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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1921
Page
2
Market summaries show estimated hog receipts 44 000 and cattle 22 000 with holdovers around 1 264. Prices range with hogs heavy and light weights and cattle including beef steers and cows. wheat and corn futures also listed and livestock receipts for tomorrow projected. local notices and community events follow in the issue air.
Bethlehem Commandery, No. 45 K T calls a meeting May 24 for two candidates. G S Kerr spoke on work in Esquire rank tonight at Castle hall. Multiple clubs including Kolah, Sun Flower, Fleur de lis, Booster, Delta Alphia, and Ladies Missionary societies plan meetings or socials through May 25 with home hosts and requested participation. A Eureka church ice cream social, quilt sale, and program are announced.
Miss Fay Stahl returns to Richland after visiting Hazel McCarty. Mrs. Robert Andresen of Muscatine visits Benson home and relatives. Mr and Mrs N Marte and Mrs Rousellot of Park Ridge Illinois toured Washington and stayed at I Rothschild home. They depart for Delavan Lake Wisconsin with Mrs Rothschild and head to Chicago later this week. A wool growers meeting is planned at Farm Bureau office Friday evening with Secy Warner present. Reverend Barker goes to Winfield on business. George Loesch of Jones McElhinney to Fairfield for J T Davies funeral.
Middleton, vice president of the Committee of 17 and director of the U S Grain Dealers Association, will speak at night on Thursday under the Brighton Community club auspices about the movement. Soil surveys begin in six Iowa counties Greene O'Brien Benton Jasper Page and Des Moines with one more county to follow.
Sudan grass offers five key benefits for emergency hay or pasture. High yields reach 5.9 tons per acre from two cuts, with an average of 3.47 tons on average Iowa land over four years. It is easy and cheap to grow by broadcasting and harrowing, and seed costs are low due to strong tillering. Seed this crop from May 10 to July 1 for best results, with May 25 to June 15 being ideal. It has reliably produced satisfactory crops for eight years and withstands drought after establishment.
At Iowa State College on May 19, two hundred farmers and breeders discussed reviving Iowa purebred and other livestock sectors. C. F. Curtiss warned of a future food shortage within 18 months as agriculture proves its wartime reliability and faces deflationary pressures. E. H. Cunningham urged adherence to fair pricing and elimination of crooked practices to restore buyer interest and market health.
In Ames on May 23 the live stock conference at Iowa State College drew over 200 breeders and farmers. Leaders including Dean C. F. Curtiss forecast improved conditions, predicting a food shortage relief within eighteen months if normalcy returns and rail wages fall, lowering freight costs. The meeting urged preservation of high quality sires and noted price inflation in purebred markets, while bankers stressed cooperative financing and Iowa’s debt reduction progress.
The recommendations call for extensive development by breeders of the local farm market for purebred stock and condemn all sharp practices. They urge breeders auctioneers and advertisers to blacklist anyone involved. They note purebred stock should price proportionally to market stock and products. A finance corporation plan to provide farmer credit is highlighted as key.
Dr and Mrs C W Stewart Dr and Mrs Fred BE Reid James Wilson Miss Eva Denny Miss Eleanor Walker and Miss Marguerite MacGugin motored to New London yesterday and were guests of Miss Helen Crabbe. Dr Buckley the foot specialist is here and will examine your feet free of charge. A E Atchison. Mrs Milt Denison underwent a serious operation at the county hospital this morning and is reported to be doing well this afternoon. Mrs Frad Graham went to Columbus Junction Saturday evening to visit at the home of Mrs S A Dwinell.
Acetic ether or acetic ester is the ester of acetic acid and is mainly the ethyl ester of ethyl acetate a colorless liquid with a sharp odor. Its aroma contributes to vinegar and it forms by reaction of imetal Hc sodium on the ester from acetic acid and a simple alcohol.
May 23 forecast for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys calls for warm generally fair conditions with a probability of scattered showers across Des Moines and surrounding areas.
Elaine Hammerstein stars in the Selznick picture Poor Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Norris showing Thursday at the Fox Theater. The plot follows Margaret Kirby as financial reverses strain her marriage to John Kirby while she becomes the breadwinner and faces social ruin after a confrontation with Rutherford Pell.
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