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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1919
Page
2
Hogs lead gains with strong demand estimated receipts 3,500. Top hog price 17.80 with varied weights showing gains up to 25 cents. Cattle and sheep receipts rise with native beef and veal up to 75 cents and lambs 50 cents to 1 dollar higher amid broad market strength.
Market notes from Iowa City show corn futures opening high and closing near session lows with Sept and Dec contracts at about 1.43 and 1.26 respectively. Cash corn trades at 1.42 to 1.43 per unit, oats around 0.67 to 0.68, and clover and coffee prices listed for March and December contracts.
Joe Wray of Cheston has sold Red Lancelot, a top race horse with a strong season record in Illinois and Sioux City, to Col H Smith of Omaha for 6500 dollars. Smith sent the horse to Lexington Kentucky for Grand Circuit prep next year, with Wray predicting a 2:00 pace in the coming season.
An editorial warns against relying on luck for big decisions. It argues luck can favor or defeat and favors those who study trials, marshal resources, and apply disciplined effort to win honors through upgrades.
A motto about striving for perfection in all things, noting that persistent effort brings closer results though perfect attainment remains out of reach. It contrasts perseverance with laziness and despondency that give up.
A plea to seek romance in literature and theater to lift the daily grind. Readers are urged to indulge in romantic books and plays to refresh and uplift their spirits.
Route Seven updates include Pauley Brown and volunteers building a cement floored corn crib with a workshop top floor. Hints of fuel savings through metal weather strips, Route Seven purse for mail carrier Frank Chez after his car burned. Readers discuss corn and hog markets, inflation lessons, and 1919 crop projections amid a general cost-cutting mood.
The Evening Journal brings an assortment of local updates. A road gang works west of Bert Smith's while J A Pratt cuts corn this week. Mrs D E Nichols visits Indiana relatives. John Hindah repairs fences. Ben Beitel sells honey again with limited supply. Beitel runs a top truck farm in Washington county. Ralph Fetters feeds about 1600 hogs on his new farm from Bill Wells.
Farmers show confidence as corn matures quickly with high quality prospects. John Wood of near West Chester displays six sample ears ready for crib, while Ralph Robertson harvests 75 acres hitting peak yields. Six cars weighed eight pounds from June 1 planting.
The item notes labor troubles and excess European credits affecting corn, oats, and provisions. It outlines ongoing economic pressures and the influence of labor disputes on agricultural markets and commodity prices.
Market notes from Phone 116 Mutual listing butter eggs and poultry prices and trends. Winter egg prices are modest and selling regularly is advised to avoid shrinkage and stale stock. Poultry prices are lower with various deliverable items including cream butter and ducks noted among the market offerings.
Farmers Union president O B Wilson will speak at Eureka school house Tuesday evening September 30 at 8 o'clock. County Union president W M Sutherland will also speak.
Jefferson Iowa September 27 The first locally owned airplane arrived with banker Jay M Wiggins of Jefferson aboard the Curtiss machine used in army training camps A 90 horsepower model driven from Chicago by Lieut Emmett Schoppe with Wiggins as passenger Schoppe who served fifteen months in the government air service will instruct Wiggins until he earns a civilian pilot license.
Chicago stockyards report mixed cattle and hog prices with cautious tone as steel strike looms. Receipts 57,500 cattle this week vs 61,000 last week. fair to good cattle and yearlings hold value though overall demand cools. Hogs slip slightly. tops and packing grades range from 15.50 to 16.00 with buyers urged to ship hogs promptly. Sheep and lambs stay steady to firm amid cautious market outlook.
William Conner fined $25 for allowing minors in his pool hall. Shorty Hutchinson and Carl Johnson beat Chet Bullis for squealing. Bullis was assaulted again. Hutchinson accused of a second attack and has disappeared.
A shipment of pure bred livestock was sent from Nevada to Edmondton Alberta Canada for the University of Alberta farm. Purchaser Prof. Austin A. Cowen former Ames man now with the university animal husbandry department. The lot includes a Berkshire boar that won at the Iowa state fair five Berkshire sows from Lowana farms near Davenport a Hampshire ram and five pure bred ewes from Kentucky.
The piece explains that Massachusetts Pennsylvania Virginia and Kentucky are officially called commonwealths though they function as states. It notes the term is traditional rather than a legal difference and recounts that Massachusetts was called a commonwealth as early as 1636.
Marie Hudson of San Francisco and companion drove solo across the continent in a dark blue coupe, faced snowdrifts and hail, survived Nevada gun threats, and were robbed of their car on Riverside Drive after reaching New York. The women described vigilant travel and near-misses, hoping for the return of their vehicle.
Fontanelle Iowa Sept 24. The senior class at Fontanelle High School is larger than the junior and sophomore classes and equals the freshman class with twenty seven seniors. Of a 104 high coded enrollment 500 are nonresident pupils.
Clarinda court records reveal 15 year old obolathy Smith awarded $500 from C L Harland after a two day jury verdict. Smith part of a boys group who raided Harland melon patch. Harland fired, twenty two shots were fired from the lad's back. The suit sought $15,000.
In Tipton Illinois on September 27 a jury quickly ruled for Orie and Chester Williams against George Walton over the killing of three hunting hounds. The dogs trained to hunt wolves and foxes had caused disturbance by chasing farmyard stock and frightened chickens, leading the stock owners to shoot them.
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