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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1937
Page
8
Icy weather curtailed receipts across major markets, boosting hog prices as heavy supplies contracted. Reports from Chicago and surrounding yards show early hogs up to 10-15 cents but gains mostly trimmed. lightweights sold higher to 8.40 per cwt while cattle and sheep receipts fell, with wholesale beef and pork prices slipping to multi year lows.
Chicago livestock receipts total 25 000 hogs with direct 9 000. price moves show 10 to 15 cents higher on early bids but later mostly steady to weak on heavier weights. Cattle receipts 7 000 with light bidding. steers and yearlings mixed. heifers steady to firm. Sheep receipts 5 000 with fat lambs steady to higher and goat demand limited. market tone cautious amid icy weather and slow activity.
The Wilson & Co hog market reports only small shifts on Wednesday with light hogs up to 250 pounds five cents higher, top at 7.75. Prices across weight classes and packers listed, including calves and lambs, with varied bids for hogs from 140 to 600 pounds and cattle price ranges for steers, yearlings, and cows.
A Cedar Rapids market list shows grain items No 1 and No 2 offerings with oats corn and wheat, plus cream and hens pricing. Fruits vegetables and wholesale goods appear with prices for apples Jonathan pears onions and other produce. Livestock hides and horses are listed with prices and the note includes ratings and weights for various poultry and fowl products.
World grain markets rose with wheat corn and oats advancing despite a softer Chicago Board of Trade close. Wheat eased to 14 to 43 cents down, December 9? percent. corn edged up to 1% cents higher December. oats 1¾ to 3½ cents higher December as Buenos Aires activity and Winnipeg gains influenced sentiment, with exporters buying U.S. corn and short covering pushing prices higher.
Market notes show Winnipeg wheat with mixed quotes and high low ranges, while Chicago cash provisions list multiple grain grades and fats, including corn oats rye and soybeans. Minneapolis cash grain reports highlight receipts and prices for No 1 dark northern wheat and durum, with assorted corn and oats figures.
In quiet New York trading on Wednesday leading shares rose fractions or more before retreating slightly at the close. Steel, motor and aircraft equities powered the session while utility and rail issues cooled. Prominent gainers included U S Steel, Bethlehem, Chrysler, Douglas Aircraft, Texas Corp, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Anaconda, Kennecott, American Telephone, DuPont, IBM, Johns Manville, Union Carbide and Sears Roebuck. Dome Mines hit a yearly high then eased. The market steadied as Hull's note to Japan on Panay mattered little to prices.
Wall St. Stocks list published by J. E. Bennett & Co. shows Wednesday quotations across numerous corporations and commodities. It includes Adams Express Allied Stores Kroger and Coca Cola among many others with varied price figures and market positions.
New York AP reports a listless bond market with prices barely higher for a few rails and utility issues. Government bonds stayed near prior closes as some industrials moved, while Japanese bonds steadied and dairy and power stocks showed minor gains in futures trading.
Market reports from Chicago and New York list live poultry prices with steady to unchanged butter and egg receipts. Prices cover dressed poultry, turkeys, ducks, hens, and various regional potato and creamery product values, noting arrivals, on track shipments, and modest demand.
Charles McHugh, 30, of Cedar Rapids, under a 90 day jail term for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, was released after paying $200 and costs. He pled guilty and is forbidden to drive for three months. Judge H. C. Ring modified the sentence on state recommendation after an arrest on November 26 for erratic driving.
A district court ruled Milver Cach may use the names M Cach Glass Company and Cach Glass Company while Frank D. Cach may not use the family name alone in trade except when his given name precedes it. Milver, who acquired the business in 1919 from father Anton Cach, sought to avoid public confusion with his brother Frank D. Cach, who started a similar paint and glass business on Second Street SE.
Beardsley won a district court judgment against Melvin D. Clark for 755 dollars and the return of the note and chattel mortgage in a case to rescind a August 19 contract buying Clark and Clark, a wholesale popcorn business. William Clark denied partnership and Melvin denied misrepresentations. Henry Vyskocil pleaded not guilty to drunken driving and posted 500 dollars bond.
Multiple death notices from Cedar Rapids list Floyd A Wilford 43 died at home after a lingering illness details include birth in Ohio residence Cedar Rapids seven years and surviving family including six children widow Hazel C. Antonia Schimenti widow dies age 76 in Cedar Rapids with children and grandchildren Knights of Columbus Rosary set. J A Petty funeral moved to Mount Vernon. Mary Niemcier services at Barta chapel with survivors. Sugar plum anecdote recalls Henry II era.
Marion R A M officers elected at the Masonic temple include L A Klum as high priest E E Godwin as king Marvin Onley as scriber Irvin L Ford as treasurer and Dr R E Leidigh as secretary A De Molay program followed with solos piano and carols and refreshments. Community notices report a silver wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Walter Wynan and a Lions Club dinner with travel notes and fund donations to the Goodfellows fund.
Eighty members attended the annual homecoming dinner Tuesday evening. After a business meeting a program featured Gene Jacobs and Miss Dorothy Adee singing, Melvin Arp on piano, and Harry Easterday on accordion. The night included cards and dancing.
Ameigo club members enjoyed a Christmas luncheon hosted by Mrs. O. C. Olney in Cedar Rapids with Mrs. C. B. Vernon reading Bret Harte's How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar. The group voted a $4 donation to the Goodfellows fund and guests included Mrs. Addie Shumack and Mrs. Rachel Ives. John Mathes fell at his home entrance on Eighth avenue, suffering a fractured right hip and was taken to St. Luke's hospital. The Bracelet Girls of the Methodist church plan a meeting at 5 p.m. at Martha Ann Young's home with Arlene Tow and Kathleen Newman assisting. Norma Biddick to lead devotions and Mrs. Harry Snell to discuss Methodist institutions. Dinner at 6 will precede excusal for the high school concert. The Tuckabache club schedules a Friday 2:30 gathering at Mrs. Merle Knight's for Christmas party and gift exchange, with officers to be elected. F. T. Fox lodge No. 319, B. of R. T., to meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Irma Hall, previously ill at 382 Sixth avenue, is much improved.
Archduke Leopold Marie Alphonse of Austria won a Vienna court case ordering Archduchess Blanka to pay him 25 dollars weekly for three years. The 40 year old heir, once kept in the mother's home, must leave and not request more money. He plans to seek a two room flat, possibly in Paris, and says he starts a new life after years of confinement.
Kansas City AP reports Woodrow Wilson Price, 23, pled guilty at arraignment to federal charges for shooting a government agent who nabbed him trying to collect $600 from a coal man in Independence Missouri on December 6. The suspect allegedly threatened the man’s daughter.
Two couples received marriage licenses in Iowa: Niels C. T. Steffensen and Bessie Wilson of Independence and William Taylor Howard and Virginia Schnare of Cedar Rapids. Mississippi River stage reports show La Crosse rising 0.1 to 83 inches, Dubuque up 0.2 to 63, Davenport steady at 17, and Keokuk up 0.7 to 20 inches, with Memph is noted. Crude rubber futures closed mixed with March at 15.15, May 15.30, July 15.35, and Sep 15.47 cents per pound. spot smoked ribbed rubber at 14.93 cents.
Size of ad three to seven lines. Day out of town want ads are payable in advance. Special low rates for work wanted ads see Classification 32. The Gazette will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion of an advertisement ordered for more than one day.
Xmas trees, wreaths, grave blankets, and greenery offered by Rosemont Gardens Xmas Greenshop at 506 3rd Ave BE near Gazette with Sunday and evening hours. Also Pierson's Flower Shop lists evergreen decor and grave blankets. Several lost items noted with rewards including pets, a gold Elgin watch, and passes.
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