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LIVE STOCK United States Department of Agriculture. CHICAGO, Dec. 000 to head, including direct; closed below weights shippers 10,000; estimated Light choice, 140 160 200 250 350 pounds, $8.00 Packing 500 pounds, slaughter good and choice, 100 130 pounds, $8.00 fed 25c to mostly 25c lower better generous proportion comprise selling downward 900 to 1,300 600 pounds, choice, 550 comcommon and Bulls yearlings good choice (beef), cutter to medium. (milk common, Sheep- head: killclasses mostly lower; some lamb sales off fat pounds down. and 150 pounds choice, feeding and to pounds, 500 head; active: steady close last Best others. $4.50 steady heavies nominally down 800 steady: 300 mostly hogs 300 pounds best lambs bid absent Butter, Eggs and Poultry. NEW YORK, receipts. 4,457 firmer higher than packing stock current make. No. 24@ No. Eggs. receipts. cases: steady mixed colored packed selected 45@46c medium refrigerator extra firsts, seconds 18@20c medium firsts, hennery do. extra nearby western hennery selected. 44@46c average 41@42c Patreated do extra firsts Poultry, steady: chickens. by freight. express. 19@26c freight. 19@20c: express. 19@26c turkeys. freight. by express, 30c; by 16@18c dressed chickens. fresh, western ducks, CHICAGO. -Butter. 31c; 30@31c; firsts, steady: extra fresh firsts, current refrigerator future refrigerator standards. January, Rice. NEW YORK. Rough Clean rice, receipts, 2.670 bags Bank Suspensions. NORWALK Conn., Dec. (A).-The Central Fairfield Trust company of this city was suspended by State Bank E. Shippee The bank is forbidden to pay out funds or receive deposits until a court hearing held. Christmas club checks to the amount of $30,000 which were to be received by depositors today have been held up. The bank's are the result heavy in commercial deposits. BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., Dec. The First National bank here did not open this morning and announcement was in posted that the bank had closed pending the Farmers Bank and Trust company Coincident with the announcement officers the two institutions went into session behind closed doors. The First National and the Farmers Bank Trust company are the only banking institutions in Blytheville. STEPHENS Dec. The Peoples bank here suspended today for a five-day period. Officials said the closing was for reorganization possible consolidation with the Bank of Stephens. for the proposed merger are in progress, it was announced. Illinois banks were closed today, two of them as an apparent outgrowth the failure week of the Benton First National bank, of Marion, and the State closed their doors, leaving both without banking facilities other banks that failed to open today in widely separated communities were the State bank, of Rock Grove, and the Marine bank, of Carthage HARDY Ark., Dec. Farmers bank tonight announced suspension of payments for the five-day period alby Arkansas law. President A. M. Metcalfe said he hoped to reopen. The bank here. is capitalized at statement showed deposits of $106,000
