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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1937
Page
7
Recleaned Illini soybeans offered by Richard Stephens in Ainsworth. Wardrobe Cleaners advertises a ladies grey ensemble in size 16. Both items appear in a classified notice format with brief sale references.
Farmers report heavy rains Tuesday and Wednesday aiding fields for the season. The C. C. Hillhouse sale drew a large crowd with enthusiastic bidding, as Mr and Mrs Hillhouse conducted the event and encouraged buyers to proceed as they pleased.
Community updates include Miss Bruty selling laying chickens at a reasonable price for quality. Cloyd Knapp buys a five dining room suite. Ernie Kloepfel of Richmond is hospitalized with a broken leg but improving. Funeral attendance spans Richmond Riverside and Washington areas for Jesse Shalla and Mrs Heseltine. Farmers worry about catching up after busy period. Various local names and places noted with brief remarks.
A garbled sale notice offers a four room house with land, multiple outbuildings including a coal house and barn, fruit trees and a 500 cash price listed by Mrs Cynthia Cain of Brighton. Also mentions Hampshire sheep vaccination, a fresh cow, and a Pioneer hi bred heifer with contact numbers.
A list of residents and their companions from Ainsworth, Keota, West Chester, Dublin, Batavia, and surrounding towns visiting Washington on Tuesday includes Howell Davis Crawfords ville Walter Nicholson Edgar Whetstine W. C. Ling Donald Lins and wife of Haskins Frank Wood E Griffiths Frank Tierney Henry Patterson and son James Wellman Henry Sheetz Andy Brinning Gail Keota Ehm Koehler Mr and Mrs Billy Robertson John Baumgartner and son Max Batavia Ralph Brinning Car Daering Chas Mayer Dan Hesseltine W. J. Boyd Julius Wulf and others.
Wilbur Harvey son of Jesse Harvey returned home last evening on No 11 Rock Island for Los Angeles California after visiting his father in Rock Island.
Mr and Mrs Ww Co Lyle and daughter the teacher of Keota were in Washington Tuesday and read the county’s only daily along with the best of papers.
Glen Dunbar from Walnut on Washington Route 1 mails in his daily home support note thanking readers and sending gratitude to Gleno.
Rastus and Sambo recount an incident with a rooster whose neck was through a fence crack. They argue over who warned whom and whether the bird was in the garden. The exchange centers on responsibility and the rooster as the focal point of the dispute.
Witnesses describe a confrontation where State Mother Willie defends actions against her son Willie after he allegedly turned around. A night scene drew about five thousand people as onlookers observed the events surrounding Ripley’s situation.
Wade Millman, aged 88, conducted his own funeral service before about 5 000 people in a Coatesville Indiana church. He recited a line about dying unremembered and had already bought his coffin and prepared his tomb claiming the scene was a very prominent occasion.
Personal service urges renters and young men to investigate settlement chances in Western Canada through the Canadian Pacific Railway. For full information contact Charles De Work at Colenso Hotel, Washington, Iowa. Fresh snow contains ammonia phosphorus nitrates chlorine compounds and sulphates.
Washington May 26 Representative K C Eicher testified to the House Agriculture Committee that the Supreme Court’s social security opinions could guide a new farm program. He advocates fixing and paying minimum prices tied to costs of production with surplus, and a cooperative state arrangement using federal taxes to revive the original AAA principle.
Kathryn Armstrong, 13, of Red Oak placed fourteenth in the Washington D C national spelling bee. she won a $50 prize after confusion over the word cited. Wa neeth Beckley of Louisville Ky won first prize of $509 by spelling plebeian then promiscuous.
The Rev. S. F. Bishop, 87, died in Mount Pleasant after suffering a stroke. He had retired for nearly 20 years as a Methodist minister.
The speaker Millman addresses a church crowd beside a coffin sourced from his farm. Pallbearers are paid $5 each in advance. He remarks that funeral sermons honor good lives while exposing the challenge of preaching a funeral for a bad man.
Chicago market report shows steady to easy tones across commodities. Produce receipts total 34 068 cases with butter and poultry markets steady and potato arrivals at 95 with shipments 1100.
Chicago bids show hogs at 10 to 25 cents lower with top at 11.90 for 200 to 300 pounds. Cattle and calves remain steady with beef steers 13.00 to 15.75 and cows 4.00 to 9.50. Sheep ease 25 cents with lambs 9.46 to 10.25 and feeders 8.00 to 9.00. Tomorrows estimates: cattle 5,000 hogs 10,900 sheep 8,008.
Grain table lists Chicago commodity prices for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Beans with May July Sept and Dec contract figures. The table shows open high low and close values for each item and contract month, indicating daily market activity.
Chicago market notes list No 2 mixed 134 No 3 mixed 1838 No 1 yellow 136 to 137 percent No 2 yellow 134 to 137 No 8 yellow 133 to 134 percent No 2 white 135 to 135 percent No 3 white 134 Sample grade 121 to 130 Soy Beans price 1.46 in Des Moines area.
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