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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1918
Page
2
Cattle and hog markets show weakness with overall receipts near 917,420 for the month and next week projected at 215,000. Strong demand yesterday gave way to lighter bids as sheep and cattle prices drift lower, while western lambs and ewes hold firmer ranges and porkers hover around 16.60 to 16.75 per hundredweight.
Market notes indicate hog trading with higher averages than yesterday and varied quotes. Bulk prices hover around 16.40 to 16.89 per unit with light to heavy demand and some discrepancies in listed figures across weights and classifications.
Opening figures show mixed livestock and commodity quotes with pork at 0.95 and lard near 36.22 while oats and sar data appear in fragmented form. Prices listed include hay and other items with limited legible figures across 1912 OlN listings.
Mrs T Neurever of Eau Claire Wisconsin and D Gilkeson of Youngstown Ohio share experiences praising Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and croup. The letters claim rapid relief after other remedies failed and note the product's long service for both adults and children.
The Journal's Farm Department notes numerous farm moves and ownership changes across the county. Al Conklin sells south of town to J. Clark Wright who moves in from the north, with Fred Coakley and J. C. Wright also shifting places. Many other farmers including Murray Smylie, Marcus Kuhn, Elmer Vinecut, and George Hut relocate or hire help as neighbors swap properties and relocate near West Chester, Wellman, and Lexington.
John Work from Eureka moves to a southwest location once home to Robert Gault. The Gault family relocates to a north town site where Me Laughlin tends a large cattle herd.
Al Reeves has moved out of the house he occupied after Everett Denison left for Missouri. Milton Maas has purchased Reeves's former residence and plans to move in soon.
Freese buys the farm north of Washington formerly held by J A Freshwater and Freshwaters move to Washington. J O Crawford moves from northwest of Ainsworth into Freese’s former location. John Olds leaves the Hardin place for Geo Ebner’s purchase, and Ebner takes over J O Crawford’s old home. Ebner moves to Haskins while Roy Warner from Ainsworth will farm the Hardin place during improvements.
Northeast of Washington Cal Underwood moves near West Chester. Jarrard, Edmondson, Hayes, Jackson and Foster families shift properties. Weaving transfers include Augustine from near West Chester. Haskin and Washington area dealings involve Geerdes, Edwards, Clark, Haarrigon, Harrison, Nouseal, Sowash, Dillon, Robertson, McNeese, McGill, Cline, and Richardson relocations. Numerous farms change hands with tenants and new occupants noted.
John Sands leaves his property west of Haskins this summer and works for Charles Davis while D. F. Henderson purchases the site.
Sands left his farm southeast of Ainsworth under his brother Henry’s care. W H Bain moved from southwest of Pureka church to John Stalder farm. John relocated to a small place south of the Crooked Creek bridge on the Washington Brighton road. Wesley Brennen moved into Bain’s former residence. Robert Schoepfer, previously at John’s location, moved south of Pleasant Plain.
Lewis Herring moved to a farm near Crawfordsville with Mrs Clara Glasgow taking his prior residence near Eur eka. John Davison moved into Mrs Glassow’s former home with Frank Campbell moving from near Fairfield to Linas Wood farm northwest of Ainsworth. Mr Woods moved to property near Washington and Frank Moore rented the farm north of Ainsworth previously occupied by Harry McConnell, moving in after last season with Chas Davis.
George H. Jarrard purchases the northwest Haskins area home once inhabited by McNamara and plans to move in. McNamara is seen loading the car for departure to other parts.
I K Beal relocates from near Haskins to southwest of Ainsworth joining John Shebeck who leaves Ainsworth for Keota in an eighty traded from Riverside. Cloyce Benson leaves Washington for Busby Bros farm once occupied by Beal. Wm Busby moves to Washington as Charles Kos, near Riverside, takes over Busby’s north of Haskins farm on the Red Ball.
Earl Edmondson buys the Andy Brown farm east of Haskins to build a modern home. Brown Bros. farm lies south of Wyman. D EB Edwards shifts east of town while Aus Sutherland moves into his Eureka road residence. W F Salterberg relocates from near Valley to Aus. Was place. Jim Dawson from Kansas takes over Salterberg’s former site. H L Clark of Washington Rendering Works plans to move onto Lloyd Maxwell’s Eureka road land two and a half miles south. Steve Crawford leaves West Chester for John McLaughlin farm north of Washington. Art Finwson moves from McLauchlin farm to Hi Tidmnoe Tarn weet near Iowa. EL Nagiey moves to Washington Monday and Lande Kennedy takes over the farm rated Tw Yr Nurtey.
In a clipped colonial voice the Sydney Australian Worker notes that the capitalists would tax wages, set weight limits, and impose rules on middlemen, while promising peace to workers as a political fiction.
The State Council of Defense sponsors a drive to increase spring wheat farming. Warren Garst is in charge with pledges to set aside land for wheat. Marquis seed wheat from the U S Food Administration, priced at 2 50 a bushel f o b Minneapolis, is available, with banks ready to fund purchases.
The California Supreme Court denied Thomas J. Mooney’s plea for a new trial in the 1916 bombing case that killed ten people in San Francisco. Mooney remains eligible for executive clemency from Governor Stephens. The case drew attention from the Wilson administration’s mediation commission and secretary of labor William B. Wilson.
A Monon passenger train bound from Chicago to Louisville derailed after an overturn near trackston, 70 miles north of Lafayette. No serious injuries reported though several were slightly hurt. cause of the wreck is not yet determined. Separately the U S Shipping Board announced it will seize vacant houses and hotels near shipyards before starting construction for workers under the new housing bill.
News from Dawson Yukon describes Vilhjalmur Stefansson the explorer as delirious after a relapse while wintering at Herschel Island. Captain K M Tupper and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Arctic patrol report Stefansson reached Herschel Island after his boat Polar Bear grounded at Barter Island last fall. The captain notes he left Herschel with a cold and fever.
A compact reflection asserts that reasoning governs for safety guiding others, presenting logic as a safeguard and ruling principle.
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