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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1928
Page
2
Receipts reach 3,000 as hog prices ease from steady to 10 lower. Heavier weights up to 250 lbs pull top bids, packing sows hold steady. A 185 lb load brings about 13.35, 174 to 250 lbs fetch 13.00 to 13.25, lighter lots 12.25 to 12.75.
Prices for cream butterfat 46 cents per pound. Eggs 28 per dozen. Hens large breeds 21 cents per pound, leghorn and black 17, springs large breeds 24, leghorn and black 20. Old roosters iplv? Ducks large breeds price unspecified. Geese per pound 10 cents. Horse hides each, beef hides per pound. An extra cent paid per pound for poultry delivered. Market notes include sick or crippled poultry at 2 cents.
Bulk packing sows 11.85 to 12.15. Cattle receipts 1000 with higher bids on choice fed steers and yearlings. Sheep receipts 5,000 with fat lambs 125 to 150 lower. feeding lambs 15 to 35 higher. fat ewes 6.00 to 6.75. Bulls, vealers, stockers and feeders strong to 25 higher.
Knoteck Bros. return from the National Swine Show in Peoria with major honors for their herd. Awards include 2nd Aged Boar heaviest at 948 lbs, 1st and 4th Senior Sons, 1st Junior Champion, Reserve Grand Champion, and top placements in various progeny categories. A gilt sold last winter won Junior Championship of the world.
A September 15 visit to the county home farm bureau picnic includes remarks on speaker Joe Jones and local residents Paul Gorham, Warren, Norton, and Lewis Warren. The piece notes farm sales near Brighton eight to eleven years prior, with prices for corn, yearlings, and cows, and mentions an 80 acre farm to sell on the 29th with livestock and equipment.
A reminiscence of the twelve year old sale of John C. Mathers near Haskins on a bitterly cold day. D F Macon bravely traveled to the sale and was killed early. Bidders came from twenty miles as Corn bread sold for 62 1 2 cents and cows brought up to 130 dollars. Machinery sold well as the crowd battled frosty fingers and brisk transfers of dollars and checks.
Grain prices listed for Wheat Oats Rye Barley Timothy and Clover with bids and quantities. Includes mixed yellow white and SG white categories with percentages and ranges for No 2 No 4 Rye and barley priced per bushel and for forage crops.
Seed price records show Clover cash 1750 Oct 1804 Dec 1800 cash imp 1425. Timothy cash old 265 cash new 270 Dec 297%. Alsike cash new 1875 Oct 1875 Dec 1900.
Lodges Washington chapter No. 98 regular meeting second Thursday each month. Alice Meek W M Della McBride secretary visiting members welcome. Damascus Shrine No. 10 regular meeting third Tuesday each month at Masonic couple rooms. Mrs L A Jones W P Sara E Walker worthy. Washington Lodge No. 26 AF and AM regular meeting first Friday each month D L Carbauga W M A W Yard secretary.
Railway Time Table updates list eastbound No 4 Golden State and No 12 Express departures and westbound No 8 Golden State Limited arrivals, with local and freight trains noted. Knoxville Branch schedules show local passes and freight, while St. Paul and Pacific routes provide daily passenger, local freight, and Southwest Limited services under agent notices.
The inspector asks if any abnormal children are in the class and the schoolmaster confirms two pupils fit that description, revealing a moment of strain in the classroom.
Five year old daughter notices a man across the road and points him out to her mother. The mother asks what he is doing and the child jokes about a banana skin. Tarant, father of H. H. Tarant’s daughter, left for Tonkwa Oklahoma to visit his daughter. Mrs Katherine Parkinson Weaver, daughter of John Parkinson, and wife of Stewart Weaver, died at the Parkinson home in Palo Alto California yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Donald Smith left Monday for a motor trip to Wisconsin. Pauline Smith returned to Cedar Falls. Arthur Shaw of Batavia and Iona visited Rex Smith in Muscatine Tuesday. The Braden club held a Sunset Park picnic with about 45 attendees hoping for an annual reunion. Mrs Frank Dittmer and others from Washington attended Mt. Pleasant district Farm Bureau women meeting.
ABE MARTIN quips about choosing sides with Russia or buying an Arctic ice crusher. He argues in a free country one must have influence to push policy and notes the power of pull.
Rev Krenmyre attends general conference in Oska loosa this week and there will be no preaching at the Methodist church this Sunday. James Fitzgerald returns from Toledo Ia to spend the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs J J Fitzgerald. Mrs H V Stickley and Willis return to Galveston Texas after weeks with her parents. Mr and Mrs T J Easter visit Davenport. The writer spent days in Washington keeping Kenton Kurtz in school while his parents attend a Cedar Rapids lesson convention. James Clegg arrives from Canada with uncle James McCollough body. funeral at Clegg home Saturday afternoon.
A Women’s Work of Iowa speaker described Farm Bureau activities, organizational structure, and Articles of Federation. She highlighted involvement opportunities and the federation’s mission for rural communities.
The FBO film Not for Publication stars Ralph Ince who directs and acts. His deep West experience informs the dam story and authentic characters amid a strong supporting cast Rex Lease Jola Mendez Eugene Strong Roy Laidlaw Thomas Brower Tom McGuire.
Mrs Murdock of near Gladwin visits daughter Mrs Wm Simkins. Methodist ladies aid bake sale Saturday adds 32 dollars to treasury as plans begin for bazaar and dinner.
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