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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1940
Page
7
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Mrs. Carl Merrifield and sister from Iowa City spent Sunday with Lenora Merrifield. Murray Lewis Coon visited grandparents Lewis and family. Juan Hadicott traveled from Wioline to Savannah, illness visit. Dariene Krotz returned after time with Bernadine Soukup. Loyd Krotz worked for Lewis Coon and moved a family near West Chester. Harold Dennis Murphy welcomed by James Murphy family. Mrs. Samuel Murphy and Gary visited Washington relatives from Friday to Tuesday.
Forty five states reported fewer highway fatalities relative to total miles driven last year, reflecting improved safety despite increased traffic.
Campaign notices listing candidates for Clerk of the District Court County Auditor County Treasurer County Recorder and other positions. Names include Clarice Meek Marion George Harriet Coulter and others subject to Republican voters in the June primary with dates Feb to June.
The Shipwrecks Relief Society in New Zealand reports growing funds from annual contributions by shipping companies and harbor boards. Funds, now 80000 dollars and invested in gilt edged securities, exceed current expenditures, a result welcomed by local governments and noted by Dunedin Mayor Arthur H. Allen.
Chicago cash grain values show corn mixed at 65 cents to 66% with various yellow and white corn bids, oats around 41 to 44 cents, and soybeans cited at 1114 cents per bushel. The report lists multiple grade and color distinctions for corn and oats, reflecting market variation.
Explorer David Livingstone undertook his early African journey with a small party of five men and limited firearms. The dispatch notes the modest armament and the pioneering scope of the expedition.
Market notes show produce receipts at 20 846 cases with fresh graded firsts 19 percent and extra firsts 20 percent. current receipts 18 percent and dirties 174 with checks 17. Poultry markets steady to firm with receipts of 23 trucks. geese 10 to 12. small hens 1744. leg horn hens 14 spring chickens up to 204 percent. broilers 18 to 19. Other prices unchanged.
East Salamanca residents complain about rodents overrunning a city block. A city council member says his section is infested and that locals already keep cats, yet the cats fear the rats.
Scotland's Rockall near 300 miles west of its coast is a small granite island famed for danger to ships. The Norge struck it on June 28, 1904, sinking with 646 people aboard, one of the most notable wrecks linked to this perilous outcrop.
The Temple of Minerva in Assisi, a relic from centuries before St. Francis, is now a Christian church. Legend says it was built 700 years after the deluge.
Journal lists weekly and farm closings in various towns. Midway Sale Co Columbus Junction holds Wednesday sales while Community Sale runs Fridays at City Peed Yard. Closing out sales marked with dates Feb 29 Feb 28 and Feb 27 reference households and farms near Nettle J. Mayhew Crawfordsville Ainsworth and surrounding areas with agents J C Huston and John B Adams.
Agricultural agents emphasize immediate applications for state nursery trees at Ames and Keosauqua for reforestation farm woodlots and erosion control. Prices vary by species and minimum orders are 500 trees per species or 1,000 per order. Also details on soil-building payments and planting guidelines are provided.
L C Burnett of Iowa State College says a survey of 10 Corn Belt states shows central and northwest Iowa have plenty of seed oats for spring while eastern and southern Iowa face a shortage. Only Michigan Minnesota and South Dakota reported ample supplies. about 40 percent of all the...
Nearly a quarter of Iowa farms now have electric service, but EK C Collier of the REA says this is only the beginning. At Ames he cites about 167000 farms still without electricity and urges finding ways to electrify. He notes lights in henhouses boost egg production and automatic devices can keep water unfrozen, with stockmen using home made brooders to prevent losses from chilling.
Iowa State College veterinary chief Charles Murray notes swine erysipelas increasing in northwest and southwest Iowa while state overall remains relatively spared. He explains diagnostic challenges between erysipelas and hog cholera and cites inoculation tests yielding results in about 48 hours.
P G Beck of the Farm Security Administration reports Iowa programs have helped 5 600 farm families pay over a quarter of a million dollars in back taxes. Since PSA began 10 138 families received Standard rehabilitation loans and 1 600 children stayed in or entered school. The tenant purchase program expands to 31 counties with 1 165 857 dollars loaned to 120 families to buy farms.
Fifteen head of pure bred Angus cattle sold at 65 to 100 dollars during the closing out sale of D. W. Lins three miles northeast of Haskins. Twelve sows sold 11 to 14 dollars, a Hampshire male hog 15 dollars, 187 fall pigs 40 to 125 pounds 3 to 6 dollars. Five hundred bushels oats 47.4 cents, corn 50 cents. A corn planter 246 dollars, grain bins for 2000 bushels 65 dollars each, 12 foot hog houses 20 dollars, hoe feeders 15 to 20 dollars. Paul Klotz and H. M. Duncan, Columbus Junction, were auctioneers with K. A. Coates as clerk.
Auctioneers Paw Klotz and H M Duncan in Columbus Junction oversaw a sale for Lewis Ebner. Black horses aged three and four brought 145 dollars. a yearling colt sold for 45. White Fae cows averaged 63 to 67.50. Jersey and Guernsey cows 55 to 65, 20 calves 40 to 49, White Face bull 70, 27 brood sows 20, fall pigs 3.50 to 5, Rhode Island Red hens 0.75 each. Ten tons hay 4 a ton. oats 43c a bushel. wheat 0.90. oats straw 0.31. Machinery sold well. Kenneth Coates clerk.
Markets show cattle receipts 2 000 hogs 11 000 sheep 6 000. Hog prices mostly steady with 220 lb to 240 lb ranges 6.16 to 5.50 and tops around 5.60. heavier hogs and packing sows weaker. Cattle weak with calves 300, beef cows and cutters varied. buying slow at packers. Sheep active in fat lambs with lambs listed at 0.90 to 10.00 and ewes around 1.75 to westerns 5.50.
Paleontologists believe giant pandas and five specimens brought to the United States from China and Tibet originated in western Nebraska about 20,000,000 years ago. The finding highlights ancient panda distribution and evolutionary history.
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