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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
3
Chicago market sees heavy price declines across corn and provisions after government control chatter and Wall Street weakness. Corn drops to about 1.13 for December, oats down, pork leads the slide with expectations of hog price cuts, and traders anticipate a list of 25 commodities to be scaled down.
Chicago market reports show hog receipts around 16 000 with prices near 18 to 19.50 for mixed offerings and bulk at 18 to 19.20. Cattle and calves trading steady to higher in Chicago and St Louis with native beef steers around 7 to 14.50 and western stockers near 6 to 11.50, calves 2.58 to 15.50. St Louis receipts total about 7 000 hogs and 7 000 cattle with hogs around 18.80 to 19.85 and cattle steady to slightly higher. southern beef steers range 9 to 13.58, calves 8.75 to 15.50. Kansas City hogs around 7 000 with steady to 8 lower prices. receipts 17 000 cattle, prime fed steers 16.50 to 17.80, western cattle 9 to 13, cows 5.60 to 10, stockers 6 to 8, calves 6.50 to 13.60. Deep-Reeceipts hogs 9 000 with lambs around 17.25 to 18.25 and yearlings 11 to 12.50, wethers 11 to 12.50.
Liquidation by tired holders again drives prices sharply lower with steel and copper leading losses. Investors who bought securities at higher prices feel uneasy while the market’s technical position improves. guidance urges sticking to standard ratio and elite stocks not labeled war stocks despite overall demoralization. Farm and livestock prices show mixed ranges with horses and mules listed in St. Louis. The piece ends with a quip about quitters versus doers aided by Whig want ads.
Long Commission Co reports corn futures slumping with December and May off about a bushel as traders anticipate ample future supplies. Old corn steadies on cash, buyers avoid current prices. oats follow feed, and political factors weigh markets. Provisions collapse as commission houses liquidate, packers support near delivery, shorts buyers.
Twenty two farmers sold goods at the city market on Wednesday. Hog prices fell five cents on the local live market. Six loads of loose hay moved at twenty dollars per ton and one load of baled hay at twenty one. Two loads at twenty two. Four loads of new corn 80 pounds per bushel sold for one dollar. Seven loads of oats brought sixty five cents per bushel. Two baled straw sold for eight dollars per ton.
Prices paid for hay and grain include wheat at 2.06, old corn 1.70, new corn 1.10, oats 0.60, and baled straw 60. Hay shows Timothy at 20, seed per bushel 3.50, milling products with various flour prices, and animal feeds listed. Hog quotations cover weights and classes. poultry, eggs, butter, and dressed poultry prices appear, with hides, tallow, and grease values also noted.
Public sale notices list Thursday October 11 events featuring George Ihrig and Ben in Golden Illinois and D Clark Thomas in Knox City Missouri with locations and participants noted for local commerce.
The walnut crop of California in 1916 netted $2,883,714. Miss Clara Ohnemus is ill in St. Mary's hospital with typhoid fever. Miss Olive Bagley who has been sick is slowly improving. The Ladies' Aid of the St. Pauls church of Fowler met with Mrs. John Thyson. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crouch of Colmar, Ill., visited Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Crouch in Eubanks, Ill.
New York Oct 11 Liquidation spreads across the market with urgent selling driving prices down 8 to 10 points. Major leaders hit yearly lows as trading totals showed 1,075,000 shares. U S Steel fell to 101% before short covering lifted it to 102% closing down 2%. Bethlehem Steel and other key issues also declined amid weak orders figures and sector-wide losses.
Reports show steady to firm demand for Timothy and clover-mixed hay with good grades firm and low grades salable at $1 to $1.56 per ton. Prairie scarce, clover and alfalfa also tight with prices rising. Straw remains steady at $8 per ton, wheat and oats tracks around $8.50. Chicago prices list Haerneke Peet at $23.50 24 and oats at 89 6.50. New York coffee markets note percentage declines for rots and santogas.
Washington Oct 11 A summary of the October crop report shows corn at 425,000,600 bushels with last year at 206,800,000. All wheat preliminary at 28,0?98,000 bushels and last December at 16,225,000. Barley 2,490,000 bushels. potatoes 14,400,000. apples 2,680,000 barrels. All day 3,817,000 tons. last year 4,651,000.
Miss Lucy C. Greene returns from Payson after visiting relatives. BH. J. Strauss buys J. R. Ghormley stock under a chattel mortgage. Ghormley petitions bankruptcy. John Seigle holds mortgage. Death of Hon. J. K. Crawford at Barry. he was public administrator and guardian for Pike County. Licenses issued to marry Henry W. Brown Bertha Butterfield George B. Kesterson Bertha M. Brooks. Quotable line ends with proverb about telling a woman her baby resembles others.
Monroe City Bankers Association met in Paris to organize a county drive for second liberty loan bonds with an apportionment of 217090. Dr Faris Elyea, son of Mr and Mrs J A Elyea, will join Washington University dental faculty in St Louis, with mornings in private practice and afternoons in class. Woodmen adopt by law to pay death claims under US and Canada warrants.
The article promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a simple, inexpensive mixture to darken gray hair naturally. A downtown druggist notes its wide use and easy application with a comb or brush, claiming gray strands disappear by morning and hair becomes glossy and natural colored.
The column records relatives and friends visiting from Palmyra Bradford and Bradford Wisconsin. Mr and Mrs Evan Smith host Miasea Eva Kissinger Elizabeth Dryer and others over the weekend. Mrs Richard Achbury and child travel to Memphis. J F George and M C Hawkins with Senator and Mrs R B McClintle depart for the Ozarks and Fulton for an Missouri D and D school board meeting, traveling by auto.
Ray Alston will move from Stillwell to Colusa soon to take a similar station agent position. Zinn family and Mrs William Zinn drove to Quincy Saturday. Everett Tanner was summoned from her home to California due to her mother Mrs McCabe's death. Bert Howard and family and Mrs Frank George left Monday for a week’s Missouri visit to Elijah Stillwell’s home by auto. Dr F A Hanson and family drove to Quincy Saturday afternoon to visit his sister Mrs Butler. Mrs Austin De Lap of Wisconsin visiting her mother Mrs Mary Short. Mr and Mrs Lee Boyd visiting his grandfather Willis Reed. Mrs Simmons of Carthage spent ...
In the home of her daughter, Mrs Grace Hancon. Buckett and Emery plan a 100 light electric grit plant in operation soon. Mr Menaux of Carthage visited the city Friday in the Han cock Co Mutual Life association interests. Fred Meyars and his family from Montana are visiting sister Mrs James Howard and relatives.
Charles W. Barton died in Quincy Sunday and was transported to Palmyra Tuesday morning for burial in Greenwood cemetery. The Eastern Star Lodge held a regular meeting at the Masonite lodge rooms Monday night with members voting on proceedings.
The writer notes a Halloween party will be held in the lodge rooms on the last day of October with committees to be appointed and plans to follow. Floyd Hansbrough schedules a public sale on the Frank Proctor farm two miles north of Monroe for 41 dairy cattle 7 horses and various farm implements on Oct 18. County Agent reports Mrs. Nielsen attended a defense meeting in Hannibal Monday. John Brimmona and Lilian Easley of Macon wed last Wednesday and Gerald Parr and Luella Honts wed Tuesday at Palo Myra with Justice W. S. Hayden performing the ceremonies.
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