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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1930
Page
2
Combined hog receipts at 22 market yards and 5 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ended 10:00 a.m. show mostly 10 to 25 cents lower. Bulk weights 190 to 230 pounds range 8.60 to 8.90 while light and heavy categories vary with several price brackets for different weights and kinds.
Chicago Livestock Company reports receipts of 21,000 hogs with varying weights and prices from 7.65 to 9.60 for different classes, including packing sows and slaughter pigs. Cattle receipts total 7,000 with calves at 2,000, fed steers and yearlings steady to strong, best weights around 12.40 to 12.50 with some higher, while lighter classes remain mostly steady.
Livestock report shows higher bid ranges for good to excellent lambs and feeders, with fat lambs and natives trading around 7.73 to 8.50 per hundredweight. Bucks and whiteface feeders command 6.50 to 7.25, while ewe weights span 90 to 150 pounds with feeding lambs priced 50 to 75 and select grades up to 6.75.
Chicago grain quotes show wheat no 2 red at 84 percent for new and 78 percent for old, with corn values around 82 to 81 percent for various yellow and mixed lots. Barley and Timothy hay figures appear with mixed old and new pricing, while Toledo seed listings provide prime and cash values for clover and timothy hay. Wheat oats and corn supply estimates at 11 and 18 cars respectively.
Crawfordsville Oct. 28 Fourteen ladies met at the Crawford township school house for a Goals in Homemaking lesson led by Mrs Clyde Maxwell with assistance from Mrs Delbert Maxwell and Mrs W C Wooley. Discussion focused on steps toward a 109 per cent home. The Holmes sisters of Oskaloosa visited. Grace Holmes was taken home for the weekend. Madeline Starr visited from Fair Veieila. her family brought her back Sunday. Supt J H Peet Leigh Soule and W Brown of Washington attended union services at the Methodist church Sunday evening where Pest and Soule spoke about a School of Instruction to be held later in Washington.
Local notes report a prominent citizen parking downtown and returning home after church. Updates mention Charles Simmering, 13, who harvested 53 bushels of corn in 8.5 hours and 24 more in 3.5 hours, plus local pipe line workers, a hospital stay for Grant Colby, and Rev. Fred Blick’s Pennsylvanian trip. A late Annis M. Dana sale drew a good crowd, with property changing hands to Axel Anderson and C. K. Clapper, plus Ancle Owen Samson bidding among notable attendees including General Lew Wallace.
King Vidor, director of the Billy the Kid talkie at the Fox, explains MGM held rights for three years but delay was deliberate to refine sound reproduction. He references his prior screening and a desire to ensure proper audio alignment before filming.
Irene Rich leads in Julianne adapted from Rita Welman at the Graham Theatre. A chorus girl who bought gowns on credit becomes the focal point as a son torn between his mother’s social climbing and love. The drama climaxes with a hard choice revealing true character and a hopeful ending.
A fragmentary quote shows Uncle Eben advising that a man’s appearance at dawn sets the day’s tone. The speaker notes that kin look highest in the face when he shaves in the morning, implying a belief in daily grooming shaping attitude and start.
A fragment from the Kaw sax City Star discusses limits on what a man can admit or express in public. The piece notes modesty, self praise, and the social grace of a friend shaping perception beyond personal boast.
Community notices from Columbus Junction include visits by residents, church activities, and school events. Highlights cover a Halloween program by Sandy Grove school, a football defeat at Iowa City, upcoming homecoming activities, election board appointments, and a Burlington district Epworth League convention with toast program details. Three miners killed in a Trenton Minnesota mine accident are also reported.
The text notes January temperatures are often described as above average, sometimes implying readings above freezing and daytime thawing, reflecting common conditions when winter days are milder than typical for that month.
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