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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
2
Estimated hog receipts 7,000 with bids 5 to 10 cents higher and top around 17.19. Cattle receipts 1,500 with steady to 50 cents lower. best stock weaker as week advances. Sheep receipts 500 with lambs and yearlings 25 to 50 lower but sheep firm to higher. quotations unchanged from Friday. Receipts yesterday hogs 20,233 cattle 23,690.
Washington directs 300 white selective service registrants to be sent to Fort William Seward Haines Alaska as soon as mobilized. New York to provide 600 limited service men to Camp Johnston Jacksonville Fla and Connecticut 1% to Camp Meigs Washington. Men to serve as Clerks and to entrain July 1. Exemption of coal miners urged by Frank Farrington UMW of Illinois to prevent further mining shortages and coal production declines.
An electrical device uses a punched paper ribbon to trigger timetable signals by blowing whistles or ringing bells. The system allows rapid schedule changes by swapping the ribbon.
Shaver and Fry trade Spotted Polands reaching eight states market. hogs weigh around 140 pounds and fed on oats and slop. Wheat looks good though not heavy, oats and alfalfa crops progressing, clover hay abundant, and fence repairs noted as ongoing farm expenses. Anton Kupka plans breakfast rabbit, while Paul Marek fixes cattle fences to protect corn.
John Birkey rows 24 loads of clover hay with more to come while Helen, only eleven, helps drive the team on the fork. A broken tongue twists behind the double trees but the long tongue still lifts the single trees off the heels. Lambs trim weeds near the winter wheat as the binder approaches the field.
John Hoefert finished plowing corn and stores clover in the barn while his son Dewey joins the U S service underage. A W Enfield has about 50 tons of good clover hay from 20 acres with a second crop starting. Corn is laid by and hay harvest is aimed for Saturday.
Chas Shaffer and William Carr reported they worked two teams after the last field, each covering nine acres on Friday in Lame Creek township. They claim a strong farming effort contributes to yearly stock output and silo use boosted cattle profits last winter.
John Grecian notes an unusually cold spring delaying bee activity and causing heavy winter losses. He warns honey may become scarce and expensive if temperatures do not improve soon.
John Kinsisger reports his hip roof barn nearing completion as demand grows. The English river bridge on West Kalona Road will close most of next week for tar and gravel coating by John Strain's gang. It will reopen Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Dean C. F. Curtiss of Iowa State College officiates at a national Red Cross sale of Shorthorns in Birmingham. Nearly a hundred high quality purebreds, including an International champion, are donated to be judged, paraded, and auctioned to raise between fifty and one hundred thousand dollars for local Red Cross chapters.
Fordson tractor serial number F 69 won the All England period ending April, despite a late start. In three weeks, it plowed and cultivated 470 1/2 acres on four farms, earning £142 18s 0d ($692.37) with 267 gallons of paraffin per acre. Two county-trained soldiers operated it on 12 hour days, including Sundays, earning the National Food Campaign Champion Tractor of England and Wales shield to be held for one month.
Des Moines reports unusually good crop prospects across Iowa with cool moist weather aiding small grains and late harvest dates. Corn and haying delayed by rains, but corn is laid by in most areas in excellent condition while oats and spring wheat show mixed progress and weather damage from hail and grasshoppers in several counties.
Ottumwa's commercial club and the Wapello county farm bureau forged a city county alliance that linked city business leaders with rural farmers. They organized county agents, home demonstration, and club leaders. over 100 youth are in clubs. The plan boosted Liberty loan and Red Cross contributions and drew wide rural respo nse. The scheme has grown to 300 farm bureau members with strong cross county support.
Clarence Ousley writes to the editor defending the Agriculture Department's wartime deferment policy. He notes 205 DC staff in deferment, 1700 total deferred at the department’s request, and argues many are scientists aiding vital war work. He cites a Kansas county agent case where draft removal disrupted food production.
A Boston retiree pretending to be a local policeman in New England is caught walking a beat. He explains he is pensioned by Boston and has relocated, maintaining the disguise despite the visitor’s surprise at his change of force.
After corks become compressed and leak contents, heat them in boiling water and leave until cooled to remedy the seal.
The quotation notes that a man with little to say often speaks less, since he believes his silence holds value and should be reserved for thoughtful contribution.
A humorous exchange between Mr Slowpay and Mr Murphy the tailor shows a push and pull over payment and service. Slowpay promises to return dark trousers for reseating while Murphy insists on clearing an old bill.
The tallest California giant is 825 feet high, yet Australian gum trees exceed 400 feet with one felled in southeast Australia at 471 feet, the tallest on record. Gum trees grow rapidly and shed light on nature’s growth patterns.
Chicago News notes a lively clash as men argue heatedly about beliefs, yet facts remain elusive amid partisan tempers and noisy rhetoric.
Elbert C Kilpatrick of San Francisco arrives in Washington with a model he says matches Garabed Giragossian's energy generator shown in Boston. He claims the Garabed invention used confidential information he provided to a government official in 1916 and says his device was created earlier. Kilpatrick filed his patent in March 1917 and describes his machine as a compound motor generator using both positive and negative electricity.
The excerpt reflects William Penn on frugality paired with generosity as prudent virtue. It contrasts covetousness with prodigality and praises balance, saying thrift should aid those in need for a well tempered temper.
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