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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
3
Local notes report the deaths of Mrs. I. W. Lightley of Austin and other residents, funeral details, and sickness. Additional items include engagements, births, graduations, school events, real estate ads, and various social announcements from Austin and nearby towns.
Mrs. Jo Umhoefer and daughter Mable visit Lime Springs with Annie. Chauncey and Johnnie Davison of Omaha arrive. Maurek lends his hall for East Side Sunday school entertainment on Wednesday June 16 with tickets available June 7 at Maurek's store. adults 15 cents, children 10 cents. Esther Johnson returns to Alden after visiting the W F Clay home. Chas Oots visits his grandmother in Kansas City with possible stay to August or September. Mrs. Owen Sullivan of Minneapolis visits Mrs. Thomas Meany.
Theatre page notes events at Austin venues with listings of shows and dates. Readers learn which plays or performances are on, venues like Austin Play Houses, and performance periods.
The Dorothy Wood Stock Company presented The Price of Peace at the Gem Theatre last night. Despite poor attendance due to weather the play impressed with heart moving scenes and strong moral value and will be repeated tonight by popular demand.
Pittsburg June 2 John Speidel twenty one and Harry Anderson seventeen drowned when a steamer's wake overturned their boat. Anderson died in attempting to save Speidel who was seized by cramps. Speidel was to be married within weeks.
In Marion Indiana on June 2 Alonso Belleville was fatally shot on the platform of the Pennsylvania railroad station at Poland by his brother in law William P Gray. Several shots were fired with Gray unhurt. Gray surrendered.
Lost a large pocket book containing a small sum of money. Finder please leave at Herald. Wanted bus driver at the Fox. Wanted two or three rooms in a modern house with board or near boarding place. Address this office. For sale a refrigerator. Phone 365L. For sale residence 706 and 708 North Elm. Terms part down remainder easy payments inquire at above numbers. For rent rooms at 510 Grove street inquire Mrs J Gute.
Minneapolis June 1 Wheat prices listed for July and beyond include July at $1.2046, September at $1.105, December at $1.084. Track prices show No 1 hard at $1.34, No 1 Northern at $1.32, No 2 Northern at $1.9147, and No 3 Northern at $1.28 with various margins.
In Duluth on June 1, grain prices show wheat on track with No 1 hard at 1.82 and No 1 Northern 1.31, No 2 Northern 1.29, July 1.291 and 4 under cents, September 1.11. Flax on track with July 1.74 and Sept 1.52, Oct 1.49.
Cattle grades steady to good with steer values at about 5.00 to 6.50 per hundredweight and cows and heifers from 4.50 to 5.00. Hogs range 6.75 to 7.15, sheep shows weights from 6.25 to 7.25 with yearlings at 7.00 to 7.25 and lambs 7.50 to 9.00.
Chicago market report lists cattle and hog prices by class and origin with ranges for beef cattle Texas Western stockers and feeders cows and calves and calves. hogs show light mixed heavy and ranges for good to choice heavy. sheep native yearlings and lambs with price brackets ending abruptly in af.
Chicago market notes list wheat corn oats pork butter eggs and poultry prices for July through December. Wheat futures at 1.19 for July and 1.094 for Sept. corn July 71 44 cents. oats July 58% cents. pork July 19.37 and Sept 19.60. butter dairy price ranges. eggs 191% 21c. poultry quotes for turkeys and chicks.
St Paul notes the death of Cyrus Wellington longtime chief counsel for the Great Northern railway and later private counsel for James J. Hill. He died at his daughter Mrs H W Helmbold’s home in Balsam Lake Wisconsin. Wellington served in the Civil War.
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