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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1936
Page
11
Unofficial Monday estimates show hog receipts at 16 000, cattle 2 000, and sheep 13 000, with hogs for all next week pegged at 70 000 as activity remained quiet Saturday at Chicago stockyards.
Chicago reports nominal steadiness in livestock with hogs rising to near ten month highs as pork demand grows. Cattle receipts fed declines of 25 to 50 cents on medium to heavy weights while light steers and yearlings hold near steady. Lambs show softness, drought spurs cautious outlook as July cattle supplies hit a multi year peak.
United States Department of Agriculture notes receipts at Chicago hogs 3 500 with 3 000 direct and hogs steady to higher on barbrows and gilts. Cattle receipts 1 300 with steers and heifers broadly weaker, feeders steadier on light yearlings. Sheep receipts 3 000 with native lambs mostly steady to lower. Montana and Idaho rangers and California clips show mixed values. top native lambs near 10 75 with week’s best $10 25 to $10 75.
Hog receipts 600 with packer market activity up to 10 cents versus Friday. Top hog price $10.60 with other weights and sow advances noted. July cost per weight listed. Cattle receipts 100 with weighty steers down up to 40 cents. feeders steady to higher. fed steers and yearlings around $7.25 to $9.00. Sheep receipts 2000 with killing classes steady to higher feeders. best radium lambs around $9.50 and ewes up to $5.00 for two-year-olds.
U S Department of Agriculture reports combined hog receipts at 21 concentration yards and 9 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Saturday totaled 18 100 head, up from 16 300 a week earlier and 10 300 a year ago. Prices varied by weight with light weights steady to firm, lighter weights slower, and heavier hogs trading around 9 85 to 10 90 per 100 pounds for standard grades.
U S Department of Agriculture cattle receipts at St Paul South last week show slaughter steers mostly steady with some declines, better heifers steady, cows steady, stockers lower. Prices listed include feeders around 7 25 to 8 25, grass-fed cattle 7 25, yearlings 7 00 to 8 00, prime 8 50, calves 6 50 to 7 50, and sows around 3 50 to 10 60 with a few higher weights near 10 60.
Market summary shows lightweights steady to 10 dollars with Friday average 9.36 and 272 lb weight. Receipts 4 800, slaughter lambs steady to 10 cents lower, feeders steady. Top quotes: Washington lambs 10.10, natives 9.75, Washington feeders 8.00. Friday bulks fat native lambs 9.75, common 6.00 to 7.00, yearlings 6.00 to 7.00, fat ewes 2.00 to 3.75.
Sioux City market reports show cattle receipts around 3000 with varied moves. Cattle ranged from 6.00 to 9.50 per hundredweight depending on class and weight while hogs sold largely to packers with top near 10.50. Sheep market quiet with little weekly change and typical prices for native and California lambs.
Hogs held steady or edged up in Iowa markets with sow and light weight values climbing. Waterloo and Ottumwa posted gains of 5 to 10 cents across various weight classes while Mason City saw steady to 5 cent increases for good lights and similar ranges for butcher and packer hogs.
Hog prices moved up about ten cents with steady trend in Austin. Trading for 180-220 lbs ranged from 10.30 to 10.60 per cwt, 220-250 lbs at 10.04 to 10.50, 250-270 lbs 9.85 to 10.15, 270-290 lbs 9.70 to 10.00, 290-325 lbs 9.50 to 9.80, 325-350 lbs 9.20 to 9.50, and packing sows 275-550 lbs at 7.80 to 8.75 per cwt.
Local market reports show heavy hogs inching higher while prime hogs hold at $10.65. All good packers gain a nickel on Saturday as other local markets remain steady.
Market report lists lambs and cattle prices by grade and weight. Choice steers around 1 100 pounds priced from 7.75 to 8.00, fair to good and common grades shown. heifers, yearlings, cows and canners priced per grade with down bids noted.
A Cedar Rapids market report shows grain prices for wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn and soybeans with listed weights and grades. Also included are hay and straw, eggs, wholesale fruits and vegetables, canned goods, and cured hides with assorted price points.
Minneapolis flour markets show carload lots per barrel in 98 pound sacks. Family patent flour up 20 cents to 7.80 to 8.00. Standard patent flour up 15 cents to 7.05 to 7.25. Shipments total 31,536. Pure bran 26.50 to 27.00. Standard middlings 27.00 to 27.50.
In Boston, a moderate wool trade occurred with finer territory wools in original bags dominating. French combing length fine territory wool sold at 82 83c scoured, with 84 85c firm on larger offerings. Ohio fleeces held near prior levels at 35 36c for fine delaine and staple bloods, 38 39c for bombins blood, and 37 38c for v4 blood.
International currency values posted in New York show mixed cents and percentages across major nations and cities. Rates include Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Montreal, and New York Montreal exchange pairs.
Born to Mr and Mrs L E Holcomb of Mt Vernon a daughter July 31 at St Luke's hospital. Born at St Luke's hospital to Mr and Mrs E C Turner 1949 B avenue NE a son July 30.
Chicago AP reports corn prices surged to the full 4 cent limit amid drought fears. Week gains reached about 18 cents per bushel with prices at or near the daily peak.
Open high low close figures for wheat corn oats rye and barley eras across Sept to May contracts. Winnipeg and Chicago cash prices listed with seed and hay values including timothy and clover seeds. Market notes show bid asks and sample grades for grains and staples.
Minneapolis AP wheat receipts 194 cars with slight price increases. No 1 heavy dark northern spring 60 lbs quoted at $1.43 to $1.48, No 1 dark northern 59 lbs at $1.41 to $1.4658, 58 lbs $1.39 to $1.45. Fancy No 1 hard Montana 14 protein $1.315 to $1.3338. No 1 dark hard Montana winter $1.24 to $1.27, No 1 red durum $1.13. Yellow 4c higher. Oats No 3 white 44 to 44c.
Butter receipts nine and sixteen with no session and unchanged prices. Egg receipts six thousand four hundred seventeen with no session and unchanged prices. Live poultry receipts ten trucks steady with unchanged prices. Potatoes receipts six six on track with total U S shipments four hundred forty. Prices for various U S No 1 potato grades ranged from 2 40 to 3 40 per cwt with regional variations and light supplies.
New York AP report shows butter receipts 11 229 steady prices unchanged cheese receipts 343 381 firm eggs 22 038 quiet with all colors mixed. Live poultry steady with no express grades quoted dressed poultry prices irregular with fowls 13 25c and other fresh and frozen unchanged.
U S government bonds closed with varying results in New York. Treasury 4s traded around 113.14 while 349s 40 43 June settled near 108.80 and 338s 43 47 around 108.16 on the AP report.
Substantial gains in a group of high priced industrial issues stood out as general bond trading remained quiet due to weekend departures. U S government bonds showed a steady undertone with small gains. Home Owners Loan 2 4s fell. Top performers included Youngstown Sheet and Tube 32s and U S Rubber 5s, with several issues unchanged or slipping. Foreign dollar bonds moved in a narrow range.
At a Coggon celebration deputies arrested Ray Coleman 32 for sleeping in a resident’s bedroom after notices of a broken door screen. James Roche 52 from Waverly was booked for alleged gambling in a pyramid game after a prior warning. William Hayes 36 of Nashville Tenn was jailed for intoxication.
A helium atom forms from four hydrogen atoms yet the combined weight is slightly less than four hydrogen atoms. This mass difference arises from binding energy released during fusion. The resulting helium nucleus is lighter than the sum of its parts due to E mc^2.
Stocks ended irregular with light turnover around 550000 shares. Drought news weighed on farm equipment sectors while some steels rails and utilities held or gained. Buyers were timid as many traders stayed away for holiday weather. J I Case and Deere helped cushion losses.
A dense list of stock quotes from Adams Express to Swift Intl and Cord Corp. includes price changes and percentages across multiple industries. Major names cited are Allied Chem, Boeing, Chrysler, Dow Jones peers, U S Steel, Texaco, and Westinghouse with varied bid figures and daily shifts recorded.
Carl W Franks 33 of Chicago died at 7 30 a m Friday in a Chicago hospital after a lingering illness He was born in Cedar Rapids in 1903 and lived here until ten years ago Survived by wife Cora brother Adrian J Franks Mulhall N D and three sisters Lottie Fulmer Center Point Margaret Sawyer San Diego and Sarah Johnson Robinsdale Minn Preceded in death by a daughter Body brought to Cedar Rapids. funeral arrangements will be an-
Friends may call at the Moen chapel for a funeral service announced earlier. Funeral arrangements and additional details were expected to follow.
Friends report Cyrus A. Wagner died in Tulsa Oklahoma on Friday he had been a Cedar Rapids resident until moving to Oklahoma a few months ago Funeral services are set for Monday in Muskogee Oklahoma The Wagner family recently left Cedar Rapids
Reuben Christofferson has been issued a permit to build a $4,000 dwelling and a $165 garage at 1802 First avenue E. Mrs Mae Auld of 1626 B avenue NE, injured in a recent auto accident, is confined at the home of Mrs N B Bell at 1548 B avenue NE.
Leo J Smith of 1255 D Avenue NE underwent an operation at Mercy hospital Friday morning. His condition is reported to be good.
Linn county's old age assistance office in the courthouse will be closed all day Monday due to investigators' examinations at Iowa City.
Mrs. Glen Turner visiting the Charles Filipi home at 718 Seventeenth Street SE told police Friday evening that a prowler has been troubling the area.
Deputy Coroner R. E. Munden said Saturday the man found dead at his home Thursday died of heart trouble after an autopsy.
John Lester Yuza son of Mr and Mrs J C Yuza 1421 Mount Vernon Ave SE underwent emergency appendectomy July 24 at the United States naval hospital San Diego Calif His condition is reported favorable
Maurice Kirby of Ames told police Friday afternoon a boy crossed Third street SE and collided with his northbound car on Third avenue SE. The youth fled the scene without identifying himself or stating injuries.
Firemen responded to three grass fires Saturday morning. Company 3 went up Lake avenue and Twelfth street NE at 9 56 a.m. Company 5 to C street and Twenty second avenue SW and Company 2 to 1627 B avenue NW. Company 5 returned at 1 45 p.m. Friday to extinguish a grass fire at Sixth street and Tenth avenue SW.
Almer Rudd aged 40 and Ethel Kilts aged 25 from Shaver road were fined 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty in police court Saturday to disorderly conduct. They were arrested at a house on Weing road and Circle drive NE. Kilts daughters aged 2 and 4 were cared for at the police station after the arrest.
Court House News reports two Cedar Rapids companies filing incorporation with the county recorder. Producers and Retailers Association Inc lists O G Andresen as president H W Gifford as vice president and B Schafer as secretary treasurer with 10000 capital. Midwest Advertising Inc lists W D Lyon as president and William M Deacon as vice president and secretary treasurer with 10000 capital.
The state supreme court reverses and remands for further action an order by Judge A B Clark of Linn County District Court in a workmen's compensation case. Judge Clark increased an allowance for Frank Soukup after setting aside an Industrial Commission finding. The Shores Company and the insurer appealed as Soukup was injured in a fall.
Grace Douglass Doty appears in district court on June 19, 1935 to set aside the probate of an instrument as the last will and testament of George W. Dyke who died March 25, 1935. She alleges the instrument was revoked by a later will and asks appointment of an administrator.
Evah Armetta McHugh files in district court for divorce from John Robert McHugh alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. They were married April 29, according to the petition.
Kenneth Herman Herbsleb and Mary Caroline Blackmer of Cedar Rapids receive a marriage license. Harold Leslie Tolander and Agnes Ruth Peterson of Olds also obtain a license.
A brief notice states New Jersey has the fewest man made border lines of any state in the union, highlighting its comparatively simple boundaries amid regional maps.
Marion residents urged to dispose of cigarette and cigar butts carefully and avoid bonfires amid extreme dryness and high fire danger. In July the Fire Department logged twelve runs, ten for grass fires, with each call costing the city between ten and a specified amount. The Woman's Progressive Club of Dry Creek hosted the meeting at Mrs. Norris Stewart's home where Alice Stewart and Virginia Rhinehart demonstrated cake making to twenty three members plus guests.
La Verne Marks 19, son of an Evangelical minister, said he would return and pay the penalty for the slaying of Robert Bernstein, 24, near Clintonville Wisconsin. He confessed shooting Bernstein during a fishing trip, concealed the body near Superior, and traveled to Seattle on a freight train while also facing robbery charges.
The decomposed body of 24 year old Robert Bernstein was found in isolated woodland thirty five miles east of Superior Wisconsin after a five day search. Authorities planned to return his companion Marks 19 a minister's son to Wisconsin on a murder charge.
A tropical hurricane moved through the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, leaving at least nine dead and over $100,000 in damage. Valparaiso Panama City suffered the heaviest losses, with two sailors missing at Panama City and a deckhand drowned off the east Florida coast. A telegraph lineman was electrocuted in Miami earlier in the week.
In West Okoboji 15 year old Edith Estabrooks leads Jennet Jones of Des Moines by one hole at halfway of a 36 hole Iowa women’s golf championship. Both 85 at intermission as wind and rough greens hinder play. Jones struggles with an unruly putter.
B F Mentzer longtime Marion resident born near Chambersburg Pa celebrated his eighty ninth birthday at a family gathering at the George Beattie cabin near Paris. Attending were his son and daughter in law J P Mentzer and others from Marion Cedar Rapids Los Angeles and Chicago. Mentzer served as Marion bank president and was active in the grocery trade and furniture undertaking fields. He attended the Cedar Rapids Democratic convention and is a Congregational church treasurer for many years.
Miss Elizabeth Klein a Minneapolis schoolteacher spends the summer with sisters Misses Cath erine and Emma Klein then heads for an extensive northwest trip. Mrs George Holland and her children Madge and George host a weekend at the Dykes home in Marion. Other visitors include Mr and Mrs Casper Blumm of Monticello Wis at Hines home and Mrs E W Brink with daughters Mary Louise and Katherine visiting Brutsman. Marion fire department fights a grass fire on Tenth Avenue Seventeenth Street. Walter S Applegate returns home to Perry after a vacation across several towns.
Mr and Mrs J W Wade of Plainfield who since July 18 have been visiting their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs John Gritzner left Friday for a visit in Wisconsin
Mrs. E. W. McKean Mrs. Ida McCoy Mrs. Ora Crowner and Mrs. Ed Allen visited Friday and Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Marsh in Littleton.
The Christian Sunday school intermediate department held a picnic at Thomas Park on Friday evening.
Leonard Hewett travels to Spirit Lake to join Mrs Hewett for a weekend visit and plan to return Sunday night. Mrs James Brockway leaves for Moline, where Mr Brockway is employed.
Fayette residents Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stewart stay with Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Carey while Bobby Scott visits grandparents near Marion. Albert Scott visits his grandmother Mrs. Luella Hutton. I. A. Summers and Mrs. Alice Phelps host guests from Conesville. Tuckabache club picnic at Mrs. George Gilmore’s with twelve served. Lulu B. Secrist returns from Des Moines after education conferences.
Robert Gunn of Denver spent two weeks visiting the Fred Holsinger home in Marion and with his parents Dr. and Mrs. Gunn at Boone before returning home. Mrs. Gunn, formerly Lucile Holsinger, stayed longer for a longer visit.
Loretta Starry departed on Thursday for a week long visit in Anthon.
Miss Helen Bray and her father Walter Bray returned home Thursday after a six day visit in Chicago and St Paul. While they were away Mrs Margaret Eckland of Wooster Ohio visited Mrs Bray. Mrs Eckland and Mrs Bray are sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schnoor and Kurt Calvert of Springville attended Friday events at the C. E. Clark ome noting local social activity and community ties.
Donald Clark from Oakville CCC camp and Kenneth Clark from Fairfield CCC camp spent the week with Charles Clark, sharing time during the ongoing CCC program.
The Kramer family reunion will be held at Daniels Park in Cedar Rapids on Sunday at 12 o'clock. The gathering brings together relatives for a daytime event at a public park location.
John Coenen of Chicago visited Marion for the weekend with his brothers Ben and Will and sisters Mrs Jady Reimers and Miss Sophie Coenen. They were dinner guests Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Peterson, who are moving from Davenport to Marshalltown where he has joined the Fisher Governor company.
Mrs. O. F. Parish of Grinnell returned Saturday to her home after a two day visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peterson.
Mrs Leonard Taylor and her daughters Jane and Corrine have been visiting this week at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs George Dyrland.
Ben Coenen, previously ill, shows marked improvement and says he feels better today. Doctors report recovery progressing smoothly and anticipate continued improvement in the coming days.
A compiled schedule shows Baptist Reverend Loren Inman leading unified service at 10 to 11 30 with morning worship at 10 45 and a communion following. Catholic mass at 7 30 and 9 30 by Father T J McElliott. Congregational and Christian services with sermons on Christian themes. Free Methodist and Methodist Episcopal offerings. Oxford club outdoor service at 5 with picnic. Presbyterian and St Paul Evangelical Lutheran services. Seventh Day Church of God Sabbath school at 10 30 and worship at 11 30.
The explorer Ferdinand de Soto arrived in the Americas after reports of wealth in Florida sparked his voyage. His fortune of 180000 ducats is tied to his campaigns among the lands of the Incas and the new world.
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