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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
2
Daily market report from Chicago notes estimated receipts of 28 000 hogs and 2000 cattle with heavy weights bringing 7 45 to 8 50 for beef cattle. Hogs are steady to a bit lower while lambs and sheep show wide ranges and calves command up to 9 00. Shipments and local notes follow with regional farm updates.
Mrs Minnie Jennings plans a Sunday trip to Colfax to visit relatives. The L. G. club met at Wright McConnell’s with Everette Foster in charge and a program of readings duets and stories. Plans were made for a Stone’s timber picnic on May 28 including the threshing ring. Martha Foster visits relatives near Wellman. Orland Witting visits Mrs Will Richards.
Merle died Wednesday morning in West Chester. Neighbors recall him as a kind, polite man and a good neighbor. His wife and son receive community sympathy. Signatories include H. P. Augustine W. S. Boyer Rev. Harry Druse and Rh. C. Ferguson, with wife and daughter.
May 27 local items note a Good Times club picnic by Long Creek near Wapello and Columbus Junction and a group of Ainsworth high school students visiting west of town. Builder A E Ross crews start a seven room bungalow with brick foundation, vapor heating, and multiple French windows. Evangelistic meetings begin May 29 at the Methodist church led by Mr Peacock and Miss Barnett directing music, inviting all to attend. Cecil Lease visits with his parents.
Stanford University recently secured a collection of Babylonian tablets from ancient excavations. Several pieces bear finger impressions from the artisans who moulded them over 4 000 years ago, including one inscribed with the name of Darius king of Babylon.
This column highlights an Iowa farm program where a Harrison county farmer allows his son George to raise pigs on his own, boosting interest in farming. It credits 4 FOW, lessons in livestock care, and the broader impact on youth agricultural engagement. It also covers soybeans as emergency hay, cutting flocks, and rat control methods.
An incoherent, garbled excerpt appears to reference a father and a house, ending with an unclear phrase. The readable portion offers no concrete event or identifiables beyond generic familial terms.
At Iowa bankers meetings in Le Mars Fort Dodge Osage Cresco and Clinton the emphasis was on farmer banker cooperation to restore solvency. May 27 speaker May Meredit h former US agriculture secretary said farming must recover to revive the state economy. He predicted much debt would be paid off in fall and that 1922 crop season could wipe out all indebtness.
Iowa lags in donations to the American Relief Committee aiding famine victims in North China. A cablegram says 2,000,000 starved will need feeding into late summer and crop losses may reach 50 percent by late June. Iowa’s total gifts trail other Midwest states, though efforts continue led by W. H. Kidder.
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