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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1933
Page
2
Chicago livestock market figures show HoGs at 19 000 head with varying beef and pork prices across weight classes. Cattle calves and sheep volumes are listed with price ranges for steers heifers bulls and lambs and notes of general trade softness and weak to steady trends.
Seventeen year old Joan Hastings clashes with Aunt Evvie over social limits and dancing as tensions rise in the Van Fleet household. Joan rails against barred friendships and a denied rite of passage while family secrets and financial fears simmer beneath polite dinner tables.
Brief items from nearby towns compiled by D. F. Macon. Local happenings include civic meetings, school events, and community concerns. Contains concise notices about residents, activities, and upcoming dates.
On May Day many fields remained too wet to work while locals including William Flynn of West Chester Donald Rabhenold of Ainsworth L H Rinner and family Bob Shaffer of Crawfordsville and Arthur Wylie visited Washington. Mr Palmer sought a farmhand as Ralph McJunkin shared Des Moines Register items and posed the question of filling the role by May 15.
May 15 born cheerful, undemanding home town figure with industry and risk taking talent. Des Moines birthdays include John Edwin Ahrens Mae Harriet Hethershaw Earl Morton Sinclair. Ainsworth sees Coast to Coast station add a martin hotel with sixteen rooms and a lawn tennis court.
The Riverside visit recounts social calls and town ties as locals discuss arranging a ball game, meeting neighbors from Ainwoorth to Riverside, and noting wet fields near Riverside. Mentions Roy Moore, Johnny Rath, Joe M Soukup buying hogs, Joe Rirka the blacksmith, and Senator Norris with wife stopping at a Coast to Coast station.
Pees butter and poultry markets report weak receipts and varied grades. Pees receipts reach 40 756 cars with firsts up to 13 and 12 percent. butter receipts total 14 753 tubs with specials 22 23 44 extras and firsts around 21 percent. Poultry shows 20 trucks and various fowls, springers and leghorns with price ranges 10 to 16. Potatoes on track with 724 shipments and general market slow. Cash Corn futures in Chicago May 19 show mixed bids from No 2 and No 3 yellow to white grades, with receipts 203 cars.
Yesterday's scores featured Philadelphia 4 over Chicago 1 and St. Louis 8 over Moston 2. New York 5 beat Detroit 1 in another game with Cleveland 6 over Washington 5.
Iowa City announces a UPA plan to sell board room and tuition at the University of Iowa this summer. Six weeks cost men 72 dollars five weeks 60 dollars. women 75 and 61 dollars. Refunds will range from 50 cents per week to 25 cents per week for Currier lst and Eastlawn hall residents based on dormitory savings.
Landowners are urged to protect nesting sites in fence rows and fields. Do not burn or destroy grassy patches where birds have built nests as nests may be trampled by livestock. Reports say nests have been damaged this spring by burning in nesting areas.
MidWay Sale Co in Columbus Jct advertises a Tuesday May 23 auction at 1 o'clock. Listings include 25 head of horses, cattle with good milk cows, 15 head yearling steers and heifers, 125 hogs with several sows and litters, 50 thrifty shotes, new cement floors, and sanitary pens. Also seed corn soy beans farm implements and miscellaneous items to sell, with personal attention promised.
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