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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1927
Page
2
Chicago market data shows hog prices shifting lower with uneven demand, top paid for 225 lb hogs at 11.80, and light weights variably down. Cattle and calves move mixed, with weighty fed steers strong and slaughter lists offering varied prices, while sheep and fat lamb activity remains robust.
Market notes 25 to 35 cents higher on spots with best native lambs at 13.75 to 14.00. Washington lambs hold above 14.35 and feeding lambs steady around 13.00 to 14.00. Slaughter lambs 12.00 to 14.35, ewes 1.50 to 6.50, Montana year lings at 9.50, bulk weights 13.00 to 13.75 with some 12.50.
Chicago cash grain prices show varied bids for wheat with several grades listed around 1.28 to 1.29% changes and mixed quotes for corn across yellow white and mixed grades. The data appears fragmentary with inconsistent percentages and a trailing entry cut off.
The state supreme court affirmed and annulled a Polk county district court ruling over the defunct Associated Packing Co Des Moines. It held suits for damages against stockholders must be filed in the defendants' residence counties rather than one court. The court also reversed a Washington county ruling voiding two $6000 notes from S J Baird to George F Morrison noting no fraud evidence in the creditor trust case.
Mayor John W. Appelgate urges Washington businesses to display flags Wednesday to welcome Civil War veterans visiting for Crocker's brigade reunion. He asks flags be flown in front of stores to honor the visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Shaffer and family visited Quincy, Illinois, over the weekend at John Tennitz’s home.
Report lists bids and ranges for oats barley rye timothy and clover with white and color grade distinctions and percent estimates, noting oats at 49 51 percent white share and clover rising from 18.00 to 26.00 per unit.
A rural paper notes farmers reporting higher corn yields than expected and previews upcoming sales. It mentions M A Hunter recovering, his Cranston connection, and a future move to Oskaloosa. Also covered are fall pig luck, a D J Ross household goods sale, W H Mitchel timber sale, and a dramatic 1849 Oregon migration sale listing livestock tools and a disturbing slave advert with cash terms and a Kentucky home, south of Versailles.
Mrs Etta Macraye of M lean preserves a clipping from the Livestock Reporter published in Kentucky bearing a February 1849 date. The advertisement shows a public sale of slaves and whiskey and was handed down from her grandfather to her mother.
Chicago reports forecast livestock volumes for tomorrow with cattle at 16000 hogs 18000 and sheep 17000. The figures come from the Chicago market column dated September 20.
Mrs J R Palmer returns home from visiting relatives in Stuart Iowa and Sioux Falls South Dakota after about a month away. Sevilla Boice heads to Ames Iowa to enroll at Iowa State College with several others following for the second semester. A list of local debts and property losses totals various amounts from farms and households including a barn, a heifer, an estate, and livestock.
Clover cash imported various dates shows 14.50 to 16.00 with December and March values. Timothy cash ranges 1.60 to 1.82. Alsike cash lists 14.80 to 15.05 across December January and March.
Secretary J. J. Bendo reports payments on policies from the Washington County Farmers Mutual Association. Claims include G. H. Stagner for a cow, P. E. Bennett for two horses, W. V. Durst for a mare, Frank and Nellie Kuhn for a calf, John McKinstry estate for barn hay and grain, A. C. Ruegsegger for hog house damage, J. F. Schantz for a heifer, Frank Heck for three horses, Ed Kos for a horse, S. S. Finch for hog earth damage, BE Davison for a sow, W. F. Gardner for a steer, and Boyd B. and Carrie W. Berdo for hay grain stock and machinery, plus Romine for two barns.
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