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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1935
Page
2
Market data from Seattle and Chicago style cattle and calf figures. Prices shown for calves steers heifers cows bulls veal and lambs with ranges by weight and quality. Data includes feeder and slaughter categories with figures in dollars per hundredweight and per head where noted.
Chicago market notes show steady price signals for produce with receipts totaling 11 771 cases including extra firsts and current receipts. Butter markets ease with large deliveries and varied grade tallies. Poultry remains unsettled with mixed truck data for broilers leghorns ducks and turkeys. Potatoes show track on rival shipments and overall dull market activity.
Chicago on February 13 reports closing prices for several corn and yellow and white corn grades. No. 4 mixed 87, No. 2 old yellow 92, No. 4 yellow 88 to 88, No. 3 white 95, No. 4 white 95 to 95, No. 5 white 85 with receipts of 27 cars.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Linder visited Sunday with the Charles Kephart home. Miss Libbie Musil stayed Friday night and Saturday at the Ed Simmering home. A community gathering was planned following the visits.
Social and program at the Pleasant Hill school house Thursday evening February 14 invites attendees to bring coffee sandwiches pie cups plates and silver. Miss Helen Simmering and brother Charles visited Louie Music home. Glen Beenblossom family visited Leslie Beenblossom home. Jack Swift of Washington spent weekend with his father Pat Swift family. Wilbur Harter and daughter Dorothy attended with Misses.
The Louisa county high school basketball tournament will be held at Columbus high school gym Feb 14 15 and 16 with Grandview viewed as a top contender. New London beat Columbus Junction 33 to 7 Friday in a Southeastern Iowa league game and upcoming road games are announced.
Pleasant Ridge reports a busy week with Reeves helped by Howard Caldwell and the Ross family on Tuesday. Herold Snider and brother Jake visited, Jake’s operation at Washington hospital. Neighbors and relatives visit and travel to Iowa City for medical care and hospital stays.
The Eshelmans helped at Hugh Eshelman’s home in Merrimac on Monday. Elmer Reshley and his wife drove to Washington Tuesday to visit Scott Jarrard. Mrs. Boyd Lante hosted guests in Merrimac in early February.
The Lutheran Ladies aid meets at the church parlor on Wednesday afternoon. George Shuppy is on the sick list but improving. Zelma Anderson works in Fairfield. Roy Eshelman and Willard Diers transacted business there Saturday. Mr and Mrs Steve Shelan goski visited the Hinkle home in Brighton. Edith Zihlman Carol Anderson Frankie Emma Smith Junior Kientz and Russell Rosa took 8th grade exams in Fairfield Thursday and Friday. The school has 12 pupils with 6 in 6th grade. Donnie Lanta, son of Boyd Lantz, rode a rope tethered sled to school after a rough ice morning. Roy Duttweiler owns a Ford V eight. Corn and hog contract signups occurred Tuesday at the Germanville schoolhouse and Wednesday at Sloughville schoolhouse. Raymond Kessel of Pleasant is census taker for the township. Mrs Pete Hinkle remains unimproved. A note on South America Rubber Center Para Brazil praises its museum as a potential global rubber hub.
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