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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
2
Official yesterday hogs receipts 22 128 shipments 9 628 cattle receipts 9 936 shipments 5 741 sheep receipts 14 971 shipments 5 190 calves receipts 1 536 shipments 354 hogs estimated today 36000 holdover 7915 market active beef steers priced 18 00 19 50 at top and 11 56 18 06 for others lambs 16 75 19 65 on strong trend steady to lower totals show steady to strong market conditions overall
Close values show corn rising to near 1.38 for January and May contracts with July trimming to around 1.31. Oats hold at about 0.76 with May and July positions steady, while cash market activity notes 220 car lots of corn and 100 cars of oats with steady tone. Clover prices reach 24.00 in March.
A historical playlet unfolds in three acts beginning January 17, 1920, at Sanford's old livery barn with Col. Ma con and Ernest Carlson. It follows the purchase of one brood sow and, two years later, a large sale of 50 high class purebred sows at the Washington County Breeders' Association Sale Pavilion, tracing to the initial sow.
The principal value of molybdenite is in steel manufacture where it adds hardness and toughness for use in propeller shafts guns and boilers. Most Tasmanian molybdenite is shipped to Borland.
An advertisement touts catarrhal deafness as curable only by a constitutional remedy called cathette via a soporific catarrh medicine. It attributes deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and promises restoration of hearing once the tube returns to normal. The ad offers one hundred dollars for cure and lists Haile Sotarrh Medicine Co. of Toledo Ohio as sponsor.
A long farm sale list from Baranek Estate to I K Beal details closing out sales and public sales across Washington County from Jan 16 to Feb 27. The note also cautions about raspberry varieties for northern Iowa, recommending King, Marlborough, Minnesota No 1, Iowa, Crimson Cus tey and Cuthbert with winter protection.
Hides furs wool pelts tallow beeswax feathers rabbits and manufacturers of Washington butter advertise buy and high bids with daily delivery prices. The ad highlights top payments such as 25 for red fox 31 for two mink 10 raccoon 15 wolf and 5 50 for a snake plus many other furs and services including made to order coats robes rugs and ladies furs.
In Waterloo Iowa a Cedar Valley Fairo association gift of a dozen eggs from pedigreed chickens will go to 100 county boys and girls who show strongest interest and knowledge in poultry raising. County superintendent H C Miller and F B Fuller of the State Teachers College have conducted weekly lessons since December 1 with rural school shipments. An exam will occur in February and winners will distribute two best fowls back to the fair. The club mirrors Black Hawk County Pig club.
J E Wright led a crowded sale surpassing $10,000 as hogs, cattle, and machinery sold strongly. Spring gifts reached over 50 dollars per head, yearlings around 75, and livestock brought notable sums including a team of mares at 425 dollars. The Wrights plan to move to Washington.
J W Myers of Lewis was trapped for hours when his sleigh overturned on a deserted road near Elliott in Adams County. The load pinned him, leaving him nearly frozen until a passerby found him about four hours later as bitter cold and deep snow hampered escape.
C V Holsinger of Iowa State College urges ordering nursery stock early to avoid high loss rates. He explains that stock shipped late fails to grow because storage robs first growth of stored food, leaves and roots must start together, and planting should occur by March 1 in southern Iowa or as soon as soil can be worked in northern sections.
There is filed in the Clerk of the District Court of Washington County Iowa a petition by W J Morrow plaintiff against listed defendants and unknown claimants alleging a claim to the west forty four feet of lot seven block ten Original Plat town now city of Washington and further proceedings follow.
The document states the plaintiff seeks to quiet and establish title in fee simple to described real estate, alleging invalid adverse claims by unknown claimants and defendants. It directs defendants to appear by noon of the second day of the next term to defend, noting no personal claims against defendants.
The district court term starts on the Sunday of March 1920 to be held at the Court House in Washington city, Washington County, Iowa. If the default is not entered, judgment and decree will be rendered with Eicher Livingston Eicher acting as attorneys for Perea.
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