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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
2
Estimated receipts today total 8 000 with hogs leading activity. Opening market shows strong to five to ten cent gains on good hogs while other categories move unevenly. top hog price around 18 5 and bulk sales 17 85 to 18 85. Cattle receipts about 4 906 with steers up 15 to 25, calves steady, stockers slow. lambs and sheep rise up to 25 depending on grade.
Chicago price sheet lists oats futures with September at 69 percent and July at 75 to 76. Clover futures show October 15.50 to 16.00 and March 15.70 to 16.10 with December at 15.50 to 16.90.
In Ida Grove Iowa on July 27 the Albert Preston estate fetched over 10000 dollars at auction with crops and livestock selling for record prices. A sixteenth acre corn patch at 50 dollars per acre, thirty two acres at 42 50 per acre and oats at 27 per acre plus pigs at 15 75 each boosted totals. 125 farmers attended and proceeds from the Battle Creek jumping rooster exceeded 500 dollars donated to the Red Cross.
F P Kilgore returned from Chicago with a car of hogs fed on his own grain and says the market is good. C K Gray left with the Boy Scouts for an English River outing near Riverside to join Rev Field and family. Miss Angie Ross leaves for Letia to visit her brother W H. Mrs Nellie Cardon and son arrive for a visit with Mrs Cardon’s parents A R Cleee. Mrs Benjamin Klockenga and daughters visit Mrs Robt McFarland. Judge Letts and Ernest Davenport visit F Letts.
Quoted line from Kingsley on the burden of responsibilities and the sense that duty multiplies as new tasks arrive, reflecting a stoic view of relentless obligation.
Between 1843 and 1850 J M Willson plowed a furrow from near H B Matthews toward Washington to guide settlers coming from what became Lexington. Known as Roe Willson father to Hod Willson, the furrow used three yoke of cattle and influenced the later angling road northwest from Washington as maps show the road bending southward along prairie edges.
Mr Romine farms 80 acres of oats in a shack while Roy Fisher tends cattle and prepares for threshing. West Chester helper S A Munson assists. Sixty heavy cattle and a hog caravan await market. Fisher plans more cattle feeding this fall. Roy Funston installs a new granary for oats and stores spring wheat in shock. Will Todd threshes oats at 39 bushels per acre. Jack Rittenhouse praises Shorthorns and notes cattle breeding lags hogs, blue ribbon hogs trail rivals less. sow litters exceed cow calves. J C Carris plans clover seed seedstock with 15 to 79 seeds per head. fall seed prospects hinge on weather.
Perry and Howard Ayers haul the last of their oats and bring in coal for threshing and the furnace. They had hay down Friday but the weather prevented it from drying in time.
J C Nicola fixes a hay ladder then raises edge boards to keep loads from sliding off as he tends 55 acres of corn solo. He uses two teams, works a mile with one then starts with the other while the idle team rests at the field edge. Jesse was upset the Journal had stopped for renewal.
Barrel Foster tended the road business while the team and the man used a scraper to pile dirt in the shed.
William Foster replaces four burned buildings with a new barn project. A stable shed is ready, native lumber will be harvested this fall, and carpenters work on a corn crib while a cement floor and bolted sills are installed. Rain delayed threshing and delayed start of the machine.
Hod Willson visits Tom Moons with friends to sample a meal and share views on tenancy. He cites Fred Durian paying income tax after 12 years on a rented place and argues a cooperative landlord tenant relationship yields better returns for both sides. He notes a long lease is unnecessary when mutual respect governs the rental.
England tiled part of his field last fall with about 16 000 tile and plans to lay 24 000 more. The land was too wet for corn, so he used a meadow until tile improved it. He estimates the first tile cost about 30 dollars per acre and the current phase runs near 50 dollars per acre.
Ellis Romine reports most weeds along the road cut as the summer harvest wanes and a quiet period settles in before the threshing machine moves into the neighborhood for a fair job of threshing ahead.
John Belville reports a weed resembling a buffalo bar with yellow flowers and spiny seed pods. The annual plant grows 8 inches to 2 feet high and likely arrived with chick seed. Native to the western plains, it is spreading east along railroads and can be exterminated by stopping seed formation for one or two seasons.
Burlington July 27 The United States Food Administration has set rules to curb profiteering and speculation in butter. Dealers must sell at or below a reasonable advance over cost and may average monthly cold storage costs across all butter of the same grade. The administration fixes reasonable profits for dealers.
The ancient figure Palamedes is credited with creating the practice of placing sentinels with pickets around a camp. He is also said to have devised the watchword used by those guards.
Brief items from Washington County cover births deaths births and social notes amid community updates. The column highlights local comings and goings and summarizes personal notices for residents.
Brighton column reports Miss Thelma Dayton visiting a hospital bound father in Washington. Grace Lease and Ruth Trafton visit relatives, while Mrs Tracey and Mrs Fox host gatherings. W W Crist leaves for Camp Pike. Dr and Mrs Irwin join teens for a picnic at Oakland Mills. Iva and Mabel Sinn finish business college in Cedar Rapids. Theo Vanerus transfers to Camp Perry for training. Telephones Mrs Tennaty and baby visit from Thermopolis. Prizer clothing store announces stock reducing sale with Omaha manager.
Mrs Ralph Leffler and daughter and Miss Doro thy Raymond of Davenport visited relatives and bought property there. Eclipse manager change from Ledman to Frank Ullrick of Grand Mound. Hazel Booth to Cedar Rapids, Fern Palmer visiting Kalona, J F Stafford threshing north of Washington, E K Annas painting for George Ebner, Hihel Booth visiting Clara Wallace. Pastor Wallin asks for a large audience Sunday morning. sermon titled Do Your Bit.
Maple Grove notes four local youths Joe Krafta Charley Pieper Irvin Hasty and Dewey Hoeferdt have volunteered or been drafted for military service. The town questions draft dodgers and praises soldiers for liberty, recalling the community’s welcome as troops left for Camp Pike.
The Iowa Food Administration reports threshing slowed by poor coal quality at engine furnaces. Farmers must demand better coal to prevent harvest losses as delays threaten grain conservation. Local notes mention Albert Rogers leading a drum procession and residents urged courteous driving on public roads amid rain and busy road work.
The Maple Grove community celebrates 161 local men leaving for military service, expressing pride in their sacrifice and urging a strong home front. It notes Angus breeder Kiowa and Cedar Township ties, reports on crops and travel routes, and lists Maple Grove men joining Camp Pike for training.
A fictional window into a choir scene where Uncle Eben laments a loud off key singer spoiling communal music and the congregation’s enjoyment. The remark highlights strain between individual performance and group harmony in a church setting.
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