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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1928
Page
2
Chicago hog receipts reach 64 000 with most bids 10 to 25 lower than Friday's averages. Top hogs around 210 pounds fetch 9.90. Cattle receipts total 16 000 with calves at 5 000. steers and yearlings rise 15 to 25, cows dull. Slaughter classes show varied ranges across weight groups.
Bid ranges show cull and common steers from 11.50 to 13.00 per hundredweight, stocker and feeder steers 11.50 to 13.00, good and choice across weights, and common to medium grades 9.50 to 11.75. Prices reflect market variation and quality grades.
Grain futures prices for wheat corn and oats across May July September and December contracts. Entries show open high low close figures, including percent changes and some misreads, reflecting a snapshot of Chicago board activity.
Wheat trades around 151 to 152 percent. corn includes yellow and mixed lots from 95 to 105 percent, with several price bands noted. Oats and barley move in the mid sixties to low nineties range. timothy offered 400 to 475 and clover 19.25 to 26.25.
Seed market figures show clover cash prices 1660 in October 1775 and December 1765, with 1280 for import. timothy cash 225 in May and 225 again. December 265. alsike 1500 cash.
The Bethel Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Society meets with Mrs. Robert Reaney on Tuesday May 29 at 2 00 PM. The Young Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church meets Monday evening at Mrs. Charles Davis with Davis leading the lesson. Patriotic women prepare wreaths Tuesday afternoon at the courthouse for Memorial Day graves. The Wellston social club gathers with Mrs. Emma Tinnes on Thursday afternoon May 31.
The R J and P L Ry Co will sell at its freight house in Washington Iowa on June 9 1928 at 9 A M one box Engine cooling Radiator consigned to S O Keifer's Garage. Sale for charges due and unpaid as per uniform bill of lading provisions. H W Russell Agent Rock Island Lines May 21 28.
May 27 diary entries describe Harve P Wilson and son Glenn planting 185 acres of corn and fieldwork by others in the Ramsey River side area. It notes road work, abundant cars, surveying, remarks about local people, cattle and hog farming, and a morning departure from Mr J Q Elder’s with a farewell from John Babcock’s mother before reaching Denwood Lowash.
The jottings describe 594 chickens and five cows yielding a gallon of cream daily, with farm income of 1037 dollars last year. Hog counts near 3000, a note about Soda’s late rising, and mentions of multiple farmers, alfalfa trials, corn yields of 70 to 90 bushels per acre, and regional stops in Sigourney Keota Harper Oskaloosa and Washington connections.
The Shepherd of the Hills, a First National Pictures release based on Harold Bell Wright’s novel, stars Molly O Day and John Boles as Sammy Lane and Matt. Albert Rogel directs with a strong supporting cast including Alec B Francis and Romaine Fielding. Molly O Day delivers standout performance amid dramatic, suspenseful storytelling.
The Delphian Society will hold a meeting at the library on Monday evening at 7730. 8613. Members are to gather for readings and discussion in the event space provided by the library.
Weather is mild with crops and pastures improving after recent rains. Residents from White Oak and Wellston traveled to Horseshoe Lake for a picnic dinner. Rev. Jim Bond will preach at Bethel church next Sunday after Sunday school. A children's day program is being planned for the third Sunday in June at Bethel church. Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. Doyle Smith visited Walter Brown’s north of Washington Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Will True and family attended a birthday surprise for Miss Martha Jones of Richland Iowa. A bountiful dinner followed with ice cream and cake. Mrs. Doyle Smith visited the Ralston home Tuesday. Thrasher's meeting elected officers for the harvest. Rosalie Smith visits grandparents Ralston this week.
A quotation from the Los Angeles Times notes that with vast possible alphabet combinations a man may be excused for not understanding what a baby says, highlighting the gap between speech and early language.
Rushville Republicans frame danger luck as inevitable and advise handling it with intelligence. They argue luck is the most perilous factor in political life and advocate prudent acceptance rather than denial.
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