler Churchill and Wylie homes. Several Koehler, Wylie, and Martin families exchange gifts and share meals.
Ainsworth townspeople enjoyed a Christmas Eve program on Front Street with the band performing several pieces and the Girls Glee Club and mixed quartet presenting numbers. Junior Buck sang, the mixed trio performed, and the Gride children joined in two songs as KLOR Butterworth read the Christmas Story.
The fragment mentions the Martin family members including Bob and Paul Martin and references family context. The readable text is limited and provides little additional detail about events or actions. No dates or locations are present.
Chicago market notes show hogs at 26 000 head with weights 220 pounds down and price shifts up to 15 cents for spots. calves and yearlings quoted with best steers around 14.59 to 15.25 and 9.50 to 13.50 for various fed stock. beef and cutter cows steady to weak. Sheep with 13 000 head. lambs softening 25 cents. receipts estimated cattle 7 000 hogs 19 909 sheep 6 000. grain table with futures quotes for wheat corn oats rye and rye values.
Market in Chicago shows steady produce receipts with 4 818 cases and 238 extra slate. Fresh graded firsts at 22 percent and current receipts 21h dirties 17 with checks 13. Poultry market unsettled with early week notes in Town City.
Rev Kerr, age 25, leaves Nebraska for Iowa and Washington where he will lead a larger flock. his family includes wife, two young sons, and a community-prestigious church edifice built during his tenure. He is Monmouth College graduate 1930. wife Geneva College alumna.
Port Gamble Washington reports about 500 residents and a dog population near 70. Local counts highlight small town scale with mixed animal presence.
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