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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1940
Page
7
Market active with fat lambs steady to strong and spots 15 cents higher. Native and fed western lambs quoted 9.60 to 9.65. Total offering around 6 000 head with 50 cents higher on some trades from 10.00 to 11.00. Yearlings unchanged and feeding lambs active and steady.
Markets quote cattle prices with 10 000 cattle and 1000 calves noted. Fed steers and yearlings hold steady to strong with bids up to 14.90 and most early sales at 12.00 to 14.50. Other killing classes rise up to 25 cents. Best fed heifers at 12.50 and vealers up 25 to ...
Journal sale dates listed for Midway Sale Co Columbus Junction and other bidders. Estate of Jessie Marr to be closed out west of Atna and near Washington on No 92. H W Dorrance sale at Whittaker barn December 3. J C Jones Estate Hesseltine Bros Ainsworth December 4. Chas Casper and Harry Stutzman December 5 closing out sale northwest of Washington. Ethel Nevins Adm December 10 near West Chester. Weyland area and Joe Klopfenstein closing out sale near Washington December 16 starting 11 00 A M.
Open high low and close figures for wheat corn oats rye are listed for May July December and other months. The data shows mixed percent ranges with May and July bids around mid 80s for wheat and around 60s for corn. Rye and oats display lower values with May and July positions near mid to high 40s or low 30s.
Cash grain prices show corn with mixed bids from 70 to 70 percent for several lots and yellow and white samples ranging 67 to 71 percent. Oats report a sample grade 33 with two white bids at 40 percent. Soybeans show two yellow priced at 1.00.
Nov 27 Chicago market report notes firm prices in several lines with receipts totaling 4 153 and 380 firsts. Poultry receipts include 1 car and 19 trucks with varying declines and steady other prices. heavy white and colored ducks plus hen categories show slight changes.
Charles A Knupp of Arlington Texas died at his home Nov 206 after a paralytic stroke and a recent second stroke. He was past 70, survived by his wife Eva Snyder two married daughters Rachael and Esther and brothers Harve Roswell NM and Ed Riverside CA. He and Eva were charter members of Prairie Flower church.
Governor George A. Wilson appointed George M. Paradise former state commander of the American Legion as municipal judge at Sioux City. He succeeds Bernard A. Brown who was granted a year’s leave of absence for military duty.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced the allocation of 50 million dollars for construction of necessary facilities for U S air and naval bases on selected sites in the United States. The move signals expanded preparedness and base development across coastal and strategic locations as wartime needs grow.
Washington County Beef Producers Association officers announced a banquet for beef cattle producers and wives at 6 45 P M Thursday December 12 in the Y M C A Washington. Tickets cost 1 00 and are available at the county Farm Bureau AAA office and Cooperative Service Co with sales limited to 200 seats. K L Stewart will serve as toastmaster and a well known speaker and musical numbers are planned for a balanced program.
Des Moines, Nov 27. State car dispatcher George Hessalroad stripped three Iowa commerce commission members and the secretary of use of state owned autos for failing to file monthly operating expense reports. Four cars towed to the state garage. Gov George A Wilson backs the move. Deprived are Barr Keshlear Shenandoah B M Richardson Council Bluffs M P Conway Atlantic and George McCaughan. A Friday conference will be held.
Britain in this hemisphere is referenced as the context for allocations from a presidential "blank check" fund approved by congress. Knox will depart in a week for a ten day inspection of the Panama Canal and Caribbean defenses.
Forty years since the earthquake deaths of his parents and sister Linda Peter Johansen wanders Clark City on Christmas Eve. He reunites with his sister in a lookalike moment on Lookout Hill when Linda is recalled by a stranger’s memory and a star above Bethlehem. He hides his emotion, grateful she lives, and sleeps in a freight car unaware who she is.
A famous Christmas cake from Germany Aachen Printen helped shape the English word print. Before book printing the imprint idea came from bakers making patterned cakes. Many cakes bore figures of gods Wotan and Thar.
A humorous note suggests Santa Claus does not smoke cigars and could benefit from better quality cigars.
Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish mathematician and geographer, advanced chart making with a new map projection. His innovations influenced navigation, cartography, and charting methods used in seafaring.
The Rock Island Lines announced the 1940 Iowa 4-H club educational prize winners selected by P. C. Taff and Frances Gill, with Raymond Bell of Washington among the recipients. Winners will attend the 4-H club congress in Chicago beginning November 30, with events at the International Live Stock Exposition. Similar awards are planned in other Rock Island routes states as part of agricultural education support.
The Green Colonial Furnace Company of Des Moines reports record sales this year for its Green Colonial units in the Washington territory and Iowa. Eveready Plumbing & Heating Company represents the organization with Ivan Norton as manager Bruce Taylor formerly of Ot
Eva Wikoff 79 died at her Brighton home after a paralytic stroke. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from the home with interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. Survivors include daughters Mrs. Howard Johnson of Denver and Mrs. Grant Humston, and three sons Hubert Raymond and Ralph, plus seven grandchildren.
Mr Norton and Mrs Norton celebrate their eleventh wedding anniversary today while twins arrive at Eveready shop as new staff member Tumwa joins the team.
CENTERVILLE Iowa three members of the state board of control were injured in an automobile crash Tuesday night and were staying in a local hotel for treatment and observation.
Margaret Ellen Helmick 86, a long time resident of Columbus Junction, died at Mount Pleasant state hospital after several months illness. Born in Fayette County Penn to Elisha H Wheeler and Catherine Hunter Wheeler, she lived on a farm near here. Survived by son Glenn of Long City, two brothers Harry Wheeler Morning Sun and William B Wheeler Mediapolis, three sisters Anna Nichols Lebanon Oregon Lily Porter Wincaid Kansas Minnie Jarvis Morning Sun. Funeral at Richie and burial Cairo Cemetery.
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