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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1907
Page
8
Readings and brief items show plans for travel and bids, weather cautious notes, and product ads. Names include Bestenlehner's Pharmacy Muscatine Lumber & Box Co and Jackson Electric Supply Co. residents like Orville Rittenhouse Daniel Hayes H. Burke Flor ence S C Ingleden May Pope and Clara Feldkeller.
Weekly church agenda lists baccalaureate sermon for high school graduates and multiple society meetings. First Congregational hosts May picnic at Weed Park with alternate indoor site. Trinity, First Baptist, and other denominations schedule guilds, prayers, and services. Notable events include Rev. Cabell Brown speaking and Prof. Hermann Oberhaus addressing Congregationalists.
Marie Shaum an aged resident of Columbus Junction dies after a stroke two weeks earlier. He lived east west town and was a well to do farmer with a large family including three sons and two daughters. Funeral plans not yet made. Dr A B McCandless funeral held at Columbus City with many relatives present from several states. Remains arrived from Oklahoma and were taken to Columbus City for services.
Mrs. F. E. Norwood sails to Chicago to establish a future home. Roach and Musser Hose Co invites all for a Davenport excursion next Sunday with 50 cent admission. Various locals mention trips to Davenport and Davenport-bound travel. Lawn social by Ladies Aid at New Era park Friday evening invites all attendees.
The article notes family members of the doctor attending the funeral while school events close the day. An eighth grade program was held in the high school assembly room Friday afternoon and an alumni banquet for the class of seven completed the school exercises.
In Wilton Iowa May 27 the Presbyterian church auditorium hosted Rev. G W Pool delivering the baccalaureate sermon to the graduation class with Rev N A McAuley leading prayer. Memorial day services were held at the M E church with W R C and G A R in attendance.
Hog prices show a sharp drop in Chicago and eastern markets today, with local buyers noting free hog shipments as the main cause. Poor crop prospects are cited by market men as contributing to the slump, and local prices follow the national trend with notable declines.
A detailed list of retail prices for grains, feeds, eggs, butter, live poultry and game, vegetables, meats, and miscellaneous goods from Muscatine markets. Includes corn meal, oats, wheat, cracked corn, popcorn, bran, oils, hay, butter, eggs, poultry, vegetables such as cabbage onions potatoes and celery, various meats including beef pork lamb and veal, and fruits like bananas and oranges with price ranges and unit measures.
Pineapples 30 cents each and strawberries 15 cents per quart headline a wide floral stand selling ferns from 25 cents to 2 dollars each roses 1 to 1.50 per dozen carnations 35 to 50 cents per dozen lilies 2.50 per dozen plus a yard of Smiix 56 yards for 1 dollar and nuts priced at 20 cents per pound for almonds English walnuts filberts brazils respectively.
Furnished market wire shows Chicago prices for May and July contracts in wheat corn oats with openings highs and lows. Produce and livestock lists provide cash values for beef cows heifers stockers and feeders with steady cattle receipts around 25 000.
Hog receipts reach around 50 000 with prices ranging from 5.75 to 6.20 for different grades and loads. Light animals at 6.00 6.20, mixed at 5.95 6.20, heavy at 5.75 6.15, and good choice at 6.05 6.15. Bulk sales noted at 6.05 6.10. Sheep receipts about 18 000 with steady markets and yearlings 6.19 6.70 and lambs from 6.25 to 8.40.
Butter unchanged for creameries 18 23 cents and dairies 17 21 cents. Eggs quoted lower at 11 4 per dozen?
Chicago market report lists poultry prices for steads, turkeys, lic, chickens with 12 percent variation. Industry buyers monitor Chicago listings as trends shift in late May.
Butter prices remain firm with street sales at 24 1/4 to 25 cents for extra creamery. Official creamery grades range from 19 to 24 cents for common to fancy, with renovated and factory categories listing 18 to 21 cents. Imitation creamery firsts quoted at 21 to 21 1/2 cents. Eggs steady with firsts at 16 1/4 to 17 cents and seconds at 15 1/4 to 16 cents.
New York dressed poultry prices firm May 27 with broilers at 33 to 35 cents per pound turkeys 104 to 14 cents and fowls 11 to 15 cents.
Wheat futures for July or Ant prices noted with Cory at $90 per bushel. Market observers track futures and spot prices for grains at New York storage and trading hubs.
St Louis Market records July wheat at 97 1/2 cents, July corn at 52 1/2 cents, July oats at 44 1/4 cents. Peoria Market lists No 3 corn at 52 cents on May 27.
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