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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1949
Page
7
Egg market report lists eggs on grade 42 37 and 31. Quotations may change without notice. Rock Island Produce Co located at Freshwaters Coal Yard East Third Street.
Hog prices topped the year at 23.50 per cwt early week trade eased to 21.75 22.50 for most lightweights with heavy butchers and sows up 1. Lambs slumped with slaughter lambs down 1.50 to 2. Cattle showed irregular movement with steers and yearlings largely 25.00 to 28.50 and cows 18.00 to 19.50 for lower grades. News by LP notes weekly shifts across hogs cattle and lamb markets in Chicago.
Mildred Stewart a surgical patient at University hospital Iowa City in room 318 West. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Gentes and daughter Jane return home to Morton Tennessee after visiting at the Harry Pearson home. Ann Whitfield and Noyce W Strait Jr announce October 29 wedding in Washington. Glass making found as early Jamestown industry with four furnaces crucible pots and glass chunks unearthed by Department of Interior at Jamestown Island Virginia.
A simple sauce coats cooked green beans after simmering bacon, onion, and tomato juice briefly. Drain bacon, mix with onion and tomato juice, simmer, then pour over the hot beans for serving.
A pen-to-pen market method replaces the old weight schedule at hog markets. Buyers and salesmen agree on price in the pen before weighing, allowing premiums for quality hogs and faster transactions.
The article explains that the old weight based hog selling system fails to reward top quality Chester White sows and litters. Premiums were rare and market prices varied widely, prompting a shift toward a dressed carcass basis as Canada and U S farms explore new selling methods under federal research and marketing acts.
Riverside connection Janice Scherrer, 11, accompanied by her grandparents Wes Prehoda and the Scherrer parents, bagged her first brown bear in Northern Ontario. Janice used her grandfather’s .30 rifle, the hunt followed a moose bait, and her bear hide will become a rug.
Victor and Max Rasmussen of Cache County Utah, on a four thousand acre jointly owned farm with brother Reuben, raised hard red winter Cache wheat that won first prize in the 1948 Pillsbury judging. The sample bested 37 entries from 20 states in Minneapolis.
If tile drained land dries slowly check organic matter in soils before blaming the tile system. Many tile lines once effective are hampered as water cannot move through soil to the tile. Improve drainage by growing deep rooted legumes and returning straw cornstalks and manure to the soil.
Columbus Junction July 22 Officers of Allen Wright Hanft post To 100 American Legion have been elected as follows E L Hughes commander J E Henson adjutant F C Spaeth finance officer we Williams sergeant at arms Paul B Smith historian Robert F Reaney service officer Donald Howell chaplain H P Edmondson W H Hull B A Pine T A Lewis and Jay G Jones executive committee Mr and Mrs F J Pine and sons Gordon and David returned from Arizona Where they spent several weeks More than two million head of deer elk and other big game animals on national forests Forests contain 90000 miles of unposted streams and 1500000 acres of fish producing makes In 1948 they hosted four and a half million hunters and fishermen.
Weekly sales listed by location include Whittaker sale barn Friday entries and Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction on Wednesdays. Kalona Sales Barn hosts Thursday livestock sales while Ollie Livestock Exchange in Ollie runs Tuesday afternoon sales at 1 00 p m.
The Washington Independents School District board in Washington Iowa schedules a meeting for August 6 1949 at 730 PM in the Lincoln Building Board Room. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for the 1949 50 fiscal year and a detailed receipts and disbursements statement will be available at the hearing.
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