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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
5
Hogs 10,000 head. market slow but some better offerings. Weights under 200 pounds and 200 to 265 pounds show strength. top hogs around 13.75. Cattle receipts 8,600. best yearlings up to 6.25, choice steers to 6.85, bulk steers 16.00 to 18.50, heifers to 18.50, eaters steady at 15.00. Sheep 10,000 head. fat lambs steady early trade.
The message pleads for rapid staffing of ordnance needs as supplies shift. It directs 18 to 60 year old men and 18 to 65 year old women to report now to the Dearest office of the U S EB S for a Referral Card.
Choice fed wooled and western lambs sold at 15.10 per head. Few medium to good natives 14.00. Sheep strong. Two double choice fed western ewes 7.50. Tomorrow’s estimates: hogs 6,000 cattle 1,000 sheep 4,000.
Chicago cash grain table shows Wheat and Rye futures with mixed moves and price ranges. Wheat Sept 165 and May 167 with nearby quotes around 164 to 168. Rye quotes near 123 to 127 with May around 126. The data reflects open high low close values and percent changes for several futures across months.
Chicago reports egg receipts totaling 15 245 cases with extra firsts at 39, current receipts 33, dirties 30, checks 29 as market remains unsettled and unchanged.
Receipts show 1 car and 26 trucks delivering poultry as the market remains firm, indicating steady demand and steady prices.
December 380 Chicago cash grain quotes show corn at 111 percent for 4 yellow, 831 percent for 2 mixed, and 85 percent for 1 white heavy.
Rubio Town reports a Christmas break after a school program despite a mumps outbreak. Pupil attendance was complete except Dean Moody who was ill and isolated. In local notices, Mrs. Martha Cook learns of son Lyman Cook's sudden Michigan death prompting travel.
Christmas day visitors to Tyrone included Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Sheets at the James Combs home near Washington and Cadet Helen Sheetz visiting from Ottumwa. Families from West Chester Packwood Fairfield and Ottumwa joined the annual Sheetz dinner with many relatives present.
Hawthorne and Walter Stevens relocate to their recently purchased home from Bill Island. Mr and Mrs Clarence Whisler move from the cook house to the section house. Mr and Mrs Howard Snyder Joyce and Junior were visitors at the Arthur Lambert home Sunday afternoon. On Monday Joyce was taken to Fairfield Hospital for appendicitis surgery.
A sequence of closing out sales dated January 4 to January 18, 1944, with sellers and precise locations around Washington Pleasant Plain River side Ainsworth Keota Brighton and nearby roads. Included is the EB I Rees Estate sale with K A Coates administrator and directors noted.
Wellman December news lists holiday wishes to the Journal staff and soldiers, a past matron's club luncheon and meeting, Christmas vacation for schools, Ruth Dupuis directing a school operetta, Mrs. Mayer and Dr. Miller health updates, A S C club charity plans, a Mountbatten lesson, and Joe Kehoe graduating from the S.A.I. medical department and starting an internship at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
Ames Iowa December 36 A New Year's Day message from Gov. Rourke B. Hickenlooper will be broadcast over WO Iowa State College radio. The 15 minute address will be aired at 2 30 p.m. to reach the people of the state.
Neighbors gathered for a sale at Claude Derby’s on Monday. Mrs Emma Long and Tyrone pupils are enjoying a week’s vacation. We wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Merrimac residents report numerous Christmas gatherings at parental homes across the community. Families including Baldosier, Eshelman, Graber, Hyde, Amrine, Yoder, Schaut, Oldaker, Wieneke, Beese, Schafer, Fanig, Dottweiler, Zihlman, Diers and Crile celebrated with relatives in Fairfield, Seattle, Detroit and Iowa City as part of holiday visiting. Richard Schaut returns from navy service. others note health and stationing updates.
The parental Lester Kientz home and the John Hill home hosted Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crile and their daughter this Sunday. The Criles expressed thanks for theater tickets.
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