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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1935
Page
7
United Press reports Chicago hog figures with 9 000 head and a top around 10.00, varying by weight. Cattle and calves show slow trading, general market weakness, with steers and cows priced across broad ranges by weight and grade. Sheep activity remains fair on spring lambs and yearlings with varied slaughter prices. Estimated Saturday receipts listed for hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep.
Chicago area produce sections show mixed receipts and quality across categories. Butter leads with 16 689 units and high firsts at 29 percent, while poultry lists varied truck movements and mixed grade splits. Potatoes move on track with 925 shipments amid a firm market outlook.
Local produce markets list prices per dozen and per pound with figures for Thursday and other days. Prices include onions, celery, and beans with per unit and per pound rates.
Chicago June 7 report shows No 2 mixed 87 percent No 1 yellow 87 No 2 yellow 87 to 87 No 8 yellow 86 to 87 No 4 yellow 85 No 3 white 89 percent receipts 106 carloads.
Haskins notes a Wichita visitor, James McClelland, who spent two days with his aunt Mrs. Fanny Edwards after travels from New York and other eastern points. Local families and friends gathered weekend visits at Cedar Rapids, Fairfax, Davenport, Riverside, Moline, and nearby farms.
Straw College news notes visits and social events including Helen and Esther Patterson with Allen Patterson, families visiting relatives, a wrestling match in Washington, a 1922 Chevrolet driven by Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hero, a Keota dance outing, and multiple farm and family updates amid reports of rainfall and plowing corn.
A modern Oxford Bible is advertised as the only book in the world without a typographical error asserting its perfection. The claim highlights the Bible’s printing accuracy and popular acclaim in religious publishing.
The document records fluctuating grain price ranges with figures showing ranges from 34 percent to 4 percent in indicated categories. It appears to summarize market pricing bands and potential volatility for crops.
Notes from D F Macon the Journal’s subscription representative share brief community items, updates, and local happenings gathered from neighboring towns and readers. The column preserves period voice and concise social snapshot with names and places referenced.
Local readers send subscription thanks to W S Cochran and Coppock. Mentions of Martins visiting, Max Marble absent from the Journal office due to illness, and Lloyd Turnipseed selling garden ad space. Aine worth sale highlights 198 sales recorded. Alva Sands referenced. Ends with a joke exchange about selling money for the Evening Journal.
The Evening Journal records include corn prices at Mikseh reaching 48 cents a bushel, plus numerous social mentions. Ainsworth figures like Ella Crawford and Dr. A J Laird appear, with rooms in Dew Moines hotels, Crawfordsville visitors, and wedding coverage for Miss Trene DeLong and Roy Caviness at the First United Presbyterian Church in Washington.
Marshal Edmondson struggled to start his vehicle until a copy of the Evening Journal was given, and the next attempt succeeded.
W J Folgar near Crawfordsville praised Al Fields as the best trailer team seen. The horse hauled loads weighing 1600 to 2 tons each while planting corn, and a two year old drew strong offers. Edgar and Mrs Edgar are noted, with George Lemon longtime Washington native living in Glendale, California, accompanying the trip.
Miss Margaret Huston announces the June opening of Peter Van play school for children aged three to six at her home two miles west of Columbus Junction. Locals note social visits and travel among residents including J. H. Benson of Muscatine, Miss Anna Mulhern, Miss Marie Curtis, and the Overholt, McCreery, Partington, and Freeman households.
Miss Mabel Stingley of Davenport visits her aunt Mrs. M D Fulton and family. Mrs L P Gillette of Wapello visits Monday at the J E Lukins and C E Lukins homes.
Ruth and Ernest Baker joined the Washington eighth grade ceremony while Mrs Sam Baker and family and Lena and Mary Jones visited Will Mitchel’s home. Numerous neighbors and relatives, including Frank Taylor and the Shrader family, spent Sunday with local residents at several homes outside Coda Rapids.
Community sale advertised every Saturday at the City Feed Yard. The notice lists Mrs. Catherine Tinnenkamy at 414 South Marion, Washington, as the contact for household goods.
Ainsworth and Fairfield residents joined family members in Iowa City and Mt Pleasant for commencement exercises. Irene Blankenhorn, a nurse trainee, celebrated graduation at Iowa City while relatives attended nearby ceremonies.
Chapter CX of P. E. O. Sisterhood held its last spring gathering at Mrs. J. J. Robertson's home with a pot-luck dinner. President Mrs. H Lee Huston reported on the Des Moines state convention and new initiate Mrs. R J McCleery. Various locals and visitors updated on recent travels and students.
Gracehill residents travel to Bethany Missouri for the wedding of Miss Helen Romig on Sunday and return on Monday. Local families, including the Harrow Engel and Buxbaum siblings, join relatives at various gatherings, with multiple visits and social events noted around Gracehill and Des Moines area.
Red Oak county and city school officials prepared a county wide dinner to honor Florence Green and Jean Mayhew Red Oak high school students who won the highest honors in University of Iowa academic contests.
Sixty six applicants successfully passed the three day Iowa state bar examination and are admitted to practice law in Des Moines marking a full class of new Iowa lawyers.
C M Strain went to Iowa City Monday to meet his daughter Oma Strain who completed another year as art instructor at Drake University Des Moines Miss Jennie Clemens also traveled to Iowa City Mr and Mrs Clive Huston of Chicago were weekend guests of his parents in Crawfordsville
Mrs W G Huston and Mr and Mrs John Wooley head back to Columbia Missouri after a brief visit. Mrs Etta Buxbaum with Mrs Harlow Caugel and Miss Katherine Buxbaum return home from Bethany Missouri where they attended the wedding of Helen Romig daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben Romig. Harold Graham comes home from Albia where he had been employed.
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