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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1945
Page
5
Markets at Chicago report hogs active despite higher receipts with sows steady and pig weights around 196 pounds selling 14.60 to 14.70 for top barrows. Cattle receipts totaled 800 with cows driving a 50-cent to $1 drop, yearlings at 17.65, bulls 17.00 to 17.25, vealers 15.50, and sheep and lambs rising 25 cents. Lambs hit 15.60 and sheep to 7.75.
Open high low and close figures for wheat corn oats and rye listed by May July Sep and Dec maturities. Wheat May at 166% rising to 168% for July. corn May 111% to 113% in May and July. rye May 117% with September 111% shown.
Chicago cash grain report lists oats at 79 and soybeans at 2.19 for January 6. Market activity details are limited in the provided fragment.
Readable sale notices list weekly community sales at Whittaker sale barn and Midway Sales Company plus a series of closing out auctions across Washington Riverside Kalona Ainsworth and Columbus Junction. Auctions run January 9 to January 22 with start times mostly 11:00 and 10:20. Organizers include Brown Bruty Klotz Duncan and Yoder and Yoder with Elm Grove cemetery noted.
Blaine Hawkins of the U S Navy stationed at Farragut Idaho visits family in Ainsworth. Norval Norris returns to Sharon Co. in Geneva New York after vacation. Several residents resume school and work. New Year dinner hosted by the pot luck group at Dr F M Mahin home. Rolland Hawkins on furlough after service in Africa Sicily and Italy.
A large bedroom without closets can gain storage by hanging blinds across two corners to hold hanger rods. A scalloped cornice runs around the room concealing the blinds supports, while tapes and cornice pick up color accents.
The Department of Agriculture reports glanders, a dangerous infectious horse disease, has been practically eradicated from the United States after years of outbreaks and losses to livestock and racing industries.
Using a flywheel and starter motor from an automobile during haymaking and threshing improves the labor of operating homemade buck rakes, replacing the old hand power lift with mechanical aid.
Retain leaves during cutting to keep about 75 percent of protein in legume hay and maintain green color to preserve vitamin content, materially increasing protein farmers obtain from the hay.
Arthur Williams buys the late George W. Burns residence at Columbus City and will occupy it. Mr and Mrs James D Helmick return from Camp Benning Georgia after visiting their son O C Helmick. Funeral held for Newton E McGill aged 74 near here with burial at Grandview. Pvt Harry C Lowe Jr at Camp Hood Texas and sister Dean Duncan called home by father J C Lowe’s death. Robert and Gene Akerman former Corydon residents now at U S camps after 22 months overseas. Robert a bomber turret gunner with 50 missions. Lieut John H Huston and wife Carol Jill visit from Chicago and will be stationed at Camp Carlisle.
Advise feeding lambs on a fenced pasture enclosure allowing only lambs to enter. Begin with oats and gradually introduce wheat or corn or barley or a mix. If pastures dry, add 5 to 10 percent oilmeal if available to supplement.
In western North Carolina, three century old pits, now hosting trees aged about 300 years, are believed to be the remains of mines dug by Hernando de Soto during his expedition in the region.
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