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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1944
Page
5
The Chicago market shows hogs largely steady with 180 to 240 pound butchers at 14.00 to 14.25 and top 14.30. Sows up to 1.00 higher. Fed steers advance 25 to 50 cents with tops to 17.65 the best July level in 25 years. yearlings 17.40. Lambs drop to 14.25 for top lots as lamb and sheep prices soften 50 to 75 cents. No calves or sheep lot details beyond weekly moves.
The AntoWay airport planning conference will run August 10 and 11 at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Arthur de Boreman, chair of the Des Moines Chamber aviation committee, said the event aims to form an Iowa airport program, push needed aviation legislation, and discuss Iowa in the feeder line program. Sponsors include the Chamber aviation committee, Des Moines N A A chapter, Iowa light operators, Aircraft Owners and Pilots, Iowa Airport Managers, and Civil Air Patrol. Plate wrote: Early rising and bathing profit health wealth and wisdom.
The column notes a weekly Friday sale at Whittaker sale barn. August 16 features a Purebred Hampshire hog sale led by E. R. Brenneman of Mt. Union Iowa.
Navy recruiting teams in town report that 17 year old boys may enlist again and urge immediate action. The period may close without warning as enlistments have been halted for weeks. Interested youths can join at the Burlington recruiting station. WAVES recruitment is also active in Washington to attract women.
Rev. Bob Stevens from Peoria Illinois, in charge of religious work, spoke last night at the Christian Tabernacle. Paul Mickelson of Burbank California led the music.
Thomas H. Sumner born in Boston 1807 and educated at Harvard. He became master of the Cabot and discovered a celestial navigation method in 1837 that bears his name. In 1843 he published A New and Accurate Method of Finding a Ship's Position at Sea detailing the Sumner Line.
Chicago cash grain brief lists oats and soybeans with mixed lots and prices. Oats show several entries around 80 and 80 percent. soybeans cite a yellow 198 note. The terse report reflects a snapshot of grain trading terms and varieties in Chicago on July 22.
The grain table lists Wheat futures with Sep 156% Dec 157% May 158% and July 158% with varying closes. Oats futures show Sept Dec May values around 73 to 71% with other figures like 73 71% 713% and mixed September to December quotes.
The first railroad dining cars began service in 1863 between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Converted from day coaches, the cars featured Steam bars and meals prepared in terminal cities. The menu included oyster stew crullers and coffee.
After cleaning, put the vacuum away shipshape. Empty the dirt container and remove hair and thread from brush bristles and rotating roll ends. Avoid kinking the cord. Store in a dry, cool place to prevent rust and rubber damage.
Des Moines Secretary of State Ropes orders 200000 forms for relatives to apply for ballots for men and women in the army navy and marines. Iowa law allows spouses parents siblings and adult children to request ballots and servicemen may apply himself. Ropes says 210 overseas requests arrived Wednesday.
DES MOINES Gov Bourke K Hickenlooper Friday appointed two district court judges Floyd Philbrick 51 of Cedar Rapids first assistant attorney general named to fill the vacancy in the eighteenth district by the death of Guy P Linville Linn Jones Cedar counties in the district John M Schaupp of Fort Dodge named to the eleventh district which includes Wright Franklin Webster Hamilton Hardin Boone and Story counties Both appointments are for the unexpired terms ending November.
Indianola man Robert Frazier 17 is held in Warren county jail as outcome pending for injuries to Ruby Vasey 9 of Truro after a dog struck and killed by a car was hurled onto her, knocking her into a ditch. The driver did not stop.
Pvt. Christian Nelson 68 known as the oldest private in the army will receive an honorable discharge from duties at the prisoner of war camp. He enlisted after Pearl Harbor, served in Ireland and North Africa, was born in Denmark and came to the United States in 1910, with arthritis and complications prompting his release.
An 18 month old girl Mary Elizabeth Sheppley nearly choked when a penny stuck in her windpipe. Her mother fingered the throat. the coin came up. Firemen used artificial respiration and she was transported to a hospital where she was reported doing well Friday night. Her father is a soldier now stationed in India.
The Apostolic delegation announced that Henry P. Rohlman Catholic Bishop of Davenport since July 26, 1927, is promoted to titular Archbishop of Macra in Rhose and named coadjutor archbishop to the See of Dubuque with the right of succession.
The backyard gardener offers a humorous note about tending tools, joking that the best way to treat a hoe is to use it an hour each day. The quip blends farm wisdom with lighthearted self awareness.
Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider, reputedly the first American general wounded in ground combat in the Southwest Pacific, has returned to the United States on leave. The War Department did not disclose his location or future duties. A Mason City native, he was wounded by shrapnel on November 23, 1942 and resumed his duties in February 1943.
Common damage to fruit trees includes bark and cambium injuries from orchard tools and girdling by mice or rabbits. Bridge-grafting is a technique mentioned as a remedy to save trees.
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