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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1946
Page
7
Livestock market update shows hogs at 14.85 ceiling with 2,000 head traded. Cattle 500, calves 200 with generally steady yet thin outside demand. vealers around 16.50, cows and bulls steady to 25c lower. Sheep 200 with scattered fed lambs and firm ewes, Illinois fed lambs 16.75, woolled and shorn lots noted.
Kathryn Jeanne Hoben daughter of Mr and Mrs James Hoben Columbus Junction and Staff Sgt Frank Seidler son of Mrs Fern Evans Muscatine were married last evening at the Columbus Junction Methodist church Parsonage Rev J B Pooley officiated at 7 PM The ceremony followed by a reception at the Hughes home Seidler on furlough and reenlisted in November 1945 Mrs Seidler a 1942 Columbus High School graduate and 1945 Mercy Hospital Davenport nursing school graduate is a staff nurse at Bellevue Hospital Muscatine Attendants were Mrs Leroy Hughes and James Klein
Market steady with receipts showing 15 trucks and no cars. Hens range 27.8 to 29.3 while leghorn hens hit 251.2. Fryers and brooders 32.4 to 33.9, old roosters 21, geese 20, heavy ducks 22, small ducks 19. Duck lings 261% to 28, old tom turkeys 26, old hen turkeys 33, old guinea hens 25, pigeons 2.00, young guineas 45 cents. Eggs receipts 28 756 cases. market unsettled and unchanged. Wholesale prices on the merchandise exchange show extras 1 and 2 35 to 36.1, 2 and 4 34.5 to 35.2, standards 1 and 2 3344, 3 and 482 to 3216, current receipts 31 to 32, dirties 30 and checks 29%.
The kiwi, native to New Zealand, is wingless brown and about the size of a domestic fowl. It lays the largest eggs relative to body size and is extremely rare, with extinction anticipated within years. Also mentions local church activity and visits by community members.
The notice lists Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn and Wednesday livestock sales at Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa. It includes a May 27 28 29 private household goods sale at 702 North Avenue B noon to 5. Mrs L R Tripp. a May 28 Austin Emry closing out sale 1 mile south of Brighton at 1 pm. A June 1 public sale of town property to settle the estate of A E and Margaret Kephart at 1015 East Second Street starts 2 pm. Administrators Roy and Homer Kephart.
The Rural Homemakers club in Crawfordsville met at Mrs Ida Wooley's home for the May gathering with seven members and two guests. Roll call featured baby pictures and photos of husbands. Mrs Wooley led a discussion on improving the lawn. refreshments followed. Nearby, Charles Twinam enjoys sight-seeing in Chicago while visiting his aunt Veda Twinam. Guest Margaret Finley of San Antonio, Texas, visits Mr and Mrs Wilbert Rose and relatives. A historical note recalls the 1827 inventor John Walker and the first kitchen matches named sulfur or friction.
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