People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — FANCY PRICE FOR PORKERS. [ARTICLE]

FANCY PRICE FOR PORKERS.

An Iowa Man Realizes Seven Dollars a Hundredweight in Chicago for Two Car Loads of Hogs. CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—J. H. Bielenberg, of Toronto, Ia., came to the Chicago stock yards with two loads of fancy heavy hogs just in time to credit the old year with the highest price for hogs in nearly a decade. His lot of 107 extra prime 342-pounders sold to a city butcher at the rate of $7 a hundredweight, the highest price paid for a full load of hogs since June, 1883. The late advance of 25 to 30 cents for the last three days has been the direct result of restricted supply.

JONES—“I'm going to bring my wife round to call on you to-night.” Smith— “That’s right; but do me a favor, old man. Don’t let her wear her new sealskin cloak; I don’t want my wife to see it just now.” Jones (grimly)—“Why, that’s what we are coming for."