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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1929
Page
2
Ada merchants plan a Wednesday closure to let employees and patrons finish last minute shopping before Christmas Eve. The post office will open 9 to 10 am for general delivery, with no regular deliveries except parcels post. Several banks announce dividend payments to depositors. timing varies by bank with some awaiting court approval.
Ada citizens forwarded a total of 228.10 dollars to the Red Cross at McAlester with gifts from Mrs. Landerking Canadian Water Co King Delaney Whitaker Rebee Water Co K D and H Oil Co Mr and Mrs Luke B Doggn Se Men's Bible Class Baptist church and others.
Helen Wills the women’s tennis champion married Frederick S Moody Jr at St. Clement’s chapel Berkeley. The service conducted by Rev Lindley H Miller included only six guests. The couple planned to depart aboard the yacht Galatea for a honeymoon.
Oklahoma City December 23. The state banking department issued checks totaling 17771357 to depositors of six of twelve banks that closed after the death of H A McCauley. He headed most banks and held key stock. Depositors of the First State Bank of Vian received checks, marking a department record payout.
New York stock market fell sharply with active issues dropping 1 to 12 points amid heavy selling and 3.7 million shares traded. Rallies flickered but new offerings capped recoveries as leaders like U S Steel American Can Johns Manville General Electric and American Foreign Power resisted further liquidation.
Oklahoma City livestock market reports list Dec 23 AP figures with cattle 906, calves 300, hogs 800. Prices show steers and yearlings around 11 to 12 dollars, heifers and cows varied, while Kansas City tallies 9,000 head cattle and 4,000 sheep with high choice weights and prices near 14 dollars for heavy steers and 12 to 13 dollars for yearlings and vealers.
The Kansas City market notes on December 23 show eggs Firsts at 44 cents and Seconds at 32. Butter creamery prices are 42 cents in large quantities with 41 cents, butterfat at 30 cents, and packing butter at 19 cents. Poultry prices list hens at 21 cents, rollers at 19 cents, roosters at 11 cents, and springs at 11 cents.
Chicago grain notes show free selling from eastern sources depressing wheat prices. Export demand dwindled to about 200000 bushels with visible U S supplies at 821000 bushels. Kansas winter wheat seeding reaches 92 percent, above last year and ten year averages. Corn and oats move modestly, provisions mixed with small declines and gains.
In New Orleans and New York, cotton prices moved with volatility ahead of Christmas. January, March, and May contracts in New Orleans rose from early lows as trade buying and better technicals supported later months. Exports for the day reached 4,750 bales.
New Orleans December 23 spot cotton closed steady with no change in quotations. Sales reached 2 210 bales with low middling priced at 15.46 per unit.
In New York on December 28, spot cotton stayed steady with middling priced at $17.25 per hundredweight. Receipts reached 4,092 while stock stood at 518 of 862 bales.
Two late running trains the Louisiana Limited from Shreveport to New Orleans and the Texas Limited from Houston to New Orleans collided at Avondale, pinning a fireman under one engine and scalding an engineer. No passengers were reported hurt as engines left the track and the Texas and Pacific crossing failed to stop, throwing the Southern Pacific locomotive off the line.
Washington December 23 The fall pig crop of 1929 as reported by 65 000 farmers was nearly the same as 1928 for the United States total 5 4 per cent smaller overall. The corn belt showed a 4 per cent gain while other regions mainly the south offset the rise. Sows bred to farrow next spring rose 6 per cent nationally and 5 per cent in the corn belt. The Agriculture Department notes a likely small drop in sows farrowed next spring.
Miller D. Hay, state chief mine inspector, led an examination by a special committee at the Old Town Mining Co mine in McAlester where an explosion last Tuesday killed 61 of 66 miners.
Doors opened at 9 45 am to reveal a crowd of Ada children all under 45 years of age. About 1700 attended the Christmas party featuring four comedies and two sound and two silent pictures. Children sat two to a seat or lined the aisles as staff supervised orderly behavior.
An investigating party including officials from the U S Bureau of Mines and local mining experts, along with company representatives, examines the blast site. The team aims to complete the inquiry later today.
Union Pacific reports injuries to the fireman and engineer of eastbound No. 128 from Denver to Kansas City after a collision with westbound No. 21 at Gorham Kansas. A baggageman aboard No. 128 was also injured when No. 21 struck the engine as it moved into the clear.
Officials of the Pres ton Bridge company meet the state highway commission to argue a sale of the toll bridge south of Woodville Oklahoma with Oklahoma and Texas. A price dispute centers on 110000 demand versus a 100000 offer while Osage Pawnee Harmon and Kiowa counties push road improvements and drainage on state No 25 between Pawhuska and Bartlesville.
New York December 23 John D Rockefeller Jr gave 100000 dollars to endowment funds announced by Rev Dr C P Wright executive secretary of the Northern Baptist ministers and missionaries board. The gift lifted his total contributions to 5500000 with interest supporting retirees from ministry under the fund's care.
A brief notice calls for support to active service members and others in need of financial assistance, urging community help and charitable action to address economic hardship among these groups.
President Hoover will dine on wild turkey again for Christmas. Secretary Lawrence Richey shot two fine birds in Virginia over the weekend, weighing 29 and 19 pounds, to be roasted in the White House kitchen for Wednesday evening. The president already had wild turkey for Thanksgiving.
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