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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1940
Page
5
Ernest S. Slim Rudolph announces candidacy for member of the Board of Supervisors with term starting January 1942, contingent on Republican voters at the June primary. The notice appears amid local social events and various community updates from Iowa City.
Donald McLaughlin was elected director for No 4 school district. Julia Harvey spent Friday night and Saturday with the Baker sisters at their new home near West Chester. Country schools had vacation Monday afternoon due to a school election.
Mrs Oren Birkey and daughter Ann returned home from Mercy hospital in Iowa City on Friday morning. Mrs Harve Freelia stayed with the Birkey household to help care for the new granddaughter. Mrs George Foster and Mrs Everette Fleming visited George Foster at Mercy hospital.
Senator Arthur Capper says reciprocal trade agreements fail farmers. He argues imports rose 25 percent while American farm exports fell, criticizes constitutional basis, and calls to abandon the program as it harms domestic agriculture and industry.
Backstage in Iowa politics notes strong sentiment to reappoint Glenn Haynes as warden of the state penitentiary. Haynes, a retired brigadier general and veteran of the Spanish American and World Wars, has run a reform-minded program boosting morale and prisoner reform. Board members reportedly favor him, despite Democratic administration ties, with indecision lingering about the board’s final choice.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A Y and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday of each month. Worshipful Master H ard McBride and Secretary W. Yard are listed contacts.
Railroad agent lists daily and Sunday schedules for east and westbound trains including Golden State Limited Californians locals and mixed trains. Stops and discharge pickups noted with departure times from Knoxville and Davenport routes and agent signatures.
Markets show hogs at 5.35 top for 240 lb and up to 270 lb ranges 4.85 to 4.90, 270 to 330 lb 4.65 to 4.90, and 400 to 500 lb sows 4.00 to 4.35 with lightweights to 4.50. Cattle steady to weak with some loads 8.25 to 10.25 and early top 11.50. strictly choice above 12.50. Sheep around 16.00 with little fed lamb trade. receipts projected cattle 7,000 hogs 14,000 sheep 6,000.
The Chicago open market shows wheat oats and rye futures with May, July and September positions. Wheat May at around 1.01 to 1.02, oats May near 490 to 40, rye May around 69 to 64 percent ranges, with July and September quotes varying by small fractions.
Chicago market report lists corn and oats bids with several grade ranges and a sample grade. Curator Ora Williams recalls an oil painting of George D. Perkins, a Sioux City newspaper man, tied to a leap year birth. The item also mentions Otha Wear and political questions about jobs for a Radio News-boy and Kraschel’s status in the gubernatorial race.
Market snapshot references soybean grades with color markers and percentages, listing entries such as white 42 percent and 3 white 41 to 42 percent, alongside yellow notes 2 yellow 10914 and 3 yellow 109 percent. The fragmentary data imply color coded quality or pricing cues without clear context or full figures.
Chicago AP market report shows eggs and poultry markets steady. Egg receipts total 21 625 cases with grading mix including first and extra first at 16 percent, current receipts 15 percent, dirties 34 percent, checks 14 percent. Poultry receipts include 26 truckloads with ducks 138 percent to 16, geese 10, hens 15 to 17, leghorn hens 10 to 14, spring chickens 16 to 22, roosters 101, broilers 16 to 16, turkeys 13 to 14, capons 21.
Funeral services for Mrs Q ive La Noue who died at Har vey Illinois were held Saturday at Sherman s funeral home conducted by Dr Roy Keagy. Bur ial was in improve cemetery with pall bearers Art Swift Art Pradl Livya Poster Glenn Wilson Harold Wilson and William Sitter.
Garner W. G. Williams, publisher of the Garner Leader since 1926, died after an extended illness. He began printing in 1891 at an Hmmetsbure newspaper and led state compositing work in Des Moines from 1902 to 1911. In 1998 he started the Ames Daily Tribune Times and once played professional baseball.
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