Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-24
PRICE
Choice Hogs Now Selling In OF
tumwa at 3d. 80.
A TEN CENT RAISE IS ADDED TODAY
Scarcity OF Porkers in the Country
Given as Reason for the Continued
Acknowledgements is Not Unusual
General East End News.


[From Saturdays DailyJ
The owner of carload of hogs to-
day has small fortune. The top
price for good hogs offered by John
Morrell and company is $3.50 per hun
dred pounds. This is a new high
mark for this season, and in fact is
the highest price paid in Ottumwa for
many years. That the figures will
stop there is not generally believed.
| Where they will go cannot be told.
Several conditions are ascribed to this
state of affairs One of them, and that
which is causing the great jump in
prices is the fact that farmers nearly
to a unit, during the hottest and dry
est part of last summer run their
stock off to market, being afraid to
hold over looking for a scarcity of
feed. That they were unnecessarily
frightened is well demonstrated now.
There is plenty of feed in the country,
but the supply of stock is rather limit
ed. The demand while large is not
unusual, and the terrific jump in prices
is ascribed to the scarcity of hogs.
Yesterday morning the top price was
S6.65. Later in the day five cent
raise was added to this, making it
$3.50. Today ten cents more was add
ed on making it $3.50 and a new rec
ord.
The movement OF hogs during the
week has been rather free. John
Morrell and Company packed $500
against $500 the week previous. At
the same time it is not what is want
ed, but it begins to look as though an
other raise would have to be put to
the market before the movement gets
general enough to cause any percep-
tible impression on the local market.
Packing House Items.
j. H. Morrell was in Chicago this
week on business.
VIM. Cline has returned to work, af-
ter short illness.
Dan Vaughn has returned to work
after a brief illness.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Kidd Thursday.
Joe Seistrand is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever at his home on Hayne
street.
Major T. P. spilman has returned
home from Canada, where he has been
on business.
Mrs. Will Hines was called to He'd
rick Monday by the illness Of her sis
ter, Miss Fisher.
A. J. Wind, assistant storekeeper.
I is enjoying his annual vacation with
friends near Foster.
Joe Smith, of the lard refinery, has
been appointed night Waterman and
entered upon his new duties Monday.
Joe Erbacher, weighmaster in the
green meat cellar, has gone to Wat
erloo on a weeks business trip.
joe Boyles, who was formerly en-
ployed by Morrell & Company as ice
foreman, was in the city Saturday on
business.
Andrew Hill, of the killing depart
ment, has been appointed district
deputy in the NJ w. A., with head
quarters at Centerville.
Roy Smith was in Galesburg Thurs
day attending the wedding of his Sis
ter who was married to Edgar A.
Vreeland, formerly of this city
A. T. Gardner, chief clerk in the
Office of John Morrell e Company, has
returned to work, after spending his
vacation with friends near Oskaloosa.
Clarence McMichaels, head store
keeper, has returned from the east,
where he spent his vacation. He Wis
tied the Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo.
The Ladies' Aid society of the East
End Presbyterian church will meet at
the church next Friday afternoon at
O'Clock. All the members are cordially
invited to attend.
An old fashioned spelling school
will be given at the Mission building i'll
River View addition next Friday ev-
ening. Three prizes will be given for
the best spoilers.
f. l.. Heaiy, city salesman, is in
Galesburg for week in place of Ed
gar Vreeland, who is enjoying his
honeymoon. Mr.. Healys place is fill
ed by Bernard Allott.
At the meeting of the East End ell
tertainment committee, which was
held Thursday evening, it was decided
to reopen the reading room, and also
give series of entertainments, con-
sisting of talks by prominent men, sol
diers and physicians, during the win
ter.