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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1948
Page
6
Over the weekend Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hinkle and family visited with Carl Amrine and sons Harold and Donald. They called on John Wieneke and his daughter Sarah on Sunday afternoon.
Dairy cows yield 98 per cent single births with twins making up most of the remainder. Beef cattle produce 99.5 per cent single births. Triplet births occur at about 1 in 300 for dairy cows, roughly 0.33 per cent.
Jake Widmer has been busy sheep shearing in Stringtown over the past weeks. He helped Noah and Galen Widmer on Tuesday and received assistance from Smith and Margaret Roth on Thursday. Local residents and families are noted visiting and working on farms, with several entries about weddings, house work, and barn building ongoing in the community.
Mr and Mrs Earl Martin of Chicago visited with Mrs Martin s brother John Hyde and family and with Jon Hyde and other relatives over the weekend. Evelyn Baldosier, daughter of the family, was among those mentioned.
The notice lists regular Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn and Wednesday sales at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction, Kalona Sales Barn on Thursdays, Ollie Livestock Exchange on Tuesdays at 1 pm, and Hi Dollar Sales Company in Sigourney on Mondays. A June 8 sale of 49 dairy cows is planned a half mile west of the courthouse starting at 12 30 pm by Jay Brewer.
Carl Baldosier and his son Larry visited Sunday with the Baldosier family political ad auction recipients Phyllis Hinkle of Washington remained in the loop about local civic matters.
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