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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1938
Page
7
Advertisement rates listed per word with a scaling per insertion. First insertion twelve and a half cents per word with gradual increases. minimum charge twenty five cents. The notice asserts greater reach with daily ads than in six months via a personal representative.
Readable fragments show varied unit prices for items with per or dozen pricing. Values include 20e per dozen and 14e per dozen, with other small fractions and uncertain units, reflecting an unstable listing in a historical market column.
Markets show hogs 9.00 to 9.60 for medium to light weights with 2,000 head total. Cattle steady with beef steers 11.00 to 18.00, yearlings 8.00 to 12.50, cows 6.50 to 8.25, calves 6.00 to 10.50, stocker feeders 6.00 to 9.50. Sheep 6,000 head steady, lambs 9.00 to 9.60, yearlings 6.75 to 8.25, ewes 2.50 to 3.75.
Brief reports from nearby towns compiled by D F Macon cover civic updates, events, and local happenings. Highlights include community meetings, school activities, and public notices from adjac ent towns.
Farmers report fine weather with threshing unfinished in places. Oats sell 17 to 19 cents and wheat 56 to 60 cents but some wheat sold due to storage limits. Machinery works around Havre and Crawfordsville as hay harvests begin. Alvin Jones 4 H Club Hamp Shire pigs shown as future potential. John D Jones prepares to down weeds after harvest.
The passage notes Luther Williams and his family back from a world tour to check on relatives and neighbors, while mentioning Washington and Crawfordsville as clean towns. It also references Milt White's wheat and Richard Stephen's wheat harvest and potential high yield per acre.
The 1938 Iowa Corn Yield Test screens 1047 hybrid seed corn entries and 63 open pollinated corn entries. Conducted by the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association, it seeks the best yielding mature hybrids with good quality and lodging resistance across 12 districts including southeastern sites at Iowa City and Mt. Union. Seed producers and farmers gain insights by comparison, with final results announced during Farm and Home Week in February.
Washington County Iowa district court fixed a hearing for the last will and testament of Frances Ward dated August 27 1935. The hearing is scheduled for Friday the 65th day of August 1938 at 9 00 A M at the Washington Court House before the district court or clerk. Interested parties must appear and show cause why the instrument should not be probated and allowed. R R Noonan Clerk of the District Court dated at Washington July 30 1938.
Riverside dispatch reports a two story frame building at Main street West end slated for demolition led by Louis A Rose. The structure dating back about sixty seven years first served as a private bank for Petit F Brockway, later housed a dwelling, pool hall and finally a harness shop operated by George Rose and then by Louis Rose after George moved.
W. H. Mitchells and son Dale with grandson Billy McKune spend summers at grandparents and report crops looking fine. Visitors attest Mrs. Mitchell manages farm duties and provides splendid meals during dinner at the farmhouse.
A. G. Eberle of Keota R 3 left money and a note at Phillips and Hebners. He was busy threshing and shelling corn the day we visited his residence. Oats yield in the area reached 55 to 60 bushels per acre in some spots. Thanks extended to Paul Peiffer of Washington R 1 for similar aid at the same location.
Steve Jones and his brother Harry with Dale were stacking hay when hail wrecked their corn. He jokes that the observer looks like an insurance adjustor ready to write a check, and notes his effort to patch up the loss. The Evening Journal may feature his claim.
Frank Romine of Wellman sent a one year subscription payment by Ode Ferguson for the Evening Journal. The note thanks both gentlemen and mentions weather permitting continued publishing and the auction business. An auction ad for Mrs Carter's household goods sale on South 4th Ave is scheduled for August 6.
Mr and Mrs William H H Cress and party completed a ten day journey covering 3006 miles along the Atlantic coast visiting Detroit Ontario Hamilton Niagara Falls New York Boston Atlantic City Washington D C powerful Blue Ridge Cincinnati Indianapolis Springfield Keokuk with relatives and friends in Riverside sorrowfully noting the transfer of Rev Walter F Boeckman to Clinton as chaplain and pastor at St Patrick Center Grove plus details of the Herring family obituary and funeral in Iowa City with multiple survivors listed and services held at the Methodist church.
Centuries of belief tied mince pie to pagan origins. By the eighteenth century many clergy avoided the pastry to not risk reputations, with Collier's Weekly noting it as a “wicked dish” in public discourse.
In Lillehammar Norway a great folk museum houses priceless Norse antiques. It began years ago when a doctor accepted old furniture from families in lieu of payment for services, a relic a day keeping the doctor’s bill at bay.
Chicago produce market notes a steady tone with egg and butter lines described. Eggs show receipts of 8 786 cases with various quality grades and a 20 percent range for firsts amid current receipts 18 percent. Butter markets list steady activity with receipts around 23 783 pounds and multiple quality categories and percentages for specials extras and firsts.
The grain table for Chicago in July shows chaotic figures for wheat corn oats rye and other metrics with multiple inconsistent percentages and stray numbers, hindering interpretation of open high low and month data. No clear single outcome emerges due to garbled OCR entries and misplaced figures.
Chicago daily cash corn prices are listed with multiple grades and bids. Prices range from 56 to 68 percent for mixed and yellow corn, with sample grades 50 to 56 percent and estimated ear lots totaling 179.
Market notes show oats and soybeans with open high low and close symbols at 83 percent for October and December contracts, and 83 percent for May. A for sale ad indicates items offered for sale.
Superintendent Dean of Junior College Harland W Mead oree Principal of High School Miss Della Patton Principal of Junior High Miss Ethel McCreedy School board President Glenn Mace secretary Ralph W Thompson Dr P L Etter Dr T J Pease A BE Atchison C W Tucker names appear in a local notice listing school leadership and board members.
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