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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1932
Page
2
Hog receipts reached 29000 with bids 10 cents lower as good medium weights sold around 4.00 to 4.15 and heavies up to 5.90. Cattle receipts 5000 with beef steers at 7.50 to 9.00 for high grades, calves steady, and stockers mixed. Sheep 17000 with lambs 6.25 to 6.74 and feeders 4.75 to 5.25. markets described as slow to steady overall.
Receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours to 8:00 AM totaled 25 700, up from a week ago but below last year. Prices ranged with light to heavy hogs from 2.50 to 3.60 per pound, pigs and sows shown with variable bids, reflecting uneven marketing and stubborn weight shrinkage.
Chicago market bulletin lists butter at 6 891 tubs with grade ranges from extras 21 to 22 percent and firsts 20 to 21 percent. Eggs totaled 6 372 cases with current pricing around 14 percent.
Market prices list red clover bids from fair to good with ranges 10.00 12.50 for common grades, 18.00 14.00 for choice, 14.50 15.00 for fancy, and sweet clover 4.76 5.00. Alsike ranges 9.50 15.60. Timothy ranges noted as good 2.35, choice 2.60, and fancy 3.99.
Grain prices listed by contract show Wheat March to September with varied highs lows and closes. Corn March May July and September data include several percentage values and occasional gaps. Oats Rye show mixed figures with some none entries and multiple months presented.
The Chicago cash grain page lists Wheat values across grades with figures such as 3 red 58 15 to 58 and 2 hard 60. Mixed and yellow categories show ranges around 57 to 61 percent for mixed and 58 for yellow. Corn prices appear in mixed and yellow bands from 34 to 36 with white and billing amounts noted. Oats show white bids from 24 14 to 25 14 and 23 14 to 25. Barley trades range 49 to 55 with No. 2 rye at 42 percent.
Grain receipts list 31 cars of Wheat 135 cars of Corn and 43 cars of Oats, reflecting current loadings at the yard. Trade activity notes steady movement as railcars arrive for storage and sale.
In Keota and nearby areas funeral notices honor R F Torstensen of Cedar Rapids age 31 and banker and A K Stewart Des Moines attorney with Keota ties. Families travel from Seattle California and Des Moines. services held in Keota and Des Moines with burials here and in Cedar Rapids. Local residents Margaret Krahmer and Staney Hunter visit. Rebekah lodge hosts an evening with refreshments.
The Supreme Court of the United States begins its term in October each year, with some recess periods voted by the court, and sits through until the following June.
AKLAVIK N W T Feb 18 4INS The mad Indian trapper Albert Johnson is dead after a sixteenth day chase. Royal Canadian Mounted Police killed him in a blizzard near the Yukon Alaska boundary after Johnson wounded two officers and held out in a tunnel fortification. Captain W R May aided the pursuit by air and Johnson was finally felled by high powered rifle fire.
Aldo Leopold, head of a nineteen twenty five year Iowa conservation survey, visits with A Claire Dewey Tuesday evening. Dewey stresses conservation touches farms and nature, not only fish and game, and outlines erosion, water levels, trees, soils, pollution and wildlife needs. Leopold’s work requires broad citizen cooperation across Iowa and the United States.
Reports from February about cattle and property auctions led by Clarence Hotle with the Valley Brotherhood serving lunch and a sale dinner. Ed Wells and others traveled to Wellston for the Hotle sale, with S. Elam Johnson and Hal Rodney prominent in handling the event. Local letters request the Journal for three months, and humorous vignettes close the item.
The text urges sacrifice of time and money to put an operation in motion. It argues the burden will not be heavy if everyone does their part, claiming the finest service to humanity comes through sacrifice.
Mrs J A Frey reports a Sunday dinner at John C Roth home with Mr and Mrs Dave Wenger and Mrs Mary Schad. Rev and Mrs A H Miller hosted the Amasa Miller family for supper Monday. Roy Frey visited J A Frey over the weekend while Newton Frey dined with J A Frey Tuesday. Dorothy Rinner from Olds visited Grandma and Stella Rinner, and Jake Leichty and son Leonard returned from a winter in Oregon and the west reaching home Tuesday. Darline Wilson left Monday to stay with her brother and grandmother in Swan Iowa. Joe Zook and wife visited his brother in Ka lona Iowa Sunday.
Feb 20 sale by R F Smylie and Sons in Columbus Junction followed by a Feb 22 closing out sale for Mrs Myrtie Rayburn located 9 miles southeast of Washington. A combination sale at Midway sale pavilion in Columbus Junction on Feb 22. March 1 horse sale by R F Smylie and Sons in Columbus Junction.
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