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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1950
Page
7
Silver Lake Park will open on May 24 with new facilities and community events. Details show the park at 7412 end featuring playgrounds, walking trails, and picnic areas for residents.
Prices for hogs ranged from 14 to 19.50 per hundredweight across weights with heavy loads at 17 to 19. Cattle saw choice fed steers 30.74 to 32 and bulk good to low choice 28 to 30.5, cows 22 to 24, heifers 25.5 to 29.5, bulls 22 to 23.5. Sheep top at 27.75 for wooled lambs, most wooled lambs 26.5 to 27, and common slaughter lambs 9 to 12 with better types 12.5 to 18.5.
Grain table shows May, July, Sept contracts for WHEAT with open high low close values. CORN and OATS display multiple months with varying prices and percentages. Soybeans list May July Nov Jan contracts with quoted figures and changes.
Wayland residents host and visit during a lively period. Families from Iowa City Parnell and Mt. Pleasant join Mrs. Harvey Millsap and daughters for dinners and calls. Church leaders and district delegates attend meetings in Mt. Pleasant while mushroom foraging yields seven specimens locally. Wayland softball opens Monday May 15 with guests and travel notices interwoven through community chatter.
Mrs Anna Barr returns home after three weeks at John McClintic home. A W Jardine and son Edward visit their father Rev A W Jardine from Des Moines. Mary Bratton and Dale Bratton of Ellensburg share plans to visit with Rey Jardine. Florence Resor Jardine and the Jardine party, plus Dr Reuben Widmer and family, and Paul Widmer with children, join Ray Wyse and sons for Sunday dinner.
Nancilee Anderson is valedictorian and Marilyn Miller is salutatorian of Crawfordsville High School’s 1950 class. Commencement May 17 features John Raymond Chadwick. twelve diplomas to be awarded. Baccalaureate May 14 in the gym with Rev. Earnest Smith delivering the sermon.
Harold Pierson of Canton Ohio and his wife visit Mrs Anna Jardon in Riverside with other relatives. Mrs Ivan Cummings has surgery at Mercy hospital. Washington guests dine with J Karel and visit the Krotz and Chalupa families. Nearby residents Mr and Mrs Kron travel to Davenport for a day with relatives.
Wind ripped the roof from Pleasant Plain high school forcing the term to end early and moving baccalaureate and graduation to Brighton auditorium. Semester tests will be held next Monday and Tuesday at Brighton. Community notices list local visits, club meetings, and acknowledgments amid the disruption.
May 12 Pilotburg report describes a Friday storm causing roof damage, toppled trees, shattered fruit blossoms and power outages. At Clayton Bear farm topsoil and sandlike drifts filled ditches and snapped evergreens. lines were down for days. May 10 marks the second wedding anniversary of Wenona Anderson Hicks of Loveland Colorado. family notes Colorado school reorganization plans limiting schools to large cities and granting teachers more control.
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