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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1928

Page

2

Market Summary Chicago Hogs and Cattle May Report

Market news from Chicago notes hog receipts at 18 000 with demand slow and prices 10 to 25 cents lower. Light weights sold around 10 to 25 cents under Tuesday's average, top 10.25 for 190 220 lb hogs. Cattle receipts at 14 000 and calves 4 000 with a large midweek run. steers and yearlings mostly steady to lower, slaughter steers 12.75 to 14.75 for various weights, heifers 12.25 to 14.50, lighter classes weaker.

Chicago

Livestock Price Ranges Across Grades and Types

Market notes list price ranges for cows bulls vealers and stocker and feeder steers by quality and weight. Prices show good and choice grades leading the spectrum with lower cutter common and stocker values noted. Cattle types include cows bulls vealers and stocker feeder categories with varying figures.

Chicago Grain Market Briefs May Wheat and Corn Quotes

grain prices move with May wheat opening at 1.673 and closing near 1.61 with July and Sept values around 1.66 and 1.58. Corn May near 1.09 with July around 1.12 and Sept near 1.10 while oats show May around 0.64 and Sept around 0.47 with July near 0.56.

Grain price report from Toledo market summary

The Toledo grain list shows Clover at 16.75 set with 46 percent, 17.75 cash imported 13.75. Timothy priced at 2.20 cash and 5.20 May with 2.70 December. Alsike offered at 15.00 cash.

Toledo Timothy Alsike

Chicago Grain Prices Mixed by Commodity Types

The market shows Wheat at 2 hard 1.69 with various bids, Corn ranging from 1.04 to 1.45 across yellow white and mixed lots, Qats steady to 70 cents, Rye No 1 at 1.36 half, and forage staples Jarley Timothy Clover priced between narrow bands.

Chicago Rye Jarley Timothy Clover

Ainsworth School Plans Two Operettas Tuesday Evening

The grade school will stage two operettas at the school building on Tuesday night. The first four grades present Spring Glow and the upper grades Twilight Alley with Miss Dunlap and teachers in support. Funeral services for William Stickley were held Saturday at United Brethren church with Rev. H J Krenmyre officiating and a choir including Lyn Van Horn and others. Out of town mourners listed include Mrs Thomas White Delmar IA and Mr Duton Los Angeles CA among several Washington and Sey moure attendees.

Rose Lewis Abe Beenblossom Williams Clara Daub Washington Stickley

Local notes and social items from community page

The column lists funeral details for J. B. Simpkins with M E church services and visiting relatives from What Cheer Muscatine Richland Riverside and Washington. It notes upcoming Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society meeting with Mrs Dan Griffith and a Junior-Senior banquet at the high school gym. The Simpkin family and several local residents are mentioned with weekend visits and travel plans to Washington D C and other towns.

Ber Masonic Lodge Warren Minnesota Carl Oklahoma Vernon Texas Ladies’ Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Dan Griffith Maggie Hamil J. B. Simpkins M. E. Church J. H. Krenmyre Vanhorn Spessard Orville Thoma Everette Shearer Darius ‘Griggs Maxine What Cheer Joe Clark Cal Simpson Ray Joy Muscatine Laird Simpson Richland Ed Page Vera Maggie DeArmon Riverside Orvil- Dayton Win. Shamen Washington Wesley Sawyer Delta Joseph Norris T. Trotter W. H. Ross Keota Frank Trotter West Liberty G. A. Salmon Columbus Junction McKenzie Tedford Charles Stearns East Miles Washington, D. C

Braden Area Family Visits Highlight Weekend

Braden residents and relatives from Washington Crawfordsville and Muscatine gathered for weekend visits and family meals. Several Maxwell and Smith households attended Farm Bureau events while local students joined a Crawfordsville senior trip to Mt. Pleasant Oakland Mills and the Iowa State Hospital Power Plant.

Braden Oscar Hughs Washington Latimer Davis Boyd Twinam Delbert Maxwell Ollie Blake Lyle Fletcher Crawfordsville D. F. Smith M. Maxwell Farm Bureau Mt. Pleasant R. H. Smith Donald Smith C. M Maxwell Smith Wilfred Smith Louis Jugenheimer John McCall Pauline Merle Smith Oakland Mills Iowa State Hospital F. M. Smith Donald Rex Smith Jane Berkshire Jim Lange Elmer Mason Doris Maxwell Mt. Union del Frye Henry van Dorn Muscatine Rexsmith Eyl Berkshire Jane Merle Howsare Iowa City

Prairie Center Chickens Bring Community News

Prairie Center reports strong chicken farming with many flocks thriving. Mrs Zieglowsky has nearly five hundred birds. Mrs Campbell notes a successful hatch with 215 to 216 chicks from 252 eggs. The writer mentions a Klondike size 240 incubator and asks for more updates from residents.

Prairie Center Albert Zieglowsky Charles Zieglowsky Retibsam Spencer

Local Farm News and Community Notes From Keota Area

May brings farm work as Cyrus Birka cuts timber and hauls wood while neighbors prepare corn fields. Elmer Geunther clears forty acres and enjoys self-employment. Roads are reported fine and town folks exchange small talk, weddings, visitors, and baby Virginia Maxine amid farm chores and Sabbath class gathering.

Farm town near Rubio grows large family operation

A town residents own and farm a large agricultural enterprise near Rubio. The family operates extensive fields and diversified crops, sustaining local employment and contributing to the regional economy.

Rubio

Elephant deals and local social notes in brief

A Nashville Banner quip jokes that many families lack elephants because no dollar down plan is offered. The page also reports Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pulver visiting Excelsior Springs for a health rest and Mr. and Mrs. Hill Olds with Alice and Dick returning to Davenport after visiting relatives. Dr. W. J. Masson could not attend the District convention in Des Moines and had his brother take him to Iowa City for a train, planning to attend the state convention for a few days.

N Nashville Banner Sam Pulver Excelsior Springs Mrs. Hill Olds Alice and Davenport W. J. Masson Des Moines Iowa City

Rev Cooper to Lecture on Revelations at Pleasant Hill Church

A notice reports Rev Cooper will lecture on the Book of Revelations next Sunday at Pleasant Hill church at 2 o'clock. Also mentions W H Mitchell listing four corn planters traveling between his Havre farm and Washington West Chester IA and a check for two dollars enclosed for the Journal by Mrs Thos A West.

Frank Schantz Cooper Pleasant Hill Church W. H. Mitchell Havre Washington Thos. A. West T. A. Sprague West Chester Iowa

The Traveling Man’s Mirror Sparks a Family Rift

A traveling man gives an old Arkansawyer a compact mirror. The man sees his late father in the reflection, cries, and keeps it at home. When the wife discovers the mirror she mistakes the reflection for another woman, claims the man’s infidelity, and tosses the mirror into a well.

Slaming a Competitor in Ford Car Scheme

A terse Woodlawn Illinois Courier notice accuses a wanted man of milking and driving a Ford car as possible dirty work by a competitor. The item reads like a hot tip or alarm about a suspected fraud tied to General Motors.

General Motor Woodlawn, IL Courier

West Chester notes on travel weather and losses

West Chester Ia April 30 Eugene Smith and wife of Winfield and Nellie Dayton of Waterloo visited friends in Keota. Farmers are about three weeks ahead of last year with corn planting soon if weather stays good. News of Charlie Freding's death and many recent losses to the county.

West Chester Eugene Smith Winfield Towa Nellie Dayton Waterloo Keota Charlie Freding

Paving Progress and Local Hopes in Keota

Journal notes 1400 miles driven over four days as paving near Andy Augustine’s and Glenn Martin’s corner draws attention. Keota plans a one mile east west paving through town this week with curbing in place. The piece comments on Sunday work, local crops, stock shipments, and Harold Miller’s recovery from rheumatism with mild pride in Keota’s growth.

Andy Augustine Glenn Martin Keota Harold Miller

Fire Claims Life of Man in Downtown Cedar Rapids

Ben Norris, 71, died in a downtown Cedar Rapids blaze that damaged a building owned by Henry Churchill. Damages are estimated at seven thousand dollars.

Cedar Rapids—(Lp Ben Norris Henry Churchill

Vinol Health Cure Promises Quick Rest and Appetite Boost

An ad claims Vinol, a tonic of iron and cod liver peptone, eases nervous stomach, aids sleep, and provokes a big appetite after the first bottle. It targets tired, nervous people and pledges quick vitality, with Lemmon's Pharmacy selling the product.

J. C. Duke Lemmon's Pharmacy

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