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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
2
Markets open with steady to firmer hogs and steady cattle. Estimated receipts total 11 000 hogs and 10 000 cattle with strong buying for early sales and varying packing hog prices from 19.45 to 20.80. Sheep receipts 20 000 with lambs slow but steady prices around 17.35 to 18.06 and ewes around 12.25 to 12.75. Receipts from yesterday listed as 18 151 hogs and 16 472 cattle winners.
Corn grain market brief shows Iowa City firm BE Warner Co with L B Hont manager and contact 726.
Markets in St Louis show bid prices for No 1 red wheat at 95 9 49 to 95 9 51 with several grades. No 2 red wheat at 42 2 22 percent. No 1 hard wheat at 92 4 2 28. No 2 yellow corn around 1 72. No 2% yellow corn 1 65. No 4 yellow corn 1 66. No 6 yellow corn 1 423 1 47. No 4 white corn 1 72. No 5 white corn 1 70. No 3 white oats 0 72. No 4 white oats 0 71 0 71 4. No 1 rye 1 60. No 2 rye 1 60. No 3 rye 1 50. Chicago receipts list wheat 702 cars. corn 259 cars. oats 461 cars.
In Dallas Texas on September 12 Lieut Parker Bruce of Chicago and Lieut Anthony Sego of Kentland Indiana were killed when their airplane crashed one and a half miles north of Love field Bruce was an instructor and Sego was a flying cadet.
Aillsworth region features a loot sale with Lynn Adams and Mer on Wednesday September 18. John Flynn scheduled for Thursday September 1 south of Washington. Hotle near Wellston holds a public sale. John Wagoner hosts Poland China sale in Washington on Saturday September 20. L W H Rinner offers Duroc swine and Jersey Cow sale on the farm near Washington on Saturday September 21.
Rex Stumpf started removing a dead hedge along the road west of his house. T. J. La Velle near Wellman began gathering corn for hogs and plans to trap manure from the barn during field work. W. E. Hole reports substantial fodder stored in shocks. Henry Graf’s farm shows corn cut with a binder likely for silo. harvest activity continues across properties.
A. F. Bower of Seventy-six constructs a mice free Kaffir corn crib on short posts with a inverted tin pan, using native lumber. Nob Rairdon and Ed Stoutner unload hogs from drought portions. R. O. Wilson repairs his house for a furnace and enlarges the cellar. corn shocks are large and promising. A. D. Moody shows a long lived grove with two rows of white pine and spruce planted 22 years ago.
The text notes preferring white pine over maple or willow for a north west grove by the barn lot, citing resilience to cold and wind. It mentions corn growing beneath trees, John Ollinger’s 32 by 32 foot house foundation with a sleeping porch, and future cemented drive and coal dump to ease bin loading.
H T D Henderson and Sons collected 15 prizes from 24 Chester White hog classes at the Junction fair including eight firsts five seconds and two thirds. They baled straw for themselves and helped at Carl Meyers. Seed corn is hanging with more good seed than needed this spring.
Frank Pulver uses a stump puller to extract hedge stumps along the east roadside. The stumps are remnants of a hedge fence, explaining the effort and method described.
A new barbed wire top replaces the old fence with woven wire and tight spacing to deter entry. Art Romine finishes fall clover hay cutting with three horses and a hay loader working smoothly.
A brief meditation asserts that self mastery enables self government in individuals and in society, framing this as the essence of republicanism. The reflection ties personal discipline to collective governance and civic virtue.
A cattleman invites buyers to a sale on October 12 featuring top March pigs and boars sired by Premier Chief and I Am Golden Model Again. The herd emphasizes breeding quality with Golden Model lineage and strong sow performance. the host thanks patrons and invites all to attend.
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