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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1939
Page
10
Unofficial Monday estimates show hogs 18 000 cattle 13 000 sheep 8 000 with hogs for next week at 80 000. Hog receipts Saturday total 5 100 with 5 000 direct to packers. Market steady with top at 6.75, down 15 to 25 cents from a week ago. Cattle steady for the day and week with steers 15 to 25 cents lower. cows and heifers steady. lambs steady.
Hog receipts steady with small supply and prices 6.60 to 6.70 for 190-230 lb. sows weaker. Cattle receipts 100. steer prices mostly steady to 25c lower with several to 13.25. cows higher. Sheep receipts none. lambs and fat sheep mixed with prices 9.00 to 9.25 for week, better springers up to 11.00, ewes down to 3.50.
Associated Press notes unchanged hog quotes in Mason City Ottumwa Waterloo regions for various weight ranges from 140 to 600 pounds with prices ranging roughly from 4.45 to 6.40 per hundredweight. Cattle remain unchanged with steer quotes from 3.65 to 9.15 and other grades between 4.50 and 7.00.
In Austin Minnesota hog market notes show live weight price ranges across multiple categories from 140 pounds up to 550 pounds. Prices vary by weight band with packing sows also offered, reflecting market values for different hog sizes.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 8 am Saturday at 20 yards and 10 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota total 25 600, down from 26 700 last week and 18 500 a year ago. Prices range for barrows and gilts 160 180 lbs about 6 05 to 6 45, heavier weights 6 15 to 6 50, sows 275 350 lbs about 5 10 to 5 45, and other weights 4 69 for 425 550 lbs.
U S Department of Agriculture notes cattle receipts at Omaha steady with slight gains in some categories. Hogs receipts at 400, prices mostly steady with light weight hogs and sows showing limited changes. Sheep receipts none with lambs and ewes showing mixed moves and current price ranges listed.
The Sioux City cattle market shows salable receipts at zero for calves and none for week. Slaughter classes steady, stockers firm, top steers around 11.00 per cwt with various weights quoted. hogs with top at 6.40 and sows 5.10 to 5.30. Sheep receipts none. fat lambs up 10 to 25 cents, slaughter ewes 25 to 50 cents lower.
At St Paul market, feeder sales steady to higher, cattle up 25c, vealers mostly steady. Slaughter cows and bulls gain 25c+, sows steady to 35c lower week to week. lambs and ewes show modest gains or declines with light volume in Hillable and local consignments.
Grain quotations for Chicago furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company. H. R. Mowrey, manager, Cedar Rapids office located at 503 Merchants National Bank building. Phone 23141.
Hogs steady on the local market with top at 6.35 dollars. Cattle prices shown mixed with various weight ranges and weak to strong outcomes, including good hogs in several weight brackets from 140 to 350 pounds and beef cattle prices ranging up to 11.50 for prime steers.
Grain prices list No 1 wheat 70 cents No 2 68 oats 3 27 rye 38c barley 28 39c shelled corn 42 2c soybeans 84c hay straw tame hay 7 00 straw 5 00 produce butternut sweet 22c cream 2ic 19c local poultry colored hens 10c leghorns 8c roosters 7c 6c 15c 12c wholesale rate vegetables lemons 4 75 oranges 3 50 grape fruit celery 3 08 lettuce 3 50 onions 1 50 2 00 cabbage 2 00 carrots 2 75 tomatoes 3 00 new potatoes 2 00 potatoes 1 00 sweet potatoes 1 strawberries 2 50 hide market No 1 cured beef hides 14 16c No 2 5 2c No 1 calf 10c No 2 calf 6 42c No 1 kip 64 5c No 2 kip 5c No 1 horse 2 75 No 2 horse 2 25 pony and blue hides complete
Chicago AP market recap shows butter receipts 1,611,300 and eggs 33,723, with steady or unchanged pricing on graded eggs. Potatoes arrivals total 917 shipments, mixed U. S. No. 1 stocks and California long whites noted with varying prices and light demand in several regions.
New York AP reports eggs receipts at 27 063 with mixed colors and varied grades from fancy to dirties. Butter and creamery patter cheese receipts up, prices steady to fir, with grades from extra to firsts and seconds showing narrow ranges.
New York investors saw a slow bond market with tiny price shifts. Government issues traded little near the close with minor 1/32 to 3/32 point moves, while guaranteed and foreign dollar bonds showed slightly more activity and strength, including several South American loans. U S government bonds closed with Treasury 4s at 122.10 and Home Owners 2s at 100.12.
The New York stock market posted only light advances in select steel, motor, rubber, mail order and tie issues while many stocks paused. Turnover was about 200,000 shares, a week’s low. Motors did reasonably well amid talk of stronger Q2 results, but traders doubted real progress from government-business talks and noted signs of a flattened downturn. A feared veto of the farm bill by the President loomed over tax plans, adding uncertainty to the outlook.
Readable listings show numerous stocks with varied prices and percent changes from Adams Express to Walnut Products. Key named entities include Adams Express, Kresge, Allied Chem, Kroger, Libby Owens, Motorola, Boeing, Pullman, Procter Gamble, Standard Oil, Sears Roebuck, Ford, Coca Cola, Goodyear, Westinghouse, and Union Pacific among others. The column records intraday quotes and percent shifts across railroad, utility, industrial, chemical, and consumer goods firms.
Chicago wheat moved to a steady tone after early weakness as profit taking in the final minutes pushed July prices down to about 77 3 4 cents. Corn and oats followed a similar pattern with mixed losses and gains, while reports of rains in the wheat belt and a forecast for warmer weather limited selling. Local receipts showed 195 cars of corn, 11 of wheat, and 44 of oats.
Winnipeg market shows July wheat at 64 44, Oct and Dec futures around 65 to 66 cents. Chicago cash grain prices list No 2 yellow hard wheat around 80 4c, corn No 1 yellow and white values near 52 14c and 58 4c, oats 34 42c, barley malting 50 55c, feeding 35 45c, soybeans No 2 yellow 92c, lard about 6.30 and 5.60 for loose, bellies at 7.25.
AP report from Minneapolis on Saturday cash grain receipts 382 cars up from 42% a year ago. Wheat quotes show No 1 heavy dark northern at 84 34 to 86 54 cents, No 1 dark northern 83 34 to 85 54 cents, fancy No 1 hard Montana 14 percent protein 87 54 to 88 54 cents, No 1 dark hard Montana winter 79 54 to 81 34 cents, No 1 hard amber durum 86 %sc. No 1 red durum 72 7 to 75 7 cents. Corn No 2 yellow 46 34 to 48 44 cents, quotes 3 cents low. Oats No 6 white 30 34 to 32 54 cents.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for the week June 5 include Daisies 13c, horns 13c, cheddars 12 1/2c. Farmers call board lists Daisies 13 44c, Commodores 13 48, Ameriot 13 42c, horns 13 4 13 2c, cheddars 2c. Boston wool market shows demand for country packed wools at 30-32c grease and delaines 27-29c grease. half blood combing fleeces 29-30c grease.
Over Franklin Trimble, 28, pled not guilty before Judge C J Haas to making false statements on a liquor permit application. Bond set at $1000. The information alleges Trimble listed James Nance on his permit form. He was arrested Friday at 7 25 p m and charged with drunkenness.
Ellis Brown 53 of 303 Eighth avenue SE alias Red Brown was arraigned Saturday before Judge Haas on illegal liquor sales, pled not guilty. Bond set at 1000 dollars. The court invoked suspended two months of a three month sentence from June 26 1936 for illegal possession after Brown was arrested Friday night.
Judge C J Haas announced an assignment of law equity and probate cases effective Friday. The schedule lists cases from June 5 to June 9 including Demurer Appl for judgment motions and various adverse actions in Linn County court proceedings.
A hearing in Cedar Rapids on a $2 600 sales contract and receivership case brought by J C Petrovitsky against W A Sharpley doing business as Sharp ley's 5 cents to $1 store opened before Judge J E Heiserman and was continued to June 15. Sharpley seeks 5 000 in a cross petition claiming an oral agreement with a plaintiff's agent in April and an opportunity to sell the business was denied. The plaintiff's motion to dismiss the cross petition was overruled.
County Attorney G. K. Thompson and Sheriff Jim Smith were authorized by Judge C. J. Haas to pursue the return of John Perona and W. H. Thomas from Tacoma Washington and Terminal Island California to face a motor theft charge in Marion. Perona has waived extradition and officials plan extradition proceedings for Thomas. The alleged theft involved a car owned by M. H. Biddick of Marion last August. Both men remain in jail with terms expiring this month.
Hearing on Velda Smart's claim to assets in the Fred C. Herman estate before Judge J E Heiserman Friday the court took the matter under advisement. On May 4 Judge Heiserman ruled for defendants George R Liddle as administrator and D B Herndon Herman's cousin.
W L Fowler doing business as Fowler Electric company versus Thornwood Amusement company and others. Trial date pushed to July 5 before Judge J E Heiser man. Also notes May copy fees waived to support Linn County Law Library and probate action on Carl A Reeder foreign will admitted in Cook County Illinois. Divorce suit Arthur E Gray versus Stella Gray filed for cruel and inhuman treatment. Hearing set June 10 for Cedar Rapids Bank receiver final report.
IOWA CITY UP feature highlighted C W Hodgdon of Hoquiam Washington at the University of Iowa alumni reunion dinner. Hodgdon began growing his beard in 1886 three years before his law college graduation.
Tragedy averted as 35 miners fled a cavern collapse at the New Hope mine of the Linton Summit Coal Company in Linton Indiana. Three miners were injured by falling coal and rock when the roof over seven rooms collapsed.
A compact schedule of Sunday services across Marion churches. Baptist led by Rev. L W Inman with Bible school at 9 45 and worship at 10 45 sermon Memory of Jesus. Catholic mass at 8 and 10 am. Christian under Rev Irving E Wade with Bible school 9 45 and sermon The Sure Foundation. Congregational led by Rev C G Ellinger with church school 10 and sermon Who is God. Free Methodist Rev C O Monroe with Bible school 9 45 morning worship 11 Y M C S at 6 45 and preaching 7 30. Methodist Episcopal Rev E T Gough church school 9 45 worship 11 sermon The Way to Religious Certainty. Senior league 6 30 and debate. Presbyterian Rev C V R De Jong sermon Communion of Saints and Creed series. St Pauls Lutheran Rev Carl E Krog Sunday school 9 30 worship 10 30 sermon Regeneration with Holy communion. Seventh Day Church of God sabbath school 10 30 preaching 11 30. Prairie Chapel Rev J B Clyde Sunday school time listed as available.
Jerry Gerrans son of Mr and Mrs J B Gerrans was chosen by Marion post 298 American Legion to attend Hawkeye Boys State replacing Bruce Phillips who cannot go due to University of Iowa academic tests. Other Marion post members and supporters travel to Camp Dodge with him.
Fidelis circle of King's Daughters met Friday at Mrs. C. J. Newlin's home. Cedar Rapids county president Mrs. Arthur Chase conducted the admission for Mrs. Esther Gauch and installed officers: President Mrs. Helen Stark, vice president Mrs. Florence Costello, secretary Mrs. Ethelyn Fairhurst, and treasurer Mrs. Mable Berber. Fourteen members received refreshments.
Mrs L E Storm celebrated her daughter Sandra's third birthday Friday at 944 Fourteenth Street with circus themed refreshments and a tent cake. She was joined by Mrs Charles Engel and Mrs Max Evans and guests Elbert Waffle Barbara Evans Alice Ann Engel Phillip DeWees David Carey Charles Kent Allen James and Charles Storm. Separately Joseph T Pladsen and Margaret Waters of New Albia wed Wednesday before Justice of the Peace Winfield A White, with Mr and Mrs George Hess of Marion accompanying them.
Edith Hagerman hosts Linn's Best 4-H with talks on Feet and Their Care Keep ing Shoes Off the Closet Floor A 4-H Girl's Responsibility in Her Home Choosing a Good Kitchen Chair and a Bed Making Demonstration Guests listed with several local families Wayward white fox terrier named in ad contact 731-W Also reports visits by Mrs Kellams Fairhurst Granger and others plus theater ads and Women's Progressive club gathering
Members of the Indian Creek Fish and Game club are asked to meet in the city park at 7 a.m. Sunday to help with dam building and other creek work. Mrs. Sam Walker recovering after emergency appendectomy at St Luke's Cedar Rapids. Lemon Flake is MHutchinson's June special ice cream in gingham package 13c pint 25c quart at Owen's Drug Store.
Mrs. Ralph C. Seager returns from Toronto where illness of Wallace Fisher called her. She attended a reception for British royalty. Rev. and Mrs. Irvin L. Seager visit Deer River and attend Cornell class breakfast in Mount Vernon. Mrs. R. H. Thomas visits relatives in Vinton. Dorothy travels to Washington to visit Mrs. C. M. Robinson.
Mr and Mrs P G Harlan Miss Dorothy Adee Melvyn Arp and Edward Conrad went to Iowa City Friday evening to attend the St Marys high school commencement where Mary Orelda Reiter a Marion native and Harlan’s niece gradated.
We express gratitude to the Barta Chapel Theo Hl ubucek Rev Robt Benedict and many groups and workers for kindness after the loss of our wife and mother Catherine Serovy Charipar.
A garbled page of personal ads and classifieds lists services, moving firms, watches, photography, and transportation help. It includes Allied Van Lines ads, furniture movers, camera shop offers, and a request for transportation to Los Angeles. It mentions rewards for false pretenses in want ads and contact references for auto transport.
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