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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1931
Page
2
Receipts total around 23,000 head with 2,500 direct. Markets mostly steady to lower than Monday’s average, practical top 5.80. Bulk 180 to 280 lb average 5.10 to 5.50, 140 to 170 lb 4.50 to 4.85, pigs 4.25 to 4.65. Packing sows 4.00 to 4.80. Light weights 140 to 160 lb good and choice 4.65 to 5.10. Light 160 to 200 lb good.
Receipts include cattle and sheep with price ranges by weight and grade. Cattle: cows good to choice 4.00 to 5.75, vealers 7.50 to 9.76, stockers 5.00 to 6.75, bulls 3.40 to 4.00, heifers 4.50 to 9.75. Sheep: lambs 6.25 to 7.50, ewes 7.25, feeders 5.00 to 5.25, slaughter stock 4.75 to 5.00, feeding lambs 4.75 to 5.60. Market trend steady to firm with mix of grades.
Towa Livestock Market for Sept 29 reports 15 500 head yarded over 24 hours ending 8 am down from 9 400 last week. Market steady to lower with heavy butchers and sows steady hogs fairly heavy. Slaughter hog weights dominated range around 170 to 1 hundred pounds and bidding saw firmness in pricing.
The document lists bulk hog prices by weight ranges from 140 to 350 pounds, detailing terms like good and choice quality and varying price ranges from 2.25 to 5.00 per hundredweight. It notes that long shipments with shrinkage and heavy fill are sold above or below quoted prices and that weights at shipping points exclude from quotations.
Chicago produce markets show mixed movement with receipts and steady to higher quotes for various commodities. Dairy and poultry volumes remain steady, with cheese and butter prices firming, while potatoes report on track with large car movements and regional price ranges across Wisconsin Minnesota Idaho and Ohio sources.
Bad Girl, Fox film version of Vina Delmers celebrated novel, debuts at the ite theater for a three day engagement starting Monday. James Dunn, a New York stage recruit, delivers a notable screen debut while Sally Eilers stars as the girl-bride heroine in a tense drama of adolescent love, marriage, and maternity. Edwin Burke adapts the story focusing on the husband as well as the wife.
A Tipton camp visit draws curious crowds as Troop B rests nearby. Local talk covers camp supplies from Cedar Rapids, livestock testing, and memories of figures such as King Leer. The item weaves in a reading from the Saturday Evening Post and a Fox program on racing and characters.
Cordele H Braden appears in a local clipping with mentions of sorority pledges at Coe College Cedar Rapids Alpha Phi Gamma and Delta Delta Delta include Marsha Foster Evelyn Griggs and Margaret Jones. Proceedings note W Q V literary meeting hosted by Mrs ED Miller with lesson Travelogue and travels by Mrs H E Ross L C Miller and others, along with guest Mrs W P Gardner. Glee club selections announced under Milo T Sorden.
The wrordsville page records a busy farm scene with G M Smith cutting clover on Route 5, Joe Embree plowing after rain, and Bill Augustine showcasing 76 head of yearling cattle. It notes Wes Smith's arrival and plans to move to Washington, a new five hundred dollar chicken house at the Augustine home, a 220 acre farm overseen by a neighbor, and community mentions of local families and school-age boys.
Riverside Sept the Sophomore class of Riverside public schools entertained party at the school house Friday evening for the Freshman class. Faculty and high school pupils attended with games and stunts, a special feature ring, and the initiation of the freshmen. Delicious refreshments were served before departure. Miss Libble Birka Miss Mildred Kinney Miss Florence Konig Miss Aliee Thompson Guy Gorot Myron Salladay and Maynard Marshall were among the freshmen. Miss Helen Mertzman of Davenport spent the weekend with her parents, Mr and Mrs Heitz.
Mornings brought visits as Johon W Greiner and family hosted, while Kenneth Kiefer recuperates from a leg abscess. Cyclone ruins draw crowds to Crawfordsville. Mrs Eugene Morgan and family spend weekend with relatives in Oskaloosa and Wayland church group attended Sunday School.
Local families hosted visits over the weekend including Mr and Mrs Gowey in Rubio and Mr and Mrs Morgan near Sea F. Kolesick shipped hogs to John Morell Co of Tama via Kublo on Saturday John Morgan and Dean Schmitter visited the Hanan family Sunday Velma Seearey spent the weekend with Nellie Seearey Mrs Johnson and the Morgans visited George and Stanley Marsh heads west of Brighton Others hosted callers in Washington Stella was remembered as a noted English literature figure described by the dean as beautiful graceful and bright but slightly too blond.
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