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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1940
Page
7
Des Moines report states Iowa law requires a special election to fill C. C. Dowell's vacancy. Gov George A. Wilson will issue the call at the earliest practicable time after a 10 day notice, typical after burial. The governor may appoint a successor if the vacancy were a U.S. senator's death.
Public sale notices list multiple sales around Washington, Coppock, Wellman, and surrounding towns. Entries include dates from February 7 to February 27, with locations such as 13 miles northeast of Washington and 4 miles northwest of West Chester, plus house goods closings and livestock or Horse Sales at City Feed Yard.
Ned Morrow announces candidacy for re election to the County Board of Supervisors for the 1941 term subject to Republican primary voters in June. He urges voter support and specifies dates February 6 9 and 14.
A notice asks Republican voters to support a slate of supervisors in the June primary with terms starting January 1 1942. It requests votes and mentions Feb 6 as a key date for the matter.
The crypt of Saint James' Church in Sydney will be repurposed as a laboratory. Dr Burton Bradley and assistants will conduct blood tests there after the space has been unused for some time.
The department of commerce states that the sale of false teeth abroad is highly lucrative and nearly depression-proof, estimating that America exports about 41,000,000 false teeth each year.
Former President Herbert Hoover in New York helps launch a cross country fundraiser as Finnish distance icons Taisto Maki and Paavo Nurmi race to raise funds for Finland’s fight against Russia. Nurmi leads the group in a transcontinental effort to support the cause.
A backstage dinner scene spirals into a grim joke as Burton Mortimer and Prunella plot a deadly poisoning scheme. Burton mocks theater justice while Mortimer ponders revenge and the group drinks sherry before a fatal twist reveals a double murder motive.
The planets orbit the sun in a common direction and nearly share the same orbital plane, indicating a unified formation pattern in the solar system.
Market summaries show hogs 19,000 head with values from 4.50 to 6.30 per hundredweight and top at 5.55 for 180 to 240 pounds. Cattle receipts 8,000 with steady to 25 cents lower trade. best yearlings and heavy steers around 11.50 to 12.00, cows 5.25 up, calves weak. Sheep at 5,000 with fat lambs slow. good to choice woolies 9.10 to 9.25, slaughter ewes 4.25 to 4.75. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 9,000 hogs 20,000 sheep 6,000.
Chicago grain figures from February six show May wheat around 97 to 98, corn near 56, and oats near 38 to 39 with multiple contract months listed. Market activity notes slight variations across May July September positions in wheat corn oats and rye.
Chicago market notes firm eggs with receipts 11 143 cases and fresh graded firsts 23 extra firsts 2349, current receipts 224 with 19 percent dirties and 18 percent checks. Poultry market steady with 41 trucks receipts including ducks 10 to 13 geese 14 to 15 spring chickens 17 and others unchanged.
Chicago cash grain quotes show mixed corn bids at 58% to 59 in various lots with yellows around 58%. Oats offer sample ranges near 38 to 42 percent with white samples in low 40s. Soybeans noted at 105 for a yellow sample.
About 265 Harvester dealers and customers from Washington county gathered last evening in the Smart and Harrish salesroom for a school of instruction on the new International Harvester combine. Harry Lee led the meeting with Ray Thompson assisting before the group enjoyed refreshments at the North Side cafe. Mrs. Charles Jackson and daughter Maxine of Ottumwa attended the funeral of Mrs. T. W. Hunter this afternoon in town.
Prices paid Tuesday include Sweet Cream at the top price, Sour Cream varieties No 1 and No 2, Hennery Brown Eggs at 19 cents per dozen, and Hennery White Eggs at 19 cents per dozen. No. 2 Eggs listed per dozen.
Nona Mercer of Albia was weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. BE Johnson. In Iowa City last night, Vernon Witting, Vince Callahan, and Charlee Thrapp watched the Iowa De Pauw game. L C Willits and Jess Busby visited Des Moines on business after attending the State Clothiers convention. Jack Horner of Brighton and Sheldon Hawkins of Columbus Junction shopped here with their spouses, while Barbara Arnold and Elizabeth Coffman of Wayland also shopped locally.
Visitors report that amusements and entertainments in Warsaw Poland are among the least expensive things in the city theaters operas and night clubs are within the reach of tourists with the smallest pocketbooks.
The statement asserts the moon has neither atmosphere nor liquid water, describing its surface as airless and dry. It emphasizes the absence of breathable air and surface fluids, implying a barren, hostile environment for possible life.
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