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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts today exceed 15 000 hogs and 7 000 cattle while sheep reach about 6 000. Beef and veal prices vary with weights and quality, hogs mostly steady to higher, cattle steady to higher, lambs and sheep firm to higher. yesterday totals include hogs 30 482 cattle 15 475 sheep 34 540 calves 3 608.
Wheat and grain board prices show corn futures for October December and May with fractional changes, oats steady, and cash market at 1.39 to 1.40 for No 2 corn. Coffee prices noted for March and December with slight moves amid a list of commodities and market notes from Towa City.
Five year old David, patient of Sammyshe, watches the nurse while temperature and pulse are taken. He lies with chest bare and says he is watching himself get well, declaring Tam watching myself get well. Indianapolis News
Dorothy tries to tell Aunt about a neighbor girl who stuttered. She mispronounces words due to not knowing the term and name, saying it as "the little Biri thys ta dinaile."
The notice lists October through November cattle sales at Washington area farms. Auctions include Whitaker and Brown, Ernest O Carlson, Grosscup Bros, G W Dodder, Jno E Griffith, Cal Underwood, A M Wagner, J F E Ross & Son, H W Lineweaver, W S Kindelsperger, and others. A top cow fetched $5700 while forty head averaged around $2066 each. Eureka corn silage shows exceptional growth and yield.
Grosscup Brothers will hold a public sale of purebred Herefords and Hampshires next Tuesday at their farm eight miles south of Washington. Ten purebred Hereford bulls and 25 purebred Hampshire gilts will be offered, with selections from the Timmerman Hampshire herd. The sale includes additional great breeding stock and may precede a separate Hereford cow and heifer sale.
W. D. Hesseltine reports seven apple trees south of town received three sprays this year. The result is a crop of twenty to twenty five bushels of fine apples for sale. Samples left at the Journal office yesterday show large sound and well colored fruit.
Tom OPlaherty of Wellman held a $20,000 closing out sale featuring a heavy livestock offering. Charles Brown cried the sale, described as the largest of its kind in the area for a long time. Charley conducted a sale near Corydon on Wednesday.
The John Kiley sale of overdeen Angus cattle at Toledo Iowa yesterday drew sensational prices with strong demand. Prices climbed as buyers vied for top stock, reflecting robust cattle market activity in the region.
From October 19 to 25 Milk Week is observed nationwide and in this state. The Dairy Department of the Agriculture College at Ames sent Chilcote Library 50 bulletins or Why Use Milk for distribution. Anyone may obtain a bulletin by visiting the library.
A philosophical quote from Exchange argues that love reveals truth and that discovering a heart’s key leads to universal compassion. It asserts that all knowledge is love and that understanding others’ inner trials requires empathy and affection.
Market notes enormous weekly cattle trade at Chicago with about 86 500 cattle sold in four days. Steer prices ranged up to 19.40 with mixed gains and declines. heavy cattle scarce and high quality sells strong. Stockers feeders active with broad declines for lower grades. calves and hogs mixed and lambs softer. best natives to $14.75 and ewes up to $7.25.
A quotation from Whately argues that raising children to work built character yields greater benefit than granting them a fortune. The adage emphasizes discipline, effort, and self-reliance as the true inheritance.
Imported bred and home bred Shropshire rams yearlings and two-year-olds. Large Poland China boars fall yearlings and spring boars. Sired by the most popular boars and from dams of equal merit.
Buena Vista county Iowa sues Title Guarantee and Security Company of Scranton PA and First National Bank of St Paul MN for 125000 each claiming damages from breach of contract on a drainage ditch project. Forestall and Feyen began work in 1912, quit, went bankrupt, bond posted, contract later awarded to Title Guarantee then completed by new bidders at higher cost.
The note credits George Macionahd with a maxim about obedience being the key to every door. It presents a compact, aphoristic line as a reader quotation.
The Nancy F Fleming farm of 120 acres three miles northeast of town was sold yesterday by guardian D J Ross. Col D F Macon auctioneer. Al Cocklin bid 80 acres at 365 per acre and Will Fleming bought 40 acres at 306 per acre. The sale drew many bidders and the tract adjoins a Fleming property.
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