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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1909
Page
19
No. 106 Woodmen of America of Muscatine held weekly meetings Tuesday evenings at Woodmen ball in Olds' Block. Officers listed include G. J. Lentz as Consul and J. A. Leyda as Clerk.
Trains on the Wilton main line and Wilton branch connect east and west bound services. Details include Kansas City, Chickasha local, Ft Worth Dallas express, and Chicago connections with Muscatine and Davenport routes on the Rock Island System schedule in effect 1909. notes on daily versus Sunday operations.
Laurent Council No 1305 invites visiting brothers in good standing to attend the second and fourth Friday meetings at the Maccabee battalion. J P Ryan serves as G K and 4 G B Financial Secretary.
Notices list regular meetings for Masonry groups in Mason IC Iowa with meeting nights on the first Tuesday second Friday third Thursday and third Wednesday monthly. Officers FE P Ingham L Johnson J H Pitchforth S L Johnson GD Lezotte S L Johnson A W Scott W Gray publish monthly meeting cadence and officers.
Banner Lodge Pigree of Honor holds 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in Yeoman hall with Wayie Niebling as Chief of Honor Mary Crouch as Financier and Gussie Mull as Recorder The Homesteaders Pearl City Homestead No 219 meets at G A R hall on the first and third Tuesdays at 8 PM A pioneer welcome extends to residents and visiting neighbors B F Dyer president FE C Ingraham secretary 519 West St St
The June 6 1909 schedule lists westbound services from Chicago to Kansas City including Southwest Limited No 112 at 8 00 p m No 105 at 11 44 p m and local passenger No 103 at 7 05 am along with freight No 292 at 2 25 pm and freight No x291 at 8 45 am daily except Sunday.
Today's market report shows open high and low quotations for Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard Hogs with Dec May July futures. Hogs closed 5 cents higher with receipts around 45 000 and top price 38 62.
Wheat December opened 1.11 to 1.13 high and 1.10 low. close 1.1214. May opened 1.09, range 1.11 high, 1.09 low, close 1.11. Corn December opened 62c, high 64%c, low 61c, close 64c. Oats December opened 44c, high 44%c, low 44c, close 44% 44%6c. Pork Jan 22.32. Lard 13.05. Ribs 11.97. Rye cash 76c. Barley 54 72c. Timothy March 3.95. Clover 15.25.
Cattle receipts reach 45000 with prices slipping 10 cents. Beeves sell from 4.00 to 8.60, stockers and feeders 3.10 to 5.20, cows and heifers 2.10 to 5.60, westerners 4.25 to 7.00. Hogs range 8.00 to 8.60 with bulk 8.35 to 8.55. Sheep receipts 40000 down 19 cents, lambs 5.75 to 8.50.
No 2 red wheat at 1.24 to 1.26 dollars. No 3 red 1.17 to 1.22. No 2 hard 1.12 to 1.16. No 3 hard 1.08 to 1.13. No 3 at 61? per cwt. No 3 white 61 61%c. No 3 yellow 61 percent. No 8 white 44 to 45 percent. Standard 45 percent.
Butter steady at 26 933, creameries 24 29. Eggs steady with 4,000 receipts at market. firsts 29 cents, prime firsts 30 cents.
Chicago thrift market reports poultry steady with turkeys at 17 cents, chickens at 14 cents, springs at 12 and 4 cents. Prices reflect current trading as of December 13.
New York December 13 strong receipts 2600. Creamery held 28 326c. Imitation creamery 26 28c.
Retail markets list items with bulk and per unit pricing. Potatoes 60c per bit, pickles sour 1e per dozen, sugar cane five dollars fifty five cents per 100 pounds, beets 5 45 per 100 pounds, cranberries 1 90 per quart with 12 4 fractions, cabbage five to ten cents per head, oranges 20 to 40 cents each, lemons 2c per dozen, celery 30c a bunch, new tomatoes 5Sc, various other produce priced by peck or head. Meats section noted but not detailed.
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