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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1932
Page
2
Hog receipts reach 20 000 with 5 000 direct to packers and prices mostly steady to 10 cents lower. Light weights weak while heavy steer and calf markets hold. cattle 7 000 head, calves steady. Sheep receipts 11 000, market steady with lambs 5 60 to 6 25 and feeders 4 50 to 5 50.
Combined hogs receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours to 8:00 a.m. show 19,400 head, down from 20,300 last week and 14,000 a year ago. Prices vary by weight from 2.20 to 3.25 per cwt, with a mostly steady trend and lighter early marketing.
Chicago markets report May 17 showing butter 17 920 tubs and creamery and standards at 16 percent with extras 16 percent to 16 percent, firsts 15 percent, packing stock 12 percent. Eggs 26 754 cases with current 11 percent, extras 13 percent, firsts 12 percent, dir ties 10 percent, checks 9 percent. Cheese varieties at 11 percent across several styles. Live poultry prices list turkeys and young hens 15 percent and toms 12 percent with No 2 8 and hens noted.
The New York Yankees moved into first in the American League by defeating Cleveland 8 0 with Lefty Gomez pitching a shutout. Gomez earned his fifth win as New York extended a seven game streak and tied a league record with four straight shutouts by Yankee pitchers. Sam Gray beat Washington 2 0 for the Browns, and Red Lucas won for the Reds. Van Mungo and the Dodgers crushed Pittsburgh 11 1. White Sox beat Boston 4 3 in ten innings with Lyons pitching. Cubs defeated the Phillies 11 9 in a slugfest before a rainout halted Braves Cardinals game.
The fragment lists varied weights and grades for poultry including leghorn roosters geese and ducks with numbers and ranges. It also references potatoes with car counts and U S shipments and commodity grades for Wis and Idaho potatoes, Téa bliss prices and unclassified ranges.
Chicago seed market report lists red clover ranges from fair to good 9.10 to 11.50 and up to 13.75 for fancy. sweet clover 3.75. alsike 8.59 to 12.00. timothy from 3.00 to 3.40. Market dull.
Chicago grain table shows prices for wheat corn oats and rye across May July Sept and Dec futures. Data includes open high low and close values with percent figures and notes new July entries. Specifics include wheat May at around 54% and July near 56% to 58% ranges. corn May around 30% to 32% and July near 92% to 88%. oats May 23%. rye May none and July around 49% to 40%.
Chicago May 17 cash grain close reports mixed bids in wheat and corn. Prices shown include various color coded bids and percentages across spring and northern mixed lots.
Journal's subscription representative D. F. Macon reports brief items from nearby towns. Short notices cover community happenings, arrivals, and local events in concise summaries.
May 17 report from a small town notes locals traveling from Ainsworth Keota and West Chester. The piece highlights daily chatter about farms, livestock, schooling, and a long Know Iowa Week feature praising Iowa highways, scenery, and farming wealth. It ends with a humorous bid about age and family.
Keota events include the senior class play The House of the Flashing Light a three act mystery drama by J C Mc Mullen to be staged in the high school auditorium on May 24 and 25. The cast features Lavina the housekeeper Kathryn Clark Louise Bashford and others. The play is coached by Supt J F Church.
The report lists crop categories with color codes and percentages. White varieties show 33 percent, 43 to 33 percent, and 33 percent. Yellow varieties at 42 to % include oats. Rye shows none. Barley ranges 40 to 43 percent.
Grain receipts list 29 car Wheat 34 car Corn and 30 car Oats. The brief item records quantities by grain and vehicle car counts.
One hundred twenty alumni attended the Ainsworth high school gathering at the United Presbyterian church parlors. Officers elected for the year: President C W Spessard, Vice Ella Crawford, Secretary Helen Rabenold, Treasurer Everette Roberts. Purple and white colors decorated the banquet hall. The program featured a toast mistress, welcome, loyalty and yearnings themes, musical numbers, and initiation of the 1932 class. Classes represented ranged from 1887 to 1931. The menu included tomato cocktail, roast pork, vegetables, salad, rolls, cake, and coffee, served by a joint church committee. The closing song God Be With You Till We Meet Again ended the event.
Captain Owen of the British steamer Contractor radioed that 75 passengers and crew were saved from the Georges Phillipar after a fire burned through cabins and the radio room. About 600 passengers and 300 crew were aboard. reports on missing range to 292, with 100 missing per Captain Vieug and two women reported dead by the Aden American consul.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jacobs and daughter Betty visited relatives here from Fairfield on Sunday.
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