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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1928
Page
2
Hogs receipts 30 000 with a mostly steady market and top 10 75 for choice 200 to 250 lb. weights. Cattle receipts 7 500 with a higher market on most killing classes and top 15 25 for yearlings and heavy steers. Sheep receipts 16 000 mostly steady with lambs 15 25 to 16 90 and feeders 12 75 to 13 50.
Chicago reports estimated receipts for tomorrow: cattle 1,500 hogs 20,000 and sheep 17,000, guiding trader expectations for prices and demand in the livestock markets.
The Chicago open high low close readings show Wheat for July at 1.86 1.87 1.86 with Sept and Dec around 1.39 and 1.42 respectively. Corn July 1.03 1.05 and Sept 0.99 to 1.01, Oats July 0.64 to 0.55 with Sept around 0.45 to 0.46.
Chicago grain notes show wheat at 1.41 percent for hard 2 and 1.55 for yellow 3. Corn ranges across several lots with mixed figures from 1.0146 to 1.05 and various percentages. Oats and barley listed with white and mixed lots, timothy at 4.10 to 4.75, clover from 20.75 to 28.00.
A pithy proverb notes that the unjust seek shelter beneath the umbrella of the just, implying deceit to gain protection from misfortune. The saying contrasts moral standings with practical advantage in everyday risk.
Goff and family visited the L H Rinner home on Sunday. Otto Suter and wife welcomed a baby girl born June 22. Ed Widmer family had dental work in Washington on Monday. Norene Mast stayed weekend with Paul Mast. Sam Conrad visited P R Schantz home Monday afternoon. Effie Johnson stayed with Ethan Brooks and Rex Swan. Elmer Graber helped Roy Johnson plow corn as farmers began turning soil.
Sunday visitors include Irene Vondrasek and others at the Vondra home. Numerous callers visited family homes, with gatherings at Roy Havel and George Kos homes. Decoration Day at 2:30 PM June 30 and a Grace Hill Grace Church Children's Day program July 1 are planned. residents urged to attend and bring flowers.
A Battle Creek physician says constipation causes much misery and introduces Rexall Orderlies, a chewed tablet that draws water into the colon to soften waste for a gentle natural movement. Stop suffering, chew a Rexall Orderlies tablet at night and wake refreshed. Get 24 for 25 cents at the nearest Rexall Drug Store.
A catalog of new books highlighted by D G Mukerji Mother India and Kerensky The Catastrophe. Other works include H A Faulkner The Economic History of the United States Lowell Thomas with Lawrence in Arabia and Stanley Vestal Kit Carson. G F Swift The Yankee of the yards and Estelline Bennett Old Deadwood days.
Mr W G Robertson and family from Columbus Junction visited yesterday with his daughter Margaret and son Henry. Mr and Mrs T H Barnes returned from a month long tour of the eastern states visiting relatives in New York Newark Norfolk and Washington D C. They traveled via Niagara Falls Hudson river boat line S Madison and Potomac river line with stops in Greenville Idaville Chicago and Mt Vernon. They report a very interesting enjoyably vacation.
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