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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
5
Chicago and St Louis market notes outline wheat, hogs, cattle and sheep pricing. Weather outlook warns of frost risk in Iowa and unsettled rainfall in the Plains. The report covers cash wheat and corn prices, hog and cattle receipts, and New York stock closings with various market moves.
Market days stay active despite wet country roads and fewer farmers. Prices show little movement with green corn slightly cheaper at 10 cents per 13 cars and potatoes around 1 dollar a bushel. Meat stalls attract inquiries, farmers urged to bring fresh killed pork and sausages.
New York on September 7 refining sugar prices rose 10 cents per hundred pounds across all grades. The advance reflects market pressures and global supply factors affecting the commodity.
Waverly market notes list hogs at seven dollars per hundredweight this week. Eggs at fifteen cents a dozen, butter twenty five to thirty two cents, potatoes nine cents a bushel, corn sixty cents, hay eleven to fourteen dollars per ton, and good straw five dollars a ton. Approximately five thousand tons of wet corn delivered to a canning factory earned eighty six dollars per ton. Acme Theme tablets for school available at four cents each from The Boston Brokerage Co. store.
In Pottsville Pa on September 7 Joseph Zehner a contract miner and his driver were halted at a mountain site near Nesquehoning shot dead. A tin box containing a large sum for Zehner employees pay was taken and no trace of the highwayman has been found.
A string of disparate incidents unfolds with Tom Hileman bitten by a rat while reaching into a corn bin near Sixth and South streets. L Mether narrowly avoids death steering to miss a crossing pedestrian as his car overturns. A infant survives a plaster fall during a storm on Gable Street. The record also advertises 4c school tablets, Crystal's auto giveaway, and a Crystal Theatre bill including Waterloo Tuxedo Four and other acts for Thursday through Saturday.
Des Moines dispatch reports rising tension after a break with the city railway. The union seeks reinstatement of conductors Hiatt and Bruce and motorman Roberta and will demand arbitration if refused. A special union meeting is set for 1:30 tomorrow morning to decide next steps amid prior company policy.
Waterloon will host Taft Day with the largest crowd in city history. Delegations arrive from Dubuque Cedar Rapids and other towns while Company B escorts the president aided by Vin ton and Cedar Falls military units. An aviation meet and Iowa speech in Waterloo are planned with Taft arriving 1 39 p m on Tuesday September 28 and staying until 3 15 a m the next day if weather allows the Lincoln park address is favored, else Chautauqua coliseum serves as the venue.
J F Simpson president of Crystal Ice and Fuel company and his three sons have returned from an extended car journey to Indiana and Kentucky. They attended the Elgin races, visited Indianapolis and Paoli Ind his old home. He left his sons there to visit relatives and took a party of old friends along.
The veteran traveler completed a trip to Waterloo via Bloomington Peoria and Davenport. Only tire problems were two punctures near Cedar Rapids one on the outward leg and one returning home. In two months Mr Bimpion has logged 4500 miles in his Cadillac.
Mrs T F Moore confined to bed with stomach trouble. Roy Parks, Waterloo, won seven mile amateur motorcycle race earning a silver cup displayed at Campbell s sporting goods. F and McCune returns from Kansas City and Oklahoma plans Water loo stay. Nick Baches sues Chicago Great Western for 10000 over eye injury from a rail accident. Winnifred Wormer leaves Center Point to teach in Cedar Rapids after visiting Grace Wormer. Rock Island northbound train late due to submerged tracks and washouts near Burlington from a cloudburst.
Partial OCR text indicates a notice directing inquiries to Mr Munger in the money order division of the main post office for further particulars about examination success or related matters.
Munger secretary of the Waterloo civil service board announces an examination for clerks and carriers on November 1 at the second floor of the Federal Building. The eligible list is nearly exhausted, offering a good chance for early appointment in the Waterloo office.
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