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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1929
Page
2
Hog markets show 20,600 head with 3,500 direct volumes mostly steady under 230 pounds, top over 1035, feeders 150 to 300 pounds. Cattle offerings 12,000 calves and feeders steady with steers 950 to 1100 pounds at 1275 to 1625, cows 540 to 825, vealers 1250 to 1500. Sheep active with lambs bringing around 1456 for top lots, fat ewes 40 to 400, feeding lambs 1250 to 1300.
Prices for feeder lambs ranged from 400 to 550 with light to medium quality bids. Cull and common stock quoted from 235 to 400, with select lots around 1200 to 1325 for higher value animals.
Eastern veterinarians urge poultry house preparations for winter. Parasites and lice threaten flocks. thorough mite treatment and ventilation are advised. The bulletin lists numerous outbreaks: hog cholera in multiple towns, pneumonia and mixed infections in swine, abortion in cattle, hemorrhagic septicemia, pinkeye, and rabies in dogs, with many named locales across Iowa.
Henry King presents Shia Does to War at the Graham Theatre focusing on women’s role in World War I. The film follows a socially prominent American woman who seeks glory while serving her country, blending romance and drama in a new cinematic form.
October entries report Miss Florence Baird visiting her Waterloo home over the weekend with her parents the Bairds north of Ainsworth. Buyers attend sales as George sells mules for young colts and Chris Leichty plans cash purchases on land at favorable prices. The McCredy estate town lot sale concludes with John Houghs securing property for a new home, easing an administrator's duties.
A community page recounts a cattle sale at Evergreen Farms Columbus Junction with H I Whittaker hosting a Friday sale and a Poland China sale day by Bob Sheets in Poland. It also mentions a divorce joke, upcoming corn crop optimism, plowing sod ground, and tribute to Judge Herman Zeuch killed in Des Moines with references to his Washington and Crawfordsville connections.
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer director with no formal stage training adapts to screen drama by replacing dialogue with naturalistic action. He treats sound as a new expressive tool, letting actors convey meaning through realism and brightness rather than forced gestures.
Martha Butler reports from Columbus Junction that on Friday Harry Duncan of Columbus Junction acted as the auctioneer for a show supper at the Conca s ville school.
Evening report notes Mrs Mary Blair at Bellyne hospital after a fall at her sister’s home causing a broken hip. Wapello pastor marries Josephine Morrison and Max Hammond on Sept 7 with Tad Morrison present. Weekend visits include Eva McKee at home from Illinois State Normal. W R C district convention attended by several local ladies in Washington.
A quoted philosophy on consistent correctness urges strict self-satisfaction in truth. It emphasizes relentless effort to be right all the time, guiding the mindset of persistence and accuracy in judgment.
A sequence of farm sales and livestock auctions dated October through October at various Iowa towns including Washington Mediapolis Columbus Junction and Duroc. Entries name sellers such as H J Whittaker W R Gamon Ernest Carlson Delbert Darnell and A McBride Son with sale locations including Washington Polk County and surrounding areas.
Prices for butterfat cream per pound fresh laid eggs per dozen and various poultry items listed with per pound or per item rates. Includes horse hides pony hides and a note that sick or crippled poultry have no market.
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