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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1913
Page
2
Chicago on January 24 1913 estimated receipts 24000 with 4756 carried over. Market prospects steady to strong. Light pork 7 20 to 7 50 per hundredweight mixed 7 20 to 7 50. Heavy shipping grades 7 05 to 7 50. Rough heavy 7 05 to 7 20.
Chicago January 24 hogs receipts 27000 plus 28487 yesterday with 6657 ships and 4756 left over. Prices range 7.40 to 9.00 for bulk hogs and lighter types at 7.20 to 7.50 for light hogs. Porkers 7.40 to 7.50 and pigs 5.75 to 7.20. Cattle receipts 1500 with slow weak market for cows 7.0 to 7.20 and Texas steers 4.70 to 5.60. Sheep and lambs steady with native and western sheep 4.75 to 6.25 and lambs 6.75 to 8.00. Western lambs 6.75 to 9.00.
Prices moved higher than yesterday with fancy hogs at 7.55 and bulk selling between 7.50 and 9.40. Light hogs quoted 7.20 to 7.50 and heavy hogs 7.00 to 7.52. Cattle market dull and weak, sheep steady.
Charley Brinning works for John Robertson while Ed Statler is butchered midweek. Jess Harvey also butchered on Tue and Wed. A shipment of fifteen Duntley sweepers arrives for Charles Strohm who has 34 orders. Grace Hill Moravian Ladies Aid meeting fills Parsonage. Hog hauling by Lemley, Rehmel, Carris, and McKinstry for Bjork. Willingham departs Titus for Chicago with cattle and hogs. Carris team incident ends without damage after a runaway at Gracehill.
Deaths and illnesses touch Prairie Flower residents as Mrs. Price Booth learns of sister Mrs. Benj. Runnels of Greely Kansas who died January 18. Dr. Thomas and festivities prompt visits. William Phillips and Will Vincent fall ill. whooping cough sweeps Prairie Flower children. Charles Clendenning and wife visit from northern Iowa en route home.
Jan 22 reports show Prairie Flower church Ladies Missionary Society hosting a dinner for husbands at Will Palmer home. Families and neighbors including Geo Amlong Ran som Tom Schulty visited Chase Bear home. Durst children visiting grandparents David and Elmer Durst. Farmers shelling corn for delivery to Washington and Kalona. Blaine Holmes ill. John Rittenhouse Chas Eyestone families spent Sunday at Floyd Timmins. Antone Reiner of South Dakota listed among readers.
Ed Mackeiree of the Richmond vicinity helps his brother Pete with today's butchering. Mrs Geo Amlong called at the Dave Benson home Tuesday afternoon. Will Keening cleared wood Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Everette Dennison and Miss Lula Durst visited the David Durst home Wednesday.
Mrs Frank Woods and Miss Effie McCreedy were shoppers at Washington yesterday. A large crowd attended the sale at H A Beenblossom's yesterday. Mrs S S Wilcox of this place learned this morning that her sister Mrs Ella Hendrickson, wife of Thomas Mendrickson of Columbus Junction, died last night of heart trouble and indigestion.
A Lexington roundup reports Mrs. Harry Pettit suffers a felon on her thumb and Mrs. Blaine Holmes improves from appendicitis. Alice Eyestone returns from Mt. Vernon visit. Will Shulty and the Matthesses visit Tom Shulty. Lulu Durst visits sisters Dennison and Gardner. Des Moines Orphan Home speaker at church. NAS social at Rev Bohn’s. funds raised. Dunshees return from western trip and plan move near Washington. Vancouver plans a 15 story office building costing 700000, with permit pre dating new height limits.
An Ohio or Georgia advertisement touts Vinol as a superior tonic combining cod liver oil—without oil—and iron to revitalize digestion and blood. It cites Druggists Sherman Bros of Washington Iowa and Bowen's Mill Georgia resident PrP. C. Barker praising health gains and offers a money back guarantee. A Saxo Salve for eczema is also advertised.
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any itch ing, bleeding, orproving piles in 6 to 14 days. Price 60 cents. Ad.
The Rev. Hugh B. Speer of Omaha told Second United Presbyterian church listeners that success comes from taking up the cross and following Christ. He urged youth to seek a life of service, charity over selfish ambition, and to carry Christian character into the world and beyond. The sermon emphasized personal effort, virtuous money use, and a career of warfare against oppression and crime. The service drew a growing audience with opening music and daily prayer meetings before the week’s close.
Congressman Sulzer expects to become New York governor next Wednesday and aims for a five minute inaugural address. He asked the inaugural ceremonies committee to omit unnecessary display to keep the event simple.
A satirical take on weddings mocks the expense driven by the bride’s family and the ritual of church versus home ceremonies. It wryly compares ceremony types, notes price tags on gowns, and jokes about contracts, degrees, and the odds of keeping the couple speaking.
Evangelistic services start Monday evening at the Methodist church under Pastor Rev. A B Smith and run at least two weeks with nightly sermons except Saturdays. James H Sawtell of Burlington will direct the music for the series now in its third year of local singing leadership. Cottage prayer meetings garnish preparations as the church members anticipate strong turnout.
A fragmented list shows sale date entries for January and February including individuals such as Andy Hauenstein Crawfordsville H A Hopping Washington and Walter Leet West Chester with others like Harry McConnell Ainsworth Brook Wright Washington Wm McConnell Crawfordsville Emmet Frame Ainsworth John Reed Crawfordsville J A Kolosick Ainsworth F W Juzeler Washington Robt HU Paul Ainsworth and various notes. The text is incomplete with many broken names and stray letters.
At Constantinople the Grand Council agreed to cede Adrianople to the Balkan allies and to leave Aegean island disposal to the powers. The decision, urged by a strong note from the powers and Russia, signals a resumption of the London peace conference with Turkey largely defeated.
A mysterious assault on Rev. BE. Ekeland of Lake Shore township left him beaten and his home and barn burned. Officials say threats have persisted for six months. He woke to smoke and was struck, then escaped as the barn burned and he freed his horses and cow.
The Ohio River measured 47.5 feet in Cairo Illinois as floodwaters advance north and south of town. Officials expect another foot rise with lowland areas increasingly covered.
We offer the best meat in Washington with sweet mild cure hams and bacon at prices far below rivals. We buy butter eggs poultry hides and live stock. Trade with us to save money.
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