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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1918
Page
4
Classified item list offers five £1000 per month salesmen to follow up five leads costing $10 to $15 each in small tanks. Ends with endorsement promises and strong selling issues. Address Sales Manager 634 Guis Bldg Chicago. Also numerous For Sale notices for furniture, pianos, gates, and electric appliances with brief contact info and prices.
Members of the Presbyterian congregation enjoyed a social in the church parlors with a program of vocal solos, readings, and a short tale. The article lists numerous local residents moving to new farms and homes around La Porte City, with multiple name and address details, and notes that regular evening services will resume in the four churches starting Sunday.
Miss Tva Tar sons arrived from Kansas and will visit friends before returning to Berkeley California. Rev C W Caldwell traveled to Des Moines on business. Clarence Nelsons returned from Amersburg with Mr Nelson leaving for Camp Dodge. Miss Ella Blerman and Jacobs Fek berg wed at the Reformed parsonage and will farm south of town. Several families move to farms nearby including Neumeyer Lupke Harms and Scede Mennen families. Mrs Laverke rents a room over the bank to store goods and J B Merck family will occupy the vacated residence. Other families, Ruiter and Newton, plan moves into vacated homes.
Winthrop Iowa reports Albert Peter son was thrown from a horse Thursday evening, suffering a sprained hip and arm that will limit his mobility for some time. F B Dennie, Lester Dennie, and M G Bucher returned from Texas where they tended land interests. Albert Morrill left for Nebraska to assist a seriously ill brother. Relatives learned Friday of the sudden death of Mrs Sidney Sickles in Janesville. she and her husband had lived in Winthrop years ago before moving to Janesville, with sister Mrs James Hickman and half brothers James and William Slaughter remaining in town.
A dense list of classified notices from Waterloo area including furnished rooms for light housekeeping on the first floor at 227 Washington Street, bungalow for rent near Cedar Heights, several sales including leather furniture parcels, a 160 acre Dakota land sale, Eclipse gas store for sale, and various wanted and rental notes. Contacts include Red 2377, Black 2458, Black 969, and Red 488 among others.
Fine weather aided crop movement but buying remained weak. Export expectations and car scarcity lent support, with futures steady and cash corn to seaboard seen at high volume. Oats sagged on light demand while hogs lifted provisions amid uneven demand and scattered buying.
Chicago cash corn and oats prices listed by grade with bids and ranges. Cotton futures in New York show steady opening and closing levels. Kansas City, Minneapolis, St Louis grain prices per grade. Toledo seed prices for clover, alfalfa, timothy.
New York prices show butter receipts nine thousand nine hundred twenty five tabs creamery up and extras. cheese steady with one thousand four hundred ninety five boxes state whole milk flats held specials. Potatoes higher with eighty six cars from Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan at 1.35 to 1.45. In St Louis and Kansas City poultry and butter steady. eggs down from marks. London silver at 42140 per ounce with three percent money.
In Chicago on March 2 hogs advanced as arrivals fell and eastern shipping improved. Cattle offerings were uneven and sheep largely sent direct to slaughter. Hogs received 20 000 with Monday total 44 000. prices ranged from 12.60 to 17.00 for various grades. Cattle receipts 5 000 with steers 8.50 to 14. Stockers and feeders 7.60 to 10.85. cows and heifers 6.70 to 11.90. calves 2.09. Sheep 3 900 with lambs 14.00 to 17.46.
St Joseph Missouri market data shows hog receipts 3,000 with top price 16.65 and bulk 16.45 to 18.60, cattle receipts 500 with steers 9.70 to 13.78, cows and heifers 7.00 to 12.00, calves 6.00 to 12.00, sheep receipts 1 with lambs 12.00 to 16.78 and ewes 7.00 to 12.50.
St Louis Missouri market notes show hogs receipted at 1500 with higher prices about 16.50 to 17.00 for barrows and gilts, pigs around 12.75 to 16.15, mixed classes near 16.70 to 16.96, and good heavy hogs 16.59 to 16.90. Cattle receipts 700 with steady range: steers near 23.50, heifers 15.00 to 15.50, cows 6.00 to 11.50, calves 6.00 to 14.00. Sheep receipts listed as 0 to 0, ewes 10.50 to 12.06, lambs 11.50 to 15.25.
Kansas City market summary shows hogs firm to higher with primes around 16.60 and 16.50, cattle receipts 12,900 steady with steers 9.75 to 13.75 and cows 7.00 to 11.00, heifers 8.00 to 22.50, calves 7.00 to 12.50, and sheep steady with yearlings around 13 to 16.85, ewes 11.00.
Omaha Nebraska March 2 hogs receipts 3300 higher heavy $16.00 to 16.25 mixed $16.10 to 16.20 light $16.00 to 16.35 pigs 10.00 to 14.00 bulk 16.19 cattle receipts 10000 steady steers 9.25 to 12.25 cows and heifers 7.50 to 11.00 calves 9.00 to 15.00 sheep receipts 2200 steady yearlings 12.00 to 15.00 wethers 11.00 to 13.00 ewes 10.75 to 12.50 lambs 15.00 to 17.00
Sioux City market receipts show hogs 3 800 mixed fat and heavy at 16 15 to 16 36. Cattle receipts 1 000 with steers 10 00 to 12 25 and cows and heifers 8 00 to 11 00. Sheep receipts 100 steady. Clearing House data in New York lists weekly reserves at 12 510 850 and legal reserve requirements at 45 275 229 from last week.
New York trading opened with uneven demand and scattered losses across major issues. Industrials and rail shares led declines while exception showing in equipment makers, Baldwin Locomotive, and steel names. Volume neared 250000 as late session bids lifted some issues but overall market ended lower with heavy closing.
The review shows prices responding to maximum price limits on all commodities. Corn remained steady or slipped slightly while oats and pork fell. Export demand remains a substantial force as oats holdings liquidate. price signals reflect government restrictions and farm reserves estimates amid overall market caution.
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