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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1931
Page
2
Livestock receipts: hogs 25,000 with 6,000 direct. Hogs mostly 5 to 60 cents lower. weights 140 to 260 pounds bring 4.35 to 6.40, sows 4.50 to 6.10. Cattle receipts 13,000. calves 3,000. Steers firm to higher, yearlings steady, cows and bulls mixed. Sheep receipts 30,000. market steady with some weakness in mid grades. lambs 5.00 to 6.75 for various weights. Feeding lambs 5.00 to 5.54 aprx.
Slaughter hog prices for weights from light to heavy range 140 to 350 pounds with good and choice grades quoted from 3.50 to 5.00 per cwt. volume today 20 300 head, steady to down 10 cents from last week at several stations.
Des Moines reports combined hog receipts at 22 concentration yards and 7 packing plants in interior towns and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ending at 8:00. The tally reflects hog flows across the region, with details pending from the market report.
Chicago reports unsettled produce with eggs receipts 2,705 cases and various grades noted. Butter receipts 6,048 tubs with multiple quality levels and prices. poultry and cheese categories show varied figures. Potatoes on track with 283 cars and shipments 982 as market remains dull across Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio and Idaho.
Grain receipts show Wheat 62 cars Corn 252 Oats 44 with Dec Mar May and July futures listed for Wheat Corn and Oats, including bid and offer ranges. Prices fluctuate across contracts with notable highs and lows in the day’s activity and a closing spread across commodities.
On October 21 prices for Clover and Alsike hay are listed with month contracts. Clover shows 7.5 futures and 7.75 for December and 8.00 for February while Alsike is 7.50 for now, 7.75 for December and 8.90 for February. Timothy hay is noted at 1.00 per cwt.
Allen Walker sold cattle at Yarmouth with a few bidders. The top male sold for 30 dollars, bought by Beck and Seaman of Satem Iowa. The top gilt brought 15.25 dollars to M M Unterkircher of Weaver Iowa. About 9 males and 34 gilts were sold with prices slightly above market.
A Columbia film presented Thursday Friday and Saturday at the State theater features Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Frank Capra in a graphic tale of courage adventure and peril. The plot whisks viewers from a Navy day at Lakehurst New Jersey to Antarctic wastes and a tropical New York welcome. The drama lies in human longing as Graves plays a daring navy flier whose wife battles fear and concern.
Chicago cash grain close lists Wheat varieties trading around 52 to 54 and 57 for the 1 northern. Corn values show mixes from 34 to 39 with several bids and new prices noted across multiple lots. Oats Rye Barley Timothy and Clover also recorded with ranges from 24% to 57 and 300 to 3.26 for timothy and 1050 to 1400 for clover.
Showers and cooling trend expected in Iowa after a stretch of indian summer. Forecaster Charles D. Reed predicted rain tonight and tomorrow with falling temperatures, as Des Moines and Keokuk logged a 76 degree high yesterday and Dubuque and Charles City reported a 50 degree low. A bond reduction allowed release from charges including embezzlement with bond cut from 510,000 to 15,000. Senator Dickinson urged disarmament talks, calling the international conference a potential relief from the world arms burden.
Iowa weather bureau crop report shows uneven activity in fall corn husking. Northwestern fields dry with up to half husked while southeastern areas faced drizzling rain hindering work. Frost largely spared highlands but lowlands report damage. Tomato vines still fruiting as peach and apple crops prove strong.
Glenn B. Miller, president of the Iowa farmers union, calls the Interstate Commerce Commission denial of freight rate increases well advised. He notes the union did not support the Esch-Cummins act under which railroads are guaranteed 51 percent and warns Iowa farmers cannot afford higher freight costs now.
Catherine Tissue of Cres ton, Iowa, obtained a jury judgment for 2500 against Al E Durin George Durin and Kermit Kayden after an open Duris car door allegedly knocked her down on a road near Iowa City.
Sioux City report details Tohn A. Duffy an elderly businessman facing trial on alleged thefts. A proposed South Pole flight is halted after a friend's secret love for a woman involved. The man later attempts the flight crashes at the pole. The friend then rescues him in the navy dirigible Los Angeles and returns him to happiness with the woman.
Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March headline the Fox Theater engagement of My Sin a drama of regeneration through mutual sympathy and love. The veteran London audience has long acclaimed Bankhead in theater and screen and Paramount casts her opposite March with a strong supporting cast.
Fairfield High School’s 1931 football team, led by Coach L A Gluenkin, has defeated Iowa City Oskaloosa Keokuk and Albia and remains undefeated. Burlington and Ottumwa played to a 6 6 tie as Fairfield fans watched the Grayhounds and Bulldogs in action.
The Iowa bankers association committee backing Hoover business aid moves across the state to set the plan on a definite footing. W H Brenton leader of the state National Credit Corporation announces a meeting postponed until Saturday to ensure full attendance.
Jim Cash faced intoxication charges and a $5 fine plus costs. The judge offered credit if Cash pays by Nov 2, with deposit in bank and jail as possible outcomes. T. J. Edmonds of Des Moines was named president of the Iowa conference of social work, with a slate of officers from Des Moines and Ames.
Burlington and Ottumwa fans claim their combined talent could not match Fairfield, but both teams will face the champions this season. The Bulldogs visit Fairfield on Friday while Ottumwa’s Grayhounds meet Gluenkin’s squad on Thanksgiving in the 1920s-style regional rivalry.
John Wranklin Cox born April 24 1861 Dutch Creek Washington County Iowa son of John Wesley Cox and Sarah Temple Cox married Melissa J Gonder December 24 1879. He had four sons and later married Edith Green December 1889 producing three more children. He died Saturday October 17 1931 at his Minneapolis Minnesota home leaving eight sons and two daughters, six grandchildren and one sister Mrs Viola Swanson of Preemont Iowa.
Representative Frank C. Byers a Cedar Rapids attorney is slated as the third member of the arbitration board to resolve the builders and building crafts conflict in Des Moines. His nomination by the governor’s appointees awaits ratification today before the first hearing tomorrow.
Journal lists upcoming sales including Spencer Reed of Washington offering purebred Polands on Oct 24, Paul G. Peterson and Son of Mediapolis selling Durocs on Oct 29, and a late Mrs. Margaret Hull of Crawfordsville disposing household goods on Oct 51.
Mrs. Jake Rader of Brighton learns of the death of her brother Will Middleton of Topeka Kansas. Middleton was raised in Brighton attended a local school until youth then moved to Washington where he worked for Harvey Bell. While in Washington he married a Sisourney girl and they later returned to Brighton.
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