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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets open firm with hogs showing top prices near 18.00 and mixed lots across weights. Cattle and calves rise with good to prime values, beef and butcher categories trading higher, while receipts and shipments for the day are tallied for market outlook.
Grain futures close reports furnished by E. W. Wagner & Co. Iowa City present data for the market outlook. B. Hunt, manager, indicates ongoing activity in futures trading and price movements, with brokerage guidance available via phone.
The Journal notes J. E. Wright marketed 100 head of Hampshires averaging 250 pounds and 25 Chester Whites from Bruce Dill farm. Embargo restrictions burden buyers who wait for packing houses while feeding and sheltering hogs. Ed Thomas considers buckwheat for hog feed. Ralph Zeck fights income tax report difficulties and Farm Bureau Records aid farming. Trials of oats varieties Towa 103 and Iowa 105 show yield advantages. cholera losses fall in Iowa but remain higher elsewhere.
County agents emphasized fall-selected seed corn as key to higher yields. In a nationwide effort, 354 agents aided 63,813 farmers across 33 states in selecting seed, with over a million more acres planted from their fall campaigns. They advised 36,538 farmers on testing, leading to 946,563 additional acres planted with tested seed.
The drive to control stem rust in wheat by removing the common barberry shrub shows strong public support and has led to large scale eradication. USDA survey in Northern Illinois reports 60 percent removed, Wisconsin 90, Minnesota 80, North Dakota 90, South Dakota 80, Nebraska 75, and Iowa 75 percent, with neighboring states also starting work. Experts say complete eradication of barberry is the only safe path to eliminate stem rust.
Losses from hog cholera dropped from 1914 to 1917 and further declines are expected in 1918. A letter from the Secretary of Agriculture to Representative Addison T. Smith urges greater state cooperation in the national campaign. Four year losses totaled over 18 million animals valued at about 188 million dollars. only New York, Pennsylvania and Washington reportedly lack cooperative control.
We, the undersigned, forbid hunters and trappers coming on our premises with dogs or guns. Names listed include J. H. F. Taylor Ralph Livingston John Simmering John Speidel Jas Crawford Thos Simpson W R Stryker C H Dittmer John Jackson Medes Beliel Chas Shaffer J H Baird J D Hays John Zaring Albert Donovan Arthur Wead R P Dewey. 7116 yy.
Washington report details the first year of federal land bank operation. It cites loans totaling over 150 million to more than 64 000 borrowers and calls for higher lending power plus authority to write fire insurance. It notes changes in capital and loans across the land banks and explains loan use and farm profits trends.
Notice urges immediate treatment for first signs of croup with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Describes it as prompt and effective and credits Lemmon's Drug Store.
A home remedy advises a throat and nasal douche using half a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of warm water. Sniff and rinse to loosen obstruction, allowing easier breathing through the nose after a short time.
A quotation from Dallas Lore Sharp in Atlantic contrasts science focusing on names distances and magnitudes and problems of intestinal parasites of the flea with art literature and religion addressing mankind the elemental universal eternal dream defeat romance of life.
Platinum occurs with gold in stream gravels, deriving from erosion of tertiary conglomerates. Platinum grains vary from five to TM per cent of platinum, and both metals are recovered by washing sands and gravels from streams.
News letters note the Farmers Union meeting at the school house, Clay school reopening after vacation, Co D Robinson shipping two carloads of hogs to Peoria, Mrs H A Waterhouse staying with the Woodford family during Mr Woodford’s South Dakota trip, Mr and Mrs J H Tooman of Waterloo Iowa visiting the A J Morgan home, Kenneth Clark of Packwood visiting grandmother Mrs M J Meacham, and Jerry Thornton visiting Ray Woodford during holiday break.
Local column reports many Sunday visits among Lexington residents including Everett Fleming and family at W H Anderson’s, Joe Shaila hosting Mela Shalla and others, and Washington trips by Sam Schulty and John Kurtz. John Kurtz delivered a carload of hers to Washington while John died at Ainsworth Sunday morning after a period of illness. Carrie Anderson hosted a Sunday school club gathering with fourteen attendees. Everett Young and Warren Mattthess paid a Wellman visit.
Riverside notes report William Stotts visiting family in Wellman and returning home, Helen Shrader returning from Muscatine to study, a birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heitzman, Jacob Critz discharged from Camp Dodge and Vancouver Barracks, Frank Mills visiting from Muscatine, Wilford Thomann on furlough from Denver after World War I service, a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Geret, Roy Wieland home from Camp Dodge, Robert Allen W R C officers elected for the year, Richard D Autremont discharged from UA service, and local city and parochial schools reopening after a three week closure.
Maple Grove notes pride in local registrants who joined the army. Veterans from Camp Pike Camp Dodge Jefferson Barracks and fronts in France faced war dangers as rifle and shell fire filled the trenches. The writer emphasizes no registered soldier from Richmond was wounded killed or died of disease.
New York report by J W Sanger, trade commissioner, shows US manufacturers and exporters have boosted trade with Brazil and other South American nations by over 160 percent since the war began. He notes the need for direct representation, faster Latin American freight, and promotional advertising tailored to local markets.
The piece recalls soldiers in U S camps and later musterings, with notes on Irvin Hasty and Edna visiting The Homestead Farm, plus farm deeds, 1848 parchments, and old settlers in English River township. It mentions illnesses, a sick child Helen Birkey, and residents returning home from South Dakota and Canada.
Riverside January 2. Gilbert Schneider 13 son of Mr and Mrs Cornelius Schneider was shot in the face by a companion during a rabbit hunt. Earl Marr accidentally discharged a small shotgun hitting Gilbert in the neck and face. He was taken to Iowa City hospital where X rays showed 23 pellets lodged in his flesh.
Rev. Charles L. Miel, an Episcopal clergyman with army Y M C A service in Siberia, spoke at Hotel St. Francis on how United States Cigar Stores yellow coupons circulated as money among Siberian merchants. A Logan transport crewman first used the coupons as a joke, sparking wide acceptance before an American conscience halted the prank.
Merchants accepted the coupons but refused to give up the yellow notes in a case of near duplicate French banknotes used in Russia. The bills differed only by language, leaving Siberian merchants unaware of the distinction between French and English. Officials had to apply pressure to resolve the issue.
A mixed sale listing offers a bay driving horse 11066, Swiss Jersey heifer two years old, two bedsteads and springs, dining chairs, commode, refrigerator, churns, chicken coops, self-feeder, wood stove, chicken wire, hog crates, barrel, rain barrel, cream separators, a Caloric cooker, potatoes and fruit jars. Items described as good as new or gentle with several farm and household articles included.
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