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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1916
Page
13
Classified notices and ads seeking help including female help, washing, bookkeeper, and various buy/sell prompts. Mentions addresses and phone numbers with scattered job and real estate postings across multiple towns and dates.
Local notes from Orange Township report holiday visits and school events including Abe Kimmel and Christina Sheller vacations. Linden villagers discuss bank work, Christmas visits, and an upcoming Standard Bearers meeting with a postponed musical. A correction clarifies Sunkist Oranges ad proprietors Umbaugh and Van Schayck.
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Telegraph outlines that want ads ordered to run until forbids require a written order to discontinue. A printed form will be provided. advertisers should keep a copy. Discontinuation requests must reach by 10 am to affect the next day.
Mason City visitors and residents mix during holidays with relatives and friends. Qurl Abendroth from Mason City stays a week with WW Getts family. Miss Kay prepares to supervise girls industrial program in Mitchellville. Hesse Knight returns from Wisconsin where he was a construction superintendent. Lucile Van Dorn of Waterloo visited Waverly friends yesterday.
Waverly reports ice harvest to start next week as workers fill ice houses near Oelwein. The Great Western company expects to begin gathering ice for their operations. Ice thickness reaches about 13 inches of high quality.
News and notes from La Porte City list visitors and returns including Mr and Mrs Max Wind from Logan and Council Bluffs, Mrs D A Kennicate from Murdock, Mink, and Miss Bairle Unger ill with pneumonia. betrothal announced for Miss Bess McCowen and Dr G Vern Lehman. Sunshine club gathering with Mrs A A Hudson hosting. several local visits to Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Chicago mentioned.
The December tally reaches 49 fire alarms with one more added this morning. Two notable losses include furniture and fixtures destroyed at Frank Stillwell’s barber shop and pool hall on Vaughan street at 1 10 a m and damage to the building, plus the destruction of Dr. J. E. O'Keefe's garage on Christmas morning.
Notice is hereby given that the corporation formerly known as the Waterlon Speedway Association has been dissolved by a majority vote of its members. Dated December 30, 3216. President Wanna and Vice President Pourterfield sign the dissolution.
Chicago market reports a sharp rise in wheat on clearances to Europe with May and July futures higher. Foreign ownership at eastern terminals and seaboard buying boosted prices while December options faced difficulties. corn followed wheat with firmness and limited offerings as holiday shorts balanced positions.
Market report from Waterloo dated December 30 lists prices for flour oil meal beef cattle hogs and dairy products. Includes ranges for butter lard creamery goods poultry hides and veal kips with various weights and conditions noted. Local wholesale and retail price points are provided for creamery butter potatoes and straw.
Hog demand was restricted due to a 48 hour trade stoppage. Receipts at Union Stock Yards today: hogs 22 000, cattle 00, sheep 3 000. Opened steady to slow for hogs. cattle and sheep opened and closed steady with mixed price ranges. Top hog price around 10.60, cattle top about 1120, sheep top near 10.26 with lambs to 13.50.
Kansas City Missouri hogs and cattle receipts total around 1,000. Hogs show steady opening with heavy weights at 9.40 to 10.50 and sows and pigs around 9.0 to 10.5. Cattle receipts steady with prime steers 10.60 to 11.50 and western and southern oxen 6.00 to 10.25. Sheep receipts none. lambs 17.75 to 15.35 and yearlings 10.75 to 11.75.
South Omaha Nebraska cattle receipts 200 with steady open. Native steers 7.50 to 11.66, cows and heifers 6.00 to 3.50, western steers 5.50 to 9.25, tamAn steers 36.00 to 7.50, stockers and feeders 6.00 to 8.30. Hogs receipts 3,800, market opened lower to higher with heavy 8.30 to 10.10, sows 9.28 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 100, market steady with yearlings 8.25 to 11.26, ewes 8.86 to 11.00, lambs 10.10 to 13.28.
Market quotes from Chicago and New York show butter, eggs, cheese and poultry with varied receipts and prices. Conditions indicate steady butter and eggs, with mixed dairy and livestock values across regions including Washington Idaho Colorado Oregon and Wisconsin.
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