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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1926
Page
2
Hogs receipts 4000 with steady to 10 cent gains across weights and classes. Cattle receipts 600 with better grades and higher bids for fed steers and yearlings. vealers and stockers mixed. Sheep receipts 6000 with generally steady prices. fat lambs and feeding lambs quoted with regional variation. Grain section notes open high low close, followed by community social and minor local notices.
Unofficial figures from Chicago show hogs 68 000 cattle 21 000 sheep 18 000 for Monday. Hogs for all next week projected at 210 000.
A Valley Valley column records routine social visits and travel. Lee Henry called on business in Wellmar. Sam Munson and Otis Black spent days in Keota and Washington visiting relatives and consulting a specialist for Mrs Hartnell. The note also mentions Rosamond Redlinger, the Bauer family, and Francis Feltz the assessor visiting the area.
Chicago cash grain prices list wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds with varied bid ranges. Local items mention W J Pfeifer installing a Delco light plant at a church and visits by Mr and Mrs Guy Black and Albert Hahn to Sam Munson's, plus a sale attended by Sam Munson.
Mr and Mrs Carl Koehler and Mr and Mrs George Koehler visited John Zieglowsky last week. Mrs Dave Ferguson installed four phones in her new home and will answer R41 22. Local residents bought summer meat from A B Carr including Wil McBride John Koch and John Laer. Residents report phone line troubles with distant echoes. Mr and Mrs Martin Westen spent Tuesday at Carl Zieglowsky’s. Havre Social club hosted an event in town.
Residents discuss neighbors who care for a baby while parents work. A child’s witty retort about leaving the baby with others is recounted. Margaret Witting sale draws attendees. Mrs. Allen and daughters visit with her ill mother. Edith Yount cares for newborn Frank James Eicher. Louis Kauffman farm home burns down with family away. Community letters reference editorial style and humor.
Braden Braden A. R. Smith and wife returned from a Chicago and Detroit visit Tuesday. Wm Jugenheimer, ill at home, was taken to Washington Co Hospital for treatment Wednesday by Dr Lease of Crawfordsville. John McCall was a Washington visitor Wednesday. Mrs Delbert Maxwell Mrs John Fredrickson Mrs Ear Berkshire Mr and Mrs Donald Smith R H Smith and wife Mr and Mrs Lewis.
Smiths shopped in Washington Tuesday as Mrs Mary Twinam of Crawfords ville visits her sons B D and A H families this week. John Fredrickson entertained the Braden club and families with a surprise party for Mrs Donald Smith featuring radio games lunch coffee doughnuts and a large birthday cake. Delbert Maxwell and host Jay Orris welcomed guests south of Crawfordsville Thursday evening.
The wedding of Harold Lee Huston of Crawfordsville Iowa to Charlotte Juanita Prizer took place at the home of Mr and Mrs Walter Louden in Fairfield on a Friday afternoon January 29. Huston, a local graduate and banker, and Prizer, only daughter of Mrs H Prizer of Brighton, are described as rising young people. The social note also recalls Farm Bureau ladies meeting January 28 with Ruby Kassel of Ames to discuss bias tape and sewing notions.
Seed prices listed for Clover and Alsike with cash and future dates. A public notice announces Dr. Watts the Chiropodist is in the city and available by phone, with contact details for H E Campbell and William Shining in the ad.
In the March 1926 term of the district court of Washington County Iowa plaintiff W F Waltman sues John M Baker et al and unknown claimants to a described parcel in section 9 township 74 north range 9 west of the fifth principal meridian seeking to quiet title in fee simple and bar all adverse claims. Defendants must appear before noon March 15 1926 or default and judgment will be rendered. BROOKHART BROS Attorneys for Plaintiff. Jan 23 20 Feb 6 13
The listing shows butterfat test for Washington Produce Markets and various poultry prices per pound for Egas fresh per dozen, hens by weight, leghorn and black breeds, stagged springs, old roosters, ducks, geese, and large beef hides. No market for cull sick or crippled poultry.
A sequence of closing out sale notices lists sellers and locations with dates in February. Entries include Cynthia M. Cain west of Crawfordsville Jacob Hotle Wellston Clarence Phillips near Washington Clarence Grosscup south of Washington Israel Davis Estate Keota C I Davis Ex O H Palmer southeast of Feb 17 Haskins Tobin Wellston Ed Mikseh Wellston.
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