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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1921
Page
11
Wheat prices drifted with light trading after favorable weather lifted harvesting prospects and stock activity. Prices eased with nearby futures at about 1% lower while September contracts slipped as rains remained scarce, prompting cautious market sentiment and modest gains in some grains while hogs and provisions responded to broader market moves.
Chicago cattle and hog prices advance. dry fed steers up 15 cents, hogs 10 to 25 cents higher. Receipts 17,000 head with steady stock, top vealers and bullocks mixed. prices for various grades and weights noted, veal calves selling around 5.25 to 9.00.
Receipts around 5 000 head with cattle and calves mixed market moves. Deer steer prices softened about 10 to 25 cents, cows and yearlings showed declines, bargains under $5.50 for inferior lots. Calves mostly around $2.00 to $8.00, cannery and canner trades steady. Lambs and yearlings rose about half a dime to 90 cents, sheep up about 26 cents.
Sioux City stock market update lists Chicago quotations for grain and provisions, plus East St. Louis and Sioux City live.stock receipts and price ranges. Cattle, hogs, and sheep markets show modest gains with varied weekly figures and top values cited.
Omaha Neb June 20 hog receipts 10500 up 25c to 29c per cwt 289 to 240 lb butchers 7.60 to 7.90 cattle receipts 7500 beef steers 10 to 15c higher top steers 8.35 dutcher stock steady to strong other classes steady sheep receipts 11000 all classes 25 to 50c higher top Western lambs 11.50 natives 10.50 ewes 4.00
A string of commodity prices and financial quotes from multiple U.S. cities including St Joseph Omaha St Louis and Peoria lists wheat corn oats and cattle prices with receipts and grades and foreign exchange rates for several currencies and government bonds reflecting a busy midweek market roundup across regional exchanges. It records wheat prices No 2 white corn No 2 yellow and No 3 yellow cattle receipts and lamb prices and notes exchange rates for francs lire and drachmas with Montreal discounts and time loan rates.
The Waterloo market listing shows prices for spring wheat patent and winter wheat patent, oats, rye, hay, creamery butter, veal, beef cattle, and hides. Notable figures include butter around 5.50 to 6.50 per unit, veal 120 to 125, hay priced at 8.00 per bale, and hides listed at several hundred dollars.
New York June 20 Last week s index for wholesale prices of 31 food items stands at 2 68 down from 2 73 the prior week and 4 81 for the week ending June 17 1920. The report notes a 1 8 percent drop from the previous week and a 44 2 percent drop from the same period last year. Of 73 quoted communities seven advanced 27 declined and 45 unchanged.
New York and Chicago market notes show firmer butter receipts 3,022 tons, creamery and cheese trades with steady to higher quotes, live poultry and eggs firmer in St Louis and Kansas City, butter steady in St Louis, copper and iron prices easing, and commodity prices for potatoes hay and sugar mixed. Also reports on liberty bonds and Cotton futures with overall market activity across multiple regions. The piece notes the arrival of a large Woodmen encampment in St Louis with thousands of visitors and delegates.
New York June 20 the week opened with new low records as major shares including United States Steel Crucible Baldwin Locomotive Harvester General Asphalt and Royal Dutch faced renewed pressure. Canadian Pacific declines reappear while tobacco oil and food stocks slip. Coca Cola rises briefly then sinks as prices fall across metals leather and cheaper oils. Closing sales show continued weakness with many leading issues down and only a few supports from oils and select Industrials.
Amherst Mass June as Vice President Calvin Coolidge urges spiritual values as essential to world progress. He says prosperity alone cannot sustain the world and individuals must seek motives beyond wages and profits, insisting justice, truth, and righteousness sustain material life.
Chicago reports Charlotte Tounson, once Joyce’s “plaything”, arriving to aid Peggy Joyce in a high profile alimony dispute. Johnson vows to testify against J Stanley Joyce as Peggy seeks $20,000 monthly from her third wealthy husband. Both sides prepare for possible conference with Peggy's attorney Kirkland.
Col Henry D Lindsley overseas veteran and former national commander of the American Legion and his ex wife Mrs Lindsley were remarried in Dallas last night They left for New York after the ceremony Lindsley had been mayor of Dallas two years before Americas entry into World War I SOVIET TO AID SIBERIA Tokina June 20 a dispatch says the Soviet government will provide 3 000 000 000 rubles in paper currency and 300 000 rubles in gold to support the Far East republic for 1921 The Vostoostok national assembly plans to reopen July 1
Chicago June 20 The cage of Timothy D Big Tim Murphy held on 5100 000 bond for the Dearborn Street Station mail robbery will be presented to the federal grand jury today John K Northup special assistant district attorney says admissions of Murphy and several accomplices will be read and loot totaling over 106 000 found in a trunk at Murphy s father in law s home is tied to one admission
Canton May 10 Delayed Dr Sun Yat Sen announces cabinet formation with Wu Tingfang as foreign affairs minister and acting premier Tang Shaoyi as finance minister Tang Ting Kwong leads the navy Chen Chien Min and Cheon Chiung Min hold dual posts Chen Ching Min remains temporarily in cabinet due to other duties.
Chicago June 20 Chief Justice Charles A. McDonald assigned the trial of 18 former baseball players and gamblers charged with conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series to Judge Hugo Friend. The case may begin next Monday with separate trials possible for Benjamin Franklin and Carl Zork. Several indicted players named include Eddie Cicotte Joe Jackson Buck Weaver Swede Risberg Oscar Felsch Fred McMullin Chick Gandil Mal Chase Bill Burns Joseph J. Sullivan Rachael Brown Abe Attell Louis Levi Ben Levi and David Zelser. Hal Chase may avoid trial for now after arrest in California and Abe Attell’s extradition status remains unsettled. The assertion of a full statement to the state could aid the prosecution. A note mentions a For Sale Act advertisement in the Courier.
O. H. Ennis of Los Angeles begins a 10 day program at West High for 17 pupils addressing speech defects. He has treated over 16,500 cases across the US and Canada in 27 years, often helping youths and adults with stammering. School officials urge interested children to contact H. D. Lee, West High superintendent.
Mrs. Sarah Johnson, charged with immodest dress, stood in Zion City court and defied authorities saying no one will tell her what to wear. She wore a short sleeved waist with a peekaboo and low neckline. The case against her was dismissed.
O P Briggs of Minneapolis and Joseph F Leopold of Des Moines will address the annual Waterloo Industrial association meeting and officer election at the Greater Waterloo association dining rooms. A dinner is at 6 30 p m. John T Swift presides with E C Litchfield Burr G Lichty D B Hinckley and H B Plumb as officers.
Kiwanis club members meet at noon on Park Avenue side of Lincoln park for a luncheon at Bik Run hotel then travel to Camp Kiwanis on the Alford estate. Dedicatory exercises begin at 1 30 p m with talks and scout demonstrations as the log cabin is turned over to the Boy Scouts and a pennant is presented.
Kansas called for 25,000 volunteers to work in the harvest fields as part of a nationwide effort. A. L. Berkman, field representative of the United States employment service, said calls had been sent east and that men were needed in Rome for harvest duties.
Chicago June 20 Handsome Barry testified for the defense in the Mrs Cora Orthwein murder trial refuting earlier cook Frances Kocher on threats at a party. Hotel manager John Burke testified Ziegler resided at his hotel five months, countering claims Ziegler kept the Orthwein flat as his residence.
Washington June 19 more than 12 000 000 pounds of picric acid once held for war purposes will be distributed to farmers for agricultural use after tests by the Bureau of Mines showed safe profitable applications such as stump and rock blasting and land clearing. The army also had 26 000 000 pounds of TNT distributed to railroads public roads and Indian reservations while no accidents occurred in transit.
K H Easley and wife return from California praising bumper crops from Cheyenne to Waterloo. He notes cool May weather, favorable growing conditions, and widespread foodstuff growth. In Nebraska he observed vigorous potato crops and mites on miles of fields.
Oelwein Iowa June 20 Clyde Combs county agricultural agent announces the first permanent soil experiment station in Fayette county on J R Cummings farm near Fayette. The eight year program includes another notable experiment on Ben Bodentseiner farm in Aububon township with 31 farmers contributing seed corn. Ten acre field holds 31 corn varieties cultivated as a unit. A monster celebration will mark the corn harvest and selection of the best variety for the region.
Madison Wisconsin June 26 Plans to give Wisconsin farmers control of the states milk and dairy products will be discussed at a June 22 23 conference in Madison by representatives of the Wisconsin Society of Equity and Charles W Holman acting secretary of the National Milk Producers federation Over 50 counties will be represented A state milk producers federation will be formed to cooperate with eastern producers to improve dairy farming conditions across regions Celwein Iowa picnic to feature combined boys and girls club tour June 29 with judging, lunch, and a program by L S Fisher farm bureau speaker
In June 20 references Greene residents travel to Janesville for Epworth league, while W Bennke and Pringle spend Friday in Waterloo. Morrill of Dover, Maine visits daughter Mrs Kivimihi. Eva McCosh from North Dakota visits her mother Mrs Bush and Hilton McCosh. Clara Bush visits Waterloo for weekend with son Ray Bush. Daisy Cave and daughter Derethy travel to Colorado for two weeks. Harold Loeshe comes from town City for summer with his mother Mrs Soesbe. Mrs B Liggett leaves for Almera after visiting sister Mrs Harry Beal. Mrs C L Crandall has been ill. Crane and Dale Shook in Red Rapids with Mr Cheney’s airplane. Dorothy Curtis and sister pawns entertain Standard Bearers. Mrs Roberts speaks. flames and refreshments follow. Mrs Harvey Baker Wright arrives from Montgomery, Ind., for a visit with old friends.
Last week Carl Hunemueler held a barn raising on his farm. The crew framed the structure on the ground and, once ready, invited guests and celebrants who feasted between tasks. Their lively gathering turned labor into festive socializing.
Fayette County Farm Bureau to conduct its annual farm tour starting 8 am at court house square West Union. The route covers the county’s north area four miles to Henry Stelzmeier’s Selah Smith farm with families invited. Speakers include Clara Sutter M A Hauser Dr Brou and H E Nichols. A support vehicle will follow to assist any breakdowns.
The Holstein Bella Pontiac from Brantford Ontario beat Duchess Skylark Ormanby’s world butterfat record by producing 24 pounds of butterfat in the complete yearly test from June 19 1920 to 31 1921. Official figures for the year end were not released, but Bella Pontiac is predicted to reach 1 240 pounds of butterfat, about 1 550 pounds of butter per cow years, with regional production around 26 800 pounds.
Barclay Center Ia June last week confirmed old fashioned neighborliness when H C McMullin, struck by Roemer s disease, received farm help from about 40 neighbors who plowed his corn. Mrs McMillin treated the workers to ice cream and cake. List of contributors includes Joan Heinze, Harry Wheeler, Frank Wheeler, George Cummings, Jos Harn, Jim Carnes, A Wilson, Albert Carroll, John Conrad, Henry Cummings, Floyd Cummings, Henry Turn, Fred Bailey, Kenneth Rice, Wh Siinee and Charles Scott.
Milk production in the United States for 1920 totaled 89.658 billion pounds, down about 400 million from 1919. The number of cows on farms decreased by 298,000, and per capita production dropped from 109 gallons in 1919 to 98 gallons in 1920, the agriculture department announced.
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