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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1935
Page
24
Chicago traders reported a nominal hog market with light business and only 2,500 fresh hogs on hand, 500 shipped directly. The weekly top reached $11.90, with hogs up 30 cents for the week as lamb prices also rose. cattle and sheep markets were inactive amid modest receipts.
Bullish sentiment dominated the Chicago Board of Trade after Canada set a minimum cash wheat price at 87% cents a bushel. Wheat rose to 9 17/16 cents, corn advanced to 76 1/4 cents, and oats gained around 4 cents, with spring wheat concerns due to U S scarcity. Winnipeg strength lifted local sentiment though profit taking tempered gains.
Reports from Chicago and St Paul show cattle receipts around 1000 calves and 300 strow, with steer weights strong and cull cows firm. Hog prices steady to higher, while sheep and lamb markets rise with fat lambs about 125 higher and best natives and westerns showing strength amid light late-week demand.
Market brief from Cedar Rapids items lists fresh produce such as oranges grapefruits lemons potatoes peaches pears and cabbage with prices per crate or basket. It also details live poultry eggs hides and horse and pony price ranges in a fragmented catalog.
Hogs remain slightly weaker on the local market with all grades down a nickel bringing the top down to 1145. Other local markets hold steady with firmer bids or unchanged prices.
In New York on Saturday low priced railroad bonds led the market with steady gains while U S government issues showed no clear trend. Blue chip and major corporate issues rose slowly. Allegheny 27 rose about 1 point, with Great Northern 4s up similarly and other familiar names like Detroit Edison 4/38 and Missouri Pacific 5s holding firm. Petroleum issues were mixed with Phillips 42 higher and Shell Union Oil 5s up a fraction. Standard Oil New York 4 1/4% touched 110 20. Treasury notes showed little movement with 2 1/2s at 104 31 and 4s at 110 20 as markets steadied.
The report shows mixed price movements across regions with territory prices varying as buyers respond to demand. Several districts report higher bids and others see declines, influenced by market activity and regional supply shifts.
TIPTON The Bennett OF church will hold a homecoming with an all day service. Dr Frank Cale of Cornell College will give the morning address and Miss Allison Moore will direct the choir with Miss Katherine Grace as accompanist. Clarence Miller will sing a solo. Afternoon events include reminiscences of Inland township schools and churches and teachers will be honored. The Friendly Four Young Peoples Group leads the evening service with Lee Peterson presiding. Esther Hokenson Chapman will lead a discussion and Mildred Wreck will provide music. JESUP The American Lutheran church will hold a Mission Fest Sunday with Leon Zummack singing.
Grain movement reports show Chicago and Minneapolis grain prices for wheat corn oats and buckwheat with various no 2 no 3 no 4 grades and white yellow and amber varieties. Receipts at Minneapolis include 432 carloads with year ago comparisons and grade details for No 1 hard Montana and No 2 yellow corn among others.
New York traders pushed shares to gains around four points in a lively session as profit taking began to limit advances after early strength. Leading movers included American Telephone, Allied Chemical, Westinghouse, Du Pont, Deere, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Sears Roebuck, and Union Pacific among others with heavy turnover and large blocks trading early.
Saturday quotations show broad industrials weak in metals and oils while grain and cotton hold. Foreign exchange mixed, with sterling heavier. secondary bonds trend with stocks at a slower pace as dealers parse large company listings and sector leaders like General Electric and General Motors.
Large amounts of oil and grease dumped into city sewers caused an extra-large clog at the new sewage disposal plant. The result was a temporary shutdown and a return to dumping sewage into the river. City engineer Frank E Young warns such discharges could wreck the plant fully.
Buckingham Chandler II from a prominent Chicago family died after a pontoon plane crash near Chicago. He was hospitalized Friday night with injuries from the fall from a height of about 100 feet, with investigators citing wandering attention as a contributing factor.
DECORAH Dr T P Rothrock Calmar veterinarian suffered a broken arm Friday night in a collision nine miles south of McGregor between his car and one driven by Guy Edwards of Maquoketa Mrs Guy Edwards Mrs Elsie Edwards and her two children suffered bruises
The House of David baseball team defeated Lost Nation Friday 9 to 2 before a large crowd. Fhp Fleming of Lost Nation played with the bearded wonders while his brother John was a member of the local team. The school band provided music.
Prime Minister Bennett announced a fixed minimum price of 87.34 cents per bushel for wheat based on northern wheat for delivery at Fort William Ontario. The policy guarantees farmers at least that amount and covers losses if world prices fall, with higher prices if world markets rise.
J E Vath of Des Moines named chief engineer of projects and planning for the Fifth district WPA office in Council Bluffs. Brian R Van Cleve of Cedar Rapids named assistant engineer formerly IERA engineer for Page county. Frank Wallace Glenwood and C D Mealey Red Oak named to finance positions. Paul Willey Sidney placed in work card index unit. Office to operate Monday.
John Cassidy left Friday night for Manhattan Kansas. Federal labor local 18619 of the Penick and Ford plant will meet in regular session tomorrow at 9 am at the labor temple. Frank Whitney has been granted a permit to make repairs on a dwelling at 330 H avenue NW to the extent of 2000 dollars. Mr and Mrs C L Ober 413 Tenth street SE were called to West Union Saturday by the death of Mrs Obers brother Forrest Tupper. Ellen Boyd and Robert L Milisen both of Iowa City were married by Justice of the Peace W J Grunewald at his office Friday afternoon. Mrs Everett Evans and her son Glen 150644 First avenue E returned Friday from a trip to Colorado and Nebraska where they have been visiting for several weeks.
Joseph Bos of Marshalltown was fined $100 and costs after appearing before Justice A S Reed on overload charges. He was arrested by Highway Patrolman K W Rhodes. Also fined were A H Bos of Marshalltown and Walter Mehlisch of State Center.
R. H. Purdy of Appleton Wis paid a $5 fine and costs in police court for failing to stop at a school sign. Bert Vogel 827 Second avenue SW Perry 1344 First avenue E and Mrs G C Babcock 118 Fifteenth street NE each faced $1 and costs for parking offenses. Mrs Walter Baker 355 Twenty first street SE was fined $10 and costs for speeding.
Eugene Durland 11 of Norway was treated at St Luke's hospital at 7 15 pm Friday for a fractured left elbow from a fall while playing. He did not stay in the hospital. L Freeman 59 of Sylvia avenue NE, an employee at Hall Manufacturing, had surgery at St Luke's Friday evening for amputation of a section of the middle finger on his right hand injured at work.
Weather permitting, more than 3,000 carrier pigeons will be released from the Union passenger station platform between 5 and 6 a.m. Sunday. The Chicago Concourse Flying Association owns the birds. an express car will transport them to the city, and arrivals at home lofts in Chicago will be timed. Poor weather could delay the flight.
Birth announcements report Carlyle David, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Sulek of Solon born Sept 4. Sally Meserve, daughter of Dr and Mrs Edward Files of Carlton apartments, born Sept 6 at St Luke’s hospital. Mrs Files is former Grace Glass society editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Rosenbaum Furniture reports a surge in sales to farmers in the last nine months, a rise from the previous four years. The Gazette’s Friday report misquoted the claim by omitting the phrase to farmers.
Frank McGarvey, 29, of Cedar Rapids, was sentenced to up to fifteen years at Anamosa state reform school after being charged with uttering a forged instrument following his Friday arrest for passing bad checks at several local establishments. LeRoy Colbert, 21, pled guilty to larceny from a building with sentencing set for Sept. 11. Thelma Pappas, 23, received six months for a soliciting charge with sentence withheld on state advice. James Parks, 34, pled not guilty to larceny involving electric caps and fuses from a compressor house with bond at $1,000.
District court action authorizes D W Bates state banking superintendent as receiver of the Wapsie Valley State Bank of Central City to pay a fifteen percent dividend to depositors. Earlier dividends totaling twenty five percent or about thirty two thousand five hundred dollars have been paid.
Linn county reports a work relief payroll totaling 5,506.20 for 773 workers, who contributed 10,982 hours of labor during the week ending Tuesday.
A list of couples securing marriage licenses in Iowa includes Robert L. Milisen and Ellen L. Boyd of Iowa City Joseph W. Dolezal of Iowa City and Helen Marie Reiman of Cedar Rapids Wilfred H. French of Marion and Ruth C. Svacha of Cedar Rapids George F. Hackett of Alburnett and Gladys Mildred Little of Marion Ralph F. Ellsworth and Dorothy Gillispie of Cedar Rapids J W Parker and E C Emery of Tama Frederick R. Mauck of Boone and Ethel J. Shaffer of Cedar Rapids Jean Fawley of Anamosa and Edyth E Strother of Springville.
John Jandeck of Petersen bakery lost a little finger after reaching into a dough dividing machine. Miss Lillian Serbousek resumes duties in Belle Plaine as intermediate grade instructor. Mr and Mrs Frank H Keyser and Mr and Mrs S P Beatty visited Wisconsin Dells. Miss Alice Fernow goes to Newton to teach junior and senior high school.
J A Wessler retained his city tennis championship as the tournament closed yesterday at the Coe courts. Carrie Marsh departed for Kalamazoo to serve as secretary to the school board. Mrs Lee Keller suffered injuries in a fall at her daughter s Marion home. Mr and Mrs C L Sherwood returned from Round Lake Minnesota where they spent the summer. Mr and Mrs J C Johnson returned from San Francisco after attending an insurance convention and the exposition.
Calvin Jennings in a month long furlough from the Annapolis Naval Academy. Potter and Martin Beck return from a Springville hunting trip with twenty one prairie chickens bagged. Peter Mineck visits Portland Ore and Puget Sound cities. Katherine Kirk to Chicago Musical College. Mrs Sloss back from Scotland trip with companion Mrs Ferguson visiting New York. Between 1933 and 1934 over two million Americans moved from cities to rural areas.
Supt Arthur Deamer spoke on the parent school relationship to about 150 at a reception for teachers hosted by Cedar Rapids’ newly formed Parent-Teachers Association. The event featured tea, a film projector demo, musical solos, and updates from the faculty.
Six bids ranging from 6000 to 14300 dollars opened for the Manchester post office site. The lowest bid came from R B Griffin for 6000 on the east of the courthouse. The Park hotel and partners bid 14300 for a site on Fayette Madison Brewer area.
Indianapolis FBI agents fixed bonds at 20000 dollars for four men captured after a Friday gun battle. Harold Reinecke said the group may link to the wounding of a drug store messenger and about 30 Indiana and Illinois crimes. Frank Klize 26 of Beard Ireland was wounded after using a kidnapped baby as a shield. Gilbert Potts 22 formerly of Washington Indiana was shot in the shoulder during the failed lip sealing attempt.
Funeral services for Carlton Wormer of Atkins will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m in Beatty chapel conducted by the Rev W A Montgomery with Dwight Krumholtz assisting Burial will be in the family lot at Center Point cemetery Friends may call at Beatty chapel this evening from 7 to 9
Mildred Metcalf will be funeralized Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Congregational church of Winthrop with Rev. Fowler presiding. Burial will follow in Winthrop Cemetery. Friends may view remains at Turner Chapel until 10 a.m. Sunday.
Funeral services for Montgomery C Crissinger will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Sunday with Rev. P. L. Bornhoft officiating. Burial follows in Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at 924 Mecoga Street SW until noon Sunday.
AList of area churches with pastors service times and sermon topics. Baptist church led by Rev. William H Bridwell offers unified service at 10 am and 10 45 am worship with topics A Common Tragedy in Every Christian Family and A Difficult Proposal 1 A Lovely Personality. St Josephs Catholic Masses 7 30 and 9 30 am. Congregational and Methodist services noted with sermon titles and school activities. Union services at 7 30 pm at Presbyterian church led by Rev W E Fisher. Presbyterian sermon Sustaining Faith and offertory solo The Lord Is My Shepherd. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran morning sermon The Pleasures of Sin. Sabbath services listed for Seventh Day Church of God and neighborhood chapel.
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