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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1918
Page
2
Chicago July 31 Estimated receipts list 15 000 cattle 9 000 sheep and 10 000 hogs with strong to higher early sales and higher bids. Estimated today 14 500 market receipts and 9 000 rumoured for hogs with top hogs near 19.40 while cattle and calves show steady to higher values and variations by grade. Readiness and shipments yesterday 3 418 with 12 692 receipts in total.
Grain futures closing prices are listed for July 31 1918 with FE Wacner and Co Iowa City Iowa and L B Hunt as manager and contact. Trade details show corn activity in Chicago and surrounding markets.
Cash close prices for wheat and corn along with Chicago receipts are reported. Wheat values range from 2.17 to 2.24 for various grades, corn from 1.50 to 1.87, and oats from 0.67 to 0.73. Chicago receipts list 1075 carloads of wheat, 225 of corn, and 542 of oats.
Des Moines July 31 The Minnesota veterinary department requires a federal bureau of animal industry tuberculosis testing certificate for Iowa cattle entering Minnesota If absent cattle face a sixty day quarantine and a Minnesota test Dr J J Gibson Iowa state veterinarian notes Minnesota has stricter TB controls and Iowa lacks funds to scale testing Iowa’s $11 000 annual veterinary appropriation vs Minnesota’s $80 000 is cited as a reason for the gap in effort and cattle health safeguards.
A fragment from a Boston Transcript item shows a wife telling her husband a draught is coming in from the window. The husband questions who is responsible.
Hampshire pigs raised by Richard Gray and Max Coffey near Wellman enter a contest under the Farm Bureau, with Chester White entries. Ralph Nordyke near Rubio reports his pigs in the contest. Chas Vondrasek in English River township notes 125 pigs and early corn while joking about milk in the ears. Wm Beranek threshed 1500 bushels of oats from 40 acres near Jackson township, about 37% per acre. D D Stephens near Ainsworth credited with 20 bushels per acre on a large wheat acreage.
W K Henss of near Wayland sold two spring calves on Tuesday then threshing until dinner. One calf went to Sturgeon Bros of Dutch Creek and the other to Chris Miller of Burlington. Both calves were sired by his two year old herd bull noted for 31 prize winners in the first five generations. The bull weighs 1860 pounds in fair flesh.
HW E McGuire sold 20 head of black wet cattle near Henss for 13.65 dollars per cwt to Miller Bros of Olds for feedlot placement. Some observers believe the owner could have commanded higher at sale.
Sturceon Bros in Dutch Creek report a Duroc sow furrowing 15 pigs with two fatalities early. the remaining 13 piglets are three weeks old, uniform in size, and thriving. Win Durst of Lexington visits Hallsville to see the Washington county colony including Everett Denison Harve Shannon. Roy Gardner near Wellman threshes oats at 60 bushels per acre and plans a second run north of Lexington.
The article notes students in vocational work at the high school feeding pigs. Helen Grosscup keeps one pig while her brother feeds three. Additional boys and a girl are mentioned with their own pigs as part of the program.
Cedar Rapids sent a train of four hundred thirty four men to the effective draft as the fifth son, Guy Everett Davis, entered service. Four of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis's five sons hold officer or noncommissioned ranks, including Earl A. Davis a navy boatswain's mate, John Davis a corporal in infantry in France since last April, Alva Davis a captain in the Forty Sixth heavy artillery at Fort Howard Maryland, and Jared W. Davis a lieutenant in the United States guards in Boston. Mrs. Elizabeth Davis lives at 212 Third Avenue West.
First net results of a three day slacker drive yield forty seven men inducted into the U S army. They will be sent to Camp Dodge immediately after being listed as deserters. Seventy others who did not register or fill out questionnaires remain. Federal agents say most will be sent to the army, bringing total captured in Des Moines raids to about one hundred. The Palds, at a late scale, are over for the present.
Ames Iowa July 31 Special farmers are urged to save their clean winter wheat for seed to support a winter wheat campaign. The effort, led by Iowa State College extension with county farm bureaus and State Council of Defense, aims to raise winter wheat acres to 1 000 000 next season.
The engagement announces Friday and Saturday showings of the screen classic To Hell with the Kaiser. The film portrays the Kaiser’s fate in a story form and is scheduled to play at Broadway Theatre in New York before moving to Des Moines Rialto for the week of August 4.
The ordnance department announced a new airplane flare that releases from a parachute and ignites by air friction. At 2000 feet it emits over 400000 candle power, lighting an area 1.5 miles wide to help conceal aircraft from ground observers. In Paris dispatches Mackensen is to replace Ludendorff at German headquarters.
An advertisement from Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes Foley Kidney Pills to support overworked or diseased kidneys and bladder as people reach middle age. The copy highlights natural filtration work by kidneys and suggests the product helps manage aches and pains from impurities.
A Sioux City speech by "Gunner" Albert De Pew urges harsher treatment of German aliens in the United States, endorsing hanging and less leisure for interned Germans. He recounts war experiences, prison camps, and a call to draft money alongside troops, criticizing German sentiment in Iowa towns and detailing brutal prison conditions.
Riders hear trains slide down the continental divide from Denver toward the opening stand in early April. At the Sells Floto circus stop in Washington on Sunday and Berdy grounds Monday, clowns study current news for pantomimic burlesque.
A motivational note on the power of belief turning into reality. It extols starting with make believe and faith that success can build momentum, urging readers to try the approach.
A brief classifieds blurb indicates a want ad in the Journal promising quick sale of an item.
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