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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
5
Chicago market shows corn futures closing higher amid dwindling immediate supplies. Prices for December and May contracts gain while oats and wheat move mixed. meal, hogs, and flour noted with shifts in futures and spot quotations across multiple state markets.
Market notes list prices for hay grain and milling products including No. 2 wheat at 2.26, corn at 2.20, new oats and oats at 5.60, baled straw 8.50, baled hay 10.21, mixed hay 14.50, loose hay 15.00, Millet and alfalfa prices, milling products from Kundsenberg company with high patent flour 13.40 city, 13.20 straight patent, 14.40 hard wheat flour, 24.60 northern wheat flour, and other items. Hog prices by weight bands from west of Mississippi including 160-206 lb at 13.45-15.40, 200-250 lb at 15.65-15.95, 140-150 lb at 13.40-15.25. Poultry and dairy prices, hides, tallow, and pelts also listed with varied grades and weights.
Long Commission Co reports a tentative tone in the cash market for corn with long positions keeping prices up and shorts active buyers. Crop and weather are generally favorable but cash markets remain uncertain as shippers face financial strain from price declines and receipts are held over. Oats see active trading with seaboard buyers while local traders stay bearish but orderly, with no heavy near term pressure expected.
The millers will pay 2.25 dollars per bushel for No 2 wheat today, five cents below Tuesday's price. Hog prices on the local market rose 25 cents on Tuesday. Sixteen farmers brought produce to the city lot. Two loads of logse hay sold at 15 dollars per ton. Six loads of oats arrived, three loads sold for 60 cents per bushel and three for 1 cent. Five loads of corn sold at 1.80 dollars per bushel. Baled straw sold in two loads, one at 28 dollars per ton and one at 8.59 dollars per ton. One load of straw sold for 6 dollars per ton.
Clover seeds show prime cash prices of 12.00 for October, 12.90 for December and 12.76 for March with September 11.70 for Alsike and 11.10 October. Timothy seed lists 3.78 for September and October with 98.90 in September. New York Money reports mercantile paper and exchange figures with Kenbar silver at 3.5 percent and Mexican dollars. call money ranges 2 to 32 percent with closing bid 2 percent.
New York Aug 15 The stock market opened with promise then immediately reversed as heavy selling followed peace proposals. General Motors led declines while war shares liquidated after peace news. Shippings tobaccos and alcohol eased. sugars, leathers, and equipment fell. Total volume 505000 shares with prices near low quotations.
Market reports from St Louis Chicago Omaha Hansen City and Kansas City show cattle hog and sheep receipts and prices. Hogs reach new high in Chicago at 17.75 while St Louis and Omaha reflect gains across classes. cattle and calves hold firm. sheep uneven with lambs and ewes trading at varied levels.
Stillwell Aug 15 The threshing season ends with high yields and strong prices oats 50 to 75 bushels rye 20 to 35 bushels buyers paying 60 cents and about 1.70 respectively Willis Reed buys W G Felgar house to take possession next spring Felgar to move to Reed farm in Woodville Dorothy Hopson hosts cousins and friends M Wineard trades Basco farm for La Prairie merchandise L Lenat to work for Kincaid in La Prairie Arthur Clark to move to South Dakota and run threshing machine Carman Hopson enlists in navy four locals drawn for Carthage army exams plus two exempted Fred Witt Stanley Cunningham Arthur George Mack Cheney Albert Wheewell Von Stillwell WoY Lunt trades Bucklew property Letha Butler of Quincy visiting Dr F A Hanson and Mrs H C Zion
Palmyra gears up for the Redpath-Vawter chautauqua with six booster parties visiting rural areas to push season tickets. Superintendent T. F. Graham arrives to finalize opening arrangements as Rev. A. J. Thames and Prof. C. G. Sanford boost support. An operetta in Fabius town, Feast of the Ned Corn, draws about 250 residents with local performers and a booster quartet providing extra numbers. Union services and a Palmyra chautauqua orchestra add to preparations for opening day Wednesday.
Social calls and visits from Richfield Illinois and nearby towns listed. Names include Mercer Finchum Finchum Tyler Dunn Channon Redman Huffman Conin Ferryman Yiendricks Ryan Rice Beavers Whitney and others. Several trips to Quincy Adams Hannibal and Kingston noted with church gathering and a Liberty picnic mentioned.
War Department home reading lesson outlines three core soldierly qualities Loyalty Obedience and Physical Fitness. It explains equal, democratic enlistment by lot, opportunities for advancement, and the need to carry creditable citizenship. Describes Articles of War crimes and discipline as foundational to a trained army.
Aug. 15 Springfield Illinois state board of equalization met, organized, and adjourned for two weeks. C. C. Moore of Ridgeway elected secretary. committee chairs named for personal property, town lots, lands, railroad property, capital stock, general equalization, resolutions, organization, rules, and conference committee with Andrew Russell ex-officio chairman.
London dispatch states a British destroyer struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. The captain two officers and 38 sailors were saved.
Washington reports that Congress will soon be asked to authorize another loan to the allies ranging from 3 to 4 billion dollars. A "Don't Worry club" includes more debtors than creditors among the participants.
Washington Aug 15 Plans for sending the first national guard troops to France have been perfected by the war department with a division organized from 26 states and the District of Columbia. The 149th field artillery First Tim ois field artillery and a Missouri signal unit are included. Brig. Gen. W. A. Mann will command the division.
In the house of commons it is announced that 9,748 lives were lost on British merchantmen from the opening of the war to June 30, 1917 due to enemy action. Of these, 3,828 were passengers, the remainder officers or seamen.
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