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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1932
Page
2
Hog receipts reached 17 000 with bids up to 10 cents higher and top at 3 75. Cattle were steady to firm with beef calves and yearlings strong, steers 6.00 to 7.75, cows 2.75 to 4.75. Sheep traded steady with choice lambs 6.50 to 7.25 and feeder lambs 4.50 to 5.25.
INS Produce flags June activity in Chicago with detailed tub counts for butter eggs cheese and poultry, including butter 11 924 tubs eggs 14 766 cases and broilers 18 percent. Potatoes on track 176 new and 60 old with U S shipments 686 and regional price ranges noted for Wis round whites Idaho tassels and southern varieties.
Seed market in Chicago on June 15 lists red clover as fair to good with pricing from 9.50 to 14.50 and timothy grades from 3.19 to 3.40. Alsike ranges 9.00 to 12.50 while overall activity appears dull.
June 15 Chicago cash grain figures show wheat 2 red 51% to percentage, 2 mixed 51, 3 mixed 50. Corn features 2 mixed 32, 2 yellow 30 to 32, 3 yellow 31, 6 yellow 30, 1 white 32, 3 white 32. Oats list 2 white 22, 3 white 20.
Chicago grain prices report mixed moves with Wheat, Corn, Oats and Rye futures for July September and December deliveries. Wheat tops at about 50 cents per bushel, Corn around 31 cents, Oats near 20 cents, Rye about 31 to 37 cents with minor fluctuations across contracts.
U S D A reports combined hog receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 19 300 for the 24 hours ending 8:00 A M trading steady to 10 cents higher. Prices vary by weight with good to choice hogs 180 to 230 pounds at 3.05 to 3.25 and heavier weights 2.80 to 3.20 for 250 to 290 pounds. Sows range 2.35 to 2.95 depending on size, with light weights and pigs priced accordingly.
American Pearl edged Troop F 8 to 7 after a lengthily thirteen inning game before a large crowd. Edmondson and McGill kept the Pearl battery, Kiesey and Matlock worked for Troop F, with Ted Brown praising sideline support. Remaining games scheduled at Cavalry field with standings to be published tomorrow.
Dentists listed with offices in Bailey Building at northeast square third floor end of hall Dr W D Dwyer phone 176 Dr T J Pease opposite Court House upstairs west at Penney store corner 319 West Main St phone 354 Dr C F Boller turn west at Commercial Bank corner upstairs 219 West Washington St phone 76
Livingston and Eicher operate an abstract department at 204 West Main Street, block east of the courthouse, offering title and related services.
New rocalometer service advertised by chiropractor located opposite the court house with a downstairs office. Office and residence phone listed as 102.
Community brief items compiled by D F Macon from neighboring towns. Short notes cover local happenings, arrivals, and small events in area settlements.
June 15 diary records mixed weather with wet fields near West Chester Keota and nearby farms. Mentions families Freshwater Martin Lam bert Lamberts and Sturgeon Farm visits plus rural anecdotes and a question about Kilgore.
The first swimming period for boys going to Camp Wapsie Y begins Thursday at 3 00 P M with weekly sessions for special swimming instruction. Plans for the July 25 to August period advance well, with Il as camp staff and Washington leaders assisting every eight attendees. The first ten enrollees are Fred Reid Joe Pease Dean Cox Harold Wolf Everett Burham William Burham Wayne Wilson Billy Brown Douglas Williamson and Wayne Simmerman.
Irene Beranek of Riverside in Washington county aids in greeting Dorothy Greenwald Iowa champion who won the national spelling title. Beranek will ride on a parade float with neighboring champions as Winnie Palmer and Winnie Reiter accompany her. The daylong celebration includes an airplane ride and escort for Greenwald’s return from Washington DC, Davenport to Muscatine.
In Madison Wisconsin reports show Swiss cheese makers have increased from 115 to 149 factories using eye farming cultures. The trend underscores rising popularity of holes in cheese as a key feature.
Trace Harvard Accent PITTSFIELD Massachusetts Two university linguists invaded the Berkshires to record expressions phrases and words surviving colonial New England. They aim to trace them to their English origins.
Luella and Myron Tinnes spent last week with Mr and Mrs Albert Tinnes. John Kiefer drives a Whip pet coach. Harlan Hunter and Bernard Hahn visited the R G Sheetz and J W Griener homes. Sunday visitors were Mr and Mrs Leo Vogel and daughters at the parental John Peiffer home. Mr and Mrs Fred Sheetz visited Clarence Feckly near Harper. Henry Rambhie family with the Jake Conrad family. Mr and Mrs Albert Tinnes at the Nick Tinnes home. Eddie Lenninger with Lawrence and Reynold Griener. Luella and Whileen Tinnes and Rogsa mond with Gladys June and Kenneth Sheetz. Mr and Mrs Howard Bower and family at Lawrence Walton home. Theresa and Bud with Genevieve Vogel and Ada Hornung. Robert G Sheetz with John Kiefer, Elsie Tinnes and Mrs John Kiefer at August Times home and Hubert Shbeetz, Joseph Ott and Richard Redlinger at Ainsworth.
The Mis leading Lady thrills at the State theater with Claudette Colbert staging a dramatic telephone attack on Edmund Lowe. On set Colbert joked about striking Lowe five times with the receiver while he noted actresses usually hit him six times for wrong numbers.
Jake Kiefer called on Lee Henry Thursday evening. Genieve and Virginia Kiefer and Paul Ott visited the J. W. Greener home Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Sheets and family called Friday evening on Rev. Carl W. Klein in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Griener also called.
The small islands of St Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland are a French colony covering about 100 square miles with a population around 4000
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