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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1936
Page
8
March 6 report lists community updates from Young America. Birthdays and visits are noted, with several residents moving nearby and family gatherings at local homes. Hog butchering and weekend visits among neighbors are also recorded.
Mrs Will Kilgore has been sick in bed for several days. Mrs C R Stearns is much better and returned home. School will be held on Saturday March 8 to make up time lost to snow. this is the second Saturday of classes.
The term nihilism was first applied to Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons reflecting a theory held by many Russian revolutionary devolutionists of that era.
Chicago market desk notes hogs at 9 000 head with 2 500 direct. prices mostly down 10 cents from yesterday. top 10 55 for 150 250 lb hogs and ranges for heavier weights. Cattle and calves steady with varied prices. sheep 8 000 head steady with lambs 9 50 10 and feeders 8 50 9 50. Estimated tomorrow receipts include hogs 4 000 cattle 600 and sheep 2 000.
Chicago notes steady to firm eggs with strong receipts and high firsts, butter markets weak despite large offerings, poultry steady with varied leg horn and turkey prices, potatoes on track with 1,007 shipments and rival shipments.
Chicago notes a mixed grain market with No. 4 mixed at 56% to 57%, No. 2 mixed at 54% to 57, No. 4 yellow 56% to 58, No. 6 yellow 54 to 57, No. 4 white 59% to 44. Receipts total 127 cars.
South Seventy Six notes several families moving this week. Pete Hubbs with children Gerald and Audrey head to Galt Missouri after Pete bought a farm there. Mr Griener moves from near Harper to a new Keota area property. Richard and Mrs Fisher relocate northeast of Ainsworth to work on the Blankenhorn farm. Ben Shaffer and wife buy the Hamilton property in Keota and will move. William Shan- sentence cut off.
March 9 L. D. Shaffer closes out at seven o clock one mile south three miles east of Keota. March 10 Mia Anna Sheets closes out sale miles south of Keota. Community sale every Saturday City Feed Yard Midway Sale Co Columbo Tanetine exere Wadnacdaw
Prices paid Friday at the local produce market include sweet cream No 8 at .80 per pound, sour cream No 2 at .20 per pound, hennery eggs at various doz prices, heavy hens and leghorn hens listed by price per pound, and both white and colored ducks priced at .10 to .12 per pound.
Chicago grain table shows May and July futures for CORN OATS and RYE with mixed percentages. Corn and wheat readings appear alongside ranges and old-quoted figures, with bidders listed as High Low Coxe and scattered percent figures across months.
A village smith Charley Darkin at Ainsworth operated an electric machine when a plow share cut his cheek. He then went to Dr. Main for treatment. Neighbor Frank Wood was away but Mrs. Wood asked to keep receiving the Evening Journal.
Miss Hattie Pratt and Amma keep their home daily. Mrs. George Carson visits for rheumatism. At Mrs. Anna Tedford’s home, a variety of canned goods from California to New York via Chicago. Mayor Sands and Al Moore visit Billy Moore in Iowa City hospital. Audra Pearson, Ainsworth post mistress, praised for excellent service. Mrs. Harry Dunran ill since Jan 1. Harry and two ladies provide care. Writer traveled with Harry to Crawfordsville and back by 4 o'clock. Thanks to Mr and Mrs Duncan.
A note indicates Hugh Hazett stopped the DX sta tiey business and allowed the Evening Journal to continue arriving at his father's home, though the text is unclear and partially corrupted.
R T Williams in Crawfordsville pledges increased funding for the Journal. A reader asks if Deam Cherryholmes has been spotted while the author contends that the truth must be admitted.
The Now and family plan to relocate to the Shaffers’ vacated farm while Mr and Mrs Tom McAvoy move to the Shannons’ vacated farm this week. Mc Avoy’s bought the farm last fall, and moving has slowed due to thawed roads with most trucking done early in the mornings while roads are solid.
A note from Columbus Junction R 1 announces a new mail route allowing residents to receive the Evening Journal again. Mrs. H Fishburn remains active on her Crawfordsville farm and is content with the current routine.
John Mulikin traveled from Pleasant Plains to Washington on Thursday showing that area still has significant snow.
The Journals were taken to Brighton on Thursday evening. Short Robertson urged the colonel to ride in his truck. A Brighton beauty proposed that the colonel accompany her home, prompting questions about which colonel she addressed and a reply referencing Short’s palace dog.
A note expresses gratitude to F. E. Dunkser for arranging Mr. Charley Dirch's Evening Journal subscription with Floyd handling the duties. The writer repeats thanks to Mr. Dirch.
N. L. Black states the Helen Stephens Journal should be kept active and sent to Indianapolis, Indiana. The note adds a personal aside that they always mind Nate.
Mrs. Alex Miller spoke at the Y yesterday evening to the Chamber of Commerce. Ralph Dougherty introduced the speaker who is favored to remain our secretary of state.
C A Dickinson Strighton sends a notice we like to receive but will stop when passing anyhow. Theo Ohez reports from a farm southwest of Washington. W H Cooper of Hedrick plans an Angus cattle sale March 13 at the Whittaker sale pavilion with an ad to appear in the Evening Journal. Burkley Ward and wife, wintering in Omaha, will return soon and may stop Journal deliveries after March 9.
Lone Wolf led a hostile faction on the warpath in 1874. He was swiftly defeated and, with several followers, deported to Florida where he remained in military confinement for three years.
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