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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1927
Page
2
Cattle receipts 500 with better grade feeders and yearlings up to 50c higher heavyweights strongest. Fat cows 65c higher. cutters firmer. Hogs receipts 8000 active market, tops at 12.20 for 150 to 220 pounds, most weights 11.90 to 12.45. Sheep receipts 1000 with lambs and yearling mutton 15-25 higher. fed western lambs 12.00 to 13.00 displayed.
Clover seed prices listed for domestic cash 23.00 and imported cash 20.50 with February 18.20 as the noted close date at the Toledo market in Ohio on January 8.
On March 18 30 Timothy seed cash values listed as 2.85 February 3.00 and March 3.06 Alsike cash 21.50 March 21.75 Hayseed priced at 25.00 using March readings.
Chicago delivers open high low quotes for WHEAT CORN OATS RYE and LARD with futures for Jan May July across various contracts. Prices show modest shifts and percent changes with a notable rumble in corn and lard figures.
A rambling hometown column recounts visits to Dougherty Bros store and Crawfordsville with Paul Gorham. It describes meals, playful episodes with Jack and local shops, trips to Aunt Molly Fissiburn’s, and a ride home with Gorham. The piece ends noting fatigue after a 60 mile trip and references to the Journal.
Squire Wm Round is named a possible member of the board of supervisors with other local figures like Er W H Sebe Ashby and T Y Wickham among potential Republican candidates. John W Teeter, John S Reeves, and Sam McKee are floated for sheriff and a slate of others for treasurer and auditor. A wedding and a Golden Wedding are noted, along with travel tales of W F Brinton and family recollections.
Indian Creek residents share visits and calls from neighbors in Washington and nearby towns. Families such as the Farriers, Corpmans, and Minearts host and accompany friends, while church and club activities unfold and an oyster supper is postponed to early next week.
In Sandy Hook the Walnut Woman's Club dinner at the Duke home in Brighton was postponed due to the serious illness of the Dukes' young grandson in Chicago. The child, under five, faces lung surgery after ear and pneumonia complications.
Price list shows values for butterfat cream at 46 cents per pound, fresh laid eggs by dozen, hens and springs by pound with weights and varieties, old roosters, ducks and geese per pound, horse hides at 83 dollars each, and a note that thin or sick poultry has no market. Names of breeds include Leghorn and black. dates not provided.
A sequence of dates and venues for estate and farm sales around Washington Kalona Riverside and Havre. Entries include buyers and sellers such as G W Weigman Jackson & Sons Joseph Carson Edw Prebyl T L Dodds Geo Nelson Mike Trier Duroe Knotek Bros High land Dairy G M Humble Charles Bush John Bear Meint Koehler H E Busby with farm livestock sales and breed stock noted.
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