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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1925
Page
2
Hogs receipts 30 000 demand weak to higher with top 11 40 and most hog classes trading around 10 85 to 11 40. Cattle bidding weak to 25 cents lower with slow trade and standstill in some lots. Sheep receipts 11 000 with fat families near steady and fat ewes under pressure. Wheat and corn futures and cash quotes list various grades and prices across No 2 and No 3 classes.
Mr and Mrs WC Davis moved to their new home at Columbia City. Mrs J G Thomas helped straighten up with Miss Loretta Davy called to Missouri for illness. Ella Isom wed Dascal Hamilton in a Saturday ceremony. Lecture series ends Monday at Cotter school. George B Stapp was in Davenport on business. Bil Kauffman moved in last week. Mrs Earl McBride had tonsils removed in Muscatine and returned home. Price Davis assisted Evan Edwards with his dogs. Walter Hendrickson did the work. Mrs Price Davis ill with tonsillitis.
A typed row of sale notices lists dates from Feb 10 to Feb 19 for multiple bidders near Riverside Washington Crawfordsville Rabio and Ainsworth. Properties include homes stores dwellings and farm assets with closing out sales and agt P G Ahrens handling entries.
A scrambled list shows various per pound prices for poultry items including cream eyes hens springs and leghorn breeds with separate weights and color distinctions. Also listed are prices for ducks large geese wyandotte geese and beef and horse hides with notes on no market for cull sick or thinned poultry offerings.
Chicago price table shows May wheat at 1.88 before settling 1.83 after high 1.89 and low 1.82. Corn May 1.52 with July 1.34 and Sept 1.34. Oats May .59 to .60 with July and Sept around .58 to .64. Rye May 1.64 and July 1.40. Lard May 16.32, July 16.67 with ribs and bellies also listed.
Cotter B B girls defeated Ainsworth 17 to 3 on Friday and fell to Columbus Junction 7 to 190 on Saturday. Mr and Mrs John McSweaney hosted a birthday party Saturday afternoon for their daughter Shirley who celebrated her 5th birthday.
Writ of execution directs sheriff to sell in front of Washington County Court House the real estate of Large Fouchek. Property includes multiple parcels in Section 22 Township 75 North Range 6 West totaling about 18 acres. Sale set for February 28 1925 from 1 45 PM to 4 PM with cash terms.
The column notes radio voices Jack Little and Paul Small on WOC Davenport and urges Des Moines to discuss gasoline tax as roads worsen. It reflects on longer days, moonlight, geese southward, a Valley radios shop run by Henry Frank, Frank McFarlane returning from Chicago, an optimist joke, and local church sermons amid bad roads and a 1873 storm memory.
Route 3 residents were startled by thunder and lightning as signs warn of colder weather. Harley Myer’s family spent Sunday at the parental home in Washington. Several neighbors visited town Saturday and found roads improving. Wm Koening received help from Frank McCombs of Richmond for butchering. John Kurtz and family, Milton
Family visits Clyde Fishburn home on Sunday afternoon. Edith Dawson assists Mrs Nate Benson with housework. Ida Cavender, injured at Maas Brothers home, continues slow recovery. Charley Bears enjoy new radio.
Rev W C Porter traveled to Des Moines for a New World Movement conference. Clarence Hesseltine returned to Washington after visiting his father Bert Hesseltine and was on a 12 day leave from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
The fragment mentions Kou putting something in a garage about ten trays ago and being at a house for another half hour. The speaker says more work is needed and asks if Kou can run. The text appears as a distressed, informal note with unclear context.
Mr and Mrs W D Franklin returned to their Cedar Rapids home yesterday after visiting at KB B Franklin s home over the weekend. The trip followed a stay at the station where he expects a transfer to the West corner.
The world’s largest floating drydock, built on the Tyne river, has been towed to Southampton England. It measures 960 feet long and 170 feet wide, marking a monumental nautical engineering feat.
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