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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1944
Page
5
Markets show hogs at 13.75 to 13.85 for 200 to 330 pounds with steady to weak tone. Cattle and calves see short fed week with vealers 12.75 to 15.00 and strictly choice steers near 17.00. Sheep drop 15 to 25 cents with fat lambs steady to 16.35 for best woolly westerns.
Market notes show Wheat trading around 165 to 171 with several percent changes across Sep and May contracts. Oats hover near 73 to 80 with new Sept figures. Rye remains around 125 to 128 with Dec and May movements noted.
In White Oak on March 4 Mr and Mrs Lloyd Luers hosted a family dinner for two sons LeRoy who left for St Ambrose college Davenport to join the navy V 12 and Harold on furlough from South Carolina Corporal Harold Luers. Attendees included the Newton Robinson family Aledo John Robinson Tipton Bruce Robinson Richland William Romine Maxine Reeves Raymond Bell Washington Mary Lou Kasowsky Brighton and others.
Friday sale at Whittaker sale barn features Stood Lows public sale led by Smith on March 7. March 9 offers Riverside Sales Company horse sale at River side Town starting at 1 00 with M Flynn and Best edge of Keota M involved.
American Flying Fortresses carried out a daylight raid on Berlin the first by U S bombers in the war. Reports say heavy bombers attacked targets in eastern Germany and one formation hit a Berlin district amid high clouds and strong enemy resistance.
W H Dean sold his coal sand and gravel business in Columbus Junction to Everett Stewart who moved here from Ainsworth this winter. Dean bought the Stewart farm seven miles east, but will assist at the coal yard for a while. Mrs Emma Tabor died Feb 24 in Clearwater Fla. R J McCleery died in Los Angeles of a heart attack. Allen Greene was taken to Bellevue hospital. J A Green opened a pool hall on Main Street. George Dwinell arrived for a 30 day leave with his parents.
Mrs. Steve Morgan and three Fairfield families report three sons in the service. A grandmother and aunt in Storm Lake phoned with word of the absence of the youths Gordon Romine, Dan Christensen, and William Sutherlein stationed in Italy, the Pacific, and Key West respectively.
The instruction states that split wood seasons twice as fast as round wood when the wood’s diameter is more than six inches. This implies a timing rule for drying splits versus rounds based on a specified size threshold.
Washington Lodge No 26 A F E and A M holds its regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. Russell Goodin serves as W M and A W Yard is secretary.
Rail notices show mixed trains and multiple named trains including the Golden State Limited Southwest Express and Californian. Stops include Washington and Kansas City corridors with daily and Sunday exceptions. Agents Goodlander and Anderson staff the lines for C B & Q and M & ST P & P R E Co, detailing departures and arrivals.
Local schedule lists Bus No 3 leaving Washington at 6 08 am Bus No 5 at 10 56 am Bus No 9 daily Omaha to Chicago Bus No 2 from Washington to Bemidji Bus No 6 at 10 35 am and Bus No 10 at 8 50 pm All eastbound buses go to Chicago Tickets available at Bus Depot Winga's North Side Cafe North Side Square or through the local agent Winga's Cafe Agent
Clyde Finke sails from Iowa City to Salem Oregon after furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Silas Finke of South Hill. Mrs Harvey Jordan and daughter Donna Ruth of Scranton visited with aunt Mrs Frank Sands and left by bus. The Cherryholmes moved to the old Robert Gardner home. Charles Curtis and family dined with Edd Curtis. Pvt Everette Curtis writes from England about seasickness on the trip. Charley Wolfe visited Frank Sands. Sands and Jordan hosted dinners at Dayle Sands home in Winfield.
The high Andean plateau town of Potosi grew into a seventeenth century silver powerhouse. Its cold elevation and vast output once swayed world money markets after Spanish conquest.
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