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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets report mixed receipts and steady tone from yesterday. Hogs show strong demand with heavy weights near 19.80 while cattle prices vary by weight class and include sharp bids on beef steers and feeders. Lambs and sheep show steady to higher values as pens fill. Officials note total receipts and shipments amid a cautious opening.
Grain futures close data supplied by E. W. Wagner and Co of Iowa City with J. B. Hunt as manager. Trade details and price movements for the day are summarized for local readers.
General Pershing informed the war department that repatriated prisoners of war may recover money held by the German government. Receipts will be presented for payment through the armistice commission. Those who returned to the United States requested forwarding receipts to the chief quartermaster for collection.
Four armed bandits held up the employees of the First National Bank in Freeport March 20, took all currency from the cashier and escaped in a car. The loot was estimated at 35 000.
The Iowa State College bulletin reports Johnson grass as a persistent weed spreading in Hamburg area fields. It has deep rootstalks, seeds survive digestion, and spreads via manure. Control urged: pasture, close cropping, midsummer shallow cultivation, frost until clean.
Rural mail service on Route 5 from Washington has been disrupted for days due to road conditions. The carrier now turns south at Frank Smith corner and goes directly to Grace Hill, bypassing the Dublin end of the route.
Through the Agricultural Experiment Association a three bushel sack of Towar oats is offered for a field test. Only 35 lots remained on March 5. Towar is a new white oat variety from the state experiment station, taller and later maturing than Iowa 103, with a marginally higher yield in three years.
County agents and home demonstration agents are jointly employed by the U S department of agriculture and the state land grant college with county farm bureau. They perform cooperative agricultural extension work under state supervision and federal aid through two extension offices covering 15 southern states and 33 northern and western states. Dr A C True heads the state relation service. The public term for these duties is county agent work.
Before seeing a specialist for stomach trouble try Chamberlain's Tablets. A few doses may help digestion and biliousness. They cost a quarter and are likely to benefit those with digestive issues.
A fragmentary note claims jasmine musk and hyacinth perfumes arose from coal mining. It suggests soaps perfumes and expensive scents originate in coal with creosote pitch oils carbolic acid antiseptics and hazardous explosives concealed within a lump of coal.
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