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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1944
Page
5
Hogs 22 000 cattle 8 000 sheep 1 000. Hogs slow mostly steady top price 13.75 for 180 270 lb. 280 330 lb hogs 11.60 12.15. 150 170 lb hogs 12.00 13.00. Sows 10.50 10.85. Cattle 15 000 calves 1 500 steer market steady and higher on top offerings. Wealers unchanged. Sheep 1 500 light supply with steady sales. two loads lambs 15.90. common lambs 13.09 13.25.
Chicago producers report firm egg market with receipts 14 345 cases including 3314 extra firsts and 31 percent firsts. Current receipts around 30 2 percent with dirties 24 and checks 23. Poultry receipts include 1 car and 20 trucks with various duck and goose lots and fryer prices at 28 5.
Open high low and close figures for wheat corn oats and rye listed for different contracts. A wartime note mentions the war continues from page one.
Riverside Leader printing office equipment and furniture moved to F. W. Schnoebelen building on West Main after sale to Conrad Brenner. Owner A C Kuipers in U S Navy. Wellman Advance folded Riverside edition resumed by his wife as help is scarce. Inductions and local visits noted alongside war updates and community figures.
Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn list June 15 at 7 p.m. for estate items of B Oliver Todd and June 17 for Geo Herzog and Margaret Witting executrix. Auction location given as 828 South Ave near Wayland, with directions from Noble.
Mrs Tom Carson visits Ames with her sister while Ed Bovee heads to Cleveland to spend weeks with his daughter. Jean Baxter to graduate from University of Michigan with anthropology major. Beulah and Esther Stewart attend Iowa State College and visit parents. Several families host guests across Mt Pleasant Davenport Ames and Coralville. Dan Holcomb recovers from major surgery at University Hospital Iowa City.
Mrs. W. A. Henry 84 died Saturday afternoon at her home north of Brighton after long illness. Funeral services set for 2:36 pm tomorrow at the Keota Christian church with Rev. Fessler officiating. Burial in a nearby cemetery. Survived by husband William Addison Henry two daughters Verne Wolfe Rubio and Alex Gillis West Chester two sons Forest Henry Richland and another son at home numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Lt. J. C. Green of Polo Line School is listed as officer in charge with lineage to Camp Crowder and Iowa Southern Utilities. The column also cites furloughs and moves among service members from Columbus Junction and surrounding areas including Camp Swift Camp Jackson Fort Knox and Camp Roberts.
Mrs. Ernest Crawford attended the Merry Mixer club at Mrs. Clement Griffiths home. J B Moore finished carpentry for Sam Longwell in Dublin. Mrs. Walter Duvall is hospitalized in Washington after an operation with friends hoping for recovery. Frey Ladehoff hosted the So and Sew club meeting with six members and one guest sewing for the Red Cross. Mrs. Donald Bishop and Mrs. John McDowell returned from Cleveland where their relatives are hospitalized and improving.
National average tire life for passenger cars in 1940 was about 22 000 miles. Concrete road tests in Iowa yielded 40 000 miles at speeds from 25 to 65 mph. Iowa highway commission cars logged tire mileages between 20 000 and 70 000 miles.
A massive wartime effort cleaned an estimated 1.25 billion garments during 1943. The campaign supported essential supply and labor needs, reflecting industrial scale and national mobilization.
The old horse and buggy trade once employed about a million men, illustrating the scale of early transport work and its labor impact.
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