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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
8
Hog sales opened steady with a price range similar to yesterday. Early top for underweights reached 8.10 with lights at 8.00 and medium weights at 7.85 to 7.90. light weights sold up to 8.10. Cattle market noted dwindling volume and brisk dressing of Christmas beeves, with light yearlings offered above 14 and select beeves at 12 or more.
Des Moines reports show combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 5 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota ending at 10 a.m. today were down from last week, with market mostly steady to just lower. Quotations vary by weight, with light weights at 7.00 to 7.50 per 100 pounds and heavier weights up to 7.55, while good packing sows bring about 6.25 to 6.75, and rail/long-distance deliveries may add 0.16 to 0.25. In St. Joseph, Missouri, hogs receipts were 5,000 with top at 7.80 and typical ranges around 7.50 to 7.75 for 186-pounders, sows 6.50, and cattle and calves showing varied movements. Sheep receipts 4,000 with fat lambs steady to strong and top natives around 7.75.
AP reports Iowa hog prices across Cedar Rapids Des Moines Mason City Ottumwa and Waterloo. Prices show prime medium and heavy weights around 6.50 to 7.40 per hundredweight with packers generally from 6.00 to 6.75 reflecting market variation and receipt levels.
Cohen Achanas reports hog receipts of about 13 000 head, with 000 direct, slow, opened steady and later trade weak to 100 lower. Top prices around 8 10 off choice for 130 to 180 pound hogs, 200 to 300 pound hogs 7 7 9, pigs 7 0 7 5, packing sows 6 5 0 0. Light to good and choice 140 to 1 1 pounds.
Local markets list poultry and egg quotes with 27 to 20 cents for poultry and eggs. It shows poultry heavy hens, tight hens, heavy springs and Leghorn springs at various cent prices, plus hog quotations daily from J P Squire Co. Muscatine Iowa. Good hogs 190 to 140 lbs range from 7.00 to 7.30 dollars, up to 260 to 300 lbs at 7.55, with extreme heavy butchers and packers also given.
Receipts show 5 500 cattle and 12 000 sheep with cattle mainly fed steers and yearlings firm to 25 cents higher. Hog prices range from 7.50 to 8.10 for various weights, pork cuts mixed. Sheep slaughter and feeder lambs steady with good to choice lambs 7.25 to 8.50, ewes and feeding lambs priced accordingly.
Cattle receipts at Sioux City total 2500 head with calves and feeder stock showing strength. fat stock higher while stockers and feeders are weak. Hogs receipts 7500 head with early bids near 7.50 to 7.60 and sows steady to lower. Sheep receipts 6000 head largely fed lambs with fat lambs bringing about 7.75 and ewes above 3.00.
D W Paine of Letts was presented Wednesday with a 50 year badge by the Columbus Junction I O O F lodge. He joined the Danville lodge No 343 on Nov 16 1876 and transferred to Columbus Junction lodge on Mar 3 1886.
In Chicago the corn market fell as heavy selling by commission houses weighed on prices. December contracts led a broad retreat with corn closing 1 3 8 to 1 7 8 cents lower. receipts rose to 893 thousand bushels and markets cited a subdued demand outlook amid substitute usage and overestimated crop shortages. Wheat showed irregular moves while oats slipped and provisions held steady to modest gains.
AP reports mixed bids for Wheat No 1 hard at 79 to 84 cents, No 2 spring around 75 to 79, Corn values from 59 to 72 cents with several mixed grades, Oats No 2 white about 32 to 34 cents, No 4 white around 3 to 3.5 cents, Timothy seed priced near 8.25 to 8.60, Clover seed about 15 to 22.75.
Minneapolis flour market shows shipments at 31 965 barrels with bran values from 15 50 to 16 00 per bag and standard middlings steady at 15 00. Market notes indicate price stability as supply data for Minneapolis area appears unchanged.
Chicago markets report receipts for poultry and eggs with price ranges for fowls, ducks, geese, and roosters. Potatoes and butter futures and storage standards listed with monthly closing figures and regional price differences across Wisconsin Minnesota Idaho Colorado.
AP report from New York shows butter receipts at 14 020 tubs with steady values. Creamery extra 92 score priced at 30 cents. Eggs receipts 17 132 cases with irregulars, mixed colors, extra firsts 27 cents, refrigerator extra firsts 23 cents, seconds 14 15 cents, medium firsts 14 15 cents.
New York AP report notes dressed poultry steady with turkeys fresh and young. Raw sugar quieter as traders hold firm at 3.30, refined sugar unchanged at 4.65 per unit.
Readers learn of Christmas program lineups at First Christian Walnut Street Baptist and Foursquare church Muscatine. Included are plays recitations songs choirs orchestras and a Christ child theme with children and families taking part in festive services and charity baskets.
Ziegler Memorial Lutheran church and nearby groups plan a December Christmas week with a community tree party by three organizations, a ten cent exchange, and cantata The Light and the Star. Christmas Eve pageant and Christmas Day devotion led by Rev Ernst Lack followed by Bible school program at First Friends church. Pine Bluff Church at Drury township Illinois to present Christmas entertainment Monday with readings and poems.
Crusader youth will carol Wednesday evening. Trinity Episcopal inaugurates a series from Christmas Eve through Jan 6 for Epiphany with an 11 30 carol hour and midnight service. Holy Eucharist at 10 on Christmas Day. Special Dec 26 27 services, Epiphany notes Jan 6 including parish meeting and a cross prize. Church of the Brethren pageant Their Story Beautiful and gift plays. Bloomington Friends plan church Christmas program Dec 23 8 pm with community helpers and planning by local leaders.
Cedar Valley school pupils under Miss Elizabeth Sat terthwaite perform a Christmas program Monday night featuring songs recitations and dialogues including Merry Christmas Silent Night The First Christmas Dolly's Lullaby and The Spirit of Christmas A Christmas sprite and Santa's Helpers are included The Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary hosts a Christmas party Friday at Memorial hall with a 10 cent gift exchange and refreshments Buttons will be sold by the Evangelical Protestant church sewing circle Friday afternoon with Mesdames M Kautz and Henry Huessner as hostesses.
Chicago promoter Nate Lewis proposed Schmeling defend the title against Stribling in Soldier Field Chicago next spring with a $500000 bid. The plan aims to boost gate receipts above $1 million, while New York fights restrictions could push the bout west and away from Madison Square Garden.
Sophomores and freshmen at St Mathias school hosted juniors and seniors for a Christmas party Tuesday night. The hall glowed in Christmas colors and 72 diners enjoyed a 6 o clock supper served by the sophomore girls. A program followed featuring acts and readings by Rita Baker O’Brien Stella Badman Wilbur Fuller Helen Korte Marion Randall Catherine Callas and Madelyn O Melia Loretta Cottrell. The group then danced and played card gardens.
The T. L. T. club was entertained by Mrs. Harry Howell at the home of her sister Mrs. Harold Oberhaus 1007 Sycamore street on Wednesday night. Bunco was played at three tables with high score going to Mrs. H. E. Lange and consolation to Mrs. Bert Nelson. Christmas gifts were exchanged and a luncheon served with seasonal decorations. The next meeting will be January 8 at the home of Mrs. H. E. Lange with a potluck supper and bunco.
Mrs. Clyde Rabedeaux hosted an informal bridge club luncheon at her home on Fairview Avenue. Christmas decorations set the scene as highest scores were earned by Mrs. W. J. Cullen, Mrs. R. J. Wittich, and Mrs. Leo Nicolaus.
Muscatine high school's negative debating team defeated Washington high school in the second of two debates held Wednesday night at the local school. Judge’s critic decision judged the value of chain stores. Local participants included Marjorie Corwin Marie Bomke and Marie Sauer for Muscatine with Helen Schnover William Sarton and Cherrie McElhinney for Washington.
Classified ad seeks a middle aged intelligent woman to handle housework duties. Contact via phone numbers 172 or 964 for details.
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