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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1944
Page
11
Four room cottage with new hot water heat and hardwood floors located at 417 Fairmount Street. Seeks buyers for a two story house on Rogers Street with conveniences and priced at 2000. Call 06% with inquiries.
Default on a note leads trustees to offer for sale at public auction on June 17 1944 at the front door of McDowell County Court House Welch WV at two o clock PM. The lot is Lot 4 Block 3 in Reid Town Big Creek McDowell County shown on map Book 1 page 147 and conveyed to George Richardson Jr and Albert S Kemper Jr by deed of trust dated June 20 1940 recorded in Deed Book 63 page 485.
Total 600 head with lambs at various grades and prices. Report lists lambs including choice and good at levels around 16.15 and 15.30, medium around 12.75, and bucks from 11.05 to 15.15. sheep slaughter grades cited. vealers described with multiple lots priced from about 11.25 to 15.90, plus several lots at 14.00 and 12.05. A final note appears garbled.
Chicago livestock market report shows sales totals of 8.529 million with 34 000 hogs and 16 000 cattle offered. Prices range with hogs mainly 11 60 to 13 75 for various weights, cattle steady to mixed, steers 15.00 to 17.40, heifers 14.00 to 16.25, cows 9.75 to 12.00, veal 16.00, sheep 7.25 to 16.00 and lambs around 12.50 to 17.25 depending on class and weight.
Baltimore market notes cattle steady with last week, top steer around 17.45 with good and choice lots 16.25 to 16.85, feeders mixed, cows 6.50 to 10.00, hogs active and steady with top 180 to 130 lb at 10.75 to 11.00, larger weights 11.75 to 12.75, lambs and sheep active with spring lambs 15.75 to 16.75 and ewes 6.00 to 7.50.
Pittsburgh June 5 moderate demand for produce with 17 carloads of potatoes in new stock. Prices listed for various potato grades and origins include Alabama Bliss Triumphs 4.25 for 100 lb sacks, South Carolina Katahdins 3.75, Mississippi and Louisiana Bliss Triumphs 4.00 to 4.10, plus graded peas and eggs in cartons unavailable.
Wall Street ends lower as profit taking follows a jump to a five year peak. Leaders fall fractions to over a point with a 60 stock average down 0.3 to 52.9. Transfers total 858,990 shares vs 819,300. Park and Tilford drops 4 points amid mixed activity.
Salable hogs 3,500 steady with load ranges from 160 to 350 pounds and higher figures for 100 to 150 pounds. Cattle salable at 150 steady with steers 200 to 17, medium to good 14.00 16.00, heifers 13.75 14.50, cows 8.75 12.00, calves 300 steady with good to choice 16.50 17.50 and 14.50 15.50 for good to fair.
Chicago reports butter steady at OPA ceilings with various spreads and receipts. New York wholesale egg prices show firm tone with multiple weight classes and bulk butter also firm, following OPA limits. Creamery grades rise with high scores noted.
Chicago on June 5 reports a wave of liquidation as favorable weather and Italian successes weigh on futures. Wheat falls 4%, oats drop about 0.5%, rye down a penny, and barley down up to 1½ percent with seeds and timothy and clover prices listed as nominal.
Tyler Jackson Rakes of Hemphill was released on $1000 bond to appear before the U S district court grand jury in Charleston on June 23 for illegal use of gasoline ration coupons. He and his wife were arrested May 23 on a warrant by Price Administration investigator James R Burton. Five others have been arrested on the same charge. Rakes is held in Mercer County Jail at Princeton.
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