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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1936
Page
15
Chicago AP reports Tuesday arrivals cattle 6 000 hogs 12 000 sheep 8 000 as hog prices rise to the highest in almost a month and March highs, with early top at 10 85 up 25 cents from Saturday and several lots around 9 65 to 10 80.
Hogs are steady on the local market with top at 10.10 and no grade changes. Wilson's quotes show price ranges across hog weights from 150 to 350 pounds, and calf and sheep markets are listed with prices for good to choice 140-190 pound calves and lambs 70-90 pounds.
Hog receipts 10,500 with weights under and over 250 lbs showing mixed moves from 9.25 to 10.15 top for shippers. sow and stock pig values vary. Cattle receipts 10,000 with slaughter classes softening. feeders and stockers strong. beef cows and cutters lower. yearlings and calves mixed with several loads touching 8.25 to 8.50 for top yearlings. Sheep receipts 8,000 with lambs mostly slow. ewe and lamb prices mixed with shearing lambs at 9.40 to 9.90. bulk woolly lambs around 10.00 or higher.
U S Department of Agriculture cattle receipts total 4100 at South St Paul. Slaughter steers slow with few sales weak bids down about 25 cents. Common to medium fed steers around 5.75 to 7.25 dollars, good medium weights steady around 8.00 dollars, feeder and stock classes mixed amid light demand.
Cattle receipts 6000 with few early sales. Steers yearlings and stockers around 7 to 9.5, cows mostly 5.25 down, small stock up to 7.25. Hogs receipts 7000 with 10 to 15 cent declines for medium and light butchers, top 10.05, sows 3.90. Sheep receipts 7500 with fat lambs lacking activity, best fed around 10.25.
Market rundown from Mason City and Ottumwa shows hog prices across weight ranges. Notable quotes include 140-160 lb and 160-180 lb marks, with ranges for good lights and packers, and similar brackets across Ottumwa noting a ten cent decline for lighter hogs.
Hogs steady across weights in Austin Minnesota with prices for 180-250 pounds at 9.75 to 10.05 per cwt and 250-290 pounds at 9.45 to 9.75. 290-350 pounds bring 9.15 to 9.45. Packing sows 275-550 pounds priced at 8.20 to 8.90 per cwt.
Market report from Cedar Rapids shows grain and produce quotes including wheat at 90 cents, new oats at 22427 cents, rye at 42 to 46 cents, barley at 30 to 45 cents, corn ear and shelled varieties, soybeans at 65 to 75 cents, and assorted livestock prices for hens, cocks, ducks, geese, eggs, and wholesale fruits and vegetables with varying price ranges. Hides and related byproducts priced, including beef hides, calf and kip, green hides, horses, and glue hides.
AP reports steady demand in foreign exchange in New York listing rates for numerous currencies and cities. Values include Great Britain 4.97, France 6.64, Germany 40.48, Japan 29.00, Shanghai 30.19, Hong Kong 3.290, and Montreal New York parity at 100.00.
Wheat futures eased on the Chicago Board of Trade as trading remained listless. May wheat fell about 99 cents, corn and oats declined modestly, with receipts at 14 cars for wheat and 137 for corn. Weather reports and a softer Liverpool market influenced sentiment amid thin activity.
Cash wheat and corn prices listed with No 2 and No 3 grades for Chicago market. Soybeans track quotes show No 2 yellow at 85 to 90 cents and No 3 yellow 79 3/4 to 80 cents. oats, rye, barley, timothy and clover seed prices also noted along with miscellaneous seed and commodity figures.
Minneapolis cash grain market reports receipts for 175 cars with No 1 heavy dark northern spring 60 lbs priced at 1.24 to 1.34 per bushel, No 1 dark northern 59 lbs at 1.21 to 1.32, No 1 hard Montana 14% protein at 1.20 to 1.22, No 1 dark hard or No 1 hard Montana winter at 1.03 to 1.08, No 1 hard amber durum at 1.21, No 1 red durum May 1.00, July 1.02 to 1.08, Sept 0., corn No 3 yellow 60 to 61 cents, oats No 3 white 25 to 27 cents.
Chicago market notes receipts and prices for creamery eggs poultry and potatoes. Eggs steady at local firsts 18 to 19 cents, poultry prices listed for live hens and fryers, turkeys and ducks. Potatoes on track shipments mix with U S No 1 prices from Idaho Wisconsin North Dakota and Colorado.
AP dispatch from New York notes firmer butter with creamery higher prices and various butter grades. Cheese receipts total 166,228 with flats and fancy grades described. Eggs receipts 27,950 show firmer markets with mixed colors and standard classes. live poultry prices ease by freight with chickens, broilers, roosters, turkeys, and ducks listed by range.
Chicago futures report shows closed butter storage standards for March at 317ac and November at 26c with fresh standards for April 27c. Egg futures list refrigerator standards for October 21 ac and fresh graded firsts for March 19 with storage packed firsts for April 20c.
In New York, medium and low priced rail liens rose modestly while U S governments fell. Foreign bonds mixed with gains for Baltimore and Ohio 4 12s Erie 5s Illinois Central 4 34s New York Central 5s Nickel Plate 4 42 5 St Louis San Francisco 7 22. Treasury losses ranged 2 32s to 6 32s. Investors cited heavier freight movements as the motive.
Buying in steels and a few air transport shares helped steady Monday trading after early profit taking. Major gainers included U S Steel Bethlehem National Steel Republic American Rolling Mill Chrysler American Power and Light Western Union United Air Lines Transcontinental and Western Midland Steel Products.
The published companion list shows numerous stocks including Adams Express and International Harvester, with values across metals, chemicals, transportation, and consumer goods. Prominent entries cover Johns Manville, Lehn & Fink, American sugar and tobacco firms, and major rail and oil groups.
Boston market reports very little demand for the limited domestic wool supplies. Sellers with remaining old wools hold prices near last month’s levels, while fresh new lot asking prices trend toward the lower end of recent ranges for comparable grades and staples.
New York AP reports raw sugar steadies at 3.50 spot and 3.65 for later shipments, futures up two points. May price listed at 2.45. Refined sugar unchanged at 4.75 to 4.85 for fine granulated.
AP report from Minneapolis notes flour prices unchanged with carload lots at 7.05 to 7.25 per barrel in cotton sacks. Shipments total 29,715. Pure bran listed at 15.75 to 16.00, with standard middiviss terms.
U S bonds closed with several issues showing varied prices as of trading in New York. Treasury 4 3/4s 47 52 at 117.14, 4s 44 55 at 112.13, 3 3/8s 40 43 June at 108.17, 3s 46 49 at 105.2, and 3s 51 55 at 103.27.
A motor's fuel use yields water as a combustion byproduct per gallon of gasoline. The statement highlights the direct relationship between fuel burning and water production in engines.
General Pietro Badoglio reported from the northern Ethiopian front that five members of an Italian air crew were killed when their aircraft crashed inside Italian lines. He added there was no new activity on either front.
Mrs. Jeanette Jens formerly of Coggon died in an automobile crash near Mayfield Kentucky while returning from a Pacific coast trip. Her husband Arthur M Jens former Wheaton Illinois city manager was seriously injured in the same collision.
Mrs Daisy Brostmeyer formerly of Cedar Rapids died Sunday in Springfield Illinois after a long illness. She was born Daisy White February 21 1891 in Cedar Rapids and educated there. Survived by husband G R Brostmeyer son Lloyd Japhet Cedar Rapids area sisters Mrs Fred Fitch Mrs A J Smith and several brothers. Body to be brought to Cedar Rapids for burial at Oak Hill cemetery. Funeral announced later.
William H Spicer of 1852 Ellis boulevard NW reports the death of his son W H Spicer aged 65 at his home in Mammoth Springs Arkansas Sunday afternoon. He is survived by his father aged 86 his wife and two daughters of Mammoth Springs and two sisters Mrs Frank Rawson of Cedar Rapids and Mrs Harriet Applegate of Maquoketa.
Special to The Gazette Tipton Iowa Thirty eight new cases appear on the docket for the next term of Cedar county district court which opens Monday March 23 Two are criminal actions six teen are law and twenty are equity The criminal actions include the state vs Roy Kinnan charged with theft of coal in London and the state vs Frank Williams charged with breaking and entering a home in Mechanicsville The new law cases list multiple suits including Arthur Wagner versus B P Otto et al Ellen Bierkamp Barham et al versus Minnie Bierkamp et al and J C France versus E G Gerber among others The equity docket includes cases such as F E Kaufman versus Rose Kaufman D W Bates superintendent versus Farmers Savings Bank et al Minnie Paustian versus Verne Paustian and First Trust Joint Stock Land Bank versus B B Long executor et al
A Vinton man asleep at the wheel near Belle Plaine caused a collision with a Webster City Truck Co. truck on U S 30 early Sunday. The car sustained heavy damage and the driver suffered a sprained shoulder. Truck drivers Arnold Bolsey and Harold Wentzel were named. cargo and truck damage reported.
Mr and Mrs Fred Melichar welcome a daughter born March 15 at Mercy hospital. Mr and Mrs Joseph A Walsh greet daughter Helen Cecilia born March 15 at Mercy hospital. Mr and Mrs J Leo Cooper announce a daughter born March 13 at St Luke's. Mr and Mrs Robert Lockhart welcome a son born March 16 at St Luke's hospital.
World renowned male dancer Harald Kreutz ig will present a solo program at Macbride auditorium in Iowa City at eight o clock Monday. Friedrich Wilckens composer of the famous Don Morte ballet will accompany Kreutz berg at the piano.
Concord Agriculture and Literary club held its twenty eighth anniversary at the Fitzgerald home with a business meeting electing officers: President C B Towers Vice President A B Black Secretary Mrs Carl White Assistant Secretary Mrs L A Dunn Treasurer Mrs W H Erwin Press reporter Mrs C C Scott.
The Winicket Camp Fire group held a birthday project tea at the I O O F hall with council mothers and friends. Susan Hawkins chaired. Theo Waline read a poem and led the group in The Boating Song. A candle-lighting ceremony followed with girls lighting tapers for goals like seek beauty and give service.
Funeral services for Mrs Ida Lillie life long Linn county resident were held Saturday at her daughter Mary Hannas home in North Tenth street. The Rev C J Biddle Christian church officiated with singing by William Breed and Ednad Roberts and pallbearers E C Hamm Ray McCalley Bert Emmons Floyd Emmons Archie Milner and H R Livingston. Burial followed at Oak Shade cemetery. Relatives from Central City Coggan Robins Toddville Cedar Rapids Springville Marion attended.
Community notice for a high school concert. Admission set at 10 cents for students and 20 cents for adults. Event emphasizes grades and audience invitations.
Mr and Mrs Glenn O Pyle hosted guests Mr and Mrs Byron Sutton of Vincennes Indiana who were traveling to Rochester where Mr Sutton will enter the Mayo clinic for treatment.
Mr and Mrs George Munier returned Sunday from Long Beach after Miss Lucie Munier fell critically ill She was brought back to Cedar Rapids and placed in St Luke s hospital where visitors are not permitted
Walter Whitcomb of Mitchell South Dakota visiting nearby with sisters Minnie and Metta Whitcomb spent Sunday with their brother Bert Whitcomb and his family in Springville.
Centennial Encampment No. 91 I O O F meets tonight at 7 30 in I O O F hall. Refreshments will be served.
Mrs. O. E. Clemans, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, shows notable improvement and is reported in better condition by family and physicians.
Marion lodge No. 6 and Trojan lodge No. 548 will hold a joint special meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic temple called by Grand Master John T Ames of Traer This marks the fifth consecutive year that 70 000 Masons in Iowa gather for a topic of vital fraternity interest.
James Vernon, a University of Iowa attendee, spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Vernon, highlighting a family reunion.
City police cite numerous complaints and require dogs to be tethered or confined. Dogs found running at large will be captured and taken to the dog pound for disposal.
The condition of 11 year old Jimmy Jacobs, son of Mr and Mrs Earl Jacobs, ill with spinal meningitis at a Cedar Rapids hospital, continues to show slight improvement though he remains in danger.
Mrs. C. E. Mitchell hosts the Entre Neus club at 7 30 p m in her home at 1680 Eighth avenue. The Chatterbox Bridge club will meet Tuesday at 1 45 p m at Mrs. Jack Gibney’s residence.
Mrs Emma Bowser has returned to Robins after a six week visit to her daughter Mrs Rollie Long and reports her health much improved. Claire Strickell, previously seriously ill from a throat infection, shows improvement.
Mrs M Elder visits Perry. Marion post 298 and its auxiliary cancel tonight's picnic supper. Auxiliary meetings at 7 30 at Mrs Celan Rollins home. Legion meeting cancelled. Loraine Circle to hold benefit card party Tuesday 2 pm at Masonic Temple with hand made prizes. Beverly Smith age 16 months ill in Cedar Rapids with meningitis after mastoid trouble and pneumonia.
Cyrus Metcalf and his Cedar Rapids quartet will not attend the Methodist church Men’s Brotherhood father and son banquet. Darrel Gillmore George Michel Ben Sebern and Melvin McBride will perform with Gillmore leading. About 300 tickets available with advance reservations urged. A A Schenken and George Burns directing ticket sales.
The Camp Fire group at Emma Wallace's home hosted a Saturday birthday project tea for mothers, council members and friends. Performances included songs, piano duets by Janet Elder Arline Tow Mary and Joan Balster, and a talk by Virginia Smith. Cultural sketches featured girls in costume representing foreign countries and colonial America. Janet Elder Dorothy Ford poured tea. about thirty guests attended with Mrs M Elder of Perry as a visitor and Mrs Fred Lang as guardian.
Oxford Methodist church members presented The Rose on the Dial to a large audience at a union meeting of Christian Congregational Methodist and Presbyterian churches on Sunday evening. After the drama Mr and Mrs Stanley Kellams hosted cast members and guests at their home. Cast included Marian Van Fossen Mary Adelaide Albaugh Paul Haworth Minard Stevens Margaret Oldfather and Melvin McBride with other courtesy guests listed.
A program of vocal and instrumental music will be given tonight at 8 in the auditorium of the Lincoln building by the music groups of Marion high school under the direction of Miss Rose Wilcox and G. L. Lyman.
A small admission fee will be charged. The program numbers will be provided at the sub district contest in Monticello on Friday and Saturday. Social visits noted include Eunice Wesenberg of Goodell Indiana visiting with the Bickel and Hanson families. The North Marion Township Farm Bureau home project leaders meeting moves to Mrs. Miller’s due to road conditions.
All Camp Fire girls in the city are asked to meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in I O O F hall to practice songs for the birthday ceremonial to be held in Cedar Rapids March 28. A leather honor will be given to girls attending for song rehearsals.
Mrs. Mary Groll Yount of Mon day returns to her home in Darlington Ind after visiting since Thursday with her mother Mrs Jalen Groll and her brother Clarence Oxley and his family
The Gazette accepts Want Ads by telephone mail or hand delivery to the Gazette office. Rates are listed as 1.35 2.25 2.70 3.15 for various durations and prices.
A miscellany of thanks for sympathy after a death, lost and found items including a pay envelope, pocketbook, silk hose, a Pekingese dog, and a water spaniel puppy. Classifieds offer services, ads for tonics, insurance of caution, and local business promotions plus job and transportation notes.
Local beauty shops advertise facial services from one dollar and up. Mary Nell Beauty Shop at Paramount Ride offers rejuvenating skin care and perms from three fifty with patterns and weekly pay plans.
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