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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1941
Page
7
The Chicago grain table shows corn, wheat, oats, rye, and soybeans with mixed open, high, low, and close figures. Prices for Sep, Dec, May, and July futures appear alongside cash items and Friday price notes. Courtesy Powers Produce, Washington Iowa.
White Oak reports the Sept 18 Ladies Aid meeting with 14 members and 2 guests. After a covered dish lunch, the group voted on favorite dishes and red chicken won. Next gathering set for Sept 24 with Mrs Tillie Deal. Other notes include a vacation return, a broken arm, a birthday surprise for Mrs Luers, and visits from relatives and friends.
Pat Moberly drills a well on his farm six miles southwest of Washington, as reported from Gray on September 17. The item records local activity and indicates ongoing agricultural improvements in the area.
Residents and visitors in the Gip Gilpin area share social calls and farm work notes. Mr and Mrs John O'Brien visited Gip Gilpin, Chick Kane tuned a tractor for William Longer, and Mrs Jesse Moore hosted the H H club with twelve members and seven children.
Funeral services for Louis Kr Henson a Columbus City resident were held Tuesday afternoon at the United Presbyterian church in Columbus Junction. Rev Harold C Irwin and Rev C H Hiller presided with Odd Fellows and Silver Leaf Rebekah lodge members in attendance. The Columbus City cemetery burial was conducted by the Odd Fellows lodge with pallbearers named and honorary pallbearers listed.
Chicago markets show hogs steady to 10 cents lower with 8,000 head. Cattle totals around 4,200 with fed steers and yearlings firm to 250 cents higher. Sheep päss but little activity on spring lambs. natives weaker. Estimated tomorrow receipts forecast cattle 1,000 hogs 4,000 sheep 2,000.
Chicago prices list cash grain quotes for corn and oats as of September 18. Corn values show various lots from yellow 75 to 75% and 74 to 75%. Oats quotes cover mixed lots at 47% to 47% and 2 white at 47% to 48%.
Produce market data shows steady keg prices with receipts of 7,137 cases, firsts 28 to 30 percent, and current receipts at 271 percent. Poultry market softer with 46 trucks received, heavy hens at 20 cents, No 2 hens at 15 cents, and springs 16 to 18 cents.
Griffith reunion officers elected at Columbus chautauqua park are Hezzie Griffith president and Leota Griffith secretary treasurer. The 1942 reunion is set for September 13 at the Dan Griffith home near Ainsworth. The Jones reunion at Columbus chautauqua park named W. Ek Gabriel president, A A Williams vice president, and Daisy Kemp secretary treasurer.
We express gratitude to friends for sympathy words and ecards in the loss of our brother and uncle C. L. Rodgers. Mrs. Pearl McNeill Forrest McNeil Inc. McNeil and Family
The article notes that cold water fails to remove dried egg white and scraping is often needed. Boiling water loosens the dried albumen easily and causes it to harden in hard boiled eggs, then peel off cleanly.
A Wisconsin man outlines blueprints for a home workshop target pistol using hand tools except for turning the barrel. Popular Mechanics notes the weapon fires balloons at quarter mile and costs about 15 dollars to assemble from a rough kit.
Cecil F. Rooks of the Farm Security Administration urges Washington County borrowers to follow a one for one feeding rule to boost milk output for defense needs. He explains a 20 percent reserve capacity allows raising milk from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds with an extra 1,000 pounds of grain, noting favorable profit if grain costs less than additional milk returns.
Mrs H E Westen joined Cora Widmer Bertha Graber and Florence Westen to Des Moines for Broadlawns nurses graduation exercises. Sister Inez Graber also graduated. Camp Allie Wittmer from Arkansas called on J R Kauffman and Otto Frey homes Friday evening.
September 24 starts at 11:00 with Midway Sale Co Columbia auction and Chris Frey enberger. September 24 P M Swart zendruber Guernsey sale near Wellman at noon and M A Engle household goods sale in Washington. October 2 Harold J Horak Ka lona Berkshire hog sale. October 8 Knotek Bros Riverside Duroe Hog Sale. October 11 Penning roth Brothers Wellman Poland China hog sale. October 15 Hampshire boar and gifts near Wellman Highway 22. October 16 Poland China hog sale John Wagner Son Washington.
In Dearborn Michigan 29 young men from 29 districts study mechanized farming on 100 acres. The National Farm Youth Foundation, with Ferguson Sherman Ford affiliate backing, pays $150 monthly while they train to boost farm efficiency. The program mirrors industrial machinery advances and includes classroom lessons and field work.
Sunday evening supper guests at the Ed Rinner home included Stella Rinner of Mt. Pleasant staying with her brother Ed Rinner and Marjorie Jane.
Dinner guests at the Ebner home included the Sands of Ainsworth and Gale Fry of Arizona visiting from this summer, with Jennie Kennedy’s return from Hot Springs, South Dakota. The McCreedys and Lois Godlove visited, as did the Farringtons, Ericksons, and Sands. Multiple extended family visits occurred at Wehr and related households with Mt. Pleasant and Viola participants nearby.
Marilyn spent Sunday with his parents Mr and Mrs Ed Murphy near Washington, sharing a quiet family visit in the countryside.
Mr and Mrs Earl Neal and Kosmer Borkoski visited Washington last Thursday. Berkley Brown and son Richard from Iowa City spent days at Roman Borkoski home. Clara McClintie and John Max and Mable Neal visited Wayland relatives. Lawrence Baker Omar Black Doyle Brown and Leo Ross hosted and visited in Swedeburg and with Doyle Brown.
The native population in Canada s western Arctic shows a slow and steady rise as communities increasingly populate the region. The trend suggests growing indigenous presence and longer term settlement in northern areas.
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