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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1918
Page
3
Memorandum warns advertising must reach 10 a. m. to avoid delay. For sale items include a 1917 Ford Roadster in perfect condition, a six passenger Moon model, and a classic horse with contact details. Poultry listing offers Pure Bred Bourbon Red Turkeys with seller contact in La Porte City.
In Clarksville on February 17 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Conrad Smith. Ernest Hales infant died February 14 with funeral at Coster Presbyterian. Mexther, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Klunder, born October 27 1917 and died February 17 1818 with funeral at Pleasant Valley. Many local items follow including visits, job changes, and community gatherings. school basketball wins. lighting outages from a broken Shell Rock switch. personnel shifts at the central telephone station. club meetings. and property sales and moves among residents.
The Mazfeld Creamery held its annual meeting with secretary Herman C. Griese reading the annual report, favorably received. Chas Hageman reelected president, Chas Kebe as vice president, and Griese retained secretary. A new director, Theodore Kelling, joins to replace John Pipho. old directors Henry Pieyers Herman Bruns and W. J. Kehoe carry over. Many local moves follow, with stock market notes and community updates from Denver and nearby towns.
Chicago trading pushed corn prices higher on strong receipt figures and regulatory limits. May and February delivery hit or neared daily highs before easing slightly, while oats rose on strong demand amid expected rises in wheat crop guarantees. Provisions followed hogs and grain, with lower hog arrivals contributing to the upturn.
This brief reports on grain bids from Chicago Minneapolis Omaha Kansas City St. Louis Peoria and Toledo with prices for corn oats rye barley timothy clover seed and flax plus notes on New York and London markets and Mercantile Paper. It mentions overnight news on Russian situation and stock market movement including U S Steel Reading General Motors and Liberty bonds with closing irregularities.
Chicago February 20 Hog prices jumped as arrivals fell short of expectations. Hog receipts 27,000 with tomorrow seen at 40,000. prices steady to higher with lard and bacon types quoted from 16.20 to 17.09. Cattle receipts around 900 and flexible bids strong for native cattle and stockers. calves and cows also firm. Sheep at 7,000 receipts with tomorrow at 14,000. prices for sheep and lambs range roughly from 10.00 to 13.20 with feeders around 5.60 to 13.75.
Sioux City Iowa February 20 hogs receipts seven thousand higher prices light to thin and mixed ranges cattle receipts fifteen hundred higher with steers nine fifty to thirteen dollars calves around five to fourteen fifty sheep higher while Omaha and St Joseph markets show higher hogs and cattle with mixed ranges and brisk totals across regions
Kansas City market receipts and price ranges for cattle and hogs. Hogs bulk trading around 15.65 to 16.95, heavy hogs 16.66 to 16.90, pigs 13.00 to 15.75. Cattle receipts about 11,000 with steers 9.80 to 13.75, cows 7.00 to 10.78, heifers 7.00 to 11.75, calves 7.00 to 12.00. Sheep and lambs receipts 5,000 with lambs 14.00 to 16.50, yearlings 12.25 to 14.00, wethers 11.50 to 13.25, ewes 12.25 to 13.25.
Receipts for hogs reached 14 000 with prices from 12.00 to 17.10, mixed types around 16.75 to 17.06. Cattle receipts 4 500 with prices from 6.00 to 14.00 for calves and 7.00 to 13.50 for heifers. Sheep and lambs also listed with lambs at 14.00 to 17.75 and ewes 12.00 to 16.50.
New York butter receipts total 11 222 tubs with creamery and extras priced up to 52c. Eggs 2 713 cases with firsts 48 54c. cheese steady at 26c. live poultry firm with chickens 27 33c. Chicago prices show butter 44 49c, eggs 49 51c, potatoes 4.20 and 1.95 for bulk, poultry and olive products unchanged. St Louis and Kansas City reports list butter and poultry steady.
Market notes show varied prices across commodities including corn oats oil meal and cattle goods. Entries reference eggs butter potatoes poultry hides and dairy products with wholesale and farm gate estimates amid a bustling Waterloo market scene.
New York reports varied readings with February 20 pricing for veal calf hides and refined sugars. Metal exchanges show steady lead at $1.12 7.26 and copper futures in London and East St Louis deliveries alongside copper spot and electrolytic prices.
Noel Stuck, born November 8 1835 in the Dominion of Canada, died Monday February 13 at 8 20 p m. in Tripoli Iowa. A pioneer who came with his parents to Bremer County, he married twice and left a large family including sons Ransom Garner Ja Ervin Theodore William Arthur Ed and others. Funeral held February 19 at Framon cemetery with Rev Hankammer officiating. Other items note Dora Anderman’s arm fracture, Rev Geo Bickery’s farewell sermon, death of Mrs James Marshall of Starbuck Wisconsin, stock sales and moves of several local families, and a birthday party for Katherine E. Martin’s daughter.
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