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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1944
Page
5
Mrs. Frank Ross offers a McCormick Deering electric separator and an oak dresser along with a galvanized smoke house in West Chester 18612TF.
Before closing the petcock allow steam to escape seven minutes so all air is released. Closing early can cause the gauge to rise from air pressure rather than steam. Proper canning needs steam pressure not air pressure.
Purchases of steel rail by railroads amounted to 60,074,000 dollars in 1943, up from 55,647,000 the previous year, while spending on track fastenings, bolts, spikes, and related track materials totaled 43,804,000 dollars, down 9,545,000 from the prior year.
The 1942 cement output reached 35 million tons with about 60 million tons of raw materials consumed, mainly limestone, reflecting the scale of wartime industrial activity.
The text advises suspecting heat stroke when a horse collapses on hot days. Relief comes from cold water and intravenous salt solution under a veterinarian supervision. It stresses prevention through frequent watering, ample salt, and regular rest during extreme heat.
Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn and September auctions include Guernsey cattle at Emery Brenneman farm near Wellman. Swartzendruber and Troyer auctioneers. Closing Out Sale near Brighton on September 27 starts 11:00 a.m. Picken and Bradford owners. Sept. 28 Poland China sale at Olds starting 1:00 p.m. A L Duncan Winfield Iowa. Oct 2 public auction of 160 acres near Keota and Wellman. Duroe Hog sale by Knotek Brothers. Oct 10 Brenneman near Mt Union. purebred Hampshire sow sale by KE Brenneman.
U P Estimates place hogs at 10000 cattle at 12000 and sheep around 2000. Hogs steady with strong clearance. good and choice 120 to 240 lb hogs and good sow prices noted. Cattle trade mixed with calves and weanlings up to 25 to 75 cents. light steers top at 18 dollars. Sheep slower with lambs steady to 15 cents lower.
Chicago eggs receipts 6 934 cases market irregular extra firsts 40 to 46 percent firsts 386 to 88 percent current receipts 33 to 36 dirties 27 to 31 percent checks 27 to 30 percent Poultry receipts 4 cars 29 trucks market weak
Chicago grain table lists Wheat, Oats and Rye futures with open high low and close values for Sept, Dec, May and July contracts. Price readings show slight gains and varied spreads across wheat oats and rye segments.
Ronard W. Beattie, noted United Press war correspondent for the U S Third Army, was captured by German forces on September 12 near Chaumont and is believed moved into Germany.
On a Salem farm Mr and Mrs Verne Escher let their children Ronnie five and Shirley seven milk their gentle cow with one on each side. The kids then rode the cow using boards on a cement block. The cow calmly walked the lot as the pair enjoyed a quiet farm moment. Meanwhile Letitia TeBockhorst returned to Chicago work after a three week visit with family and friends.
In Salem on September 18 a two year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs William Wulf, nearly choked when his head became caught in the bib of a hanging apron. Mrs Wulf performed artificial respiration then took him to hospital where he recovered and returned home the same afternoon.
Mary Catherine Knotek and France Sojka earned blue ribbons at Mt. Pleasant last Saturday for their 4 H demonstration Delicious Nutritious Kolaches. The pair, from the Farmerettes club led by Mrs. Joe Knotek and Eldienne Sojka, have practiced all summer, baking many kolaches. Also noted is Joao de Melo of Piani Brazil assistant agriculture minister visiting the Knotek home for a wiener roast and field tour with neighbors, discussing Brazil hog production and hybrid corn and sharing prices like fifty cents a day for wages ten dollars per cattle head and one dollar per gallon gasoline.
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