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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1935
Page
13
Chicago hog prices drifted, showing little change from yesterday with top bids around 9.85 for choice mediums. Heavier weights faced pressure, while wholesale pork loins 16 to 22 lbs fell 1.50 to 2.00 from a week ago. 5,500 hogs went to major packers from today’s 9,000 receipts.
Market report from Cedar Rapids Mason City Waterloo Ottumwa shows hog prices by weight class and type. Good hogs steady to 5 cents lower in places with values ranging roughly from 7.30 to 9.15 per hundredweight across 40 to 450 pound ranges.
Combined hog receipts at 22 concentration yards and 9 packing plants in Interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ending at 8 a m today were reported by the Associated Press from Des Moines Iowa.
Local grocers list eggs at 17 to 19 cents per dozen. Poultry prices show hens 10 to 18 cents, springs 12 to 16 cents, roosters 9 cents. Live hogs and hog weights priced from 140 pounds to 550 pounds with ranges from 7.65 to 9.30 per pound depending on weight. Packing sows offered from 7.70 to 8.25 per pound in various weight brackets.
Prices for hogs shown by weight class with good and choice, light to heavy weights, from 140 to 650 pounds. Week-to-week comparisons indicate a steady to lower tone, with lighter spots and loading of lighter weights. Long haul shipments and weight ranges affect pricing above or below quoted figures.
U S Dept of Agriculture reports June 21 receipts of 9 000 hogs and 2 500 cattle with calves 500 in Chicago. Prices vary by weight and grade from feeder to slaughter levels with steers and heifers mostly steady to higher while cows and cutters trend down. Sheep receipts 2 000 with spring lambs and yearlings showing price gains and flock demand remaining active.
Receipts show hogs at 2,500 head with steady to firm bids from 8.50 to 9.25 for various weights, sows 8.05 to 8.10. Cattle receipts near 1,000 with calves steady to 50 cents higher, steers and yearlings 7.7 to 10.5, beef cows 4.75 to 6.25, vealers 8.50 to 9.00. Sheep 3,500 head including some direct, lambs 8.00 to 8.50, yearlings 5.75 to 6.25.
Kansas City livestock receipts include hogs 600 head with top at 9.40 and cattle 500 head with calves steady. Sheep receipts 2,500 head show prices firm to 0.35 higher. In New York, bonds advance with quality ratings mixed as government issues fade and rail and utility issues firm, with Columbia Gas & Electric 5s up to 88.4 and International Telephone 5s at 71. Other issues show small gains and some slight declines.
A wide sweep of equities shows gains in Am Pow and Am Steel names while utilities and consumer goods cling to modest increases. Notable moves include Am Sugar and RCA advancing, with several railroad and automotive stocks trading higher amid ongoing market jitters.
Wheat prices firm on Tuesday with harvest delays cited. Oklahoma reports unease over late harvest operations and stock market gains push prices higher. Wheat closes 3-8 to 7-8 up. corn down 1-2 to 1 1-8. oats steady to 1-4 higher. provisions mix unchanged to up 5 cents.
Cash wheat prices for No. 2 red 83.4 cents and No. 2 hard 92.4 cents with weevily notes. Corn values listed for yellow and white grades with mixed decimals, oats for multiple white grades, no rye or soybeans, barley seed values around 45 to 50 cents, timothy and clover seed per cwt with noted ranges.
Chicago produce notes for June 21 report live poultry receipts include 1 car and 49 trucks with mixed prices for hens Leghorn and Rock varieties. Butter eggs and potatoes show steady or firm to weak conditions with regional price bids and futures, including declines in some grades and a wide range in shell eggs and butter futures.
Butter receipts rise with 15 720 tubs. creamery centralized 90 score 3c. Cheese receipts 94 232 lbs. market quiet. Eggs receipts 14 001 cases firmer. mixed colors and standards pricing listed. Live poultry weak by freight with broilers 15 28c and fowls 15 18c.
Sunday at Ziegler Memorial Lutheran church New Era includes Sunday school 9 30 worship 10 30 and evening service 8. Rev Ernest A Lack pastor announces Lutheran Brotherhood of First Lutheran Rock Island will hold an outing in the park and vesper service. Bible school enrollment is 44. sessions continue next week. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday at Mrs Anna Henke home strawberry social Thursday. Young people meet Friday in Muscatine at John and Mrs McCullough home.
Muscatine county hosts its first summer institute for teachers and prospective instructors at Muscatine High School. Under E. D. Bradley, the five day program emphasized home school cooperation and improved reading instruction for lower grades led by Miss Pearl Ritter. About 50 attendees daily attended the sessions with a closing social and refreshments.
Muscatine County residents receive more than 2000 monthly in old age pensions with 155 recipients, 28 new cases added after a state increase. By June 30 the county will have released $13,655 from the state pension bill plus $280 for burial, down to $2,051 in June payments.
The Senior Christian Endeavor of the United Brethren church mapped summer and fall activities at a social and business meeting held Thursday night. The session was largely attended and a social time is planned for the next meeting in one month.
In Omaha Mrs Opal S Hill defending champion faces Miss Marion Miley from Lexington Ky in a semifinal at the trans Miss golf event. Patty Berg of Minneapolis meets Miss Phyllis Buchanan of Denver in the other bracket as Hill edged Mrs Leon Solomon by 19th hole to reach semis. Berg defeated Lucile Robinson five and four.
Berkeley Calif. Ohio State faces USC in the NCAA classic opener with Jesse Owens and Charles Beetham leading the Buckeyes. Owens runs four events including the 100 and 220 yards and the broad jump. Beetham stars in the half mile as OSU challenges the powerful Trojans.
Des Moines pitcher Claude Passo struck out seven more batters to lift Des Moines past Omaha 11 to 4. Passo boosted season total to 61 strikeouts in 75 2 3 innings, with six wins and six losses for the fifth place club.
In Muscatine County Iowa the Iowa State Banking Superintendent as Receiver of Nichols Savings Bank seeks court authority to accept a land conveyance in full settlement of J W and Della M Rummells notes totaling 6499 70 and a stockholder liability judgment of 700 plus a 100 release payment and 2850 by Nov 15 1935 with further taxes insurance or abstract costs to convey or accept 1100 under payment terms.
The notice states that D. W. Bates as Superintendent and receiver requests authority to compromise and settle claims by paying cash on or before November 15 1935 plus advances for taxes, insurance or abstracts to convey lots 9 and 10 in block 11 Railroad Addition Nichols Iowa. Hearing set June 28 1935 at 10 am in Muscatine. If no objections are filed the requested authority will be granted.
Des Moines reports former heavyweight boxing world champion Jack Sharkey plans a comeback attempt. Details on timing and opponent were not disclosed in the copy.
O. M. Healy and Son of Muscatine consign 28 head to the breeders sale. Eight fresh young cows with calves sell as pairs, six choice yearling heifers, four bulls and some heifer calves. All animals are red and backed by Record of Merit. Catalog requests to G. G. Healy, Route 3, Muscatine.
State of Iowa Muscatine County notice of June 6 1935 that a last will and testament of William Kemmer was opened for probate with a hearing set for July 8 1935 at the district court. Any interested party may appear to contest admission to probate. E C Erwin Clerk Frank Drake Attorney.
Special Execution directs sale of Lots 19 and 20 in Cook Musser & Co. plan in section 34 town 77 north range 2 west. Property to satisfy Union Savings Bank and D W Bates receivership claim. Sale July 23 between 9 am and 4 pm at Muscatine Court House, Iowa. Sheriff F B Nesper signs.
On June 13 1935 Alex J Smith late of Muscatine County is deceased. The will will be offered for hearing and proof on July 10 1935 at the June Term of the District Court in Muscatine County. Interested persons may appear.
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