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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
4
Chicago market notes show wheat setback amid profit taking and milder weather weakening corn. Hog prices rise on hog futures while cattle and sheep hold steady. Chicago produce lists modest changes in butter cheese and potatoes. Kansas City hogs open higher with strong cattle demand and mixed loads for calves and lambs.
The bulletin lists grain quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats across Chicago St Louis Kansas City Minneapolis and Winnipeg with specific futures for July and May. It also details Waterloo market prices for flour dairy butter lard oats hay cattle hogs hides and ves items with per cwt prices and graded hide classifications.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending Thursday Jan 15 1914 totaled 268 829 55 on Thursday and 254 379 78 on Wednesday. Deeds filed 33 for 7 503 60. trust deeds and mortgages 14 2144 875 00. chattel mortgages 4 654 42. Total instruments filed to date 201 versus 241 last year, a decrease of 49.
At the county board meeting plans for a new county home were under review. Submissions from Arch itects Oliver O. Smith of Des Moines and J. G. Ralston of Waterloo covered housing for 60 to 75 inmates. A three story brick building with stone trim was projected at about 35 000 dollars, with action expected today or tomorrow.
The Majestic, en route from Cherbourg to New York with passengers including Francis J Bowes Sayre and his wife, former Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, faced violent seas that tore starboard portholes and caused water leakage. Repairs to be done in Cherbourg with only a few hours delay expected. Also reported, the three days old son of Mr and Mrs Nels Petersen died at their home near Eagle Center Cedar Falls Iowa, funeral held at Dahl parlors with burial at Greenwood Cemetery.
Salt Lake City delegates mark the association’s fiftieth year as President Hagenbarth warns of global wool competition. The flockmaster faces uneven odds against South Africa Asia and Australia while American resilience is urged. Meanwhile a street accident injures Charles Franz when Alice Sickman’s Ford runabout strikes him near Jefferson and Park.
Negotiations to modify the Union Oil option held by General Petroleum of London have ended. Lyman Stewart says the plan would have let minority stockholders share in the deal on the same terms as controlling interests. The halt followed a dispute over how option terms were interpreted.
Gen Louis Wagner former commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic died at his Philadelphia home at age 76 after a day of meetings and church attendance. He served in the Civil War, was born in Germany, and came to the U S at age nine. His widow Mary Campbellie remains gravely ill.
Farmers signed leases with district game warden R. T. St. John and deputy Al Houston to create a game preserve of about 1 000 acres. The pact guarantees stocking with Hungarian partridges and ring neck pheasants for five years and bans hunting on the farms during that period.
The Board of Trade directors failed to meet last evening due to lack of a quorum. Secretary Park said a meeting will be held Friday at 4 PM to arrange the annual session, expected to be a gala affair and likely in the last week of the month. date and place will be chosen tomorrow afternoon.
Reports from Berne state Albania faces grave tensions greater than seen since prior Balkan wars. Germany proposes mixed Austrian Italian troops to intervene. Italy and Austria wary of public backlash and regional fallout. Mussulmans in Constantinople and Albania allegedly plan to install Izzet Pasha, with Avlona arrests cited as evidence. Also, Miss Mary Hollinger and Will Fomaker wed at the groom’s home in Illinois. couple to reside locally.
A London Musical Times note says a once friendly correspondence between Wagner and Liszt ceased for 11 years after a humorous money appeal from Wagner. A Denver Republican critique calls a magazine farm piece a waste of time. The Lighthouse Service in the U S has cost about 150 million over fifty years.
Chicago note from January 15 reports country offerings of corn in small quantities forming a large total. The close was steady with minor gains and losses from last night. Wheat prices slipped as shorts exited. near term close showed modest declines and slight gains in parts of the session.
Committees from the Chamber of Commerce Board of Trade and Town Criers met at the Waterloo club to weigh an amalgamation. They decided to delay uniting while boosting cooperation to attract conventions and visitors, appointing four members to craft a plan. A Greater Waterloo committee may form with five members from each group. Temple Rebekah lodge meets Friday at I O O F hall with staff urged to attend.
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