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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1938
Page
7
Classified items include strawberry plants for sale at 265 cents per hundred, contact Mrs. R. W. Hamilton at 814 N. 6th. Also notices about screen repairs from Eclipse Lumber Company, tire ads for Goodrich Silvertown Lifesaver Treads, and Washington Oil Company products. Includes Chicago grain table with May July and Sept prices for wheat corn oats rye.
A Chicago market note provides sample grades for several carrot and color grade categories. Mixed and yellow classifications show moisture or quality percentages ranging from 59 to 60 percent with various ranks. a mixed entry sits at 59 percent, and a sample grade spans 51 to 7 with an estimated carrot yield of 524 units.
Brighton high school held its third annual exhibit with a one act play The Tiger's Claw directed by the public speaking class. Freshmen and sophomores formed the class with students named Richard Arnold Eloise Johnston Joan Smith Roger Stannard Nita Cranfall Hased Mullikin Richard Day and Elsie Stout. Home economics models displayed a range from rompers to dresses for different grades. Manual training featured a four poster walnut bed a walnut writing desk and assorted tables.
Hogs total 8,000 with 7,500 direct and weights 210 to 326 pounds bringing 8.35 to 8.75. Weekly trend shows 220 pounds or less up 35 to 45 cents, over 220 up 45 to 50 cents, sows up 60 cents. Cattle steadier with calves 100, beef steer prices 9.75 to 10.75, cows 5.75 to 8.00, feeders 7.59 to 9.00, stockers 6.00 to 8.00. Sheep 6,000 with lambs 8.00 to 8.50, yearlings 6.75 to 7.75, ewes 3.00 to 4.00. Estimated receipts Monday cattle 13,000 hogs 16,000 sheep 10,000.
May 20 reports wet ground and drying dirt roads. Dr. Lease showcases a beautiful Crawfordsville garden with beans and other crops thriving. Bud Lease at the cafe and Mr Beauchamp the barber make playful comments about news and shaving, adding local humor.
A hard driving taxi operator ignores a red signal and scares a traffic officer with threats before the patrolman coolly confronts him. At Mletcher Motor Co Fred Mitchell and son John Hadenstein and others observe the scene while Crawfordsville neighbors trade tales on a hot day. Wert Welch endorses mowing on the installment plan and Rk V Davis reads various papers while lamenting the Journal's expiry.
The narrator notes conversations between women and neighbors about affairs while water covers plowed land near Crawfordsville and Olds. Fred Shaffer and Dale Roth stay busy. Rk. C. Bartlett, once of Brighton, introduces Mr. Green from Minneapolis. Minnesota counties near Freeborn to Albert Lea report flood delays and many lake lakes. ties are being removed from Olds.
The passage notes Miss June Cor hant of Springfield and her father Paul Gor ham traveling via Washington to Des Moines on business. They plan to return to Springfield, with all in Springfield said to be well and water plentiful in both places.
The superintendent of schools tours a night school for colored adults where an elderly woman previously learned to write her name. This year she enrolls again revealing she has since married, expressing pride that she now bears a new identity as a married woman.
Rastus faces a joke about guilt and trial as the sheriff presses for a verdict. A quip about cooking for a month leads to a punchline on life insurance and freedom.
The report notes racks, electric lamps, smoking stands and other furnishings on display along with major exhibits in biology, general science, Latin and commercial departments, highlighting engaging student work.
The text explains the atmosphere as two layers, the troposphere and the stratosphere, with the troposphere containing wind and clouds and the stratosphere above being relatively calm. It notes the division starts about eight miles above Earth.
Orange City reports about 5,000 people from up to 200 miles away attended the festival's closing day. The event featured street scrubbing by costumed helpers, a parade, and the 1938 tulip queen presentation, aided by favorable weather.
When relief stations in Chicago closed due to lack of funds, needy residents demonstrated and picketed all branch offices. The crisis threatened to extend to June 1 as the city relies on state subsidies to address its relief problem.
Chicago market report notes steady to firm tendency for produce and butter. Receipts list 28 274 cases with extra firsts 20 percent and current receipts 19 percent dirties and 17 percent. Butter values show steady market with receipts 19 158 for tub and extras 24 percent to 24 percent firsts 22 to 23 percent standards 24 percent.
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