Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 226, 3 August 1917 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1917

Dependable Market News for Today

Quotations on Stock, Grain and Produce in Large Trading Centers by Associated Press Local Prices Revised Daily by Leading Dealers.

LACK OF RAIN DISTURBS MARKET

CHICAGO, Aug. 3. Much uneasiness showed itself today on the part of shorts owing: to the fact that with two holidays ahead no relief was insight for the continued lack of rain and from the scantiness of receipts. Cooler temperatures, however, led to some selling when the market had scored rather decided gains. Trade in the aggregate was light, and prices were easily influenced. Opening quotations, which ranged from 3-8 c to lc higher, with December at $1.18 1-8.1-4 to 1.1S and May at $1.16 to $1.16 5-8, were followed by slight further upturns, and then a moderate reaction. Wheat displayed a tendency to drop back from yesterday's sudden steep advance of 13c. After opening 6c down at $2.25 September, the market rallied to $2.30, but soon sagged to $2.29. Threshing returns had a weakening effect on oats. Initial firmness due to sympathy with corn failed to last Provisions advanced readily on scattered buying. Shipments of cured and fresh meats for the day were inexcess of the total a year ago, and Liverpool advices were also favorable to holders.

GRAIN QUOTATIONS

CHICAGO. Aug. 3. The range of

futures follows : Wheat Open. High. Lew. Sept .1.... 225 230 225

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Dec HSVs 118 May 116 116 Oata Sept 60 61M Dec 61 61 LardSept 21.62 21.97 Oct 21.75 21.10

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CHICAGO, Aug. 3. Wheat: No.

red. $2.55; No. 3 red, $2.50; No. 2 hard,

nominal; No. 3 hard, $2.55 2.65. Corn: No. 2 yellow.. $2.35 2.36; No. 3 yellow, $2.35 2.36; No. 4 yellow, $2.35. Oats: No. 3 white, 8184; Standard, nominal. Pork: $41.55. Ribs: $22.2522.75. Lard: $21.7521.85.

Prime

TOLEDO, Aug. 3. Wheat:

cash. $2.47; Sept. $2.26. Cloverseed: Prime cash, $11.90;

Oct., $12.75; Dec, $12.50; March,

$12.60.

Alsike: Prime cash, $12.10; Sept.,

$12.20; Oct., $12.20.

Timothy: Prime cash, $4.00; Sept.,

$4.40; Oct., $4.30.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 3. Wheat: No. 2 red winter, $2.472.48; No. 3, $2.45 S 2.46 ; No. 4, $2.42 2.45; sales, 30 cars. Corn: No. 2 white. $2.35; No. 3 white, $2.35; No. 4 white. $2.33 2.34; No. 2 yellow. $2.32; No. 3 yellow. $2.32; No. 4 yellow, $2.30 2.31; No. 2 mixed, $2.32; ear corn, $2.272.32. Oats: No. 2 white, 85c; No. 2 mixed, 8384c. Rye: Range, $1.95 2.10.

LIVE STOCK PRICES

CINCINNATI, Aug. celpts, 2,700; market, and lights, $12 15.60; $1200.

Receipts,

Cattle steady. 13.00.

Sheep

3. Hogs Resteady; plg3 stags, $5.00 500; market,

steady.

15.23.

Calves Market, steady; $6

Receipts, 3,600; market

Lambs Market steady; $7.50

PITTSBURGH. Aug. 3. Hogs Receipts, 2,500; market, actice; heavies, $16.1016.15; heavy Yorkers, $16.00 (3)16.15; light Yorkers, $15.0015.40; pigs. $14.2514.75. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 300; market, steady; top sheep, $10.50; top lambs, $15. Calves Receipts, 100; market, steady; top, $14.50.

INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 3. CattleReceipts, 600; steady. Hogs Receipts, 7,500; steady to lower. Calves Receipts, 400; steady. Sheep Receipts, 600; lower. Cattle. Steers Prime corn fed steers, 1300 and up, $12.5013.65; good to choice steers. 1300 and up, $1212.50; common to medium steers, 1300 and up, $11.50012.00; good to choice steers, 1150 to 1250, $1111.50; common to medium steers, 1150 to 1250, $11 11.50; good to choice steers, 800 to 1100, $9.7511.50; common to medium steers, 800 to 1100, $7.509.75; good to choice yearlings, fl012.50. Heifers and Cows Good to choice heifers, $9.5012.00; fair to medium heifers, $8.50 9.25; common to foir heifers, $6.0008.25; good to choice cows, $8.7510.00; fair to medium cows, $7.25 8.50; canners and cutters, $5.007.00. Bulls and Calves Good to prime export bulls, $9.009.75; good to choice butcher bulls. $8.509.25; common to fair bulls, $6.008.25: common to best veal calves, $9.0013.50; common to best heavy calves, $611. Stockers and Feeding Cattle Good to choice steers, 700 lbs. and up, $7.75 8.50; common to fair steers under 700 lbs., $6.007.75; good to choice steers under 700 lbs., 7.50 8.25; common to fair steers, unier 700 lbs., $5.25 7.50; medium to good heifers, $6 7.00; medium to good feeding cows, $5.256.75; springers, $5.50 8.00; stock calves, 250 to 450 pounds, $7.608.60. Hogs Best heavies, 190 and up, $16.0016.10; medium and mixed, $16.00 16.15; common to medium $16.00 16.15; good to choice lights,

lights. $14.5016.0O; roughs, $13.50 14.00; best pigs, $14.2514.75; light pigs, $10.0014.00; bulk of sales of good hogs, $1616.15. . Sheep and Lambs Good to choice sheep, $8.25 9.00; common to medium sheep, $5.00 8.00; good to best lambs, $10.5011; common to medium Iambs, $9.5010.25; yearlings, $10.00 010.50; bucks, 100 lbs., $78; spring lambs, $10.0014.00; good to choice breeding ewes, $9.5013.00.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3. Hogs Receipts 16,000; market, strong; bulk of sales, $15.2016.25; lights, $14.7016.30; mixed, $14.65 16.35; heavy, $14.50 16.40; rough, $14.50 14.70; pigs, $11.5014.75. Cattle Receipts, 3,000; market, unsettled; native beef cattle, $7.50 stockers and feeders, 5.759.00; cows and heifers, $4.3011.60; calves, $8.50 13.00. Sheep Receipts, 5.000; market firm; wethers, $7.50 10.66; lambs, $9.5014.6O. EAST BUFFALO, Aug. 3. CattleReceipts, 600; slow. Veals Receipts, 500; strong; $5.0016.00; closing slow, 50c lower. Hogs Receipts, 2,600; active and strong; heavy and mixed, $16.35 16.40; Yorkers. $15.90 16.35; light Yorkers, $15.25 15.50; pigs, $15.00 15.25; roughs, $14.2514.50; stags, $12.0012.75. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 200; slow and unchanged.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Closing Quotations on the New York Stock Ex

change today follows: American Can, 48. American Locomotive, 72. American Beet Sugar, 93. American Smelter, 103. Anaconda, 77. Atchison, 99. Bethlehem Steel, 128. Canadian Pacific, 160. Chesapeake & Ohio, 60. Great Northern, pfd., 104. Lehigh Valley, 63. New York Central, 89. No. Pacific, 101. So. Pacific, 94. Pennsylvania, 53. U. S. Steel, com., 125. U. S. Steel, pfd., 119.

PRODUCE MARKET

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 3. Butter-

Creamery, white milk extra 40 c; centralized extra 38c; do firsts 34, do seconds 31 c; dairy fancy, 35c; packing stock No. 1, 31 c; No. 2, 26c. Eggs Prime first 30c; firsts, 27c; ordinary firsts, 24c; seconds, 20c; duck, 30c.

Poultry Broilers llbs and over

25c, do 1 lb. and over, 22c, roosters.

13; hens 4 lbs. and over 18c; under

4 lbs. 17c; hen turkeys 8 lbs. and over 19, toms 10 lbs. and over 19, culls 8c, white ducks 3 lbs and over 16c, do under 3 lbs 14c, colored 14c. spring duck3 2 lbs. and over 19c, geese choice full feather 12c, do medium 10c, guineas $4 per dozen. Potatoes Georgia Triumph, $4.50

$5.00 per bbl., Eastern cobblers, $4.50 (S5.00; home-grown and Louisville,

$4.505.00. Onions Texas 75c. $1.35 per crate. Cabbage Home grown, 75c$1.25 per bbl. Tomatoes Tennessee, 35 40c. per crate; home-grown, $1.00 1.75 per bushel.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3. Butter market Wteher? creamerv firsts. 3538c.

Eggs: Receipts, 9,348 cases; market

unchanged. Liva noultrv: Market unsettled:

fowls. 15 18; springers, 19 23c. Potato market: Higher; receipts 20

cars; Virginia barrels, $3.003.50; home grown, $1.00 1.05.

FLANDERS

Continued From Page One. advancing forces. These snipers were eventually dealt with and the shell holes cleared. The morale of the German troops in this section is said to have been good and they made a stiff fight for the positions which they finally had to relinquish. In the ruined village of Hollebeke the British were faced with large numbers of concrete dugouts which had no surface entrances but which were approached by tunnels. The attacking troops forced their way into these strongholds which contained large I'umbers of men and blew them to pieces with bombs. This underground tunnel is still filled with German bodies. Carried With Bayonet. Just north of Hollebeke, two strongly held German positions were occupied without a stop. On the ground overlooking Wytschaete, the British encountered shell holes, camauflaged with wire netting arfd hedges which had been interlaced with barbed wire. This delayed their progress somewhat but did not save the Germans. Fierce fighting occurred here and the Australians who were conducting the offens

ive carried the positions with bayonets,

killing large numbers of the enemy. One notable Incident of the day's fighting occurred on the WarentonGapard farm road at a windmill on a slight elevation. The place previously had been bitterly contested because it overlooks the surrounding country which is very flat The Australians took the place in the early morning but the Germans regained it the same night At midnight the Australians charged the position with bayonets and ejected the Germans after sanguinary fighting. LaBassee Ville was also the scene of severe fighting and here, as

at Hollebeke were found concrete dugouts which are now filled with their

dead defenders who were bombed.

LOCAL QUOTATIONS

GLEN MILLER PRICES Hogs. Heavies, 260 to300 lbs $14.75 Heavy Yorkers, 160 to 180 lbs.. $15.00 Light Yorkers, 130 to 160 lbs... $13.00 Medium, 180 to 225 lbs $15.00 Pigs $8.00012.08 Stags $8.0011.00 Sows- $11.00012.00 Cattle. Butcher steers, 1,000 to 1.500 lbs $8.00010.00 Butcher cows $5.008.00 Heifers $6.00010.00 Bulls $5.00$8.00 Calves. Choice veals $11.00 Heavies and lights $5.0007.00 Sheep. Spring lambs $11.00 FEED QUOTATIONS (Corrected Dally by Omer Whelan.) Paying Oats, 70c; corn, $2.00; rye, $1.50; straw, $7.00 a ton. Selling Cotton seed meal, $54.00 a ton, $2.75 a cwt.; middlings, $55.00 a ton, $2.85 a cwt.; bran, $47.00 a ton, $2.50 a cwt; salt, $2.25 a bbl.; Quaker dairy feed, $42.00 a ton, $2.25 a cwt; tankage. $78.00 a ton, $4.00 a cwt; oil meal, $56 a ton, $29 a cwt. WAGON MARKET Old Hay Timothy hay $17.00. Mixed $16.00. Clover hay $14.00. Alfalfa $18.00. Straw $7S. New Hay Timothy $12.00. Mixed $11.00. Clover hay $10.00. Alfalfa $15.00.

MEAT PRICES (Corrected Dally by John Maher) SELLING PRICES

Bacon, 20 to 60c pound; beef steak, 30c pound: beef roast 18c to 25c pound; smoked bam, 32c; compound, 22c; boiled ham, 60c pound; dried beef. 60c pound; fresh pork. 28o to 80c. pound; lamb, 25c to 40o pound; lard, 26c to 28c pound.

Tiemen Schlepel of Holland is older than his grandmother. His grandfather married a girl only nineteen years old.

FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Corrected Dally by Eggemeyers) SELLING PRICES

Vegetables. Beets, 5 c a bunch; green corn, 35c per dozen; carrots, 6c; asparagus, 5c bunch; green beans, 5c per pound; wax beans, 15 cents per pound; head lettuce, 25c per pound; cauliflower, 15, 20, 25c; Michigan celery, Ee bunch, celery, 8c or 2 for lf.c per bunch; cabbage, 4c per pound; cucumbers 8c, 2 for 15c; curley lettuce, 10c pound; head lettuce, 25c per lb.; egg plants, 1520c; spring onions two bunches tor 5c; dry onions, 6c pound; green mangoes, 2 for 5c; red mangoes, 5c; mustard greens, 10c per pound; kahl, 10c pound: parsley, 5c per bunch; new potatoes, 3c. per lb.; peas, 12c lb.; white radishes, 3 bunches for 10 cts.; rhubarb, 3 for 10c each; shipped tomatoes, 15c per pound; home-grown tomatoes, 13c lb. or 2 for 25c; okra, 15c pound. Fruits. Apricots, 15c per lb.; new apples, 5c per lb.; bananas, 7c per lb., sour cherries, 18c per quart.; California cherries, 20 per pt; home-grown cherries, 15c per quart; cantaloupe, 10c; currants, 18c per quart; dewberries, 20c qt; gooseberries, 15c per qt; grape fruit, 5c or 6 for 25c; huckleber

ries, 25c per qt; lemons, 30c a dozen; limes, 30o a dozen; oranges, 40 cents a dozen; Bartlett pears, 6c each; peaches, 20 55c a basket; pineapples, 20c each; California plums. 15c per piund; black raspberries, 20c quart; red raspberries, 25c qt; strawberries, 10c qt; watermelons, 3050c; cantaloupes, 10c. Miscellaneous. Hickory nuts. 10c per lb.; walnuts, 15c per 1-4 peck; eggs, 38c.

Indianapolis Representative Sales

HOGS

, 144 - .... 241 483 205 184 STEERS mm m-m .. 680 795 544 1000 1143 HEIFERS . 393 678 800 636 835 COWS ' 883 826 .. 1035 1260 BULLS 960 970 1460 ..1000 . 1910 CALVES - 420

7 10 3 63 66 5 2 33 5 3 3 10 4 11 2 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

$13.25 14.40 14.85 16.00 16.15 $ 6.00 6.50 7.35 9.40 11.00 $ 5.50 7.25 7.75 8.25 9.50 $ 5.00 6.75 7.50 9.00 $ 6.00 6.25 7.50 8.00 9.00

200 145 205 175

5.00 9.00 12.00 13.25 13.5Q

Africa is three times larger than Europe.

Sandy Heat and Flies Are Foes j Of Soldiers In Mesopotamia

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 3. (Corrspondence) Hardships and discomforts of the British campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia are the themes of many letters written by Australian soldiers serving under the commands of General Sir Archibald Murray in Palestine or Major General Maude in Mesopotamia. "If you want to see a muddle you ought to see a camel convoy under shell fire," writes one man from the vicinity of Gaza in southern Palestine. "The natives who lead the camels run away at the first shot and then the white men try to induce, by all the profanity they can muster, those camels to hurry out of range or under the cover of a hill. All the time good lives are being lost trying to save the convoy, which perhaps has the water supply for thousands of men in the firing line." Three Worst Plagues. Dust heat and flies are the three worst plagues of Mesopotamia from the soldiers' standpoint, writes one of the privates who suffered from them. "To you," he adds, "the flies would be quite inconceivable. They settle in great clusters on everything. Some of them can sting and bite severely. With the coming of nightfall the ordinary flies disappear and the mosquitoes and sand-flies take their places. "The sand fly is an Insidious plague. You have to wear a very fine suffocating mesh on your face and at night you must spray thin acid over your face to get any peace. The-temperature goes up from 110 to 142 degrees in the shade. Next to Nature. "The morning's work being done you lie in your tent with the flap up.

You almost gasp for breath. Anxious-' ly you await the going down of the' sun. You wear a toupee or a uretj towel on your head. One very rarely 1 wears much clothing and you lead the simple life. The heat takes all pride' from you. You're just bathed in dustand sweat ? "You can get sunstroke through the-' small of your back. The hot wind, bad J as It i3, is better than the complete' stillness although it bounces off the earth flinging sand and dust all overl you. You eat sand and breathe lt;( you lie down in It; It's In your mouth.!

eyes, ears and clothes. These things leave Mesopotamia burnt Into jrourf

memory forever.'

Applicant Withdraws When He Finds Boss Also Is After Job

He came into the office of Supertax tendent Giles Thursday morning to! make a personal 'application for the office of high school principal for the' next year. He gave, among his references, one from the school superintendent of his city. ; "Say," eaid Superintendent Giles, "did you know your superintendent was a candidate himself?" t "Is that so," said the applicant; "Well, I'll withdraw my application' then, because he's a whole- lot better man than I am."

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