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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
2
U S Department of Agriculture notes hogs totaling 14 000 with 4 000 direct, gains to 10 ¼ cents over prior, top at 10 45. cattle and calves slow with weak demand, best yearlings around 13 50 and steers 10 50 to 9 25. Slaughter classes show varied ranges by weight. sheep market slow with lambs 9 25 to 10 38 and ewes down to 4 50.
Chicago May grain prices show minor moves with wheat futures around 1.01 to 1.04 and corn near 0.77 to 0.81. Oats trade around 0.41 to 0.42 with various contracts noted.
Trustees of Professor Noel Paton hand over relics to the kirk-session of Dunfermline Abbey including a metatarsal bone from Robert the Bruce and small portions of the ancient shroud and toile d or. Other items are nails rings fragments and parts of a monument believed to be from Bruce's vault. The relics are kept in an octagonal glass-fronted cabinet beside the abbey pulpit above the vault.
Van Buren arrived in Washington late in the second week of the session and, as is tradition, the Vice President stayed away until senate committees were named. On taking the chair he made his first public utterance as second official of the land. The brief remarks drew little comment and significance.
Jake Schadway visits town on Thursday morning with reports of good roads. A story recalls Dutch and a wary farmer James Brooks southeast of town on Route 4 with seventy acres of corn and a tractor. James shows a new chicken house with screens. He carries a shotgun on the tractor to scare agents and a police dog trails them later. Dr. Wickham notes a wealthy ocean liner fundraiser raising 3704 dollars and three cents, sparked by a fat Scotchman’s joke about three aboard.
The Kepharts were active with extensive corn planting. Dave Schantz worked his farm below Mocking Bird Farm as A Kauffman’s kept hundreds of chickens and a promising alfalfa patch that was drilled with oats and appears healthy.
Sam Baker's daughter cut her hand on a broken jar and Mrs Haker took her to a Crawfordsville doctor. We dined at Howard Baker's. lively chatter about papers contrasted with teasing Martha and Mary helping their mother before school. The Baker boys own good horses.
Local resident Harry Roberts claims a well will guarantee endless water. Thirty years ago the narrator and relatives including Uncle Morris Aunt Lydia and neighbors Frank and Guy Crossley played croquet there until nightfall before chores sent them home.
A local item notes Frank Sickels has many farms including the one he keeps for himself about sixteen acres left uncultivated. It mentions his three old skinny horses and his long history of farming about 25 to 30 farms. It also hints at near trade and interest in Washington.
The text recalls judges of history noting an English coach brought by a coach from England. It is praised as a magnificent carriage drawn by two noble horses. The description highlights its dark-olive hue and burnished gold ornaments, judged by some as superior to royal equipages.
Frank H Vizetelly notes in the New Standard dictionary that amulets protected people and livestock. Antonius medital lions were popular charms hung on horses cattle and oxen due to Antony of Adua. Cow bells once for warding off spirits later aided herdsmen in tracing and identifying cattle.
Frank holds a 107 acre improved farm and may trade later as he travels in the nation. Emry House in Ainsworth is busy and hard to follow. R L Duncan plans corn planting as he tends a fine cattle load near the county line east of Ainsworth. Hugh Morris has 65 acres planted and expects to finish soon. The road between Bob Duncan and Hugh Morris sits on different counties.
A rural snapshot lists local names and properties including Jones and Sittler with mushrooms, Buck readers, Clegg family acreage, Legge Bros Shorthorn herd in Ainsworth Iowa, 200 hogs, and farm scenes near Jim Clegg. Mentions Ralph Boyd sheep, a World War book, Gary Stansbury, John Babcock in California, and planned mushroom hunting with a Cumberland room gathering expected Saturday afternoon and Rev Henks and Fulton likely to speak Friday night.
A four year old named Bobbie accompanied his mother to the home of a cautious maiden great aunt. He was well behaved until dinner when he learned chicken was on the menu. Seeing shredded patties instead of drum sticks he exclaimed that the chicken must have been run on over.
A playful anecdote from Indianapolis about a physician’s son obsessed with moths. He reads widely and jokes that the book’s title mirrors the father’s inquiry about his reading. The quip ends with the boy naming the book What All Mothers Should Know.
The wind shapes dunes along lakeshores as sand carried by a breeze meets obstacles and accumulates into small dunes that grow into larger mounds. Dunes rise sometimes to 800 feet and continually change form as wind both builds and erodes.
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