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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
9
A list of poultry items with weights and prices appears, including 2 sc per dozen for turkeys, 19e per dozen for certain parts, and 18e per pound for various cuts. It notes avian products with springs and packs, and mentions delivery terms and quality qualifiers such as breasts and blisters.
A weekly livestock auction takes place each Tuesday at the Busby building adjacent to Mil Kee yards. Local buyers and sellers gather to bid on cattle and other farmstock in a standing market setup.
Washington Lodge No. 20 holds regular meetings on the first Friday each month with Wi tam Mohland as W M and A. W Yard as secretary. Public notices include train departures for Davenport to Kansas City and Omaha to Chicago, with buses and ticketing details at local depots and Colenso Hotel.
Journal subscription representative compiles brief local notices from nearby towns. Items include school events, library programs, civic meetings, and upcoming public hearings with dates and venues.
Chicago markets show hogs mostly down 25 to 40 cents from yesterday with top bids around 9.90 for 160 to 240 lb hogs. Cattle and calves offered with steady or mixed ranges. beef steers 11.00 to 12.75, calves 5.00 to 10.00, feeder steers 8.09 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 7,000 with lambs 9.00 to 9.50 and yearlings 6.50 to 7.75.
July 14 forecast promises a fine cool day. Washington residents plan two meetings and two picture shows daily this week. A number of locals attend the funeral of Harl Kephart, with many others noted in yesterday’s events.
Sleuths aid bank enemy to dig up $6,000 cache after four days of digging to "withdraw" the buried sum. Peter Hanke, 63, of Cape May Court House, N J, a retired blacksmith and Dennis village character, changed his mind about banks.
Leland Horton has been remodeling the porch on his home by replacing cement columns with a modern screened porch. The item appears in Brighton dated July 13 and notes other local visits and family events including relatives from Chicago and Oklahoma visiting, a birth, and a death in Des Moines affecting Rev. R. W. Fillmore and family.
Fritchen Bros sold 16 head of fat steers raised by them to Marty Whittaker at 1300 pounds per head with a price of 130 per hundredweight. Next, other community notes mention Mrs. H T Carris’ bed stay post operation, visits from Dobbins of Washington to Pulver,Webr vacation news, and local home improvements by Russell Bell and Gayle Robertson.
A Ville, New Jersey man buried six thousand dollars in 1000-dollar bills in a tin can under a willow after bank losses. He failed to recover it, panicked, and police DFS found the can after four days. Hawke plans to share funds for local Christmas presents.
An old man arrives at an office asking to see his grandson John Simpson but is told the boy has died, said to have gone to his funeral. A local note lists Art Stoutner Keota and Ed Sowash Keota R. 2 among attendees at a circus. Also a stray fact mentions the Eiffel Tower built of iron on a masonry base and glass enclosures for special rooms.
Mrs John Robertson cooks for harvesters Ruth Godber vacationing in Michigan visited pupils Friday Elsie Bratton dines at Clarence Lynn home between music lessons Betty Benett of Cole and Bonnie West visit Jimmy Bowen home Lloyd Loeffler family spend Sunday in Cedar Rapids Deloris Virginia and Dorothy Wehr at Bernard Wolfe home Glen Miller Coppock reunion in Sunset Sunday Glen Little and Walt Wolfe visitation Ivan Little joined Cleo Trier to Geo Picken home Glen Gordon and Clarence Aller acquire new Allis Chalmers combines
Russell Bros. circus presented a compact three ring program with good acts and polite staff. Performances featured skilled trapeze, horses and bars while clowns lagged, but several numbers stood out as high class drawing solid crowds both afternoon and evening.
In the Ohio district as early as 1795 a federal inspector enforced internal revenue laws to regulate numerous distilleries.
Canadian Indian artifacts including a two century old wampum belt and an oatensorium dating to 169. The collection is exhibited in the Indian chapel at Caughnawaga opposite Lachine Quebec.
Chicago July 14 market notes show steady to easy conditions across produce and poultry. Receipts totals include 14 545 cases for eggs with firsts 20 to 21 percent, butter specials 25 to 26 percent, and poultry ranges from springers 14 to 18, broilers 16 to 18, turkeys 12 to 16, ducks 10 to 18, roosters 12 to 13 percent.
Chicago cash corn prices show mixed bid levels across grades with No 1 mixed at 60 61 percent, No 2 at 60 60 percent, No 3 at 58 percent, No 5 at 65 percent, No 1 yellow at 60 61 percent, No 2 yellow at 60 61 percent, No 3 yellow at 60 percent, No 4 yellow at 60 percent, No 1 white at 61 percent, sample trade 48 to 68 percent and estimated carrots 209.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the East Washington home for Mrs. Lewis Klein. Dr. Arthur Atack presided for the Methodist church, with pallbearers Edwin Griffith Arthur Griffith Carl Hedges William Rouda bush Dr. R. H. Dean Homer Birney. Music by a Methodist quartet and solos by Mrs. Milo Sorden accompanied burial in Elm Grove cemetery.
Carolyn Hamilton will present John Lloyd Hughes with Paul Campbell and Manda Davies assisting at 8:00 PM. The bass baritone Hughes, noted locally for his singing, will perform a varied program including The Laughing Cavalier and Sea Songs, with trombone and piano accompaniment enhancing the evening.
Iowa officials announce special Centennial features for the sixth annual fair rodeo set for August 26 to 29 with August 30 to September 1 as afternoons. Top contests include chuck wagon races wild steer and bronc riding calf roping bulldogging trick roping relay and roman standing racing. About 75 riders and ropers are expected with entries such as Kid Fletcher Scott Carman Vandener Strauss and Clemente Gonzales. The Centennial management will import 200 head of fresh range stock for the rodeo alongside auto races harness events fireworks an open-air circus and a big musical extravaganza.
The Iowa state fair announced updated judging dates for 4 H boys and girls contests. The boys contest shifts to the opening Thursday, with related events for 4 H swine breeding class, open class market barrows, and auction slated for late August. Purebred beef and dairy heifers will join open classes starting August 29, with county agents and Iowa State College aid in planning.
The article notes that fragments of the cross are preserved in sea red pines and discusses multiple legends about the wood. One belief holds the original cross used palm cedar olive and cypress to symbolize earth’s quarters. A poetic tale claims the true cross was aspen, explaining its leaves’ constant quivering.
The city of Goteborg Sweden was once largely financially controlled by Scots and surnames such as Seaton Barclay Dickson and Gibson remain prominent there.
Recital will be held this evening at eight with performances likely by local musicians. The event promises a concise program and an opportunity for attendees to enjoy live instrumental items.
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