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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1933
Page
9
Hog market was nominal with 6 000 head receipts and most buyers absent. Top hogs around 4 50, weights over 250 pounds taxed starting October 1. Cattle and sheep were largely steady to slightly lower, fed steers reaching 7 40, natives and range lambs at 8 25 as week ended.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 8:00 a m today totaled 20000 head, down from 31000 last week and 10800 a year ago. Prices ranged with light lights at 149 to 160 pounds from 3.15 to 3.75, up to 350 and heavy weights around 2.90 to 4.05 with sow and large heavy classes listed.
Hog prices across Iowa markets are reported with varied ranges by weight. Waterloo shows 180 to 240 lbs at 3.60 to 3.90, Cedar Rapids and Mason City list unchanged and steady ranges, Ottumwa notes all classes up 5 cents with multiple weight brackets and packer quotes.
Cattle receipts about 3,500 head western grassers firm for killer steers and wire stock. top fed steers 7.40, best lights 7.25, most fed steers 5.50 to 6.75, grassers 5.00 down to 3.50. cows 4.25 to 3.25. Sheep receipts 4,000 head, fat lambs 50 to 70 lower, week’s top 5.25 natives and westerns, ewes 1.50 to 3.00. hogs receipts 6,000 head, steady to weak, top around 5.0 hypenated, weights 100 to 350 lbs various nominal ranges.
Receipts: cattle 100 head with mixed changes across classes. Fed steers and yearlings down 10 to 25 cents, higher grades weak, stock cattle steady to 25 cents higher. bulls up 10 to 5 cents. heifers and cows show varied shifts. Hogs 2,000 head steady to 10 cents lower, ranges for 160 to 250 pounds mainly 3.85 to 4.10, sows 3.00. lamb and sheep receipts 1,400 head with lambs 50 to 60 cents lower, yearlings slightly lower, sheep steady. feeders 15 to 25 cents lower. Prices listed for various weight bands and classes.
Local grocers and markets quote poultry prices from six to nine cents for hens and roosters at four cents and eight cents for various items. Hog quotations from Muscatine include ranges from 2.60 to 4.06 dollars per hundredweight depending on weight class, with extreme heavy butchers around 2.90 to 3.30.
Hogs receipts 800 head mostly direct with weak to 100 lower than Friday’s average. tops $4.10, 180 to 240 lbs common. Cattle receipts 300 head with calves 100 for week. yearling steers about $6.50 to $6.85, prime heifers $6.65, stockers $3.00 to $5.00, fats $5.00 to $6.25. Sheep reports show no weekly receipts, lambs $6.85 to $7.25, yearlings about $5.00 to $5.25, does around $2.25 to $3.00.
Muscatine county can send 105 indigent patients to University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City under a state apportionment of 8 801 indigents from 99 counties, with quotas based on population. Neff notes reductions due to a $100 000 cut in hospital appropriations. Other nearby counts listed include Cedar 60 Johnson 108 Louisa 41 Scott 275 Washington 71.
Seventeen wheat growers from the Arden community and 30 from the Nichols vicinity attended township meetings Friday to organize Muscatine county wheat growers, County Agent Carl E. Rylander reports. Two more meetings are set for next week with Fulton township at 8 p m in Knoop's hall Stockton and Montpelier township at 7 30 p m Wednesday at Pine Mill school. Follow up meetings will seek signatures on the limited wheat growing contracts as interest grows.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock in Union church for William Donard Beck 36 a World War I veteran who died at the Veterans home in Chicago. The local Legion post conducted a military service at Elmwood Cemetery. Relatives from St Louis Chicago and Chevry Chase Md attended including six sisters Ruth Mary Mikired Marion Beck Esther Beck Anna Beck and Lavena Davenport.
Chicago brokers push grain futures higher as heavy buying totals reach into millions of bushels. A single broker reportedly acquired over 5 million bushels amid speculation of government-linked deals for the Orient. Wheat closes unsettled with gains across futures, corn and oats rising, and provisions up 15 to 30 cents.
AP reports Chicago grain and livestock prices with bid offers for wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds. Prices show No 2 red wheat at 86 to 87 cents, corn No 2 mixed at 52 to 53 cents, oats No 2 mixed around 33 to 36 cents, barley 40 to 63 cents, Timothy Seed 4.60 to 5.00 per cwt, Clover Seed 10.00 to 13.75 per cwt, and Lard around 5.35 to 4.70 per hundredweight with Bellies at 6.25.
Wheat receipts reach 283 cars in Minneapolis, up from 217 last year, with cash No 1 northern at 86 12 to 88 13, No 1 dark northern 87 to 90 cents, and No 1 amber durum around 1.03 to 1.06 per bushel. No. 2 and durum values noted. December and May futures partially listed. Corn No 3 yellow 47 to 48 cents. Oats No 3 white 33 to 36 cents.
AP reports Minneapolis grain prices with flour dropping 25 cents per barrel and pure bran and standard middlings quoted in 98 pound cotton sacks. Shipments reach 22 833 barrels with Carlag lots listed at 7.15 to 7.25 per barrel.
AP report outlines poultry live receipts 8 trucks steady. butter receipts 11,343 tubs firm. creamery specials 93 score 21 14 22 cents. eggs receipts 7,554 cases steady with various grade prices. potatoes receipts 66 cars. U S shipments and stock values listed for multiple regional prices including Idaho Nebraska New Jersey Long Island and more. refrigerator standards and storage standards cited with dates in Oct and Nov.
New York AP reports eggs at 15,180 cases with mixed colors. butter at 10 tubs, prices firmer. creamery products up to 20 percent higher. Cheese receipts total 62,489 pounds, prices unchanged. Poultry quiet. Foreign exchange firm with various centime and peso quotations.
A C's dominated United Brethren 9 to 1 at Oregon Street field. Carpenter pitched shutout innings, fanning three, while Chamberlin took the loss for United Brethren as nine A C hits produced four runs in the fifth. Box score details follow.
Sixteen top kittenball squads from the area descend on Wapello Sunday for an eight hour tourney starting at 8 a.m. with lights to crown a consolation and tournament final. Oakville faces Fredonia at 8, New London vs Serv-a-Self Grocers at 9 30, Indiana Life of Davenport vs Arden at 11, Winfield versus Atlas Special at 12 30, Columbus City against West Liberty Roosters at 8 45, Illinois City versus Ft Madison at 10 15, Cairo versus Grandview at 11 45, Letts against Iowa City at 1 15, with finals under the lights.
The Palace Theater team defeated Whiskey Hollow 6 to 2 at the Oregon Street field on Friday night. Newell of Whiskey Hollow hit a triple and a homer, while B Laughlin had four hits in six plate appearances. Palace pitchers were Chelf and Kelmerer. Whiskey Hollow pitchers were White and Tomfeld.
A kittenball tournament is scheduled in Stockton Sunday with the first game between Pleasant Prairie and Mayink's Dairy of Muscatine in the morning. Other matches include Bloom's Grocers of Muscatine versus Davenport at 10, Blue Grass versus Earl's Grocers of Wilton at 11, and Durant versus Stockton at noon. Semi finals start at 1 pm.
Communication Editor urges local support as a Muscatine baseball tournament begins with over 20 teams from the area. The writer notes growing interest and predicts thrillers as teams compete, signaling baseball’s return to popularity in the city.
Jimmie Foxx kept the pace atop the weekly batting charts with 17 hits in 40 at bats, boosting his average to .863 highs in the American League as Al Simmons faltered and Chuck Klein led the National League while others sagged. Foxx also slugged four homers, driving in 22 runs to reach 126 RBIs for the season. Hafey and Kuhel rose modestly, both cracking the top ten with .319 and .323 averages respectively as Klein’s pace slowed.
The Columbus Junction Firemen beat the Button Factory 8 to 7, Grandview defeated Jim Allen's All-Stars 6 to 1, and the Standard Oilers beat Letts 9 to 3 in kittenball under lights Friday. Béll’s strong pitching and hitting highlighted the Oilers’ victory.
The Oak Street Grocery nine from Muscatine travels to Wapeilo tonight to face Serva-Self under floodlights in a local basketball game.
City council discusses relicense for a skating rink on West Second Street at Pine. Attorneys clash over noise and conduct with orders to investigate after petitions for license suspension and a decision to cancel and refund part of the fee. Minor street work approved on Logan Street and other locations.
Washington report shows Iowa’s prison and reformatory population fell by two in 1932 with 930 new commitments and 932 releases. Of 930 committed, 834 men and 87 women. 332 total discharges included 481 completed sentences and 401 parole releases. Nationwide, 63,471 men and 2,913 women were committed in 1932 with 71,014 releases.
Morning Sun evening reports 80 attendees for the Jamison family reunion at Locust Grove park with W B Jamison elected president Mrs George Jamison vice president and Chester Jamison secretary. Birthday honors for August celebrants noted at Irene Delzell home with Rev H G Patterson speaking.
Des Moines resident Oscar C. Olsen was named defendant among about 35 suits seeking to recover allegedly illegally collected gasoline tax refunds. The legislative committee appointed to investigate refunds aims to recover $6,818.04 from Olsen.
A request for grading on Mag nonig street was referred to the street and alley committee after presentation from Lincoln boulevard and Grand and First avenues.
Evelyn Ruehman, 16, of Stockton Iowa, is the ten millionth visitor to a century of progress exposition. She cried upon arrival as fair officials and policemen greeted her. She was escorted to officials and later given gifts including a diamond ring a Japanese pearl and a camera. Accompanied by her sister and brother in law Leroy and Mrs Hamann the Stockton party received the honors.
Chicago gang leader Roger Touhy and three lieutenants were moved by Milwaukee Road train at 4 05 a m to St Paul to stand trial for the kidnapping of William Hamm Jr millionaire St Paul brewer.
An epidemic of sleeping sickness in St Louis and nearby areas worsened with nine deaths since July 30 and about a hundred hospitalizations. Three victims, Dan Osburn aged 64, Mrs. Katie Fisher 54, and William Pollette, with seventeen new cases in the last 24 hours.
A Special Execution issued from the Muscatine County District Court lists the lands of Alfred Earl Van Camp and others including Lydia Van Po and Jacob Van Camp. The court, noting the succession of D W Tes to L A Andrew as State of Iowa Banking Superintendent Receiver, levies the property and sets a public sale for a Wednesday.
On September 20 1933 at the court house door in Muscatine Iowa the north half of the northwest quarter of section 4 township 77 range 1 west of the St Paul meridian containing 80 acres more or less will be sold under a Special Execution in favor of The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Sale starts between 9 am and 4 pm with 11 am set for the deed. Sheriff F B Nesper signed August 18 1933.
The court-appointed receivership will sell the northeast quarter of section 4, town 77, range 1, west of the 5th principal meridian, 160 acres, except railway right of way, to satisfy United States claims. Sale at the Muscatine County Court House, Muscatine Iowa, August 18 1933.
The First National Bank of Muscatine Iowa closes its affairs and asks note holders and creditors to present notes and claims for payment. Dated July 8 1933 E E Bloom cashier.
In Muscatine County Iowa on August 18 1933 the Clerk of the District Court opened and read a document claiming to be the last will of Edwin L McColm deceased A hearing is set for September 14 1933 at the September Term to admit or deny probate Arthur Hoffman attorney.
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