The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-07

| The Mcclure elevator at Eldorado
reported paying s1.21 for a jag or two
of wheat on Monday afternoon, and
said if the cash market followed the
! Chicago advance in options on tues
day morning they might raise tnat
price a trife. Owing to recent ad-
vances they were paying 90 cents per
! 100 pounds for corn at Eldorado on
: Monday. on a strictly shipping basis
Mr.. Mcclure said that corn was more
or less a surplus crop around Eldorado,
and was sold as such, with purchases
made regularly on shipping merits ana
] not according to what local feeders
might bid; more corn being raised than
consumed in his buying district.
! Charles Carpenter of the Richmond
Roller Mills, announces an advance OF
5 cents on wheat, making the buying
price S120 on No 2 red.
Lewis Offers $500 Reward
| Eugene Lewis, owner Of the ele-
vator at Cottage Grove, says that he
is now offering a reward of $500 for
the arrest and conviction of the party.
or parties, who stole % bushels of
! cloverseed on the night of Jan. 81. He
has an idea that the bags were loaded
i
is glad that the thieves evidently had
too small truck to take on a larger
load.
Mr.. Lewis says but little wheat Is
left in the Cottage Grove section. He
was bidding $120 for wheat and AZ
cents for corn on Tuesday morning.
Oats have all been marketed, he says.
except the stocks held on the farms for
feeding Coal trade has been just
fair, of late" he says.
Lewisvile Wheat All Sold
Il don't know of a farmer who has
% bushels of wheat on the place" said
Nv. O. Chance of the Lewisville ele-
vator "As there is none left to buy
around here. our bid prices cut no ice.
We are paying So cents for corn and
80 cents for oats Our coal trade has
been better than usual, during the last
four or five weeks" Asked as TO cuts
in wholesale costs of coal, Mr.. Chance
said that now and then some operators
: had taken off % cents per ton on equal
qualities, but in the main cost had
been holding steady.
Where Corn Brings 81
1t is possible, of course, that you
, never have heard of the village of AL
martha. Ozark county, Arkansas. If
not. it is no cause for worry, as there
Iare many in the same fix, all over the
world
The only reason for our placing AL
martha on the map in this column to-
day is the fact that right now this
!, Ozark town is a good place to sell corn,
if our farmers can make delivery and
a good place to buy wheat if it isn't
= all sold. A letter received in Rich
; mond on Monday, addressed to a
nephew named Moore. tells that corn
is bringing 81 per bushel at Almartha
while wheat is selling at 80 cents.
1t is not unlikely that some Of our
readers will recall the writer Of that
letter His name is John D. Slender
who was born in Richmond long
enough ago to have taken a hand in
the fuss in the sixties and thus belongs
to the G. A. R. Mr.. Shendler's early
dav farming was done on what is now
part of the site of Wichita. his next
, farm being located close to Fort Scott
also in Kansas.
Selling Eggs by Weight
A big Chicago retail store last Week
a mt A sign in a window advertising
that they were selling eggs by weight
f new departure The sign read
4 Eggs Sold by the Pound. One doz
en- one-pound eggs, 90 cents; one doz
en- one and a half-pOund eggs, :!
/ cents"
! There are other retailers IN Chicago
4 who have come to realize that dOzeI
a large eggs are worth more than doz
o en- small ones, but this is the first in
Y stance we have noted where eggs arr
: actually being sold by weight. Out OF
a the west coast this has long been tn
@ rule
O Our readers are invited to give u
! their views: Are you in favor of sell
ing eggs by weight, instead of b,
# count? A postal card will do.
q Hogs Up; Pork Steady.
+. In spite of the advance in hogs il
4 January the price of pork cuts re
= NAMED practically unchanged, pack
= ers state. They also indicate tina
they expect lower prices for hogs, i
o their statement that they ARE no
= buying hogs for storage meats, Blu
4 are content to dispose of them in til
- form Of fresh pork" The foreign d.