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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1929
Page
2
Market data shows hogs at 45,000 head with 17,000 pure deals, top quoted at 11 35 per hundredweight. Ready-to-sell fat hogs and yearlings trade across weights from 130 to 230 pounds, with mixed prices. sows and pigs also listed, bulk gains noted but overall slow volume as trade winds down.
A community obituary note recalls M Woods and neighbors attending the funeral. other readable items include livestock market terms for feeder steers, lambs, and wool, with scattered prices and weights. grain and wheat quotations, and railroad schedules plus local lodge notices and personal recollections from Cheyenne and nearby towns.
Brighton reports a busy social scene with Mr and Mrs Avery Horton and Prod Rorkoski and Mise Clara Bork attending the Washington County R L CoA meeting in Ainsworth Saturday night. W H Brinnings of Washingto has moved for the summer to their farm near Wellston with Prod Rorkoski and Keith driving to Cedar Rai. Henry and Miss Mattie Barnes. Rubio called on Mrs Lena Barnes last Thursday afternoon. Meo and Mrs Myrl Lem Muscatine were visitors at the week's start.
Des Moines pilot B. Anderson sought to stay aloft 48 hours using three plants in the night but landed shortly after 2 pm Saturday after flying 22 hours. Rough air forced the early landing. Other Iowa items include a Keokuk burglary, a Black Hawk county attorney's death, and a Dubuque factory worker suicide.
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