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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1938
Page
7
Local notes from Wayland detail seven threshing crews operating on a single run at the Dave Meyer farm with each job lasting about a day. The column also covers canning while reporting on visits, hospital trips, a funeral gathering, and family updates from Mrs. Ezra Wittmer's community correspondence.
Brief local items compiled by the Journal Subscription Representative feature small notices from nearby towns. Quick updates mention residents, gatherings, and commerce with a friendly regional tone.
A visitor recalls brief calls at Ed Bicher residence and Mrs Mount home on Wednesday morning. Mrs Mount played piano, adding charming music. The account notes Florida visitors Homer and wife and folks from the south sharing stories. Fred Stewart mentions Chris Leighty and 90 day corn planted June 19 and plowed again July 19 using two horse walking cultivators.
Ralph Howell inks subscription and an ad. Thanks go to Max M White for subscription and sale ad. Neighbors threshing near Washington with Dittmer Hollinger and Neil Trotman. Alva Whetstine hauls hay solo. Homer Jarrard’s crew meals at O L Pages. Six ladies discussed cooking before joint memories. Grain quality praised as Eschers harvest alsike hay. J E Gallagher notes horses will soon be in town and recalls hitch rack changes. Ed Turnipseed’s team admired as town curiosity.
Threshing is in full swing across the region with farmers hiring little help and performing tasks themselves. In Snowball, threshing began Tuesday with Ralph Robertson operating the machine and John Shebeck’s teamwork noted for barley. Visitors include Mildred Peters and the Griggs family, with trips to Lake Me Bride and Iowa City details.
Jack Caldwell resides on a 200 acre farm and threshes 40 acres of oats. Don Brown Oscar Davis and Caldwell run their own threshing operations. Fred Hermans uses a small machine while mules pull larger loads. Mrs Caldwell feeds workers. farm owner W P Rawn is supportive. The note thanks Mrs Kolosick and Miss Leta Glenn for subscriptions and mentions reader requests for Saturday issue and Rocking Chair Brigade.
F F Lins and Ainsworth R are here briefly and request the journal be sent to them. Francis says thanks.
Paul Peiffer near Washington has excess hay and piles of stacks outside. F E Palmer threshing at a large farm. A Wednesday drive asked how many threshing machines and combines are in operation. The Sigourney band pleased many in the park Wednesday evening. Thanks to Griffith Bros for the one year subscription this morning. The wording recalls farming from coast to coast.
The WPA recorded 81 years ago that beauty contests for Indian maidens and squaws began near Ottawa on July 4, 1857. An old chief judged, finally praising a six foot, 309 pound squaw who stood as his wife as the prettiest squaw in the contest.
New incinerators with time locks are being installed in Washington to destroy worn out paper money and redeemed securities of the United States Treasury. The locks ensure the paper is destroyed before the incinerators can be opened. Mr and Mrs H C Weigman were seen nearby early this morning as it cooled.
James Swailes bought a new threshing combine and has stayed busy since Wednesday. James Dvorak Jr and Mincer Bros began threshing, with crews operating near Oakland. Charley Soloman died of a heart attack after a boating incident on Cone Lake, burial at Lone Tree.
Mrs. JF W. Layton, 50, rekindled a kitchen fire and, upon noticing smoke, crawled through flames to wake her asleep grandson Jack Fisher, 4, in another room and hurled him from a window to safety. She suffered severe burns but saved the child.
Market notes show hog srụges at 10 20 per cwt for 170 to 230 lb hogs with 230 and down mostly steady to 10 cents higher than Wednesday. Other weights mostly 10 to 15 cents lower. Cattle and calves forecasts listed with varied ranges for beef steers yearlings and cows. Sheep bids show steady lambs and yearlings with feeder notes.
Chicago on July 21 reports egg receipts at 9 664 with extras and firsts around 18 to 20 percent, butter steady with 19 877 receipts and specials 25 to 26 percent, poultry market steady with springers 13 to 18 percent and broilers 15 to 17 percent, leghorns 14 percent, ducks 10 to 13 percent, geese 8 to 14 percent, turkeys 12 to 16 percent.
A grain table shows soybeans and other commodities with July and October figures. The text records multiple social visits to University hospital and various homes including the Mincer, Owens, Swailes, Dvorak, and Gail Murdock households with several family members noted.
Oats threshing in progress near Columbus Junction reports 62 bushels per acre at the Owens farm east of Columbus City. A barley field near Helmick farm averages 40 bushels per acre. Wheat yields range from 20 to 35 bushels per acre. Local grain dealers Weber and Huston pay 18 or 19 cents for oats and 64 cents for No 1 wheat.
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