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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1929
Page
2
Hogs total around 14 000 with 3 000 direct sales and higher bids on hogs over 160 pounds. Cattle and calves about 8 000 and 20 calves, with slaughter classes steady to mixed and stocker prices firm. Sheep around 10 000 with active demand, lambs steady to strong, goats listed, and grain prices for corn, oats, barley, and forage crops provided.
Chicago cash grain market shows wheat quotes for July 31 with 2 red at 1.40 to 1.41, 3 red at 1.38 to 1.39, and 1 hard at 1.41 to 1.41 1/4 per bushel.
The report lists open high low close figures for corn oats rye and pave futures across July September and December with small price spreads and notable volatility. Traders track changes in July corn oats rye and paving futures as the market reacts to demand and planting conditions.
In Toledo Ohio, Clover prices show domestic old at 16.00 and imported old at 12.75. Timothy markets list old at 2.60 and December at 2.35. Alsike ranges 11.90 for October and 12.40 for December.
The Woman I Love from FBO stars Norman Kerry Robert Frazer Margaret Morris Leota Lorraine and Bert Moorhouse in a prize story romance. Erma Stormannis wrote the screenplay from True Story magazine contest selections by FAO studios and Macfadden publications. Director George Melford brings a lavish production about a human triangle in quadrangle form.
Iowa's second quarter business volume rose about four percent from 1928 April June levels, with strong gains in building contracts and new car sales. Auto sales up 45 percent, gasoline up 27 percent, employment improved, rail road freight declined 5.5 percent, life insurance up, and business failures up 25.9 percent from last year. Professor Davies notes national prosperity supports local gains, with a possible moderate year end dip depending on grain and livestock prices.
Tense suspenseful drama shows at the Pax theatre in Harlem with George Bancroft as a ruthless ring boss in love with Fay Wray. Richard Arlen is the aviator beloved by Wray, leading to a climactic clash in Sing Sing. Josef von Sternberg’s direction promises the brutal underworld on screen.
The narrator visits Myrtle Macon for the 10 12 Rock Island train, notes a passenger’s ticket struggles to Buffalo and Englewood, and describes delays from 10:12 to 12:07. Myrtle arrives after a Creek Monday trip near Stratton where many were drowned, with the Pullman car present.
A village report mentions Myrtle lifting a gold brief worth ten thousand dollars, Ed Wolfe and Mell Crandle of Washington attending a mail carriers convention in Newton, and Ed Wolfe drinking only water there. Ongoing threshing quality is praised while an auto accident leaves a wrecked car and injured drivers. Jesse Marr improves in Iowa City and Ervin Rabenold, ill in Janesville, Ohio, is visited by relatives with his wife and daughters traveling from McConnells ville to reach him.
Mrs. George Bray hosts and guests include Miss Faith Li Parcell of Fairfield visiting with Mr and Mrs George Bray. Several residents travel to Cheyenne Denver and beyond. A Busy Bee meeting had 12 members. Neighborly visits, threshing, and family reunions shared across Fairfield and surrounding areas.
The column reports a newborn son named Kenneth Lee to Mr and Mrs George Jarrard Jr in Conesville. Visitors include KE R Whetstines of Sharon Nebraska and Otis Whetstine of Lynnville Iowa. Priscilla club met with Mrs C J Duncan. Cecil Schlighting to move to Cranston to teach. Harry Stapp and family plan a year in Porto Rico with son Reuben, a chemical engineer in sugar plantations.
Local notes from Union District No. 1 detail visits by Mildred Kurtz and numerous families from Rock Island Sigourney Oskaloosa Washington and Kalona. Families chatted shared meals helped threshers and visited relatives including the Bennsons Kurtzes and Reeves with siblings and spouses mentioned throughout.
The Oakland Social club delays its August gathering to the fifteenth due to the Junction fair next week. Louisa county supervisors plan to grade and gravel a non surfaced section of Coneville-Lone Tree road including excavation right of way culverts and bridges.
Chicago July 31 estimates show tomorrow's livestock receipts at 6800 cattle 18000 hogs and 16000 sheep with preliminary figures released.
Wills Grubb, who escaped from the state reformatory at Anamosa nine years ago, awaited completion of legal formalities before being returned to finish serving his sentence. Grubb was sentenced to the reformatory from Dallas County on a forgery conviction after escaping after only a few months of a ten year term.
Prices for cream butter peas leghorn hens and roosters including per pound and per dozen rates. Poultry delivery adds one cent more per pound with no market for sick or crippled birds. Hides trade shows horse hides at 3 00 and pony hides at 1 50 each.
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