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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1932
Page
2
Markets report from Chicago shows hog prices up 10 to 15 cents with top at 4.00 and heavy pigs at 3.50 to 3.80. Cattle steady with beef steers 5.00 to 7.75, calves 5.00 to 6.50, and stockers 4.00 to 5.50. Sheep steady with lambs 6.00 to 7.99 and yearlings 4.00 to 5.25.
Combined hog receipts across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 1 AM show 19 500 head at 21 yards and 7 plants, down from last week and year. Prices for various weight ranges range from 2.20 to 3.45 per cwt with bulk transactions prevailing.
Chicago market report lists butter shipments 13 090 tubs with 16 percent to 17 percent yields for various grades. Eggs 13 724 cases with current 11 4 and fresh categories 13 12 percent. Cheese varieties include young Americas, brick and daisies with percentages around 10 to 11. Poultry and fowl prices shown for turkeys hens toms leghorns broilers ducks and geese with varying cents per pound. Potatoes on track 116 cars with regional shipments and price ranges for Wis sacked round whites Idaho russets southern bliss and several quality tiers.
Chicago grain summaries list Wheat futures for July Sept and Dec with mixed gains and losses. Corn and Oats show varied bid levels and small shifts. Market notes reveal 11 cars of Wheat, 20 of Corn, and 25 of Oats moving.
District Five notes show Mrs. Will Marie hosting a fourteen-seat family dinner for visiting relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Guy McClellan and Mary Alice Dempsey from Davenport. News covers local calls, visits to Porter and Pringle households, and a nurse led lesson at J. M. Phillips home inviting Washington township residents to attend Friday afternoon at two.
Three dentists are listed with office addresses in a small-town setting. Dr W D Dwyker sits on the Bailey Building at Third floor northeast corner. Dr T J Pease is opposite Court House above Turn west at Penney store corner. Dr O F Boller is Turn west at Commercial Bank corner upstairs on West Washington Street.
Livingston and E Eicher operate the abstract department at 204 West Main Street, block east of Court House. Phone 147.
Chiropractor offers neurocalometer service. Office opposite the court house with two phone numbers 102 for residence and office. Downstairs office location.
Notes from nearby towns compiled by the Journal's subscription representative summarize local events, gatherings, and civic updates with brief mentions of community leaders and upcoming dates. The brief items reflect typical small-town happenings and neighborhood concerns.
The Journal team describes a Thursday in Keota with visits to residents, selling baby chicks, and collecting farm stories. They encounter Howard Freshwaters, Dell Reed, J. W. Henderson, and the Hagist family, note large 176 acre farms, plows and corn and corn ground, and praise Ramseyer Hatcheries in Pulaski Washington and Oskaloosa.
Washington readers learn Sunset Park in Iowa is a popular 22 acre park founded about 1898 on land donated by Abijah Savage. J F Simpson park board president shares details about picnics, parking, a lily pond with gold and sun fish, a log cabin moved in 1902, and an active tree program.
Mrs Anna Telford and Mrs Ellen Rowan visited in Washington Saturday. The county rural mail carriers convention drew about forty to the M B E church basement. Sunday featured church activities with a Children's Day program and a basket dinner. Reverend Longnecker preached at 2 p m. Miss Janet McCrory spoke on missionary work in Egypt. An accident left Mrs W W Moore with two broken wrist bones last week. Various locals and visitors were listed with travel from Toledo Maywood Keosauqua Des Moines and Chicago.
A traveling man hailed Sunset park as the prettiest he has seen in the state, noting youths are enthusiastic about a game they never imagined playing. City pride grows as compliments arrive daily to the park board.
A fragmented social note from Iowa City lists events at Sinclair Inn dining on East Washington with a June 17 21 date. It mentions a sister Miss Jane Mahin home from Mt. Vernon finishing Cornell College studies, and relatives including Boyd Mahin heading to Chicago University, plus Frank and Amy Mahin of Wichita Kansas and the Misses Schuller and Soper. Also Tim Riley and Marion Coffman visiting T. J. Easter and Lee Sands households, with Coffman returning to Des Moines.
A quiet Switzerland landscape near Lake Geneva hides a history of French occupation during the Napoleonic wars. A monument now marks Switzerland’s deliverance from Napoleon's rule and the nation’s restoration of independence.
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