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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1920
Page
2
Chicago market notes estimated receipts hogs 17,000 cattle 6,590 sheep 16,006 with total receipts 65,500. Prices shown for hogs and cattle range from 12.25 to 16.60 for various weights and qualities, with steady to strong trading. Sheep and lamb markets open lower on lambs, with feeder and stocker activity also listed and receipts and shipments detailed.
A reflective vignette ponders a future crossroads where autos flood the streets and a student faces choices between a candy stand a picture show or a car. The piece recalls old local fruit varieties and a wilted twig in a rural school scene.
A London Times Personal column advertises a job to look after a baby gorilla. The wage is 30 shillings per week. Applicants are directed to apply at 15 Sloans Street Knightsbridge.
Journal lists farm department sale dates around Havre Washington and Denison with buyers and locations. It includes March 4 to March 10 closing out sales and stock sales, followed by a 1920 entomology report urging federal quarantine and funding to eradicate corn borers nationwide.
R F Smylie and Son held their second Duroe Jersey bred sow sale at Midway farm in Columbus Junction. Twenty eight sows averaged 230 with top price 805. A litter of eight pigs sired by Proud Pathfinder sold for 900. Sale labeled very successful with buyer interest high.
Charles Sojka of northeast of Washington delivered thirty two head of heavy hogs this morning to local buyers. The pigs were sired by Goldfinder, the herd head on the Ernest Carlson farm, weighed 16 pounds each and showed the benefits of careful breeding for market hogs.
Reports from Massachusetts New Hampshire and New York warn farmers that the European corn borer could threaten midwestern harvests. Entomologists describe it as the worst pest to corn states, feeding on stalks and ears, with multiple generations from May to August and potential heavy losses.
Iowa crop reports total farm value at over 1.5 billion dollars for 1919. Corn tops wealth with about 500 million, swine valued at 226.48 million, dairy around 115 million, wool 4.5 million pounds, sugar beet 576 thousand. Oats area 5.67 million acres, yield 34.6 bushels, value 125.69 million. Hay covers 2.992 million acres with average yield not shown.
The text notes 1.6 tons unit details with an average price of 18. a7, a total yield of 4 957 370 tons and a value of 91 066 887 dollars. It presents figures without context such as crop type region or year.
The board of trustees invites bids with man and team for work in two or more sub districts in Highland Township. Submit bids to Newton Wheitstine, Township Clerk, or attend the board meeting at Center School House on April 5. IT prompt noted.
March 3 in Fairfield H C Farley is in the city jail. Fairfield men identify him as R C Rice with several alias names Pradley West Preston Rodgers and others. He is wanted for forgery years earlier. Friends at Iowa Falls claimed the Fairfield officers made a terrible mistake.
A prominent Iowa Falls society member recently tried faces fellow Fairfield Tribune staff over forgery accusations. He continued to deny guilt, claiming mistaken identity while staying as a guest of Sheriff Watter Harris.
Police arrested Mrs Navada Wright in Cedar Rapids on March 3 and uncovered a basement distillery with a capacity for several gallons of mountain dew every twenty four hours. Investigators found several gallons of mash and six quarts of newly made whiskey. She was charged with poaching. The still and suspects were turned over to federal officers.
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