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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1941
Page
2
Chicago and regional yards show quiet weekend trade with hogs steady near 7.80 to 7.90, cattle mostly weaker, and sheep firm to higher on lighter supplies. Receipts for the week fell sharply, Lent effects cited as a factor in weaker beef demand while hogs and lambs held steadier prices.
Hog prices across weight ranges are listed for Austin Minnesota with cash bids per hundredweight, while St Paul livestock market reports weaker tone with softer steer and heifer prices. Receipts total around 125 to 200 plus vealers and calves, with bulls and stockers showing mixed results.
Hog prices rose five cents across all grades on Saturday in the local market. Barrow and gilt ranges span 140 to 360 pounds with top hogs near 7.40 and packers at 6.35 to 8.45 depending on weight. Cattle listings show steers and yearling values from about 9.25 to 12.75, with heifers and dry lot cows also quoted. Sheep and calf sections present lambs at 6.99 to 7.95 per hundredweight and calves around 11.50 for 360-200 pounds.
Prices for grain and livestock listed in Cedar Rapids. Grain categories include Wheat Oats Rye Barley Corn and Soybeans with various quality grades and prices. Poultry prices cover hens leghorns and roosters, and wholesale fruits vegetables and hides rates are provided with multiple quality and size distinctions.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for March 3 to 8 list daisies price 14 2 cents, bricks 14 3, cheddars 14. Farmers' cooperative board quotes daisies 14 2, horns 14 2, cheddars 4. Boston wool market notes limited non domestic offerings with fine combing fleeces at 42 44 cents and blood bright fleeces at 3.45 dollars. Lowhland combing wools 34 7 41 cents and braids at 24 2 4 cents in grease.
Chicago market notes steady demand across crates and staples. Idaho Russets and Nebraskan Bliss Triumphs show mixed prices with US No 1 quality quoted around 1.50 to 1.90 per unit, Florida crates at 1.50 to 1.60 per crate, and overall stock moderate with slow demand on new stock.
The Lamson Bros bulletin lists storage standards for butter and eggs with dates in March and October. It references future and refrigerator standards and mentions a November 2005 date. The item reads as a market quotation or internal notice about commodity storage guidelines.
Chester C. Davis chosen by the board to succeed William M. Martin as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Davis is a former head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The appointment was announced Friday by the bank's directors.
New York traders entered March with a cautious mood as leaders showed little movement. Modest bids emerged for mail orders and some ties while steel, motor, aircraft, and copper shares failed to rally. Transfers totaled about 150000 shares as investors held back during the weekend recess amid Balkan and war-move concerns. notable gainers included Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Pennsylvania, Benene Electric, Allied Chemical.
Chicago wheat on the board of trade drifted listlessly within a tight one cent range. May futures rose slightly on firmer demand from professionals, then retreated. Other grains showed little change while farm-loan talk and worries about southwest winter killing buoyed sentiment before easing.
U S government bonds closed firm Saturday with Treasury notes around 46-49 and 110.20. Japanese and Far Eastern issues advanced amid indications the Vichy regime may yield to Nipponese pressure in French Indochina. Domestic rails faced opposition, while many corporates weakened after a refocusing offer expired, leaving par plus small interest due this month.
C A Nichols 63 longtime West Liberty resident died of a heart attack Friday night. He lived in the house where he was born on Nov 24 1877 and ran the Ivey and Nichols Cafe since 1932 after a varied career in dry goods film production and banking. He married Roxie Brown in 1929 and is survived by a daughter Margaret Nichols Washburn MI and sister Bertha Carson. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 pm at the Christian church with Rev Frank W Sutton officiating. Burial in Oak Ridge cemetery.
Berlin reports the German navy and air force sank 740000 tons of shipping in February. The navy destroyed 550000 tons and the air force 190000 tons, according to the high command.
General headquarters announced Saturday that 9,000 prisoners had been taken in the British offensive in Italian Somaliland near pede AP report.
The Freedom of the Press company announced that Anna M. W. Pennypacker of Philadelphia has become one of three co-owners of the Daily Worker. Pennypacker is the daughter of the late Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Hugh Gordon was elected president of the Marion Missionary Union at an all day meeting in the Presbyterian church. Officers named include Mrs. Herman Falcon as first vice president and Mrs. Herbert Livingston as second vice president. Dr. Corwin Hartzell spoke on prayer and South American neighbors noting literacy and land ownership issues. Costumes from South America were shown and lunch for 50 was served in the church basement.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at Salem Evangelical church in Lafayette for Mrs. Sarah Etzel. The Rev. Ralph Hindman led, aided by former pastors, with singing by W. D. Winter and Mrs. Verle Etzel. Burial followed in Lafayette cemetery. Pallbearers and attendees included relatives from Marion, Alburnett, Robins, and Des Moines.
Monticello crowds attend a Friday night Marion high school basketball game. Social notes report Anniversary observance by Handicraft club No 2 at Mrs. Murphey’s home with favors and exchanges. Other items mention Casa Blanca restaurant sale, a fifty fifth wedding anniversary, and visits from relatives and guests.
The bulletin lists Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist and Methodist services. Details include pastors Rev L W Inman Rev T J McElliott Rev Vernon H Carter Rev Ray mond C Swisher Rev Hubert Livingston and Rev Arthur, with Bible school at 9 45 morning worship at 10 45 and evening services at 7 30 and 7 45 plus midweek prayer and choir rehearsal schedules.
DES MOINES AP The Independent Oil Jobbers Association reelected all officers at its fourth convention. Leland L Harrison was named president with Gerhard Rud of Osage as vice president Hatch of Edgewood as treasurer A C Gienapp of Manchester as rotary while E F B Anlicker of West Bend Sir Sioux City Frank Washington and Darrell Clawinelam were elected directors.
The snippet references funeral homes Wood Boehm and a lost clarinet in transit near Walford and Iowa City with a February 21 reward by G W Ayers Colum bus Junction. It mentions a lost order book near 34th and 35 Sts NE and a downtown windfall reward. Resolutions at a convention oppose oil taxes and back a state pump license, amid a 500 Iowa jobbers turnout described as the biggest in four years.
Manchester obituary notes the death of the Rev J F Adix a retired Lutheran pastor who served the town for 38 years He would have turned 61 in October and died Friday night in this city The article uses a garbled spelling but identifies Adix as a long serving local clergyman.
Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran and Epworth and other churches list Sunday programs. Morning worship times range from 9:45 to 11:30 with sermons on Lent themes The Presbyterian service continues Lent with The Unknown Hero and The Critical. Seventh Day Church of God observes Saturday Sabbath and preaching at 11 30 a.m.
Funeral services for the late Mr. Adix will be held at the Manchester First Lutheran church Tuesday at 2 p.m. in charge of Dr M. Roy of Dubuque. Survived by his widow, a sister in law Miss Louisa Nefries of Manchester, two sons the Revs W A Adix of Manchester and H M Adix of Farmersburg, a daughter Erna Adix of Manchester, five siblings including Mrs M O Jahr of Waverly and Rev H L Adix of Monticello. He graduated from Wartburg college Clinton and Wartburg seminary Dubuque.
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