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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1935
Page
4
Hog prices climbed up to 12.10 with a ten cent initial rise and further gains as demand stayed brisk for light and medium weights. Reports from Chicago Indianapolis Des Moines Waterloo Mason City Ottumwa and Des Moines show steady to higher quotes for 140 to 350 pound hogs along with cattle and sheep trade notes.
Hogs market reports show price ranges for 180 200 lb hogs at 11.00 to 11.30 per cwt with other weights from 200 220 lb at 11.40 to 11.60, 220 250 lb around 10.95 to 11.25, 250 290 lb near 10.60 to 10.90, 290 350 lb about 10.20 to 10.50, and packing sows priced 9.20 to 10.00 per cwt.
Hogs on the road to higher levels with all grades advancing 15 cents in the local market Monday. The top price reaches 1150. Cattle market holds steady to weak while oats show further weakness.
Chicago hogs receipts 10 000 with 3 600 direct higher and top $12 10. Cattle receipts 13 000 with grain fed steers up to 25 cents. top $12 25. calves, yearlings, and fat lambs show firm to steady bidding. In Omaha trade receipts 4 a thousands hogs and cattle mix with prices near steady. hog top around $12 or higher. cows and feeders steady to higher in parts. sheep and lambs show lighter activity and softer bids.
Local Cedar Rapids price list for grains and poultry. Wheat and rye prices shown with small amount, corn shelled and live poultry rates listed. Fresh fruits and vegetables including oranges, grapefruit, peaches, lettuce, celery, and potatoes priced per crate or dozen, plus hides and calves with graded prices.
A brief market roundup notes steady foreign exchange and varied commodities in New York and Boston. Wool, sugar, and flour prices are cited with fluctuating quotations and shipments, including Puerto Rico bag shipments and refined sugar pricing.
Bearish influences pull wheat, corn and oats lower on the Chicago board of trade. September wheat around 871/4 cents, September corn 73 43 cents, oats 27 1/2 cents as hedge selling and weak coarse grains pressure the market. Cash prices ease and receipts reported with deliveries slipping to new seasonal lows amid favorable weather.
Members of the Cedar Rapids Boys Drum and Bugle Corps and Band will join the American Legion junior baseball tournament parade Tuesday morning. They meet at 10:30 a.m. sharp in front of the Memorial building second avenue entrance wearing summer uniforms.
New York markets held firm amid heavy volume as rails and utilities led gains while patience with profit taking kept most advances under one point. Union Pacific and American Telephone rose about 2 points, other leaders including Santa Fe and General Electric climbed fractions to around a point.
Chicago and Minneapolis grain reports detail cash wheat gaps in No 2 red and hard samples, with prices for hard, yellow, and mixed wheats. Included are rye, barley, timothy seed, clover seed, and corn and oats quotes, plus a long list of stock market quotations and commodity bids from a Chicago press service.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dayton is confined to her home at 202 Twelfth Street NW by illness. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wade of Minneapolis visit at 828 H Avenue NW with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stanley. Arline Croft of 1617 Sixth Avenue SE has returned home from St Luke's Hospital. Donald Foran of Muskogee and family visit F. X. Foran at 112 Park Court SE. George F. Miller and Mrs. Miller leave for Minnesota on vacation. G. L. Kibler reports poisoning of dog and neighborhood cats at 1104 E Street SW. Ring Hardware at 120 F Avenue NW reports attempted Sunday break-in. Cedar Rapids Horseshoe club loses to Cedar Falls 31–18. Robert Hewitt of 3316 Oakland Ave NE fined $1 for parking with no rear light. Burns and O Connell jailed for intoxication after failing to pay fines. Los Angeles Limited train introduces air conditioned coach for women and children. Master Masons to meet Crescent Lodge at Masonic Hall to attend Charles E. Ebling services. Hans Marcks and family leave Cedar Rapids for northern Minnesota for summer. they will not return.
Eight persons traveled from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids for a Sunday visit with Marcella Moritz the United States deputy clerk acting in place of Adelaide C Avery on vacation. The group included Moritz parents Mr and Mrs H B Moritz and daughter Arleen, Mr and Mrs William Hinkson, and Misses Evelyn Hinkson Melvina Hein and Marie Scherr.
The Star of Maine lodge No 643 and Rebekah lodge plan a park picnic in Bever Park at 6 30 p m on Friday August 23. Members and families should bring food and dishes. Games will follow the picnic supper.
The Gazette notes misinformation has delayed performances of the ground marionette show "Jack in the Beanstalk" and urges readers to await corrected dates from the theater company.
Chicago and New York market roundups show firm butter and egg receipts with varied scores and prices. Poultry trends include steady live birds with mixed quotes for hens leghorn fryers and turkeys amid on track potato price movements and futures hints.
In New York trading slight declines in government bonds contrasted with higher quotes for select corporates. Notable issues advancing include Baltimore and Ohio 4 4 5 and Nickel Plate 4 4s while utilities edged up fractionally on American and Foreign Power and Consolidated Gas 5s.
The Harrison playground group notes a Sunday error and lists three rescheduled performances for The Beanstalk. Kenwood playground hosts Tuesday, Lincoln Wednesday, and Arthur Thursday evenings. The revised schedule emphasizes community participation and local venue rotation.
Four year old Cass Houser Bailey son of Mr and Mrs C L Bailey of 404 Twenty-fifth Street SE was bruised at 10 30 am Monday when struck by a car driven by A M Hasek Jr in front of 2444 Fifth Avenue SE The boy was playing ball and ran into the street and was taken to St Luke s hospital by ambulance
Rotarians enjoyed a musical program at their annual Cedar Rapids Country Club luncheon on Monday. The lineup featured tenor solos by Norman Emerson performing two Chinese Mother Goose rhymes, a mixed quartet including Ethyle Birmingham, George Krabbenhoff, Emerson and Luther Fuhrmeister, three soprano solos, pieces by Prof. E. A. Lee, a Birmingham piano solo, and Rotary quartet selections with Cottingham, Ainsworth, Fuhrmeister and Emerson, Emerson substituting for Cyril Kegler.
The Cedar Rapids federal employment service nears completion of certifying about 800 employable families under the WPA plan. By Saturday 244 families were certified. The rule requires at least 90 percent of WPA workers come from relief rolls with May roster preference. re investigations precede certification. New relief applicants are not certified for employment but will be handled as relief cases.
A. R. Quintard, 47, Boise Idaho, was granted until Wednesday at 9 a.m. to plead to a larceny charge. He was brought back to Cedar Rapids Sunday night by Detective Condon and Patrolman Moore to face accusations of stealing jewelry and money from the A. E. Williams home at 1005 Eleventh Street NE on August 3. Quintard was arrested by Sioux City police on a grand larceny warrant issued by Justice A. S. Reed. The information was filed by County Attorney G. K. Thompson and Quintard is held in the county jail under $1,000 bond.
William Harvey aged 29 from New York City and P Beasley Moss 23 of Dixon Springs Tennessee were arrested Saturday night in Coggon by Sheriff James H Smith and Deputy Sheriff Dick Preston. They were jailed at 2 a m Sunday awaiting a county attorney investigation into a $30 theft from Eloise True a Cogan beauty parlor operator.
Judge H. C. Ring ordered Clerk Edwin W. Lundquist to draw sixty five names to serve as petit jurors for the September term. Jurors report to Judge Ring September 24 at 9 a.m. The term opens September 16 with service ending September 5 and filings due September 6.
Judge John T. Moffit dismissed Lou H. Adams's petition in a partition action against Orville H. Adams and Catherine Adams, denying a one half interest claim. June 14 hearing noted. John D. Rieger will admitted to probate in Linn County. Lucinda Rieger named administratrix. Died July 26. Leafa Murphy granted divorce from Martin J. Murphy on cruelty grounds. Married December 8, 1920 in St Louis, Missouri.
Charles B. Andrews former Cedar Rapids resident died in Portland Oregon Saturday. His son Harold C. Andrews traveled by air to be with him but arrived after death. A longtime Cedar Rapids jeweler he belonged to Masonic Odd Fellows and K P lodges and Central Park church. Burial will be in Portland.
The Engel Herwig family reunion at Bever Park Cedar Rapids elected Burt Tritle as president K J Jordan as vice president and Mrs Kenneth Jordan as secretary treasurer all of Central City Attendance included Ida Herwig and many relatives from Marion Cedar Rapids Muscatine and other Iowa towns. Funeral notices report Jay Alexander former Marion resident died in Pocatello Idaho after an operation.
Des Moines AP reports W L Snyder a Des Moines broker sold 1 044 acres of land near Nevada for 155 000 to Dr W D Kinney of Henderson Texas. Kinney will receive title March 1 1936 after purchase from P E Shugart of Nevada.
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