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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1937
Page
7
West Chester 77 will trap mink to protect poultry and pay 38 dollars per animal. State licensed breeder Howard G. Skinner AKot Inc advertises welding and seed deals amid grain prices and Chicago cash corn figures with mixed and yellow varieties and car lots.
Rain postponed the Pilotburg Children’s Day program to next Sunday at 10 a.m. The article notes Sunday school at 10 a.m. and welcomes all. It also mentions local visits, illness of Nellie Adams, and family gatherings involving the Stransky, Anderson, and Leeper families.
Harry Bishop and visitors mingle as Ted Dalton chases a mistaken glasses claim in a bustling Monday. Charley Thomas, Mortimore, Wise Long, and others swap windstorm tales, jokes, and neighborhood notes while Cloyce Dougherty’s roses endure rain.
A house party topic shifts to the presence of visitors from the next house eating celery. A resident jokes about the neighbors, while a sailor and a Yalkative lady discuss swimming ability in quirky back and forth. Ralph Kelsey works on a fence near Harmony.
Fragmented local items describe Ed Libe and Day Boone delaying fieldwork before Tuesday noon, Ed Mikseh hauling brush near Wellston, Art Mayer buying strawberries from Miss Dorothy Carris, and farm conditions at C. O. Griffith farm. Other lines mention raspberries, alfalfa delivery, and families visiting neighbors in a wet, cluttered rural page.
Grain table from Chicago on June 15 shows July and September futures with assorted openings highs lows and closes for corn and unspecified grains. Data includes percent changes and multiple quoted figures, reflecting a volatile early summer trading session.
Report notes strong corn wheat and oats near the McKain bridge with crops standing straight. Mrs. Josephine Hendrick visits Fairfield for a few weeks while Keith Barnes remains active with his Evening Journal subscription. Alfalfa fields are unusually healthy in the Black Hawk neighborhood as road work continues causing detours.
The Kech boys worked a twenty acre corn field using two three row rotary hoes pulled by tractors. They plowed across the field in twelve rows, finding the crop to be beautiful and fine like an onion bed.
A quirky dialogue about a turkey and Thanksgiving crowds blends with local Brighton farm life. Reports mention Oral W. Long and family, a Stannard filling station man, Bilson anecdotes, and residents like Chas Mumper, Bridges, Jim Long, Dave McNeese, and the Reighards.
Chicago markets show cattle and hogs broadly lower with expects for large receipts tomorrow. Beef steers range 18.90 to 14.50, hogs 11.00 to 11.25 for various weights, sheep lambs 11.60 to 12.70, feeders 8.00 to 9.50, with calves and stockers in similar lower bands.
Chicago notes a firm eggs market with 17,192 case receipts and mix of extra firsts and firsts. Butter remains steady to easy with 20,072 cases and assorted grade totals. Poultry market steady with varied receipts for broilers ducks geese turkeys and roosters.
The data shows July with 1.37 percent gain, 1.87 percent, and prices near 1.35 and 1.85. October repeats 1.04 percent across all four metrics. December displays 104 percent with values around 1.05 and 1.04 percent.
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