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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1944
Page
5
Chicago market notes show hogs 1,500 head slow with prices 12.50 to 13.60 for various weights and holdover 7,500. Cattle 400 with week gains. steers to 17.00, yearlings 16.85, best heifers around 16.00, vealers 15.00. Sheep 1,000 with week high 14.65, yearling wethers 13.25, lambs and ewes strong to 7.75.
Open high low and close figures for wheat on the Chicago board show Sep and Dec contracts in mixed moves. The table lists opening and closing values with slight gains and declines across the session, reflecting modest market activity.
Bougainville is the largest Solomon Island about 110 miles long and three quarters the size of Connecticut. An estimated 50 000 natives live there. The climate is very humid and hot, especially at lower altitudes, with malaria carrying mosquitoes prevalent among whites.
In 1940 it took 444 workers a full year to assemble a four motored bomber. By 1941 Consolidated Vultee trimmed the labor force to 70 men, then 25 in 1942 and 17 in 1943 as production efficiency improved.
The oil industry’s progress to a majority of 25 producing states is dated from E. L. Drake’s Venango County Pennsylvania well opened August 29 1859. Within a year wells followed in West Virginia Ohio Kentucky and Kansas. The Civil War era added Colorado and New York.
Margaret Jane Johnston, daughter of Mr and Mrs F H Johnston, will work as USO recreation director for the YWCA. She departs for New York Jan 12 for five weeks of training before assignment to a USO center. Also noted are a new West Side cafe manager, a district declamatory contest in Columbus Junction, an advancement for Everett Webb in North Africa, and funeral services for Emma Heindel in Columbus.
Capt Byron Hamilton and his wife of Ames spent a furlough weekend with the E A Hosler family. Guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Bray and family and Mrs Geo Statler and family at Milton Jones home in Fairfield to celebrate Hazel Bray and Lois Statler Jones birthdays. Shirley Statler home on furlough. Funeral observed near Wellman for Earnest Bell. Mrs Horace Johnson returned from Tucson Texas after weeks with daughters Eva Jean Johnson and Mrs Bill.
A sequence of sale notices with dates from January to February. Listings include names such as J. H. Thompson EB Wolcott Wm Zachs EB I Dutch Rees Estate administrator K A Coates Mrs Rees Kupka Bros H B Dawson John Shebeck Mrs Cora Baird Fred Neuhart Paul Benell A J Gislain Kno tek Bros and Timm. Locations span Kalona Wellman Columbus Junction Washington and Brighton along routes 1 and 22 with times starting 10:30 or 11:00.
Pvt Edward LeRoy Hughes son of Mr and Mrs Edward Hughes Columbus City spent a weekend with his parents and Peter Geraldine He serves in an army special training unit at St Louis University St Louis Mo Sgt Robert F Hanft returned this week to Wendover Field after a furlough with his wife and his parents Jr and Mrs Todd M Hanft
Charles Luckenbill and John Waters spoke at the meeting to discuss forming a Boy Scout troop sponsored by the Community club. A committee of four was named: M. Duncan, Lewis Pugh, F. H. Brockman, R. L. Marshall, and Ted Morrison. A scout master will be named. Dr. E. W. McWilliams and Rev. Lester H. Bill talked about creating a recreation center for local youth.
Seawater contains about 0.13 percent magnesium and can yield the metal. dolomite is also a plentiful source of magnesium for extraction.
Ainsworth held a home declamatory contest at the high school auditorium. Beverly Butterworth won first in the oratorical division with Last Will and Testament of a Refugee. Bonnie Bartz placed second with Lets Grow Up. Shirley Simkins entered the dramatic division with Submerged. Billy Stewart won first in humorous with Brothers Take a Bow, Betty Herr took second with Tommy Stearns Scrubs Up.
Mrs. Joel Hoskins is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Will True spend the week at the Everett Coffin home. Everett Coffin traveled to Chicago with Harry Turner then to Peotone Illinois to visit daughter Mable and to Marcellus Illinois to visit son Albert Coffin.
A nylon rope of about half an inch in diameter can lift a load of three tons, illustrating strong tensile strength for heavy lifting applications.
Juicy grapefruit orange lemon or lime halves stay fresh and vitamin rich when kept on a plate with the cut side down. Air exposure is minimized, preserving color and flavor.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M holds a regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. Rus sell Goodin is W M and A W Yard serves as secretary for the lodge.
A dense timetable lists eastbound and westbound trains with stops at Washington and Kansas City, including No 12 Southwest Express No 44 Califorian and No 4 Golden State Limited daily times. It covers mixed trains No 28 and No 22, local Davenport-Kansas City No 3 and No 8 with departures and notes on sleeping car and coach services. It also details Burlington Trailways and Bee Line Transit routes between Washington Iowa City Mt. Pleasant and Chicago notes depot locations and ticket tips.
R ft Williams prominent local businessman celebrates birthday on January 7 with a cablegram of best wishes from Wales. Kenneth Rhea and Karen visit Mt Pleasant as he ships to New York for army induction. C B and Q railroad remodels depot raising building 17 inches and adding new foundation, windows, floors and platforms.
State fire marshals identify smoking as the leading single cause of fires in 1941, based on compiled incident reports. The finding highlights tobacco use and discarded materials as key risk factors across communities.
Marshalltown report quotes L. C. Sprague president as chief speaker at a jubilee ending a 20 year receivership. He says the Minneapolis and St. Louis line has paid all debts and increased revenue to about 250000 to 750000 dollars in 1943.
Vienna scientist Ernst Mach timed an electric spark to photograph the shadow of a bullet in flight without a lens. The experiment captured the sound and heat waves produced by the bullet. The technique remains in use today.
Alfalfa cannot grow well on sour soils because it requires more lime than most crops. The plant demands higher calcium and its nodule bacteria cannot survive in very acidic soil.
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