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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1933
Page
8
Supt. C. B. Vernon granted a one year leave of absence by the Marion board to pursue a PhD. he will have a two year contract with the absence unpaid. Irving Finger named substitute superintendent. Several society notes follow including marriages, moves, and local events.
Louise Gillette 11, of 1163 Ninth Avenue, owns Polly Ann a doll over two centuries old. The doll, with a china head and faded clothes, has journeyed through eight generations from the Barnhill and Markly families. Despite worn bodies, Polly Ann retains a smile and antique charm cherished by its current owner.
Funeral services for Mrs Susannah Bonebreak Harris who died after a two year illness will be held Tuesday at 2 pm at the Dunkard church west of Robins. She was born 1851 in Franklin County Pa and later moved to town with her husband. She is survived by a son, siblings, four grandchildren, and other relatives. Burial will be in the Dunkard cemetery. The Olin band will perform at the American Legion pool Sunday at 2 pm with a varied program.
The Marion Public Library shows a donation list of fiction and non fiction items received recently. Many titles are noted as already in the library and some works are highlighted as exceptions. The list also includes a memorial presentation by Mrs Main for her husband John Hanson Thomas Main and a town planning report by the Iowa Fish and Game commission.
Residents plan picnics with visitors from Waukegan and Fresno and attend union services at Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches. Rebekah lodge members host meetings and a breakfast for Mrs. Arp before her move to Los Angeles. Community groups schedule Burns family reunion and Presbyterian Ladies Aid luncheon at local venues.
Police hunt a blonde gunwoman and two male accomplices for murder after a haberdashery robbery ends with Gustav Hoch shot dead as he tried to stop them. Hoch’s death follows another fatal shooting during the trio’s flight in Chicago.
Mrs Rhoda Deuta Booth 81 pioneer Linn county resident died Saturday at the home of her daughter in Palo. Widow of Hiram Booth she lived in Palo ten years and elsewhere most of her life. Survived by six children and two brothers. Funeral Monday at 2 pm at Lewis Bottom Church. Burial in Pleasant Ridge cemetery.
Clifton S Smith of Compton California was elected mayor after supplying $17 worth of merchandise to workers during the March earthquake emergency. He cannot collect the payment as a city official and will be unable to do further business with the city.
The Interstate Commerce Commission 7 to 3 held general railroad freight rates reasonable and refused blanket cuts sought by farm, lumber, coal and other groups. It urged targeted downshifts for grain lumber and export coal while retaining peaks where justified.
In Murik a fashion dictates grass skirt length arm bands and necklaces as Dr Fortune notes. When Murik adopts a style it spreads to nearby villages for pigs, keeping the trend circulating for about a year before moving onward. Bears hibernate only after fasting weeks following a full stomach.
Chicago and Pittsburgh closed a dull week with limited price movement across hogs cattle and sheep. Hog bids eased with top around 4.50 and averages near 4.15 while cattle saw mixed to lower trends and sheep and feeders firming slightly in scarce trade. Total receipts hit about 11 500 at the two markets with Chicago dominating the volume.
Market roundup from Cedar Rapids listing grain prices for wheat oats rye and corn, hay straw and poultry weights plus prices for fruits vegetables and bananas. Also includes hide prices for No 1 and No 2 cured hides calves and horses with specific per unit values.
Northwestern weakness and lack of speculative interest due to holidays abroad and in stock markets pushed grain prices lower on the Chicago board. Wheat eased while corn showed occasional firmness. short covering near the bell spurred a rally. Oats and rye mixed with gains and some barley slipping, with receipts listed and cash grain quotes provided for No. 1 and No. 2 classes across wheat corn oats and related products.
Hog receipts reached 11 000 with direct trade down about 10 cents and top hogs around 4 50. Packers took 700 holdovers as light weights 140 160 pounds traded about 3 63 to 4 30 a hundredweight. Cattle receipts 1 000 with fed steers and yearlings strong, grass cattle weaker, dressed beef slow. Sheep receipts 6 000 with fat lambs weaker, native and western stock prices mixed, tops near 825 for fat lambs.
Combined hog receipts at 22 concentration yards and 7 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 6 am Saturday totaled 25 700, down from 27 700 last week and 10 200 a year ago. Prices were unevenly steady to 15 cents lower, mostly 5 to 10 cents weaker than Friday. Demand was slow with marketing volume about average for Saturday.
Hog price list from Iowa markets shows price brackets by weight. Waterloo reports prime hogs 180-260 lbs at 355 to 413. 260-290 lbs 350 to 380. 290-325 lbs 340 to 473. 325-350 lbs 330 to 360. Mason City notes downed grades 190-260 lbs at 395, 260-300 at 385, 300-350 at 375. Ottumwa lists 140-160 lbs 265, 160-180 365, up to 350 lbs 365, over 450 lbs 315. Pack er distinctions shown with various weights and prices.
Hogs were unchanged on the local market with no grade changes. Top price held at 3.85 dollars for choice 110-180 pounds. Prices listed for 130-190 pounds ranged from 3.50 to 4.00 dollars, with spring lambs 70-80 pounds at about 6.00 dollars. Quality notes mention bucking and jambs with prices around 61.00.
Market notes show steady egg receipts at 7 950 and unchained poultry prices. Potatoes on track with 45 on the books a total of 413 US shipments. Triumphs firm with round whites trading around 2 90 to 3 10 per cwt and New Jersey cobblers near 2 90 to 3 00. The report ends with a general population statement contrasting growth rates of the overall and criminal populations.
Richard L Stallman and wife transfer to Charles A Elson for 1 dollar and other exchanges. Fedderson and Lena Byrd Weston convey Lot 12 Block 2 Taylor’s Add Marion, with homestead heirs. Pothenia Mitchell and heirs transfer to T I Mitchell with mortgage balance noted. George B Ainslie and wife to Michael J Griffin and Olga Griffin as joint tenants, Lot 22 Vernon Heights 10th Add CC. Faragher to Ray Faragher deed Well Place Add. Augusta Woerderhoff to C W Meek and R S Milner Lot 146 Plat 65. John J Friedl and wife to John L and Anna Friedl, subject to mortgage. Don Barnes and wife to J A Belknap described tracts near Buffalo Creek. J P Grace to Catherine E Grace lot 14 Block 22 Greene and College Add, mortgage noted. Charles Houck and wife to Wayne T Houck Lot 20 Subdiv Out Lot 17 CR, mortgage balance. Victor H Jones and wife to Lilian B Fishel Lot 11 Block 2 Wellington Park Add, covenants and taxes assumed. Dana R Holden to CR Bldg and Loan Assn Lot 20 and Lot 19 Block 25 Bever Park 4th Add, mortgage noted.
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