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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts hogs 15 000 cattle 14 000 sheep 34 000. Prices range heavy weights 13 59 14 00 sows 14 25 13 59 calves 18 00 19 00 beef steers 16 75 18 75 heifers 6 50 14 50 lambs 13 25 16 25 natives steady. Receipts hogs 33 037 cattle 14 254 sheep 42 105 calves 3 944. shipments hogs 1 211 cattle 6 750 sheep 7 996 calves 705.
Furnished by E W Wagner Co Towa City Iowa B Hant Manager Phone 726 Corn opening high low close Oct 1 39 Dec 1 22 May 1 21 Corn 106 cars tone 1c to 2e off No 2 Y C 1 44 1 46 Oats 120 cars tone 0 5ec off No 32 W C 68 71 Clover March 36 95 December Coffee 15 70 March Coffee 15 79
Military report notes Russian Kel forces push forward 75 miles with heavy resistance and counterattacks. About 15 000 prisoners, 1 000 machine guns and 21 heavy guns captured as front nears Tobel river south of Yaluteevek and the Ishine Fikateriniurg railway crossing.
A reflective note extols books as true friends who never flatter or dissemble. It urges readers to be true to themselves and apply literature’s lessons to their sorrows for comfort and guidance.
Journal lists farm sale dates across Iowa towns with buyers like Metzger Schnoebelen Mayer Crandall Koch Kron and Dodder plus guardian sale and Duroc Jersey events. It also highlights W. F. Salterberg’s fruit spray results and explains hog nose and mouth disease with prevention by yard rotation drainage sanitation and sun exposure.
In Keota Iowa on October 8 the Christian church held its annual rally and anniversary with Dr. Arthur Holmes of Drake University delivering the morning sermon The afternoon featured reports from retiring officers and new church officials elected Including Frank Mason as Sunday School Supt and C A Lacey as treasurer Other local notes mention visits from Mrs Miles Bradford and Miss Vera Bick plus prayers for ill neighbors and a church social at the Methodist Sunday school
Iowa State College Farm Management Dept unveils a new stock-share farm lease with landlord reimbursement for tenant improvements and an option for renters to buy at lease start value. If sold to others, the renter gets half the difference between appraised value plus improvements and sale price. Copies available by writing to the Ames department.
Iowa farmers report hog losses not caused by cholera but by a necrotic condition. Experts say the disease impacts herds differently and requires specific management to curb spread and mortality.
The egg market shows a winter price level with no expectation of sharp rises this season. Sellers are urged to move eggs regularly to avoid shrinkage and staleness while poultry prices trend downward and hides fetch top delivery-day values.
Hardin County leads Iowa counties in the farm bureau membership drive and federation fundraising. The county grew from 150 to over 1300 members and raised about 2500 for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, with Ben Walker, an Iowa State College graduate, driving most efforts.
Wierton West Virginia October 8 deputies swept on a stated TL W W headquarters in a Han cock county road barn arresting ringleaders and seizing literature including a membership roll. They jailed 186 men for processing on the square kneeling to pledge the flag. 180 released, six held for federal action.
Paris reports that German officials and others to be delivered to the Allies are nearly ready for submission to Germany. The former emperor is excluded, to be dealt with separately under a treaty provision. His trial will occur before a special international tribunal, not a national court martial.
Seven Cincinnati businessmen placed heavy bets on the Reds in a six game contest. They started with 14 000 in the first game and doubled on the second and third. After losses they increased stakes to 15 000 on the fourth game and then 80 000 on the fifth, which the Reds won, followed by a 60 000 wager on the sixth game that was lost.
London on October 4 reports nearly ten wives of American soldiers and sailors from the last detachment will sail for the United States on October 14. Army and navy officials will telegraph these wives scattered across Ireland and England to proceed immediately to Southampton to await the steamer.
Miss Linny Stalk sewed for Mrs. J. R. McCreedy and visited relatives in Keota and Washington. Many townspeople travel and visit kin in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma while weather and rain affect travel. a runaway injures J. M. Rees and a daughter is born to J. C. Riley and spouse.
W. H. McCall traveled from Crawfordsville to Clarion Iowa yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the Iowa Synod of the United Presbyterian church.
Reports indicate a road in Alaska sits on a solid ice foundation. Surface moss and tundra overlie a forty foot bed of clear ice with six feet of gravel separating it from bed rock, following prior surveys and layoffs.
An excerpt notes Glithers repeatedly complains about telephone service, but he cannot address the company directly. He instead visits a neighbor to voice grievances, illustrating a pattern of indirect complaint and community chatter.
Before Day of Chronometer, Longitude hated all navigators until the chronometer came into use in 1735. The ancients and later navigators could determine latitude by sun height but longitude only by dead reckoning. This method was uncertain and caused many shipwrecks.
A home remedy mixes one pound flour with three quarts boiling water and a tablespoon of powdered alum. Torn newspaper bits are stirred in and cooked until smooth like putty to fill gaps between old floorboards.
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