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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1940
Page
5
Chicago market notes hogs 8,000 head trade 15 to 25 cents higher with heavy weights 6.25 to 6.60. cattle 2,000 head with fed steers 9.75 to 11.00, best heifers 10.60, light steers up to 11.50, cows 4.50 to 5.50, bulls 6.75 to 7.00. sheep 3,000 head spring lambs steady with fat sheep about 25 cents lower. receipts for tomorrow: cattle 600 hogs 600 sheep 500.
Chicago cash corn oats and soybeans prices quoted with mixed lots and grades. Prices show various percentages for yellow white and sample grades with limited readability for some entries.
Chicago July 5 up grain prices with high low close figures for wheat corn oats rye across July September December contracts. An appended line states the United States has more aliens living within its borders than any other country.
Seed listing from Ainsworth community shop offers six soy seed varieties for sale including G2CRTE. Germination tested and quality noted. Local store advertisement indicates availability at Community Feel Store in Ainsworth.
Produce eggs market firm with receipts 19 026 cases extra firsts 16 percent fresh graded firsts 15 percent current receipts 14 dirties 124 checks 12. Poultry market steady to firm with receipts 22 trucks small hens 15 percent heavy hens 14 leghorn hens 11 percent springs 19 percent broilers 164 to 17. Other prices unchanged.
A plan sighting from a British Guiana jungle expedition describes a waterfall estimated at 5 00 feet high. The report notes the remote location and the dramatic vertical drop observed from a vantage point in the rainforest.
Brighton notes visiting relatives from Winnipeg to Keokuk and Des Moines, school and church events, weddings in Des Moines, and numerous local family visits. Visitors include the Bales family and others from Illinois and Iowa, with summaries of kin gatherings, road meetings, and hobbies plus a birth announcement for Mary Lou Dressler.
East Highland residents Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lorack and children joined Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dvorak at the James Dvorak senior home for a Sunday visit. Miss Bessie Dvorak returns home for a two week vacation with relatives.
Sam Lambert expresses gratitude to neighbors for stacking 45 loads of hay last week with multiple teams wagons and two tractors. List of helpers includes Rar Miller Ross Van Nostrand Lawrence Kephart Harold Beensblosom Norgian Schoonover Charles Randall Harold Snyder Basil Derby Fred Byers Howard Sigafoose Roger Letts and Frank Schanz.
Community members from Fairfield and surrounding towns share social visits at homes near Fairfield Pleasant Plain and Muscatine. Relatives and friends including Schantz Amrine Lamport and Sigafoose families spend weekends and holidays with kin. A local note requests rain for crops upcoming Fourth of July celebrations.
Gien and Homer Lambert and Mr and Mrs William Nicholson and family visited Sunday at the Sam Lambert home. Mr and Mrs Clyde Lambert and girls called Sunday evening on his brother Sam and family. Basil Derby and family visited Wednesday at the Sam Lambert home.
Prody Borkoski served as Rubio caller Monday afternoon in Brighton R1. Floyd Jones acted as Fairfield caller Friday afternoon. Edwin Vanerus of Cedar Rapids visited over the weekend with Andy Oswalt. Homer Brinton and son Robert were Chicago callers last Thursday and Friday. Bert Dickinson of near Packwood spent Sunday with the Terry Gowey family. George McClintic is drilling a new well.
In August 1939 Ken Wilhelm of Vermon, California, set two distance records for arrow flights. He fired an arrow 579.7 yards in regular style and 856 yards in free style, with measurements by a surveyor, described as the longest flight shots on record.
The orphan fawn from Snyder farm near Marion Michigan visits the Snyder pasture daily seeking meals from a kindly red cow after losing its mother, per the American Magazine account.
Notice from West Chester Consolidated School District Franklin Township Washington County Iowa states a meeting on July 22 1940 at p m at the school house for taxpayers to comment on the expenditure estimate. District Secretary Melvin T Booth notes estimated taxes per 1000 dollars of assessed value 18.42 and mills per dollar of valuation 0184 with taxable valuation 971382 and moneys and credits 69247.
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