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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1936
Page
7
Classified items list multiple for sale notices including high quality baby chicks, Leghorn hatching, garden storage, clothes coats for girls, seed oats, sprayed winter apples, small incubators, alarm clocks, oats, a grey horse with one blue eye. Listings show contact names and route numbers.
Parsons College Philharmonic choir will give a union service program at United Presbyterian church in Crawfordsville on March 15 at 7 20 PM. The fifth season group directed by Carl Molander includes works from Russia France Italy Germany the United States and spirituals with about seventy members from Washington Olds Cotter and Winfield. The program features Bach Mendelssohn Tchaikowsky and Dawson pieces plus oboe and baritone selections.
Public auction notices list sales at multiple sites including D A Tipton and Ellman near Washington and West Chester. Community sales occur every Saturday at City Feed Yard Midway Hale Coe Columbar Junction weekly auctions Wednesdays.
March report recalls Howard Benn Howard Chalupa and Howard Caldwal of Pleasant Hill traveling to Washington Wednesday with a large load of household goods. The Jeffreys family from Knoxville Town plan to settle on the Sam Wittings farm near Havre, arriving after a long trip from Kuaexville Tonn. The Jeffreys were helped by local neighbors including W H Mitchell Jake Shrader Sam Baker Glad Mast Clarence Herring and Wilur Schantz.
D. F. Macon provides brief notes on circulation matters and readership updates for the Journal.
Chicago markets show hogs mostly 10 to 20 cents higher with heavy sows up to 15 cents. Hogs 160-250 lbs 10.40 to 10.70, 250-800 lbs 9.90 to 10.40, sow prices 8.00 to 8.50. Cattle steady with beef steers 6.50 to 12.00, calves 5.00 to 8.60, feeders 6.00 to 8.25. Sheep 17,000 head 25 cents lower, lambs 9.50 to 10.00, yearlings 7.00 to 9.25. Estimated tomorrow receipts hogs 10,000, cattle 2,000, sheep 12,000.
Chicago market update notes steady butter pricing as receipts reach 7,754 with specials 31 and extras 301 percent. Produce lines show mixed levels with current receipts 18, dirties 16 percent and firsts around 18 to 19 percent in various categories.
The joint board of drainage district No. 13 in Muscatine and Louisa counties voted to appropriate 500 dollars to clean silt from Leutzinger creek in Muscatine slough after 25 landowners protested lack of benefits from the Michael creek drainage project. The northern district owners will fund the Louisa county share via warrants, with the work overseen by Supervisors George Sauer, FF. G. Wilford, and J. Henry Sebater.
Charlie Mayer of Dublin was re-elected school director for a three year term at the annual school election held in the afternoon. The town also hosted a Dutch Creek township spelling and declaratory contest at Center school earlier that Monday morning. Other local briefings note visits by Mrs. Pat Reighard and son Richard, Miss Lela Miller visiting from West Chester, and the assessor Henry Sheetz in the community.
McCaleb on Thursday Phyllis and Jo Ann Richard son spent Saturday and Sunday at the R. R. Robertson home. Mrs. Richardson spent Sandy there. Mrs. Walter Wolfe and Arlene Robertson spent Thursday at the Glenn Littl home.
The Khyber Pass forms a steep corridor between high shale and limestone cliffs linking Afghanistan to India. A winding road threads the defile, cutting through the rugged terrain as travelers traverse the historic gateway.
Sears Saddlery Co of Davenport will represent hardware and nets while buyers attend a livestock and farm goods sale. Cattle hogs and calves plus horses sheep furniture nets straw and veal calves are listed with multiple local traders names and sale items. The notice promotes a Saturday event with various livestock and farm goods offered.
Many sufferers find back pain eased by addressing tired kidneys. Doan's Pills, used for over 40 years by millions, claim to flush kidney tubes, reduce waste, and relieve symptoms like frequent urination, nocturnal wakefulness, swelling, and dizziness.
Market expectations firm for poultry with ranges: springers 24 to 25, broilers 23 to 25, leghorns 14 to 19, ducks 14 to 24, geese 13 to 16, turkeys 18 to 23, roosters 16. Potatoes show on track arrivals 100, shipments 1,018, and price 188.
Chicago market report lists No 8 mixed at 60, No 4 mixed 57 to 57 44, No 5 mixed 55 to 67, No 4 yellow 57 to 58, No 6 yellow 54 to 57, No 4 white 59, No 5 white 54 to 58 with receipts of 104 cars.
Ottumwa sportsmen who have killed about 1500 crows in the city’s central addition crowd roast will gather at a local eating plate on Saturday night to feast on crow meat in a small party.
Prices paid Wednesday at the local produce market list dairy and poultry items. Sweet cream 83 1e per pound, sour cream 29e and 27e, eggs 16e per dozen, heavy hens 15 cents, leghorn roosters 22 cents, white ducks 14 cents per item, colored ducks 12 cents.
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