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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1944
Page
6
The Mercer School system opens August 30, earlier than usual, with a nine month term and 20 school days per month on most months. The calendar includes Labor Day holidays, county teachers meetings, election day vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, and Easter holidays, with school ending May 25.
Advertises Anne Adams dress pattern 4830 in misses sizes 12 to 20 with a wide collar and optional belt. Notes fabric usage, sleevelets option, 35 inch fabric, and a 16 cent pattern price plus 15 cents for the larger pattern book. Address and order details included for Bluefield Daily Telegraph and Pattern Dept in New York.
There will be a meeting of the United Clerical Technical and Supervisory employees of the mining industry at the Union hall Pocahontas at 1 p m Sunday An address of importance to be delivered by John McAlpine president of the United Clerical Technical and Supervisory employees the mining industry All employees of the clerical technical and supervisory personnel are urged to attend this meeting.
Total 2800 head including lambs with grades varying from choice to common. Lambs mostly 30 to 45 cents lower than prior week. heifers and muttons show price ranges with specific weights. Wealers and hogs trend lower or steady. cattle undelivered. hogs average around 13.55 for 216 lb animals.
Chicago grain pit trading showed a nervous undertone with prices fluctuating throughout the session. Wheat closed down about 4 to 1 percent from yesterday while July soybeans moved little, rye and barley largely steady to down modestly. A note on a bellarmine quirk ends the passage.
Baltimore livestock market report notes fairly active trade in clean-up cattle with prices near Thursday levels. Steers around 840 pounds sold around 12.25 per hundredweight, with cows reported at 6.50 to 6.00 and variations for canner and cutter categories.
Nominally steady market for cows vealers calves and sheep with good and choice weights dominant. Medium and common grades show broad spreads with dairy cows 10.50 to 12.00, vealers 16.00 to 17.00, lambs 70 pounds and up 15.50 to 16.75, and ewes 6.00 with barrows and gilts around 14.30.
Produce demand is moderate with 32 car lots of potatoes reported as about steady. Prices quoted include U S No 1 California long Waites 100 lb sacks 3.25 to 4.50, Isana Bliss Triumphs 2.50 75, Norton Carolina Cobblers 2.50 75, Georgia Bliss Triumphs 2.25 50. Farm market unchanged.
New York wholesale markets report eggs and butter steady amid firm demand. Prices for various egg grades show minor changes across weights with Nos 1 to 4 and extra categories listed, while butter remains firm at 46 to 45 cents per pound ranges and related classifications.
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