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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1935
Page
4
Hog and cattle prices reach multi year highs as bids top 9.60 per cwt for hogs amid tight receipts. Cattle and lamb markets show mixed strength with slaughter lambs weak and fed steers steady to higher across major western packing centers.
Chicago hog receipts 17600 with prices rising to top $9 60 per cwt for 200 lb animals. Heavy cattle and calves listed with bids and weights across 140 to 350 lb ranges. Omaha and Cedar Rapids reports show hogs, cattle, and sheep trading with mixed gains and steady to higher tone.
An advance of 10 to 15 cents on Monday lifts the top local hog price to a new high of 9.35. All grades share in the rise, with the peak quoted at 9.35.
Chicago grain futures slipped as sterling weakness and rains in winter wheat regions spurred selling. Wheat May fell to 97 cents, corn 63 3/4, and oats 49 1/4 cents. Domestic stocks and Argentina arrivals influenced trade with general bearish tone and private crop estimates cited.
AP reports Chicago and New York produce prices with steady butter, firm eggs, and mixed poultry. Butter receipts steady at 7 6 3 6, eggs firm with 8 7 0 3 receipts, and poultry showing varied quotes for leghorn hens, fryers, roosters, and turkeys. Potatoes on track with steady to higher movement. New York notes higher butter and weak cheese futures amid overall softer market tone.
Chicago cash grain quotes show No 1 dark hard wheat around 106, No 2 red 100, No 4 107 4c, No 2 yellow 84 240, with various sample grades and oats and barley prices listed. Minneapolis cash grain reports reflect mixed wheat values, protein adjustments, and near term May July September futures alongside corn and oats quotes.
Sugar futures in New York showed little change while refined sugar remained steady. Minneapolis notes a modest 10 cent decrease in flour prices and mixed shipment data. Chicago futures reference storage costs and egg futures outline various dates and pricing. Foreign exchange rates in New York show small movements across Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Holland, and Norway.
A fragmented OCR style compilation lists numerous country names and numeric values, including Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Roumania Argentina Brazil Tokyo Shanghai Hongkong Mexico City and Montreal New York. It includes mixed formats and stray terms like N-Nominal and placeholders, suggesting a reference table or exchange-like data.
Wall Street prices slipped in a slow trading session on Monday as London gold rose to a fresh peak and the pound weakened. Major names like Johns Manville and Spiegel-May-Stern fell while General Motors American Telephone U S Steel and Consolidated Gas showed small declines. transfers ran about 430,000 shares.
In early Monday trading the bond market moved unevenly as Federal issues firmed modestly after Treasury March 15 financing details were released. Some secondary issues sold off as earlier gains faded, with prices slipping on issues such as American and Foreign Power, Chile Copper, Erie, Postal Telegraph, Frisco, and Southern Pacific bonds, while certain Liberty issues and Treasury securities showed mixed movements. At birth the average purse rate is 134 a minute, dropping to 110 in the first year, and by age 14 the pulse slows to 87.
Judge F O Ellison of Anamosa presides the March term as the grand jury is impaneled at 1 30 p m The assignment of equity cases is set for 9 a m Tuesday with defaults in law and equity cases to follow Tuesday afternoon The petit jury begins trial work on March 12 at opening hour
A creditors committee seeks removal of Robert I. Larimer as receiver in the Larimer and Shaffer Inc. receivership. Larimer opposes the application. Hearing Wednesday at 9 a.m. before Judge A B Clark in district court. Committee members: Charles Nolan C Paulson E J Larimer E R Moore and E G Nichols.
Maynard Belknap of near Anamosa faces a district court information filed by Jones County Attorney G K Thompson for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. A warrant was served Saturday by Deputy Dick Payn and a $500 bond posted in the Clerk of the District Court Ed win Lundquist’s office. The charge stems from a Feb 28 crash on highway 161 near Springville involving a vehicle driven by Belknap and another driven by Frank Kiler of Monticello.
Fred Fite, 53, was held by Linn county officials for Muscatine county on a warrant charging uttering a false check in Muscatine county last summer. Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon reported Monday. Warrants were issued by Justice J. C. Coster of Muscatine.
Lillian L. Hunter files for divorce from Elmer E. Hunter in district court on cruel and inhuman treatment. They wed at Valparaiso Indiana on August 8 1931. She seeks custody of a minor daughter and child support.
Funeral services for Ruth Alta Edaburn will be at Free Methodist church Toddville at 2 30 PM Tuesday with Rev W W MacDonald officiating Burial in Dunkard cemetery near Toddville She was born March 23 1672 and married Alvin Edaburn March 3 1887 Parents Thomas and Emily Newman five sons Artie Vernon Ray Leslie Fay four grandchildren and three brothers and a sister survive Also Mary Ellen Cluett 74 widow of George Cluett died at 615 PM Saturday Born May 10 1860 in Ashland County Ohio she moved to Blairstown then Cedar Rapids Surviving children include Ruby Catherine and George Taylor seven other grandchildren and three great grandchildren with relatives in California and other Iowa towns Funeral in Monahan chapel Tuesday 2 PM Rev J Renwick McCullough officiating Body to Blairstown for burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery Friends may call Monahan chapel Monday evening.
Funeral services for 60 year old Clarence W Blood will be held Tuesday in Beatty chapel at 2 PM conducted by Rev J F Weery. Burial in Shiloh cemetery. Visiting at home until 10 AM Tuesday. Blood born Feb 22 1875 in Jones county Iowa. Survived by wife Grace and parents Orin and Mrs Blood of Portland plus one son Wesley and two daughters Hazel Estes and Pearl Blood Cedar Rapids. Eight sisters named Bye McGuire and Daisy Fall among others.
Olin, Mrs Forrest Grimes, Bremerton Wash, Mrs Nettie Elliott Los Angeles, Mrs Corawall and Mrs Nina Buckley Portland, Mrs May Pile Cedar Rapids, Mrs Nellie Hassen Portland, and two brothers Earl and Timothy Blood Portland Ore appear in a damaged obituary fragment listing survivors and relations.
Mrs Lelah Kisor wife of William W Kisor died at the home of her daughter Mrs C G Hover 1648 R avenue NE at 8 15 am Monday after a brief illness She was born April 15 1864 in Johnson county and had lived in Iowa City forty years then moved to Cedar Rapids four years ago She leaves husband daughter son J A Kisor of Cedar Rapids a brother R W Dicus of Cedar Rapids three grandchildren Howard Mary Kisor Beverly Hover Funeral arrangements to be announced and friends may call at Turner chapel
John H. Kiesling aged 49, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died at his Westwood addition home at 10 45 p m Saturday. Born Amana December 3, 1885, he leaves son Harry of Strawberry Point, brothers Emil of St Louis and Carl of Amana, and sisters Anna Baumgartner Lena Kline and Mary Hardy of High Amana. Funeral services set for Beatty chapel at 10 am Tuesday with burial in Linwood.
Anna R Arnold 65 of 640 Seventh Street SE died at a local hospital at 11 p m Saturday after a short illness. Born in Olin January 14 1870 she had lived here twenty years. Survived by son C A of Chicago two brothers George Gearhart of Olin John Gearhart of Colorado and two sisters Mrs Ella Glick and Mrs Loretta Gilmore both of Braymer Missouri. Body at Beatty chapel pending funeral arrangements.
Lady Young. aviatrix wife of the Northern Rhodesia governor, was found alive after four days lost in Rhodesian jungle lands. She and Dr. H Kirby disappeared en route from Livingstone to Lusaka. Major Sir Hubert Young led the search. she had just been released from hospital.
Senator Huey P. Long claimed in the senate that he had learned Postmaster General James A. Farley planned to quit. Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson then denied the report, saying President Roosevelt had no truth to it. Robinson left briefly, then returned to interrupt Long as he spoke.
The city council Monday ordered payment of 8836.70 to Stark Building Co for the fifth estimate on section F of the sewage disposal plant. Irvin C Buckner of 321 Avenue NW filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court Monday, with liabilities and assets not yet listed. Nick Gonsales of 1403 Tenth Street SE, 40, waived to the grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. bond set at 1000. charge filed by Mrs. Gonsales Saturday night.
Charles S. Cutting of Chicago, a former federal judge now leading a major Chicago law firm, spoke briefly at Coe College chapel Monday forenoon while visiting the city.
Receipts of the civil division of superior court during February were 1.50 dollars. L. J. Storey, clerk, reported to the city council Monday. Police receipts were 727.15 dollars, with fines totaling 469 and court fees 238.
City waterworks balance rose from 14751.23 to 29531.41 with receipts of 25458.08 and expenditures 10877.90 reported by H F Blomquist, superintendent, to the city council on Monday. Water plant pumped 116,077,000 gallons, averaging 4,145,607 daily. Meanwhile, hailstorms impose about 50 million dollars annual loss on the ten leading agricultural states.
The third annual extemporaneous speaking contest will be in Marion senior high room 309 at 8 tonight. Students draw topics an hour before. The winner goes to the district tournament. state winner gets a scholarship to the University of Town. Participants include Jacob Snell Wayne Wells Melvin Clark Edward Ferreter Laura Smith Marian Cone John Granger Maurice Flack. Public invited. no admission. Mrs. Clifford Barnes ill.
Jacob Morehouse age seventy died in an Iowa City hospital Saturday at 8 30 a m born in Cedar county November 2 1864 lived there eighteen years then in Marion and Springville survived by wife five daughters Ruth Edleman Cedar Rapids Lulu Patton Springville June Dukek Marion Ethel Tichacek Omaha Susann Morek Madison Wis and son Ray Morehouse Chicago funeral Tuesday 2 p m Yocom chapel Rev C J Biddle burial Cedar Memorial park callers tonight 7 to 9 Reading Circle meeting notices and club activities from local organizations in Marion and neighboring towns with event details and members listed
Thornburg high basketball team defeated Kinross 38 to 18 on Kinross court Friday night. Thornburg led from the start with strong defense and balanced scoring, securing the win in a low scoring affair.
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