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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1932
Page
2
Hogs 11 000 head. prices 4.20 to 4.85 with top at 4.85 and mixed advances. Cattle receipts 4 000. steadier to 25c higher for steers and stockers. calves 4.50 to 7.00. cows 3.00 to 4.50. bulls 3.00 to 4.50. Sheep 8 000. lambs 6.75 to 7.75. yearlings 5.00 to 6.00. feeders 4.75 to 5.75. ewes 2.50 to 4.50.
U S D A reports 7 000 hogs received by 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 am today. Prices show steady to 10 cents higher with active trading and heavier weights. ranges given for various weight classes and sows.
Chicago March 22 produce report lists butter 10 605 tubs creamery extras and standards 22 percent ex tee 22 percent firsts 21 to 2144 packing stock 13 to 14 specials.
The report lists eggs at 11 percent with 14 350 cases and 23 percent to go, cheese varieties including young Americas and Longhorns at 1344 units, and diverse produce and poultry figures. Live poultry totals include turkeys hens and toms with varying grades, ducks and geese weights, and potato car counts with U S shipments and regional varieties across Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota and Idaho.
Chicago seed market notes a dull trade with snow covering markets. Red clover ranges from fair to good with prices 9.50 to 12.00 and fancy at 13.50 to 14.00, timothy also priced from 3.00 to 3.50, Alsike 9.00 to 12.50.
Wheat 17 cars, corn 26 cars, and oats 9 cars are listed in the grain receipts. The summary reflects shipments of staple grains recorded in the period.
Chicago market report lists open high low and close in futures for wheat corn oats and rye across March May July and September contracts with figures for Mar and new July Sept positions. It records percent changes and price levels for each commodity and contract, indicating mixed moves and parity across grain futures.
Chicago March 22 cash grain close notes vary by grain type and grade. Wheat mixed and red tagged prices show 50 percent, corn ranges 31 to 32 percent, oats shift from 21 to 23 percent, barley trades 51 to 58.
Rev W G Robertson of Columbus City preached at the Presbyterian church and will fill the pulpit in coming Sundays. Miss Katie Bowman spent the weekend with relatives in Washington and attended revival meetings at the Christian church. Charles Dill visited Cedar Rapids. A St Patrick s social at Conesville s Reformed church featured music readings and candy sales. Mrs J S James and son John Richard visited in Washington. The April meeting of the Lou- is to be held.
Local observer D F Macon reports brief items from nearby towns including civic updates, school events, small business movements, and community announcements, highlighting everyday happenings across the region.
March snowstorm slows travel in Washington Iowa as M J Smith and William Augustin report in, Dale Gallagher helps push a wet car home. Ralph Waggoner mourns the loss of a family horse from Bert Yards sale in 1922. Mutual Casualty News features Washington county hospital plans and local physicians Dr C W McLaughlin Dr J H Lloyd and Dr W J Masson with their pictures. Also shared are a Martial Rataplan drum corps write up and a grandfatherly exchange on ancestors.
The head of a large life insurance company argues that past crises were far deeper than today. He cites 1839 bank closures, 1878 unemployment peak, and 1893 hardships, saying the nation endured harsher times. He adds remarks about weather and a sale slated for Thursday in northeast Washington.
The Board of Supervisors sends the Road Improvement program to the Highway Commission. Plans include graveling the Trunk Road west from Cuddebacks Corner to Dublin and a section toward Wayland with a new Crooked Creek bridge near Darbyshire’s. Also graveling two miles from Fairview to the lake Fran corner and a Sandy Hook job with a new bridge and Len Guy farm road improvements. Local crews will handle extensive county road work and maintenance crews report equipment overhauls ready for spring. Tax collections ahead of last year and discussions with the Attorney General on tax extension fail without a special session. Maintance Crews prepare to clear roads after heavy snow and open highways promptly.
Ivan Simpson, longtime George Arliss collaborator, appears in nearly every Arliss film and stage work. In The Man Who Played God he portrays a sympathetic butler friend with one of his finest supporting roles. He also runs a Warner Bros training school teaching stagecraft to young actors.
County Ministerial association planned in Oakville. M. P. McKeown held a farm closing out sale northeast of Conesville Friday and will visit his son Dr. Albert McKeown in Seattle this week. Women of the Presbyterian church served a wattle and sausage supper at Jennings electric shop Saturday evening. Rev. C. O. Winters of Letts led a service at United Brethren church in Columbus City Thursday evening. Helen Aringdale to represent Amity school in Louisa county spelling contest at Wapello on April 2.
Relatives report Madonna Sherwood daughter of Mrs. L G Sherwood Dearborn Missouri married February 17 to J D Noble. The couple will reside in Dearborn. Town tickets updated for March 28 election with minor changes to Citizens and Progressive tickets. High school sophomores and sponsor Geraldine Stratton hosted a low mood party with games and visiting classmates.
Joseph Utterback received a telegram announcing the death of his sister Mrs. Mary Glaze aged 79 at her Spokane Washington home on Tuesday March 15 Interment is planned in St Joseph Missouri where the Glaze family lived for years The notice also reports visits and local moves including Mr and Mrs John Woodside of New London at Mrs Woodside's mother Mary Woodside's home and family moves of Charles Coulburn Wade Harbison from the J A Marsh farm to the Athearn property in town
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