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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1944
Page
5
For rent a modern apartment with option of furnished or unfurnished. Contact Mrs A L Griffith by calling 32 M. Also for rent a furnished apartment preferred by working girls at 623 N Iowa.
Chicago markets report hogs 12 000 head and cattle 20 000 with complete clearance. Hogs steady with good and choice 150 to 240 pounds at 14 75. weights over 240 and good sows at 14.0. Cattle show fat steers and yearlings steady to 25 cents lower. top 18 35. calves near 15 50. Sheep 3 000 with spring lambs steady to strong and natives at 14 00 to 14 35.
Chicago market report shows eggs firm with 8 065 cases received. Prices range for extra firsts 41 to 46 44, firsts 36 to 89 14, cur rent receipts 4 to 36, dirties 26 to 31, checks 26 to 30. Poultry receipts include 29 trucks with market steady for heavy white ducks 21, ducks 24 percent, young geese 15, small hens 20.
The grain table lists Wheat contracts for Sep Dec May and July with prices from 146 to 189 and varied highs and lows. Oats results show Sept and Dec and May quotes around 55 to 57 with drifting values. Rye quotes appear for Sep Dec and May around 95 to 97 with small daily shifts.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Reshley of near Packwood visited Monday with Mr and Mrs Lester Nicola. Mrs Howard Sigafoose and family called on Sam Marsh. Nicola children visited relatives and Myra Van Nostrand taught at Brighton. Elias Nichols death reported for Mrs Sigafoose’s brother in law in Grand Rapids Colorado.
Friday Whittaker sale barn hosts weekly sale of household goods and livestock with Mrs. Ida Bush and auctioneers Brown and Bruty. September 20 Guernsey sale on Emery Brenneman farm north Wellman with Swartzendruber and Troyer. September 28 Poland China sale in Olds Iowa at 1 PM by A L Duncan Winfield Iowa. October 5 Duroe Hog sale by Knotek Brothers.
Visitors drop in at S K Orris home in Crawfordsville as Milo Fulton Edgar Newman and Merle Stingley travel from Chicago. Ilda Gormley visits former neighbors while her husband Calvin is remembered. Long funeral service held for Thomas Long at the Methodist church with relatives and friends gathered from Davenport Ainsworth Washington Winfield and Sumner. Cleo McCoy in service arrives safely in England. Mrs Charles Kennedy visits her mother Mrs C H Fishburn.
Pfc Forrest R French 31 died in service in France on Aug 17. He had been overseas since March, served about a year, and was born Feb 21 191%. He was raised by foster parents after his mother died in 1923. An unrelated district court notice seeks an absolute divorce and child support.
Orlena Augustine begins teaching at Shiloh school as families gather for a potluck at the Shiloh school and relatives visit from Coppock and Coneville. Local residents including Pauline Schantz Marilyn Nicola Paul Beenblosom and Joan Schoonover are noted as attending Washington high school.
To keep pheasants away from corn, hang pieces of shiny tin suspended by string from leaning stakes or stretched wire along vulnerable sides of fields or gardens. Shooting permits are sometimes issued to farmers if birds cause excessive damage.
A method to simultaneously produce cast iron and Portland cement clinker in rotary kilns has reportedly seen successful use in Spain Germany Denmark and Japan and has not yet been attempted in the United States.
For earlier grazing, topdress by mid April with 290 pounds of nitrate of soda or 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate per acre. Maintain pasture by stocking one permanent acre for every three cows.
Iowa Falls area officers of the Iowa Council of Baptist Men were re-elected at the twelfth annual retreat and fellowship meeting. Merritt R. Heath of Cedar Rapids was named chairman, Mills B. Alldredge of Des Moines vice chairman, Ralph E. Alspach of Burlington secretary, and M. W. Johnson of Webster City treasurer. Dr. David I. Berger of Cedar Rapids spoke on America's Heritage and Destiny with other speakers expected.
Dr C O Morrong of Chicago Illinois directs promotion for the central area of the Northern Baptist convention, shaping outreach and program emphasis across churches.
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