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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1931
Page
2
Receipts total about 13 000 hogs and 10 000 cattle with calves and sheep also listed. Market shows uneven but mostly steady moves from Tuesday, with varied weight classes and sows, vealers, and stockers noted. Higher activity and advances seen for heavier steer and yearling categories while hogs and pigs range with several price bands across weights.
Combined hog routes at 22 concentration yards and seven packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ended 8:00 p m today were 8800 dollars versus 13100 last week. Prices steady to 10 cents higher with hogs weighing 246 pounds and up and sows showing strength as marketing remains unusually light.
Chicago reports mixed movement in produce and dairy with varied receipts and percent changes. Butter and cheese show shifts while potatoes move on a track with regional price quotes and car shipments.
Grain prices shown for Wheat Corn Oats and Rye with July September and December futures. The data lists open high low and close figures alongside percentage changes, reflecting mixed movement across Wheat Corn Oats and Rye with varying monthly contracts.
Toledo seed prices listed with crops and monthly figures: TOLEDO 0 Clover pr me 13.50 October 22.54 December 13.75 Alsike cash 8.75 August 8.75.
Chicago report lists wheat ranges from 2 red 53 percent to 9 hard 531 percent and 3 hard 562 percent. Corn shows multiple grades and colors with percentages from 58 to 60. Oats quote two white categories and rye shows none, with barley 25 to 50 and timothy 450 to 475 and clover 13.50 to 20.00.
Wheat production listed at 400 cars alongside 232 ears of corn. Oats show 27 ears recorded. The brief item notes crop quantities in a concise summary style.
In New York Lou Morman laments cheaper ink and sailors changing tattoos as bread and butter take priority. Indianapolis Judge Baker rules a husband may decide where a family lives in a desertion case. Council Bluffs Frank Wheldon sues for 9100 after a fall from a police car. Chicago reports a Keeshin brothers poultry house fire causing 10000 chicken casualties.
Virgil Draper’s funeral in North Platte was delayed when he telephoned his mother from a Kansas farm saying he was not dead. A body sent for burial may be Draper after a train wreck at Horace Kansas killed three. A brother learned he was alive while Draper rode wheat in Kansas.
A Des Moines report notes organized opposition forms against a state program mandating sewage disposal plants in certain Iowa cities as part of stream purification efforts. Citizens and officials question costs and feasibility while maintaining focus on water quality improvements.
Brigadier General Frank T. Hines and staff depart Des Moines to personally inspect six Iowa sites for a proposed veterans hospital costing about 1.3 million dollars. Cities on the tour are Oskaloosa Ottumwa Newton Albia Knoxville and Fort Dodge. Announcement of the site decision is expected in Washington around August 1.
James Hall the leading man in The Good Bad Girl admits he is a confirmed bachelor. The Fox theater shows the Columbia picture tonight and Thursday. Hall lives alone in a Beverly Hills mansion, cared for by a Japanese butler and his three Chow dogs.
James Cagney, famed star of Warner Bros films, rose from vaudeville to stage work after college, later starring in The Public Enemy and Smart Money. A descriptive bio notes his New York origins, height, weight, eye and hair color, and early career path. A separate Iowa note names four mayors appointed to present municipal sewage plant concerns to the health department ahead of August 4 hearing.
A July 22 funeral for Mrs. Ed Kos drew one of the area’s largest crowds with attendees from many communities. The note praises the country’s fine condition and abundant crops as threshing machines and combines spread widely across fields, two threshers operating within a mile.
The jumbled account notes Ed Gerot finishing threshing at Riverside, 40 acres cared for by Charles Pleckers on Ainsworth Re, and multiple local scenes. It mentions threshing at Sterling Holmes and the Wall home, community Journal gratitude, and various neighbors with homes, animals, and daily tasks.
Riverside owner Joe Knebel leads a twelve year no vacation rebuild with Jack McKeone Charley Langenberg Ralph Williams and Everett Chance from Washington plus other workers. The project aims for a beautiful station while diners at the nearby hotel praise shaded dining rooms and splendid meals after attendees at a Kos funeral.
The item records visits with lumberman C. J. Kare and Washington dignitaries near the city pump in the band stand. It mentions a 30 day stock yard rule for water priming jars, various tobacco brands among locals, a recent Riverside streets project via contract awarding seven thousand square yards of concrete cement, and Roy Miller as editor-owner of the Riverside Leader inviting future visits to his office.
Geo Fleming of Newton reports finding a notable tree during an outing in W F Flemmin s pasture south of town. The sighting highlights local forestry interest and prompts further observation of the specimen s size and condition.
The oats were threshed on the R. F. E. Dougherty farm west of Washington Tuesday and described as some of the best quality yet. Ralph Dougherty and Lester are firm in their remarks despite lighthearted ribbing.
Iowa's truck operator law, in effect for a year, generated 4 077 cases before the Iowa board of railroad commissioners. The total cases rose from 1 455 in 1929 to 4 961 in 1930, with the 1930 report 119 pages shorter than last year. The board also held 271 electric transmission line hearings and 191 motor carrier cases among others.
Incorporation papers for Brin tnall Wallac e Funeral Home Marshalltown filed with the secretary of state. Capitalization set at 25000. John W Wallace named president Harry F Mc Combs vice president M T Brintnall secretary and treasurer. IOWA CITY July 22.
Dr. E. B. Bush president of the Ames chamber of commerce will head a delegation of business men on a regional visit to discuss economic development and community projects.
Weekly bulletin lists hog cholera outbreaks in Dike Reinbeck Dumont South Grove Monticello and other towns. notes necrotic enteritis in Stanwood DeWitt New Hampton Oelwein Hinzleton Eldridge and more. mentions rabies in cattle dogs and horses and a bid to establish a veterans hospital with Col. John Phelan inspecting the Iowa site in May.
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