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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1934
Page
2
Chicago market for hogs and cattle shows moderate activity with price gains up to 1.00. Hogs 16 000 head with top around 3.80. cattle and calves steady, slaughter cattle and feeders with varying grades, sheep 7 000 with lambs and lamb prices easing slightly.
Chicago market notes unsettled for eggs with receipts 27,323 cases and firsts 1614, extra firsts 16 percent. butter market firm with receipts 14,687 pounds and various grades. poultry market firm with receipts 35 trucks and one car, fowls 13 to 14.45, springers 26, and broilers.
Regular sale of all kinds of livestock Tuesday May 15 at 1 o'clock in Columbus Junction Iowa. Cattle include 70 head beef cattle milk cows short-born bulls calves 350 to 500 pounds heifers and steers 500 to 800 pounds with weekly consignments and strong stocker feeder market. Hogs include shores and pigs with buyers ready to fill feed lots. Horses few work horses and draft mares sought. Miscellaneous 200 hedge posts soy beans and seed corn. Midway Sale Company KR F Smylie Mer. Phone 120
Henry B. Bailey announces candidacy for county attorney, subject to the will of the Republican party. The statement underscores alignment with party support and a formal bid for the office.
A series of public notices announces candidates for local offices including State Representative for Washington County and County Supervisor. The statements specify June Republican primaries and terms beginning in 1935 or 1936, with names E L Stewart Ek Edmondson R E Brown and Geo F Morrison among others.
A statement by the candidate cites running in the June Democratic primary. The text also lists poultry figures including leghorns ducks geese turkeys roosters and broilers, and notes market dull potato activity.
Chicago cash corn quotations show No 2 mixed 50 to 50 percent, No 2 mixed old 50 percent, No 4 mixed old 49 to 43 percent, No 2 yellow 50 to 51 percent, No 3 yellow 65 to 65 percent, No 2 white old 54 percent, No 3 white old 54 to 65 percent, sample grade 13 to 44 percent. Receipts 59 cases.
Warner Bros film based on Gladys Hasty Carrolls novel As the Earth Turns screens today and Saturday at the State theater. It portrays a New England farming community with realism and vivid characterizations reflecting the celebrated rural romance.
Drinking bowls for dogs are placed at petrol boxes of the Royal Automobile Club in England.
The Chicago May grain table shows fluctuating prices across wheat corn oats and rye with varied closes opens highs and lows. Notable figures include wheat 93 May and July 84 percent while corn ranges show 19 percent May and 40s July and oats exhibit 35 to 46 percent across May to Sept. Rye trends around 59 to 69 percent through May July and September.
Brief items from nearby towns compiled by D. F. Macon report routine events, local happenings, and notices with emphasis on community life and upcoming gatherings.
Clarence Herring of Crawfordsville stopped in our city and expressed thanks for Evening Journal subscriptions during a local visit.
North of Ainsworth couple promote eggs in the Evening Journal and report orders up to 50 and 75 dozen daily. Local readers express continued paper loyalty while townsfolk list visitors and weather events, including cornstalks, cattle sales, and a large bull snake sighting near a Ford.
The report blends farm work updates with community reminiscences. Wil lam Sutherland recalls Washington parties from youth, Mrs Doig hosts a visit, and locals discuss planting at W A Beater and S P Finch. Finches Montana horses pasture, cows yield milk, and Darryle Wayne thrives with new Geo Chalapa helper. The week features hot, dusty conditions impacting farm work.
Juergen A Koehler a retired farmer owns a well improved acreage tract in north Washington. He maintains one condition tied to keeping his farm and property.
In Crawfordsville on Friday evening a republican caucus selected county convention delegates G. R. Yeager Frank Gault T. H. Bar nex A. B Gault F. kb. Young C. Fletcher and Will Hagie. Also noted are local visits and attendance at events including Ruth Barnes Iowa City trip and Port Byron music contest. Crawfordsville high school kittenball team loss to end Wyman tournament.
Mrs Floyd Randall and daughter Bendetta along with the Grayals of West Branch and the Sewells of Winfield visited Sabbath at the Fletcher home. Mrs Jack Fletcher, who keeps house for Wilmer Lauderman near West Chester, spent the weekend here. Mr and Mrs C B Martin and Cedar Rapids family visited Sabbath at the J R Lease home. Leona Finch of Washington spent the past week with her parents, the Lease family.
Mrs. Earl Kephart reports a birthday surprise for Lee Hesseltine with about twenty guests. Thirty to forty-five friends joined at Will Miller’s to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Local visits include Beanblossoms at Roy Keyhart and Sigafoones at O F Abbs. Hatchery news notes 250 Barred Rocks, 205 chicks delivered. A Mother’s Day program is planned at Pleasant Hill Church Sunday morning.
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