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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1941
Page
7
Hogs 8,000 with prices up 50 to 15 cents. cows and bulls mix. Sheep 3,000 with spring lambs steady to strong. natives 11.25 to 11.75. Cattle 14,700 slow with medium weights steady to weak. fed heifers up to 15 cents higher. top yearling steers 12.75. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 10,000 hogs 9,000 sheep 3,000.
Columbus Junction Sept 3 The Columbus Community will cooperate with Columbus High School athletic department in promoting a special program tied to a night football game. A committee including Supt. Hibbs H E North by J B Reaney Henry Little H Lee Huston and Paul Smith will handle force tickets and publicity. Built Garage Extension Pine Brothers Auto Company is adding a 20 by 60 foot extension to the north side of their garage. Dr. Walter E Keehl visits from Seattle and attends farm business while Delbert Black buys a Walnut street residence. Republican Officers elect Edith Pierce as president and Lucretia Turkington Letts Elizabeth Robertson Morning Sun as vice presidents with other officers named.
Wayland report notes Charlie Ballard sustained a near severed tendon after contact with a corn cutter at the Harold Meyer farm. He required several stitches and uses scrutches. The item also lists graduation attendees from Broadlawns hospital and various local social notes about residents and business changes.
Chicago reports cash grain bids with corn fractions from 75% to 76% for mixed and yellow lots and oats bids around 47% to 49% for mixed and white lots. Prices reflect wholesale bids across several grade distinctions.
Chicago produce market report shows eggs with receipts of 7 828 cases and current receipts of 27 144 plus dirties 25 percent and checks 24 percent. Poultry market is irregular with car and 33 trucks received, and prices listed for ducks geese hens and turkeys across several grades and weights.
Grain table from Chicago dated Sept 15 reports open high low and close for wheat corn oats rye and soybeans with July through May futures and assorted percentage changes. The OCR ends with garbled text.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Brown and family and Beatrice Lehr spent the weekend in Lancaster Missouri for the Enlow reunion in Bloomfield yesterday. Carl Brown returned to Washington and started work for Charles Barthelow north of town this morning. Mrs Maynard Brown and others visited in Cedar Rapids Saturday evening with Mrs T J Pease. Attendees at Asa Reid’s funeral included Chagees Babcock and Harry Reid of Chicago plus relatives from Little Rock West Des Moines Kalona Owosso Cedar Rapids and Indianola among others.
Mrs Harold Bontrager will attend college again this year. She was called to Tuleta Texas by illness and death of her father George Gingerich. The funeral was held Tuesday September 9.
Chief R W Nebergall of the state bureau of criminal investigation announces the arrest of Kenneth Hansen Don Kissinger and Tommy Holton. The trio allegedly robbed hotels in three Iowa county seat towns this summer netting about 3600 in cash and many checks. Hansen is described as the brains of the operation Kissinger as the decoy and Holton as a former Le Mars tavern operator.
The wind whipped Spirit Lake into whitecaps as a boat from Webster City overturned one mile from the east shore. Des Moines youths Francis and Derrold Anderson, 18 and 15, rescued Dale Johns, 30, and Stewart Randall, 39, after the motor stalled three times.
About four of five Iowa youths in the national NYA out of school work program are fit for employment. NYA administrator Theodore Esliek reported 78 percent in good health, 16 percent with minor defects not hindering most work, and 5 percent suitable only for certain kinds of work.
Max E. Paige, 22, the first conscientious objector to appear before the West Waterloo draft board, was called Oct 8 and will be assigned to a service camp. He was elected governor of Iowa American Legion Hawkeye Boys State in 1938 in Des Moines and urged democracy and freedom be defended with love and patience.
Mrs Effie Dice a widow was seriously burned over her body at her Cedar Rapids home while cleaning clothes when gasoline used with the fluids exploded. Her mother Mrs Edna Post suffered burned fingers as she aided her daughter. Police say a pilot light on a basement gas stove likely ignited the liquid.
Mrs John Nye entertained 16 Kensington club members and two guests, planning a Sept 19 picnic at Ainsworth park. Happy Hour club gathered at Mrs Mae Gordon's country home for rook and socializing. A potluck dinner followed by visiting was held at Mrs Annas class home.
The identification tag worn by every German soldier will indicate his blood group to aid transfusions, reports the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Moscow war effort shows total war in practice with state control of industry and resources. Evacuations, strict blackout, and absence of nightlife underscore the city’s grim wartime mood.
Weekend automobile accidents killed ten people in Iowa. Three died near Ottumwa and three women perished near Des Moines in separate crashes. Don Brandon, 35, Davenport, was fatally shot by an accidental discharge of a German Luger pistol. Effie Collins, 36, reported turning the gun as it fired. Effie Dyce, 45, Cedar Rapids, died from burns after cleaning fluid exploded at her home.
Elsa Wustenfield testifies that a Gestapo official organized a 1938 espionage network in the United States. She, among 17 involved, has pleaded guilty to spying on defense secrets and aiding Germany. She links Lily Stein and Frederick Duquesne to the Nazi espionage system uncovered by the FBI.
Marshalltown police officer Ray Johnson credited with quick recall that aided a swift arrest. Details are sparse as the report notes memory helped identify a suspect and secure the apprehension. Further information on charges was not provided.
Des Moines officer John Johnson and his wife, hearing a robbery alert for Roy W. Marr and a license plate, spotted the car, alerted the station, and with Officer C. F. Pfeiffer arrested Marr near his car about 9 p.m. after he returned.
Bob Frink and William Steele return from a western trip via Colorado and plan California visit this summer. They travelled with Mr and Mrs Preston Wolf visiting relatives in Long Beach and attending the international convention of the FTD in Los Angeles. H H Reister has just finished a month of treatment at McCleary sanitarium in Excelsior Springs Missouri and will be unable to return to work at Reisters' Produce for several weeks.
Dr. Frank I. Herriott age 73 a Drake university political science professor since 1908 died at Iowa Methodist hospital from peritonitis after going to the hospital for a stomach checkup. He had been in excellent health and last spring helped build a summer cabin in the east during a visit with relatives.
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