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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1933
Page
9
Chicago AP notes hog receipts at 70 000 with 11 000 direct to packers and 45 000 for the government. Prices rise with top at 4 50 and most good hogs 4 10 to 4 50. Cattle and sheep receipts steady with numbers described, live muttons light and native lambs at around 7. Trade mostly slow with modest to higher tones across departments.
Combined hog receipts at 22 plants in interior towns to La Southern Minnesota totaled 1 500 head for the 24 hour period ending 8:00 a. m. today, vs 15 500 a week ago and 30 200 a year ago. Trading was fairly active and generally steady to higher, with Saturday loading light for Tuesday. Prices cover a range by weight from light 140-160 lb hogs at 3.00-3.75 to head weights 290-350 lb at 2.75-3.50 with various categories in between and note bulk shipments show shrinkage. shipping point basis prices excluded from quotations.
Prices quoted by AP Hog Market show steady to rising bids across Iowa regions. Waterloo and Mason City reports list varied ranges for hogs from 140 to over 350 pounds with values from about 1.40 to 4.30 per hundredweight, plus packer quotes and sow classifications.
U S Department of Agriculture notes hogs around 70 000 with varied loads and prices across weight classes. Cattle and calves totals near 21 000 with early shipments and small killing activity observed as markets show uneven movement.
Local market prices show hogs quoted daily with ranges from 1.65 to 4.05 dollars per hundredweight across weight classes. Poultry items list hens at 62 to 68 cents, old roosters at 4 cents, springs and horn springs around 7 to 9 ½ cents. Muscatine based J F Squire Company provides hog quotations.
Demand broad but steady as buyers show willingness on heavy steers and lighter stock. Early top reaches 7.00 per 406 lb, with bulk sales 5.50 to 6.50. stockers up to 4.50, light heifers strong, heavies slow. cattle by weight range from 5.25 to 7.25 for 900–1300 lb, vealers 6.25–7.50, bulls 3.25–4.00, cutters 2.25–3.35, stockers 2.75–4.25, sheep market opening slow with lambs 7.00 tops and natives around 6.50–6.75.
U S Dept of Agriculture notes hogs 25 000 head with prices varying by weight from 3 30 to 4 10 per cwt top on 19 to 210 Ibs. cattle 7 500 with steers 5 00 to 6 50 and cows 2 35 to 3 50. calves 800 with vealers 3 00 to 6 00. Sheep 4 000 with native lambs 6 50 to 6 75 and yearlings 5 50 to 4 60. Quotations reflect steady to higher trends across classes.
U S Department of Agriculture reports Omaha hogs totaling 20 000 including 10 000 pigs and sows for government. Prices show large ranges: hogs mostly steady to slow for shippers packers light and butchers, sows steady to strong, tops at 4 15. Calves and cattle weak to steady with limited sales, steers and yearlings around 6 00, grass cows 2 25 to 3 25, hogs average cost 3 23. Sheep 1 300 with demand weaker for lambs and feeders, native lambs around 6 00 to 6 50, ewes up to 2 75.
Bond traders reported a steady session with little vigor and mostly fractional price moves. Utilities showed modest demand, with American Telegraph and Telephone singled out. high grade rails were firm, while Santa Fe and Union Pacific showed little change. Foreign issues moved wider but contained no major activity.
A dense list of stocks and percentages covers many issuers from Alleghany to Union Oil with prices and yields including American Sugar Am TOB and Pfd shares, Goodyear and RCA, St Oil Cal, U S Steel and Studebaker among others. The compilation shows mixed gains and losses across sectors with fluctuating quotations.
Wheat prices fell about 2 1 2 cents amid three days of hedging sales by rural holders in Canada and the United States. Canadian exporters sold 3 500 000 bushels abroad as the U S wheat visible supply rose by 2 671 000 bushels. Prices closed lower across corn and oats with varied changes in other provisions.
The Chicago AP market rundown lists No. 2 red wheat at 84 15, No. 1 hard 86 14, various hard and mixed grades around mid 80s, No. 2 yellow 48 1/2, No. 3 yellow 48 1/2, No. 4 yellow 46 1/2, oats and rye and barley prices, with timothy and clover seed quoted at 4.75 and 9.50 per cwt respectively.
AP dispatch notes egg futures and butter storage standards with mixed percentages for components such as No. 23 percent December and Butter futures steady. Livestock and poultry prices show varied figures for live poultry and geese with several items at around ten percent, while butter and eggs curves appear steady with creamery grades and current receipts listed in scattered figures.
AP report from Minneapolis shows flour unchanged with carload lots in 98 pound cotton sacks at 7.40 to 7.50 per barrel. Shipments total 62,354. Pure bran listed around 14.50 to 15.00 and standard middlings at 16.00 to 16.50 per unit.
In New York markets poultry prices hold steady for live and frozen items. Chickens roosters turkeys ducks and fowls list with varying freight express and fresh statuses while eggs butter and cheese trade with mixed color packs, standards and scores and current wholesale levels.
Earl Hawker captured the seventh annual Wapsie golf club championship by defeating L V Morris 6 up and 5 to play at West Liberty. Hawker led 6 up after 18 holes and Morris evened the score in the afternoon. This marks Hawker's fourth win in seven years with past holders including Carroll Priess and H F Lewis. Otto Marsteilar, club president, presented the trophy after the final.
The Westfalen, a German steamer to act as landing station for the transatlantic plane route to South America, is en route to its South Atlantic station. Service on the route is expected to begin before year end.
The inaugural International Air Races for airplanes are scheduled in England on August 4th, 5th, and 7th. Local organizers expect multiple aircraft types to compete across designated courses and venues.
Charles Anderson 69 of Keithsburg Ill is hospitalized in Monmouth with a fractured left thigh possible internal injuries after a wagon without lights was struck on state highway 83 near the Keithsburg New Boston line around 9 PM Saturday. Clarence Kiddoo Joy Ill the driver reported being blinded by oncoming headlights and not seeing the wagon in time. Two women Miss Rosetta Whitesall New Boston and Miss Elsie Campbell Keithsburg suffered injuries including scalp wound. Kiddoo also injured with fractured rib and bruises. Two horses were killed and wreckage scattered. Swanson and Willits Joy transported the injured to New Boston for care.
William DeFord a longtime Columbus Junction resident died at 11 30 Sunday night after a four year illness of paralysis. He was born October 18 1848 in Monroe Wisconsin and moved to Iowa as a youth. He served as night watchman policeman sheriff and in other posts and was the oldest member of the I O O F lodge in Columbus Junction. Funeral services are set for 2 50 Wednesday at his home with Rev. T M Balcoff officiating. Columbus City Cemetery services under I O O F lodge supervision.
Leo Friedli of Wilton suffered severe cuts and bruises to his left leg when caught between bumpers on cars driven by J. H. Mundt and Francis Henderson on East Front street Saturday night. Friedli, a passenger in Hendersons car while replacing the radiator cap, was injured as Mundt backed away from the curb. He received medical treatment.
Mercer county circuit court docket shows forty new cases to be heard starting September 11 with Judge J Paul Califf presiding. The grand jury meets September 11 and the petit jury reports September 18. Thirty one chancery cases include five divorces. Nine common law cases. Four chancery suits by R G Davison of Aledo against Homer Treloar involve a garage deal with damages totaling twenty seven thousand dollars.
Two supervisors and a total of 44 regular teachers with one auxiliary teacher continue speech improvement efforts across Philadelphia schools, guiding students and enhancing communicative skills citywide.
Blue Grass brides Mrs W Beh and Mrs Harold Plett were honored at a kitchen shower by the Buffalo Busy Bee club at Mrs Fred Brus home. Prizes went to Miss Aileen Schroeder and Miss Cleo Cooper.
More than 250 present for the 16th annual High Prairie M E church homecoming and 75th building anniversary. Morning program featured recitations songs and a quartet. afternoon pageant Dreams of Long Ago plus talks and letters from former members.
A Blue Grass dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs J P Cooper honored Forrest Burmeister before his departure to Lafayette Indiana to enter Purdue University. Relatives and friends from Montpelier Davenport Muscatine and Stockton attended including Mr and Mrs W H Eis Miss Arboine Arp Mrs Belle Bohnsack and the Dodge siblings. Mrs John Wilroth and her sons Carl and Alfred left for Chicago to attend the century of progress and visit relatives.
Stated communication of Iowa lodge No. 2 A. F and A. M. set for Tuesday September 5 at 8 00 p m All Masons welcome per order W M
Muscatine residents marked Labor Day with picnics kittenball games and an air show as businesses and government offices closed for the day. Many extended the holiday into a three day weekend visiting Weed Park Wildcat Den state park Tooman airport or traveling to Chicago World's Fair. No local celebration was organized for the occasion.
Nichols Final rites for Sarah Reynolds who died at her son's home in Pike township were held at Kirchner Funeral Home on Saturday afternoon. Rev Sias of the Christian church officiated and burial followed in Nichols cemetery with pallbearers Albert Reynolds Russell Reynolds Vernie Potter Russell Brennen Ernest Fuhlman Leroy Fuhlman. Return From Trip Mr and Mrs Albert Rathjen returned Saturday from a trip to South Dakota visiting Mrs Rathjens brother and toured the Black Hills.
Mrs Maude Statler files a divorce suit against J L Statler in district court for the November term. Grounds not stated as petition withdrawn upon filing. Hanley and Hanley represent the plaintiff. The defendant has been associated with Baker hospital.
Miss Ruby Reynolds and Leon ard A. Duncan of Muscatine were married by Justice of the Peace J. C. Coster at his office in the American Bank building at 3 p.m. Saturday. They were attended by Bernard M. Flake and Ethel Hinkley. Duncan is a painter.
Eve learns from rug buyer George Bliss about Near East and China sources as he recalls his father's travels. Bliss reveals decades of knowledge and a lifelong dream of becoming a rug buyer, enriching Eve's understanding as she prepares to describe the new stock.
A fragment notes a character returning to routine matters after a guilty start upon hearing someone enter the office, with the line To Be Continued.
Notice to contractors invites sealed bids by Sept 7 1933 430 PM for a four foot cement sidewalk on East Front Street north side between Cypress and Lombard opposite Lots 3 4 5 Block 21 Original Town 576 square feet. Requires $10 certified check and bid on supplied forms. Bond if awarded, begin within five days and finish within fifteen. City reserves right to reject all bids. H H Fitzgerald City Engineer.
The First National Bank of Muscatine in Iowa closes its affairs. All note holders and creditors are notified to present notes and claims for payment. Dated July 8. E. E. Bloom, Cashier.
A last will and testament of Otto Fitchner was opened for probate on August 28 1933 in Muscatine County. A hearing and proof are set for September 25 1933 at the September Term of the District Court, inviting any interested party to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. E C Erwin Clerk of the District Court C J Rosenberger Attorney.
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