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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1922
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hogs receipts 48 000 holdover 517 cattle receipts 21 009 with strong lean to steady pricing. Beef and pork price ranges listed for various weights and quality classes. Tomorrow’s livestock estimates show 22 000 hogs 9 000 cattle 13 000 sheep, no grain market tomorrow. Official yesterday figures include hogs 8447 cattle 604 sheep 3868 calves. shipments and no market for May 30.
Ainsworth marks Memorial Day on Tuesday with activities at the new school building starting at 2:00 p.m. The program includes the Star Spangled Banner address by Rev Hal E Norton of Des Moines and songs such as Tenting on the Old Camp Ground Mustered Out and a chorus. Election of officers will follow.
In Burmwah residents pay with compressed tea cubes while cowrse shell weed passes as money. Nearby geome districts along the Persian Gulf use fish hooks for buying and selling.
Little June Robison five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robison died Sunday after a three week illness believed to start with tonsillitis then typhoid and brain fever. Funeral will be private at 4 p m Tuesday. The report also notes a house fire at the Courtney residence near the M and St B depot damaging the downstairs and water in the basement. The Brighton locals mention teacher Lillian McFarland returning home to near Drakeville and social events and visits from various residents and guests surrounding Decoration Day.
National League results show Chicago and Cincinnati 7 New York and Philadelphia 1. Pittchurch 3 St. Louis 4. Boston 5 Brooklyn 4. American League games include St. Louis 4 Chicago 2. New York 3 Washington 4. Cleveland 5 Detroit 7. Other games not scheduled.
In Paris an unusual influx of European jewels, mainly Russian, goes to sale while American visitors cable for large francs credits to buy. An American jeweller says daily family jewel sales reach millions of francs with yearly demand for diamonds emeralds and sapphires. American women are shown gems in hotels by titled Russian women, subdued by revolution, with secrecy on provenance.
American refugees report wholesale murders and robberies by Yaqui Indians in the Sonora region. No Americans killed yet, all victims Mexicans. raids around Kepersaza last three weeks. Many Mexicans killed or missing. Americans flee to the border. an American farmer was robbed of 6,000 pounds of goods and threatened with death. Petitions to Sonora state government seek troops to quell the uprising.
Washington reports a French court martial sentenced Chicago manufacturer and ex American minister Charles R Crane to twenty years in prison for inciting terrorism in Syria. The State department released a Beirut consul cable stating denial by the French high commissioner and says French authorities will investigate publication responsibility.
Grace Smith twenty six daughter of late US Circuit Judge Walter T Smith wed Rey T Hall in a secret ceremony in Wapsie, Iowa. Barbara Smith Hall, Grace's sister, had divorced him in April. neither Barbara nor their mother attended.
Washington May 20 Senator Sheppard Texas Democrat denounced a 300 percent rise in the tariff on safety pins calling it one of the greatest iniquities of the Republican tariff bill. He argued the pin is essential to infants and all classes, a symbol and guard of infancy in palace or hovel.
A brief dated saying urges restraint in speaking opting for silence or measured speech. The anon author cites Ionysius the Fider to frame a caution about words versus quiet.
Ames Iowa May 29 E S Bressman farm crops specialist of Iowa State college reports average corn acreage planted in town this spring After touring the state he assisted in planting samples for twelve experiment fields and notes corn is practically all planted except in the northeastern section where heavy moisture delayed plowing Soybeans are being planted with corn for silage or hogging down and will be harvested later.
May 29 Zion City Illinois reports a crime wave beginning with a pale blue wreath of cigarette smoke. A stranger Henry K Bolkin fights arrest on Mijah avenue and is jailed after resisting. Isaac Perry Overseer Voliva's police chief notes another man with moonshine arrives, promising swift action.
Senator Lodge Republican floor leader derides Democratic delay as harming business stability and declares congress will pass a Republican protective tariff before adjournment. The Massachusetts veteran defends the bill noting it will steer national economic adjustment and gain public approval when voters judge congress.
Washington reports a split among Senate Republicans after a conference over Kellace's rule amendment to limit debate on tariff and appropriation bills. A further meeting is planned, but Democrats threaten to filibuster, making passage of any cloture resolution unlikely.
A sawmill boiler explosion in Buenos Aires on May 2 left five dead and more than twenty injured. Property damage was about 100,000 pesos roughly 66,000 dollars.
An interstate will case in Iowa City settled with Mrs. Jenni Sanders declared domiciled in Iowa at death, invalidating Clara Coleman’s attempt to probate an oral will in Johnson county. Illinois allows oral wills under conditions, but Iowa rejects them for Iowa property unless the maker is domiciled in the other state. Heirs of Sanders total more than fifty, dispersed in New England states.
Mrs. Sande asks if subscribing to the Social Record prevents being left out. Mrs. Rocke replies they must include her name, or the town would deem the book a fake. Columbus (Ss. CL.) State.
General Cheng Chiung Ming presses Sun Yat Sen to resign as president of the south China government at Canton. Canton forces rebuff alliance, naval bombardment ordered on the Canton arsenal.
Sema May UWo Alexander Grekoff, a former Bulgarian official, was assassinated here amid unsettled politics in Paris Stockholm and Bern. Reports of a coming revolution are denied as officials describe a tense but not revolutionary situation.
Des Moines reports Prof. Charles Scanlon, secretary of the Presbyterian board, says more boys are sent to U.S. state prisons annually than attend U.S. schools and colleges, urging practical life interpretation of Gospel ideals.
The article notes fox farming has become a growing industry in the country, with an estimated one million to fifteen thousand foxes raised in captivity, up from relative obscurity a decade ago.
A broken-down woman from Donaldsonville La recounts how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Medicine restored her health after female troubles. She credits relief from weakness and breathing difficulties and notes the statements are genuine and widely trusted.
Mrs Blunderby notes her oldest son speaks several languages with coined flair. The comment hints at a playful family scene and a lighthearted linguistic boast.
A philosopher remarks that meekness is the silence of night and hopes it offers comfort to a troubled husband. The note ends with a closing line from Reston Transerint.
Amanda Flint of Route 4 New Philadelphia Ohio praises Foley's Honey and Tar for curing her child's tickling cough. The ad claims immediate relief from distressing coughs and soothes colds croup and whooping cough. Your Druggist Sells.
Forecast for the week calls for generally fair skies across the region with unsettled conditions and local rains early in the week over the southern area. Temperatures appear moderate with no extreme heat expected.
In Estherville Iowa Minnesota, nine year old Evelyn Benson died from burns when kerosene caught her clothing fire while her father worked in the field and her mother was away. The incident occurred at Jackson, Minnesota, with the child dying at 2 a.m. despite medical aid.
Riverside hosts the Royal Neighbor camps of Washington Louisa and Muscatine counties in session with 296 delegates registered and over 200 present despite rain. Riverside chosen as the 1925 convention city with convention officers elected. The meeting will run during May with the exact date to be set by the hosting lodge.
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