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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
7
For sale item shows a for sale note with faded details about a hand crochet bedspread. The message includes garbled lines about a motor cleaning service and a Washington company, with incomplete numbers and stray words.
Readers report a 16 inch curved cucumber from Nicola and Harmon patch as Mrs Myrai Smith shares the odd vegetable. Shoppers visit Orcutt's Piggly Wiggly and locals like Mrs Joe Smeltzer and the Huber family are noted. Des Moines grand lodge events involve W K Hewett and Mrs G A Reinert with visits by Rey and Mrs Norman G Webster.
Minced Ham at Piggly Wiggly priced 2 lbs for 25 cents. Clara Faulkner and her niece Doris Noffsinger from Shreveport La plan an evening visit with Rev and Mrs Lester Gil in Crawfordsville. Rev Bil and Misa Noffsinger studied at Houston University. Mr and Mrs John Wooley of Beatrice Neb return Monday after a two week visit with Mrs Wooley's parents in Crossett. Wooley employed at Montgomery Ward in Beatrice. Washington Lodge No 246 A Pr and A M holds regular meeting first Friday of each month. leaders Howard McBride W M and A W Yard secretary.
Train and bus times listed for several lines including Westbound No. 3 Davenport to Kansas City and No. 25 Southwest Limited. Community notices report Ruth Morrison’s return from the southwest and Ellen Morrison resuming teaching in St Joseph. Hubert Turner recovering after ruptured appendix. Travel notes advise ticket purchases at Mus Depot and nearby depot.
Locals at Nira quote Mrs. J Hantey noting Sunday visitors were the Bill Hantey family Mrs. Watkits and Mrs. Kloeckenteger. A machine shed at Grant Griffiths burned with a tractor tools and grain. Percy Klockenteger suffers ivy poisoning. Sympathy extends to the Cleo Moothart family. Troyer girls had tonsils removed in Iowa City. Matt Chandler ill at Washington hospital. Mrs. Bailey interviewed voters Tuesday.
In Exeter cathedral England visitors see the dog whipper s rooms beneath the Ministrel s gallery. The dog whipper an ancient functionary whipped stray dogs from the cathedral and carried a gold wand that is among the cathedral s valuable relics.
Chicago market notes firm receipts for eggs with 250 cases and various grade splits. Poultry remains steady with 45 truck receipts and several items showing modest percentage changes, including heavy white ducks and ducklings.
Bishop J. Ralph Magee announced regional Methodist conferences in Iowa. Des Moines hosts 48 sessions at Grace Church from next Tuesday to September 15, with Hampton’s Upper Iowa meeting September 17 to 22, and the Northwest Iowa conference in Sioux City September 24 to 29.
The institution began as Central Methodist University and was renamed in 1875 after Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt endowed it with one million dollars, shaping its future as a major university.
Fifteen members of the Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid society and nine guests met at the home of Mrs. Howard Benn. Rev William Knotts and others attended. Plans were set for an all day church cleanup on September 25. Members made potholders for an orphan’s home and refreshments were served at the close.
Hogs runs near 13 000 with prices generally 10 to 20 cents lower and lighter weights dipping 15 to 25 cents. Cattle 5 500 with calves 1 000. steers top at 13 65, heifers at 11 50, cows and cutters showing softness. Sheep 2 000 with native lambs steady to strong and light wethers up about 16 cents. Estimated tomorrow's receipts: cattle 1 000 hogs 7 000 sheep 2 000.
Chicago market report lists mixed corn 65 1/2 to 65 3/4 cents and yellow corn 65 to 68 cents. Yellow varieties 64 to 65 1/2 cents. Oats quoted at white 32 1/2 cents and 32 cents.
Open high low close figures for wheat corn oats rye listed with May and Sept contracts. Market notes include scattered decimals and percentage changes. Journey's End item reports a bottle with a net recovered from a shark stomach in Galveston bay after being dropped miles from the Gulf of Mexico. H. T. James of Palestine, Texas connected to the discovery.
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