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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1948
Page
7
Chicago markets show hogs uneven with most declines on heavy sows and over 250 pounds. Top hogs reach 30.00 while good 170-240 pounds fetch 29.25-30.00. Cattle numbers 11,000 with calves 600. fed steers and yearlings mostly steady to 75c lower. Top yearlings 49.00. matured steers to 40.50. cows 16.00-20.00. bulls 26.00. Sheep 7,500 with spring lambs off 60c. good lambs 31.00-32.00. ewes up to 12.00.
Chicago dispatch notes a firm market for top and lower grades with 20 793 cases of brown and white mixed fryers and whites and springs priced across ranges. Poultry demand shows 34 trucks moving, with various chick stock quotes including colored fryers Plymouth Rock and White Rock varieties, while current receipts and extras vary in percent ranges.
Chicago grain quotes show WHEAT CORN OATS and SOYBEANS with July to Dec ranges and small shifts. Idaho Scenic Counties notes describe Adams and Boise counties similar in size to Switzerland with scenery, plus local club notices and social visits across Riverside, Des Moines, and Bettendorf.
A parade of visitors and relatives spent a week in Riverside from Des Moines Davenport West Allis Brooklyn Moline and Town City. Notables include Amelia Knebel Yeggy, Carol Ann Lombardi, Hazel Hopping, Barbara Heitzman and Zelda Shebek who was named treasurer of the Democratic Central Committee and a Des Moines Judiciary delegate.
Charles Boline, 49, Clear Lake, faces a manslaughter charge in the death of Ole Hayseth, 56, a local farmer. Boline was released on $4000 bond after a fight Sunday left Hayseth with a cerebral hemorrhage. The hearing is scheduled for Monday before Justice Ira Jones.
Iowa City July 14 The State University of Iowa will hold the largest summer commencement on August 4 with about 750 degrees to be conferred announced by F F C Higbee director of convocations. The graduating class exceeds the previous August high by 16 percent and marks the third record breaker this year. New records were set at the mid year January 31 and in June with 1 324 degrees awarded.
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