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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1941
Page
7
Crawfordsville May 1. High school pupils and faculty spent a day in Muscatine for their annual picnic. They shared a cooperative dinner at Wildcat Den, then toured the town, watched a movie, and visited various spots. Senior letters were awarded Friday with music, captain stars, scholastic and declamatory honors.
Rev. Lester H. Bill and Rev. K R McCracken led a Sunday service with hymns and a benediction. The sermon, from Joshua 1 8, urged guidance for the class while mentioning the glee club and a recessional. Visitors included Mrs Marietta McCoy of Los Angeles visiting brothers Enos and Eben Davis and other relatives. Ralph Moorhead of Des Moines took his mother Mrs Rose Moorhead home after a visit.
Chicago markets show hogs 11,000 head, futures steady to firm with 8.80 to 9.10 for lighter weights and top 9.10, sows firm to higher. Cattle receipts 11,000 with steady to firm demand. best heifers steady, steer trade 9.50 to 11.50, weighty bulls to 11.75, cows firmer. Sheep 8,000 with lambs around 25 cents lower, wooled offerings around 11.00. double clippers at 9.60 and 9.65. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 5,000 hogs 12,000 sheep 5,000.
Chicago grain table reports May wheat at May 0.98 to 1.01, July 0.96 to 1.00. Corn shown with May values around .74, Sep around .75. Soybeans list May around 1.34 to 1.37 with later months near 1.26 to 1.30. Data appears as intraday open high low close quotes for wheat corn and soybeans.
Grain prices listed by grade and type show varying percentages and numbers across corn oats and soybeans. Entries include yellow and white corn grades with moisture-like percentages, oats with mixed and heavy weights and price ranges, and soybeans with yellow grades and partial price figures. The data reflects commodity quotes and sample grades rather than settled sale prices.
About 4 006 000 U S farms were noted as attendees at a bankers convention in Pella who planned a stop to visit the Tulip Festival on their return. Local and visiting residents were mentioned including Mrs L H Johnston Colum mus Junction and others taking part in family events church services and upcoming nuptials.
A man in flashy clothes entered Earl Mathews Grinnell drugstore after the owner left to deposit $125 at a bank. He asked clerk Ruth Petersen if Doc was in, then went to a rear room with a briefcase and departed with $64 from the safe before Mathews returned.
LaVerne Willenborg, while plowing on his father’s farm in Dyersville, rode a tractor into an abandoned 25 foot well filled with water. The front wheels broke through the crust but the rear wheels stayed above the opening, preventing the machine from tipping in. Willenborg leaped to safety.
Iowa City report states pilot Louis Grimm a University of Iowa engineering senior escaped injury after his CAA airplane collided with a WPA dump truck at the municipal airport following a solo flight. The truck driver also escaped uninjured and the aircraft sustained about $500 in damage.
Ottumwa union local 412 signs a contract with the Lowenberg bakery effective until May 1, 1942. The pact provides higher pay two weeks vacation and other adjustments. Union officials note federal bakery and Swenson's have also signed agreements. The three contracts affect 5 persons.
Ann McFadden nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert M McFadden suffered a fractured right leg when she fell over a twenty foot cliff on Mount Carmel road. Doctor and fire department rescue squad aided return to level ground.
Wisconsin officials object to parts of a reciprocal fishing pact with Iowa. The agreement would have let Iowa and Wisconsin fishermen fish the Mississippi River full width with only out-of-state licenses, but objections trigger a stop for further study by state conservation commissions.
Fire believed to have started in a haymow caused an estimated $10,000 damage to farm buildings on the Erwin Dygert property four miles east of Manchester. Loss covered partly by insurance. dairy barn equipment hoghouse silo and Europe.
The 1941 4-H girls state convention in Ames Iowa June 11 to 14 features panel discussions with representatives from 20 counties. Ursula Hubbard and Prof Samuel Ayres will assist, with four club girls who visited New York City joining as panel members. Training sessions run June 9 and 10 under P C Taff guidance.
Chicago prices show eggs firm with receipts of 30 098 cases, extra firsts 224 cases and firsts 21 percent. Dirties 194, checks 18 percent. Poultry market steady to easy with receipts of 35 trucks. small hens 20, leghorns 18, springs 1944.
The term eavesdropper traces to eavesdrip from an old Saxon rule forbidding building within two feet of a neighbor to keep rainwater off land. The phrase described a person who approached to overhear others’ words.
The Senate Military Affairs Committee voted unanimously to strike a House provision that would have placed the OPM priorities division under army and navy control. Defense leaders protested, arguing waste and confusion. OPM Director William S. Knudsen protested the amendment.
Living Lake May 14 news notes a program and potluck dinner at the school Friday. The event will start at 6 30 p m Thursday evening with all district families invited. Eighth graders Frances Whisler and Mary Berdo visited the high school in town Tuesday.
The record reached one percent billion passenger miles flown by American Airlines without a fatality, a figure that stood as a safety milestone before it was later surpassed.
In Calcutta's Chinatown gambling was restricted to Chinese patrons after Hindu wives complained their husbands were losing money at the gaming tables. The move targets curb cross cultural gambling activity amid domestic concerns.
The chair Abraham Lincoln sat in when assassinated is exhibited at Henry Ford's Museum of Lincoln Relics in Dearborn Michigan. The display emphasizes the historic artifact's connection to Lincoln's final moments and the national significance of the piece.
May 14 rural notes describe busy planting corn chicks and gardens, and many visitors. Eighteen boys from troop 113 D Bowie Texas returned from Brownwood, led by Everette Snider.
A report notes how scraps and shavings of ivory are hoarded and repurposed into dust for polishing and into India ink. It also mentions ivory jelly as a food form.
An anonymous donor mailed a letter with $100 in crisp bills to the Scranton Pennsylvania school board. The envelope contained no other items and no identifying sender information.
Whipta-ker and Son managers list 120 head of cattle including 1000 lb white face springers and 30 yearling steers plus milk cows stock cows and heifers. Also hogs several good sows two Duroc boars and Hamp shires. Call for veal calves and desired sheep and lambs. One lawn swing and various furniture available.
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