The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 18

THE DECATUR REVIEW Friday, March 26, 1948. Price of Hogs 35c Higher on Local Market EASTER BUNNY IS SPECIAL GUEST AT NURSERY PAGE EIGHTEEN BLONDIE "PiUUXI HELLO,) (HELLO JTZTY 1 1 BACK WITH THAT I ii assess 8Kg wi Hog prices were higher again Friday in the local markets. Butcher hogs gained 35 cents with top bid up to $22.50 and roughs gained from 10 to 83 cents. In grain markets, prices offered by a number of Central Illinois elevators at the close of business Thursday were $3.39 to $3.44. for No.

2 yellow beans, up two to five cents: $2.17 for No. 2 yellow corn unchanged; $116 to $1.17 for No, j. wnne oais. aown lour to six eents; $2.27 for No. 2 hard wheat, up four cents.

There were no price changes Trl day in the local produce markets. Livestock Markets Macon County Marketing AsVn SCORCHY SMITH lANYBOPV LOl MV ROYAL PERSON fit? SWEAR TMAT I NOW, WHAT'S 1 MURT? ANPPGNITYARE SOUNPED LIKE A Aty fJTrf I VJ. TWEMATTERr iL YOU, I GUESS SWELL FROM ONE OF A (frfi 7 sm, eun vf tjs is I fount aree If look op 1 I as rmuet A10U6, VOl ML Wf VW Jl HEBE AtloJ I AC7MUV t7ED IMP OH, EXCUSE ME! MSr BE HOUSE7" JlKT OtIE MOPE, $7iLE'-7mm 7A lAV M7 OMFtfAGSAlDI mmm bEAT! -tm HID, FOB 7H IT TPtiE TfAT IXEP tXtlT SlAKY WORTH Z-P fines mte 'something T4! but fisiK tvvJBL up' JE3 llmeric1 J0 Hogs. 170-300 lbs J) rAi rj rougns. Decatur Livestock Co.

No quo tauons. CHICAGO LIVDSTOCK-Salable hogs 3.000. total 3.000; market opened slow but later trade and close moderately active; most sales weignts under 240 lbs around 25 higher; heavier weights and sows 23-30 higher with a few big weights up more: top 23.25; bulk good and choice 170-230 lbs 22.50-23 00 240-60 lbs 21.25-22 50; 270-90 lbs 20.00-21.25 300-75 lbs 18.75-20.00; most fat iows 350 lbs and over 16.50 17.75; good clearance. Salable cattle 600. total 600; sal able calves 200.

total 200; general trade steady to strong; supply all classes extremely light; only scattered lets and loads steers and fceifen included in fresh receipts: medium to top good steers 24.00-28.40; actual top 28.40 paid for load around 1.350 lbs beeves; common and medium heifers 19.00-23.50; good and choice grades practically absent; common and medium beef cows 17.25-20.00; few good cows to 22.00; canners and cutters 12.00-17.00; mostly 13.00-16.50; odd head weighty sausage and fat beef bulls up to 23 50; vealers dull, weak; only odd head choice vealers 27.00; practical top 26 00. Salable sheep 1.200. total everything sold early fully steady; even loads good and choice wooled lambs 21.75-22.00; latter price top Icr lambs weighing 105 lbs down; load or so around 107 to 109 lb averages 21.75: other classes scarce, nominally unchanged. Estimated salable livestock receipts for Saturday: Hogs 300, cattle 200. iheep 500.

INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Salable hogs 3.500. fairly active: Guest of honor yesterday at the Decatur Day Nursery Easter party was a live white rabbit furnished by Bernard Mc-Kean, a seven-year-old Day Nursery "alumnus." The reception committee for the honored guest was Judy Jackson and Stephen Hatch, standing, and seated left to right, Ralphie Burger. Henry Gaudsmith and Joy Bradley. There were 150 children at the party. (Herald and Review photo) 25 to 50 lower; over 230 lbs steady to North Main street, formerly the 75 lower, mostly 25 to 50 off' sows R.

Motorist Supply store. Net sales of Spiegel were $125. 75 to 1.25 off; 160-230 lbs 22.25-75; top 22.75: 240-270 lbs 20.50-22.00; 188.211 in 1947. compared with Sears Profit, Sales Go Up Sears, Roebuck Co. had the 270-300 lbs 19.25-20.75 300-350 lbs $110,577,607 in 1940.

18 130-150 lbs 19.25-22.00; 100-120 lbs 14.75-18.00; sows 450 lbs But net income was $2,231,9110 In 1947 (equal to an earning of $1.12 per share of common stock), com down 16.50-1725; few 17.50; over 450 lbs 16.00-50; stags 13.50-16.00. pared with $2,834,223 (equal to HOMER unnvvr largest sales and earnings in its history during the fiscal year ended Cattle. 600; calves. 600; limited $1.50 per common share.) Jan. 31.

1948. I I ITREMIUD6 ME OF THE TIME I SWOWDeO HOW HE DID IT OF VEDy DFFlCOLT TO CAfiDV ABE UWCOUJ PULLED A PI6-OUT (COURSE THIS ISU'T 6UWDAVM0RWIN6 OU A OviE-SlDEO COVJVEBSATICW. I cjff MOW TWA oF THE MUD OM A 1 AtoB OUO 3ALOPV ISN'T A PI6- 7 Sfc klOW, r-ey YSHOULOMTkMIXHOF) AMD I'M (JOT ABE LIUCOLU BUT) WWTIDCO? 9 a job foqaij oLutr-A Vcmwise jrsj practically rrS-CCN Bell Telephone Co. Declares Dividend Sales went up 23 per cent from the previous year, but net earn ings were up 7.6 per cent. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Sears, Roebuck operates a retail has declared a dividend of $1.10 on store in Decatur. its common stock. "Sales in early 1948 are meeting The dividend is payable March 160 lbs and above 50 higher; lighter weights 25 higher; 160-225 lbs 23 00; few loads 23.25; some held higher: 225-240 lbs 22.75; 240-260 lbs 22 25-50; 260-280 lbs 21.25-75; 280-300 lbs 20.25-75 300-400 lbs 19 25-75: 100-160 lbs 17.50-20.50; ows about steady at 16.75-18.00; choice lights to 18.50. Salable cattle 600: calves 300: steers and yearlings very dull, steady to 50 lower: odd head choice 29.00; medium to good 24.00-26. CO: several leads yearlings and couple loads heifers without relia-' ble bid.

undertone lower: cows weak at 21.50-22.00; canners and cutters 14.50-17.50: vealers our expectations, and we believe supply of cattle selling weak to unevenly lower; odd head and small lots of lightweight steers and heifers medium to good 23.00-26.00; cows very slow; common and medium 17.50-20.00; some good above; canners and cutter 13.00-17.00; lightweight thin canners 12.50 down to 10.00; bulls steady; medium and good sausage bulls 21.00-23.00; beef bulls 23.50; vealers 1.00 lower; good and choice 23.00-28.00; common and medium 14.00-22.00; culls 8.00-12.00. Sheep, 900; two loads clipped lambs due to arrive; virtually nothing on sale early; market 31 to stockholders of record on spring business will be larger than March 24. a year ago," company officials The company paid 50 cents each in September and December of last year. The September payment was commented in their report on the company's business for the fiscal year. the first since March, 1947, when 50 cents was paid.

THEY PREDICTED that "sup Before that time, the company ply will balance demand before the year's end on nearly all goods that had been paying quarterly divi nominal. dends of $1.50 a share on its com mon stock. fairly active, steady at 25.50-28.00. Salable sheep 500; about steady: load good and choice 92-lb fed Texas lambs 22.00: slaughter ewes quotable 11.00 down. OAKY DOAKS I Ff 1 5A WHO'sl I-WHEM I 11 111 U7J I PRINCESS M1FTI IS mG HERE.

YOU RICHT- I CRAZY THEYI we distribute, assuming economic conditions undergo no violent March sales have been ahead of last year's, President Fowler B. Produce Markets Terminal Pays The Illinois Terminal railroad has Ut7 WnwWAIT VDUR LOU5 5 WE A rZtJXZ COULD WT DO THAT 1 declared a quarterly dividend of SS5 f)KiK5sm EAST ST. LOUS LIVESTOCK Hogs. 6.500: uneven; 230 lbs down 18 cents a share on its common Decatur Produce Cream, 80c. Poultry, delivered Decatur, heavy hens, 27c; leghorn hens, 19c; cocks, 11c.

Eggs. No. 1, 40c; No. 2. 34c.

stock. It is payable on May 1 to stockholders of record April 9. Weather McLonnell said at a press conference, both in dollar volume and physical volume. He said the strictly Easter business was making only "a fair sales showing" but added that Easter business does not mean as much to Sears as to many other department and mail order companies. CHICAGO PRODUCE Live poul try: Unsettled; receipts 13 trucks (From S.

Weather Bureau) Dale Deibert Infant, Eight Months Old, Dies Janet D. Deibert, eight-monlh-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale A. prices unchanged to two cents a Illinois: Cloudy, windy and con- siderably cooler tonight and Satur- higher; F.o.b.: Fowl 31 day.

Low tonight 38 to 44. Hieh leKho fowl 22; roasters 45-46 TO SHOW HOW supply has-been catching up with demand, the old Saturday 45 to 50. fryers 44-45; broilers 42-44; Deibert of 337 Longview place, died at 5:20 p.m. yesterday in St. Mary's wholesale mar company reported that it returned Indiana: Showers and scattered i rotsters 18: hospital where she had been ill 135 million dollars to customers in thunderstorms ending early to ket: Ducklings and heavy ducks 36; small ducks 26.

I HIT ii I my 1 1 i i- i mi three days. 1947 because merchandise ordered LOU IK LIFE'S LIKE THAT She was born July 9, 1947, in Decatur. In addition to her parents she i leaves a sister Jacqueline at home I IKLIl (I I 1 Ihvl was not avilable. In 1946 the company returned 255 million dollars. Had the supply of merchandise been normal, 1947 "returned" would have been about 25 million dollars.

President McConnell said. La I II I I I and three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Diebert and Clarence C. Andrews, all of Decatur.

-I I LV)7 1 Services will be held at Moran's NEW YORK PRODUCE Butter steady, prices unchanged. Wholesale egg prices were slightly easier today. Eggs 29,064. easy. New York spot quotations follow: Midwestern: Mixed colors: Fancy heavyweights 47V4-484; extra 1 large 46 extra 2 large 46; extra 3 large 44-44 extra 1 medium 45 current receipts 43 dirties 42 Vi; checks 42.

Dressed poultry steady, prices unchanged Live poultry easy. By freight: None. night Cloudy and considerably cooler late tonight and Saturday. Windy. Missouri: Cloudy.

occasional drizzle or light rain north and extreme east today, colder today, much colder northwest. Saturday generally fair and cool. EXTENDED FORECAST Illinois Temperature will average 5 to 10 degrees normal. Normal maximum 51 north 61 south. Normal minimum 30 north 37 south.

Colder Saturday. Somewhat warmer Sunday. Warmer Monday and cocler Tuesday and Wednesday. Precipitation will average to 1 inch occurring mostly as rain about Tuesday. funeral home at 1:30 p.

m. Monday Burial will be in Graceland ceme Aldens Reports Sales 6 Per Cent Ahead tery. Friends may call at the fam ily home from 7 p. m. Saturday to Aldens, which owns the Monday noon.

Gebhart-Gushard dry goods store Staley Suit Changed here, reports sales for the first 10 weeks of 1948 average 6 per cent ahead of the same period of 1947 The profit rate remained about the same as in the 1947 period. iiqe tfj urn) iii 3miti jIPV President R. W. Jackson told stock Easter Sunrise Service For Sullivan Announced Sullivan March 25 (Staff) Easter sunrise services will be f.S. WEATHER AT 7 A.M.

TODAY Highest last 24 hours, lowest last night, and precipitation last 24 hours: To Madison County A change in venue to Madison county for a $43,000 suit brought by the A. E. Staley Mfg. against the Eclipse Feed Mills, of Highland, was granted in circuit court yesterday by Judge Martin E. Morthland.

The Staley company claims it lost $18,130 on sale of soybean oil meal contracted for but later refused by the Highland corporation. held at six o'clock Sunday morning in the Presbyterian church here. This will close a series of holy week services sponsored by the ministerial association. holders at the company's annual meeting in Chicago. He also explained why the company's net earnings dropped to $2.52 a share of common stock in 1947 from $7.10 a share in 1946.

He said one reason was the necessity for making drastic mark-downs to eliminate outmoded and high-priced merchandise which had accumulated during the critical shortage of merchandise. He said another reason was the rising merchandise costs that occurred after the fall, 1947 catalog was mailed. He said the company had to pay those increases when rebuying merchandise to fill customer orders. In addition, the complaint states the Staley Co. was damaged in the amount of $25,000.

Features of the Sunday morning service are a sermon by Rev. Edward Van Ham on "Behold Your Risen Lord." and special music. The Presbyterian choir will sing "Before The Dawn," a trumpet solo 'The World is Waiting for The Sunrise will be played by Ted Davis, and Clyde Patterson. that's all a baby chick i Mt. Vernon 76 Effingham 70 56 .53 Molme 12 55 .04 Peoria 70 55 .02 Rantoul 69 48 .25 Springfield Airpt 69 56 .22 Amanllo 76 42 AtlanU 79 58 Billings 35 21 .28 Denver 62 33 Detroit 53 37 Duluth 38 32 .69 Kansas City 77 53 .78 Miami 82 73 .18 Minneapolis 70 52 .53 New Orleans 76 70 New York 55 35 Omaha 76 42 Phoenix B9 38 Rapid City 50 23 St Louis 75 57 1.01 Salt Lake City 45 30 .31 San Diego 61 43 San Francisco 54 39 .03 Seattle 53 39 .19 ate.

That's why it's im porta nt to food a fd with GROWTH POWER. I will sing "Christ Arose." A. C. Clark is director of the music for "Never mind a newspaper. lady I rot on old clothes! the service.

Ministers of the community who will participate in this service. CASKI and who have participated in the other services during the week, are WASHING MACHINE PARTS and WRINGER ROLLS Any Male Washa Rev. Delmar Tallcy of the First AH Feeds and Feed Ingredients, Poultry Supplies and Remedies. E. M.

CRAWFORD GO. 622 North Water Phone 3-3627 CLEAN HEAT Authorized Weir-Meyer and Home Furnace Dealer BARRY'S BETTER HEATING SERVICE Phone 3-4312 1345 North Water CERTIFIED CLINTON SEED OATS Purity 99.Sl-o Germination t7o Bauqtd in New Bat Per Bushel $2.25 Macon County Seed Co. IMMt Main Hard Road Phone 2-S411 Spiegel Sales Up, Profit Is Down Spiegel. and its subsidiaries made less profit on more sales in 1947 than they did in 1946. The company owns and operates a retail store in Decatur at 356 Christian church.

Rev. Joseph Hoy of the Baptist church. Rev. Joseph George's Washer Shop BURLAP COTTON Bf.GS DECATUR aaO PROCESSINO PLANT 3-3674 620 Union Oocatur Partridge of the Methodist church 144 a tt ItM a-Taa and Rev. Mr.

Van Harn..