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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1935
Page
32
Liberal receipts and warm weather weighed on livestock markets with all classes drifting lower this week. Hogs led declines, down 10 to 15 cents on Saturday as demand remained light. Strictly choice 190 to 250 pound hogs sold around 10.40 to 10.45 with a top near 10.55, while Friday's best reached 10.70.
Receipts for cattle, hogs, and sheep vary across regions with steady to lower prices. Heavy steers weakened while light weights held steadier. hogs mostly down 10-15 cents. sheep demand mixed with westerns and yearlings showing activity. Regional quotes include Des Moines and Omaha markets with various weights and grade distinctions.
Receipts mix across regions with steady to firm prices in eggs butter and cheese. Chicago and New York show varied figures for eggs creamery butter and wholesale cheese while potato receipts remain heavy and trading slow amid cooling demand.
Best hogs are slightly weaker on the local market with all good grades down 5 cents Saturday. Top price now $9.95 per hundredweight. Packing grades steady as Corn shows slight weakness.
Local Cedar Rapids list shows mixed grain and produce quotes with oats rye barley corn and beans priced per hundredweight ton and crate. Livestock hides and horse goods priced with standard commodities including pony end glue rides and green rides at varied cents per pound or unit.
Boston wool market activity remained steady with demand for shorn and combing wools. Prices held firm on merino and fine wools while grease and heavy staple grades showed cautious movement. international currency shifts noted in exchange report.
In New York bond trading offered little stimulation with a flat tone across many issues. Notable movements appeared in select issues such as Shell Union Oil and Great Western Pacific, while government bonds showed modest quiescence and limited price changes across the week.
Lightened European tensions boosted grain fears as wheat and corn futures fell on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat dropped to near $1.00 in May and December while corn and oats slid, with some recovery later. Reports cited milder conflict chances and Liverpool market moves as key factors.
Chicago cash grain prices show wheat at varying No 2 and No 3 grades with mixed hard and soft prices. corn No 2 yellow around 87 2. No 5 yellow new 65c. oats No 2 white around 21 to 33c. barley and clover seed listed. Minneapolis cash grain notes receipts and futures ranges for wheat and assorted hard and dark northern varieties with price ranges and protein notes. corn and oats prices shown and distant delivery months listed.
Mrs Julia Larson 78 died at her daughter Mrs H E Duxbury 2315 C avenue NE at 210 pm Friday after a lingering illness. Born in Norway March 19 1857 she had lived with her Cedar Rapids daughter for four years previously residing in Eau Claire Wisconsin. Survived by son Louis in Eau Claire sister G Eid Whitehill Wis brother Peter Christopherson Lepsund Norway and three grandchildren. Body to be taken to Eau Claire Wisconsin for services and burial. Friends may call at the Barta chapel this evening.
Elmer Travis of Waterloo a former Mount Vernon resident and Cedar Rapids area resident died at a Waterloo hospital early Friday Born near Mount Vernon June 21 1872 he had lived in Waterloo since 1923 Survived by widow two sons Earl Cedar Rapids Donald Chicago two brothers Charles and Wall Bath Mount Vernon three sisters Mrs H A Kempler Anselmo Ned Mrs C F Thomas Grand Junction Cole and Mrs O L Kempler Waterloo Funeral services will be at Peterson Brothers chapel Waterloo at 9320 am Sunday Burial will be in Cuba City Wisconsin
Joy Ramona Richtarik died at 6 pm Friday after a long illness. Born January 15, 1930 in Cedar Rapids, she lived at 311 Highland Drive NW and attended Cleveland School kindergarten. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs V F E Richtarik, two grandmothers, one great-grandmother, and many relatives. Funeral services will be held locally.
Washington AP reports Dr. Charles L. Parsons, WWI gas advisory board member, says Italy is likely to use only comparatively harmless tear gas against Ethiopians. He says poisonous or mustard gases would be ridiculously ineffective in open areas.
Italy announced that the military classes of 1911 1913 and 1914 will be held in reserve. Men born in those years will form a large wartime army. The class of 1915 will be drafted in the near future.
Wall Street advanced as European peace hopes supported higher prices with gains of 1 to 3 or more points across many issues. Volume neared 900,000 shares as investors awaited a broader settlement while domestic economic momentum remained the main market driver.
Elmer E. Miller of Des Moines was chosen president of the Iowa Building and Loan league at the league’s forty fourth annual convention. Miller has led a Des Moines building and loan firm since 1919 and serves as secretary of the Lions club and a director of the University club. His wife Mary Johnston Miller attended the Cedar Rapids convention.
In district court Judge F O Ellison denied a continuance request in a foreclosure action by First-Trust Joint Stock Land Bank of Chicago against Elizabeth and John W. Griffiths. A receiver was appointed, and a decree for $30 762 50 was entered. The case involves 300 plus Linn county acres and a 1926 note of 30 000. The plaintiff challenged Iowa moratorium acts as an emergency. the defendants argued agricultural hardship had ended.
Judge F O Ellison approved the fifth report in the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust receivership. Receipts for the quarter ended Sept 30 totaled 74212.73, with 61868.42 paid on RFC loan indebtedness and cash on hand 22091.79. RFC balance due stands at 244453.06. W D Bates is receiver with J R Drake as examiner. Rental and management report for the bank building was approved. Total gross income to date is 45031.20 and disbursements 41617.34.
George Patramanis and William P Quinn, both of Cedar Rapids, faced district court on illegal possession of alcoholic liquor charges and pled not guilty before Judge H C Ring. Bonds were set at 500 dollars each. Quinn posted 500 on September 21. Patramanis was arrested Friday at 9 15 p m on First avenue E near Sixth street by state and federal agents.
County officials reported whiskey found in a bottle on a table at a roadside lunchroom on highway 149 during a Sept. 20 visit by police and county officials. The charge against Quinn stems from this discovery and subsequent actions.
Judge H C Ring approved the receiver's sixth report in the Wapsie Valley State Bank receivership at Central City. D W Bates, state banking superintendent, is receiver with O A Conwell as examiner in charge. Fifteen percent dividend totaling 19389.06 was paid on depositors claims for the quarter ending Sept 30, bringing total dividends to 40 percent. Bates, as receiver of Citizens State Bank of Mount Vernon, obtained court authorization to compromise or sell all remaining personal assets of the Mount Vernon bank with apraisers C B E Hedges M D Clark and J W McCutcheon named. Receivership opened Sept 22, 1931.
Judge A B Clark approved the receivership fifth report for American Trust and Savings Bank Cedar Rapids showing cash on hand 439,845.52 and quarterly collections 437,921.26. Judge Ellison approved rental and management report with rents for quarter ended Sept 30 totaling 5,645.25 and cumulative 33,465.47. total disbursements 28,177.45. September 30 cash on hand 5,288.02.
Defense filed a motion for new trial and exceptions to instructions in the Marak Brothers appeal from a $75 counterclaim awarded to E. L. Hill by Justice H. F. Runyan. A district court jury under Judge H. C. Ring awarded the Maraks $200 on a note claim, while Hill contends the notes financed a corn husking machine that allegedly did not function properly.
A Friday court entry awarded Connecticut General Life Insurance a default judgment against Albert G. Carpenter and Gertie M. Carpenter on a $14,000 note said to be made in 1926. The motion claimed no appeal was perfected after May notice of court order denying continuance.
Ellen M. McClenahan sued Clara F. Joss Charles E. Tisher and John Tisher for 450 dollars claiming two trees fell on her property. The complaint was dismissed Friday. Joss counterclaim for 663 dollars alleging tenancy under a contract and tree damage to sewer roof and drainage was dismissed by the defendant.
Divorce actions filed include Harriett Resewehr versus C J Resewehr and Harriet Jackson versus Albert Jackson. Resewehr seeks custody of a daughter while Jackson seeks restoration of her former name Harriet King. Clyde Coffee versus Mabel Coffee was dismissed without prejudice. Arm strong Clothing Co. won a $127.58 default judgment against Robert Leaper. Bertha Varner versus Wendell Varner, married April 2 1932 at Galena NL, heard on cruelty grounds.
Dean C Mead of Center Junction with Bernice Juilfs of Monticello. Clair Neal of Detroit with Maxine F Frick of Alburnett. Dayle W Lyle of Oskaloosa with Mildred I Paul of Cedar Rapids. Frank Novotny with Libbie Pnovsky, both of Cedar Rapids. John R Murray with Mary M Venke, both of Cedar Rapids. Milo Selbicky with Delilah McQuater, both of Cedar Rapids. William J Sarver with Vera Louise Fryer, both of Tracy.
Winthrop schools schedule a carnival in the high school gym Friday evening October 25. Activities include a clown drill by second grade boys fortune telling a turtle race fisherman's paradise a curio shop and boxing. The most representative boy and girl in Re high school will be chosen by vote.
K O Knudson elected president of Excelsior Agriculture and Literary club with Irving Drake and others as officers. Various meetings, readings, concerts, and plans noted across several groups. The J B Howell family moved and Grove City Rebekah lodge prepared for The First Commandment performances. Several residents visited, hosted, or attended events. football game attendance and hospital updates also reported.
A second will of James T. Kelly, who died last March leaving about 140000, was called a forgery by Rudolph A. Salmon, public administrator handwriting expert. The document left the estate to a cousin and mentions Bertha Morgan as nurse. The will, on wrapping paper, was mailed from St. Louis to a Chicago law firm with a note signed Charlie and claimed to be sealed six months after death.
Officers of the Legion auxiliary were installed by Mrs. Richard Freet of Toledo with Tama county and Toledo unit support. New officers include A N Bryant president A D Paxton vice president E R Cronk secretary Christine Oppice treasurer Fred Harris historian Mina Cronk chaplain A A Harvey and Louie Vana sergeants at arms E J Gould M Cooper and Laura M Smith elected to the executive board.
A compilation of church schedules across Marion. Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Seventh Day Church of God and Neighborhood Chapel list Sunday schools, morning worship, and evening services with sermon topics and leaders.
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