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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1918
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hogs opening 10 to 25 lower than yesterday's average with top at 19.25 while cattle and sheep receipts rise. Estimated today hogs 9,000, with yesterday's left over 3,175. cattle 4,500. sheep 1,408. Western steers and stockers advance, feeders up, and lambs softer.
Iowa City listing shows E. W. Wagner & Co furnishing services with J. B. Hunt as manager and contact phone 726 for inquiries.
Turner Grain Co and W M Hewitt report October 5 prices for wheat corn and oats in St Louis with No 1 red wheat at 2 25 No 2 red 2 21 2 22 No 3 red 2 19 No 2 hard 2 21 and corn and oats price levels. Chicago receipts show 195 wheat cars 450 corn cars 303 oats cars.
Worry is a pair of smoked glasses through which the world looks somber. The sun shines, the sky is blue, yet worries color reality. Pocket your worries and see the world as it is to decide to go without smoked glasses in the future.
A historical piece notes Korean women occupy a unique position in the Orient, discussing both advantages and severe burdens. It contrasts Korea with China India and Japan, citing open opportunities but widespread overwork and past enslavement.
Lane of Alberta sells twenty six mares and the three year old stallion Newport to Mr Parker a British Remount Service officer. Transaction was by cablegram after price agreed with Lane trusted to select horses. Rumor states export to England nobility and potential shipments to Australia and New Zealand as demand grows.
A list of upcoming auctions and closings around Washington covers Hopping Crawfordsville and Shaffer public sales October 8 9 12 12 with events including city bus line sale and dairy cattle along with timber and closing out auctions for buyers such as Birka DeLong Lemley Carlson Tracy and Shelangouski._NAMES and locations include A Hopping Cyrus Birka M C DeLong R R Shaffer Frank Rogers H F Tracy Son Ernest Carlson Leo Shelangouski J C Lemley and towns Washington Crawfordsville and Brighton.
Howard Hopping purchased four Percheron mares, including one imported mare. He plans to move them to the farm south of Keota where John F. Sheetz resides. The mares and two colts are expected to improve the breeding stock of horses.
Lott Dyarman hauls several loads of dry pole wood toward a sawmill or workshop, aiming to begin sawing operations soon according to his plan.
In a rural scene D. W. Augustine drives six horses on a gang plow in the bottom while a manure spreader works in the same field. The horses appear idle despite the heavy equipment.
Jake Ramge notes excellent early fall wheat in good soil with even ground. He observes the crop is heavy enough to hide the underlying grass, indicating robust establishment and potential yield.
L Brinning and J A Dawson worked on wire fencing around fodder to allow cattle access to clover. A seedless section on the north side shows a light crop while other parts lack heavy yield.
Joe Hartnell reviews plowing work and complains the implement does not cover trash without weed rods. He plans to add weed rods from the want list and install them before finishing plowing. The rig currently runs six to seven inches deep.
A Wednesday evening gathering in Dutch Creek marked by a charivari for Oscar Sheetz and his bride. Attendees totaled seventy-one, and all reported a great time as neighbors enjoyed the event in the country setting.
John Braunhausen plans a new hog house southwest of the barn with a cement floor and building tile sides. Sand is being partly hauled to the site.
Seth Carris Sr reports 17 heavy cattle in the corn field with intent to approach but not exceed market top. About 50 pigs run about while brood sows show strong breeding stock influence on top market loads sent to Chicago. Potatoes are nearly all harvested with a 3,700 pound team shown turning them out.
In Seth Carris Jr. s yard children gather walnuts ready for winter. A nearby corn sheller assists by hul ling the nuts quickly making the task easy.
Frank Miller of south of Washington sent a 29 pound net can of cream to Carl Combs produce house. The sample tested 66 percent butter fat and Miller earned 60 cents per pound, totaling 11.48 dollars. This set the highest cream fat record reported to the Journal.
The Percheron breed, famed in America for nearly seven decades, experiences a new chapter as British breeders acquire foundation stock in France and prepare a shipment to England, signaling a shift in equine markets influenced by war performances.
A Washington meeting of the livestock advisory committee on September 24 considered winter hog prices and market stabilization. Some attendees claimed the 13 to 1 plan had been adopted with an October minimum price of 18.50 per cwt, but the Food Administration denied fixing or contemplating a minimum. A conference with packers is set for October 3 to discuss actions to curb fluctuations and encourage feeding, with participants including H. C. Stuart, John H. Skinner, Frank Hagenbarth, and others from multiple states.
Local column records social visits and travels including Elmer Yoder and wife, J. W. Oldaker and wife, Dr. A L Braden family, Mrs. A J Saunders, and Mrs. C C Gardner. Mentions Miss Ellen Gardner resuming school at Mt. Pleasant, Est her Shaw and Frances Cochran entering the U S at Iowa City, and Mrs Lane Coffey visiting editor Coffey family. Bellevue activities include Belgian relief sewing and a ten cent tea. Camp Dodge visits, Des Moines trips, and a fatality of Ray Dunham from Camp Merritt noted. The W M S plans a letter day on October 9.
From Our Exchanges notes Curt Wells from Washington traded horses with the Hamiltons in a back and forth. Keota Eagle reports Keota is first state to exceed top in the fourth Liberty Loan drive by Monday night in Keokuk county. The Keota paper notes locals funded Belgian nurse Miss Van Gastel’s visit on Tuesday October 22 with more details to come. Crawfordsville Imprint announces M C DeLong bought property on E Washington Street and will hold a closing out sale next Thursday before moving around November 1. The editor laments the DeLongs leaving Crawfordsville as a loss to the community.
The Winfield Beacon columnist from Richland Clarion argues against changing the Skunk river name calling it a pretty stream and notes fifty years of the name with no plan to rename. They say locals may prefer beauty over controversy and expect the name to endure as long as settlers live.
The Richland Clarion recalls husking wages from two cents per bushel to as high as 75 cents per day in earlier days. The writer notes today’s rates would not keep someone in husking, reflecting on changes rumored to be six to eleven cents per something this fall.
Kalona News notes increases in pay for railroad workers with foremen at 100 dollars per month and track workers at 3.20 dollars per day. Agent and helper raises are still pending as reports spread through the workforce. Also urges those who missed the Fourth Liberty Loan to report next Saturday, warning is strong that the rating is controlled by the committee and noncompliance will be noted as slacking.
The Kalona News notes Emmet Loucks moved this week to Washington to pursue business interests. Readers hoped they would stay, but the change seems best for their prospects, and the paper wishes the Loucks success and happiness in their new home. Washington gains a respected family.
Vernon Sigler left last Sunday for Des Moines to organize a new loan and trust company where he will serve as cashier. Mrs Sigler will stay with her mother for several weeks until he can establish housekeeping. He is well versed in banking and is expected to succeed in the new venture.
Supt Robertson oversees teachers throughout yesterday and today as students report satisfaction with his leadership. The report finds Robertson an excellent superintendent and the school’s overall progress celebrated in Crawfordsville Im
D. J. Guenge rich and family will soon move to Washington. Dan is already there working in the Louck and Boehme garage. The moving of the Louck and Boehme business to Washington has taken four good families from our town including the Boehmes, the Loucks, the Will Kiefer family, and the Dan Guenge rich family.
In the fourth Liberty Loan drive in Washington county Lime Creek township including Wellman city surpassed its goal by fifty percent setting a county record. The local quota of 90000 dollars was exceeded by 45000. Some absent or ill residents may still subscribe boosting totals. It is described as everybody's war and no one who can afford to purchase should be missed.
The Wellman Advance hails Lime Creek township for outperforming national averages by over fifty percent, expressing strong local pride in the home community and its people.
At 10 25 on opening Saturday Brighton township reported total subscriptions from five school districts of 71350, 300 over its quota. County Chairman Bailey notified Washington, making Brighton the first Washington county township to meet its quota. The county total surpassed 1444060, with Brighton first in the county, Group 11 first in Iowa, and Iowa first in the nation to pledge its full quota.
The Brighton Defense Council warns residents not to spread false stories about soldiers in the service. The notice urges reporting untrue rumors to authorities and states one must prove authority before repeating such claims to a U S Marshal.
A Kalona News note praises J. D. Hershberger for donating 50 dollars in cash to the Belgian relief fund and directing a merchant to contribute goods equal to that value, calling it practical religion and charity.
Washington county, Riverside, and Iowa township reported strong Fourth Liberty Loan results with Iowa state oversubscribing by thousands. The county exceeded its quota by nearly 200000, and Towa township surpassed its 95005 goal within seven hours. Directors included Marsh W. Bailey in the county, C. S. Cummings in Iowa township, Wm. Griffin in Riverside, and Alma G. Ott coordinating the women’s effort.
The Brighton hotel scene shifts this week with Daytons and Brollars leaving the Commercial House. F A Williams moves in, Laban Freak converts the Midland Hotel into offices, Brollairs move to Cedar Rapids, and Elrod Dayton with Thelma reside in the Snyder building. The Commercial House furniture is auctioned Saturday October 12.
A Brighton Enterprise reader accuses authorities at Camp Funston of negligence letting an epidemic spread and calls for inoculation of soldiers against the disease as ten thousand Bevo cases are reported.
The Keota Eagle reports soldiers describe life in Norfolk, Virginia as rough. Lee Stewart and Roy Warrington plan to stay despite hardship, Samp Stephen will tour the camp while possible, Ralph Sloat has wired for funds to return but payments fail to reach him.
Dr FE G Rittler and family spent Friday and Saturday at Camp Dodge returning home Saturday evening. They enjoyed a pleasant visit with Henry Rittler's son a soldier boy and met the son of Mr and Mrs Al Griffith former Wayland residents. The boy was mighty glad to see them.
Kalona proved too strong for Wellman last Friday, defeating them by a 30 to 0 score. Kalona moves forward with a decisive road win.
Wellman Advance notes Kalona has a veteran player who has been with the team since the early days, praised for his skill while teammates show promise. The piece mentions questions about draft status and a recent tragedy affecting his family, but affirms he remains a good player and that practice will improve the team.
The Columbus Junction precinct and Louisa county have exceeded their fourth Liberty Loan quota, with Con cord township the first to report full funding. Several townships have not yet reported in full, so definite totals are unavailable.
A brief Country Gentleman quip describes four year old Charlotte mastering English after a motherly explanation. Charlotte notes hens set and lay while people sit and He, highlighting a humorous language realization.
The passage casts patience as a daily habit and a reserve for life crises, noting the patience man gathers through his little trials of daily literature stores for strength when needed. The quotation by W. G. Jordan underscores endurance built from ordinary reading.
One hundred dollars reward offered for a catarrh case unhealed by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The remedy, claimed to act through the blood to mucous surfaces, has been used for 35 years and is advertised as the most reliable cure. Free testimonials available. products sold by druggists in Toledo, Ohio.
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