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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market report dated March 3 with estimated receipts for hogs cattle and sheep. Prices listed for heavy medium and light weights with top quotes and bulk ranges. Also notes general market tone steady to weak for calves and lambs and futures commentary from Beach Wickham Grain Co. Burlington Iowa.
Official yesterday receipts show hogs 18 417 cattle 8 572 sheep 28 053 calves 2 287. Shipments include hogs 6 735 cattle 6 220 sheep 3 629 calves 218. Feeder lambs medium to good selection 7 509 at 9.00.
J L Powers foreman of the Cedar Rapids Republican buys The Ames Tribune with E Johnson and E F Carroll of Iowa City from W G Williams. The paper and job printing department are included. Powers will run the paper with his two sons after the purchase. He previously led printing at the Republican and ran the Carroll Sentinel in Iowa.
The Department of Agriculture cites forest exhaustion as the core of timber depletion. It notes that half the remaining lumber in the continental United States is confined to three Pacific-bordering states, indicating concentration of resource reserves.
A column blends farming tips with local store chatter from Feb and March. Advice on plowing headlands, straight lands, and shallow ground prep appears alongside notices of customers, purchases, and equipment such as Fairbanks Morse scales, chicken waterers, endgate feeders, belt drives, tractors, and Nisco spreaders.
Journal's Farm Department lists multiple sale announcements for March including households goods at West Chester by C. L. Baker, horse sale at Whitaker Feed Yard, public sales near Washington, stock sale at Columbus Junction, and hull sale by Louisa County Short Horn Breeders. The piece also covers farming profitability lessons from Hardin County and oat seed developments by Mr. Burnett, urging timely pasture improvement and reseeding guidance from Iowa State College experts.
Jowar oats bred by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station under L. C. Burnett are available in 100 pound lots at 4.00 each. Jowar outyielded Iowa 103 and 108 varieties in 234 tests over two years, averaging 52.9 bushels per acre versus 46.5 bushels for other strains.
The text notes discing the ground and broadcasting seed followed by harrowing as effective planting methods. It mentions harrowing alone without discing or broadcasting is less likely to yield satisfactory results.
In Creston, Mrs. Maggie T. Pettigrew learns her 1895 Adams County divorce was invalid due to mispublished notice and improper proof of publication. She had used her maiden name Maggie T. Truman to claim property and file mortgages, now filing a new petition for divorce.
The plaintiff asks to restore her maiden name and establish her rights in the property as of March 10 1896. She contends her husband deserted her years ago and seeks to ensure the court process proceeds without obstruction.
About 600 men idle as Waterloo contractors enforce a new wage scale. union president A L Moore says workers are locked out and no one has reported for work. The Currie Simpon Co and H A Maine Co report layoffs, with about half the usual building trades employment in the city.
J G Miller of the State Master Builders Association was in Des Moines and unavailable for comment. The new wage scale adopted last Saturday reduced building trades wages by 10 to 20 percent, signaling a standstill as workers reportedly refuse to accept the lower rate. No future actions have been announced by either the tradesmen or the contractors.
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