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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 32 000 with lower bids 10 to 25 cents down from prior. Cattle receipts 12 000 with good grades easy 10 to 15 cents lower, vealers steady to 50 cents down. Sheep receipts 17 000 with fat lambs weak and prices down 25 cents.
Chicago reports grain and livestock futures with May and July contracts for Wheat Corn and Oats. Prices show opening and closing values, daily highs and lows, including May Wheat at 1.42 and Corn near 81.50, with Lard futures listed for May July and Sept. 1.08 to 0.98.
Chicago traders reported precise wheat corn and oats bid ranges for May 12 with various grades and samples. The Breeder's Gazette farm publication, founded in 1881, will be sold. Burlingham becomes publisher and Guard editor following the sale announcement.
Highland Center Ida Merks reports the Union Dale school closed with a program at the school house. Miss Amelia Schmidt will teach here another year. Thelma Spreacher Velmar Spreacher were never absent or tardy earning hander chiefs. Willie Wehr received a comb for perfect attendance. Wheeler and Wilbur Thompson also noted.
A compact item from the Journal's subscription representative highlights brief notes on nearby communities. It sketches local happenings, economic signs, and civic updates that affect neighboring towns.
Local column from May details attendance at Geo Long's funeral in Wapello. Notes births and farming metrics for Benson family including a May 3 newborn 9 14 pounds and hens laying hundreds of eggs monthly. Mentions residents from Crawfordsville Keota Lexington and Washington with brief social updates and humorous anecdotes about daily life and local personalities.
Daryl Meeks Willie Weler and Lukavasky took state exams in Riverside on Friday while Sunday services were canceled due to rain. Several local residents visited Washington for dental work and social events. The era notes farming progress, crop seeding, plowing, and travel to Muscatine and home visits populate the week.
An officer addresses young recruits urging unity within the army as one big family and insisting each recruit holds the potential to become an unknown soldier. The Outlook quotes the inspiring classroom moment.
Bethel reports tenth grade examinations at the ar building while Mrs J Dawson and Bernice visit the Browns Friday evening Miss Hesseltine and a friend join her sister at the Browns for Mother's Day at the Hesseltines near Cr Forks The Wilsons aid farming by plowing sod for Foster and Dawson and a Twin City tractor is now in use. the county grader works on road conditions in the area.
From whom was the Western world saved at Chalons Tours. Under what czar did Russia gain Baltic access. To whom did Constantinople fall in 1453. Which great African general crossed the Alps to attack Rome. What major event occurred in 29 A D.
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