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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
7
Chicago market estimates show hogs 6000 cattle 1500 sheep 3000 with actuals at 800 calves 4500 cattle. Good and choice hogs 150 to 240 pounds 14.75 heavier hogs and good sow 14.00. Fed and yearling steers to 25 higher top 18.25. Weaners steady with 3,000 sheep, native spring lambs 14.25 to 14.40.
Open and close grain prices listed for wheat corn oats and rye with bid and offer figures. The table shows Sep Dec May and July months with varying highs lows and chosen values for each commodity.
Crawfordsville residents will have no classes Thursday and Friday as teachers attend the Southeast district Iowa State Teachers association convention in Ottumwa. World Wide Communion Sabbath follows at United Presbyterian with an 8:00 pm preparatory service led by Rev. Arthur Peters of the Federated church. Sgt. John Harold Jones from Camp Butner is home on furlough. Everette Davis learns of his father Rev. D. T. Davis’s death after a stroke last week. Enos Davis reports a light stroke Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Lease with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lease and J. C. Wooley travel to Davenport to visit Bruce Lease.
Mrs. Jeanette Hanna a Montezuma teacher returns home for the weekend. Wilma Wooley a State University of Iowa student also spends the weekend with her family. Pfc. David White from Camp Butner North Carolina comes home on furlough to be with his wife son and parents Milton and Mrs. White.
In 1876 an Englishman smuggled Hevea rubber tree seeds from South America to Britain. From these seeds and through London gardens, major British rubber plantations developed in the Far East.
An on site sale event starts at 1 00 PM at Kart Keb Lotz and Sons farm in Winfield Iowa featuring boar and gift scale items.
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