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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1928
Page
3
The article outlines four essentials for storing sweet potatoes: maturity before digging, careful handling, thorough curing, and uniform temperature. It describes methods to judge maturity, cautions on vines after frost, and details pit and storage house designs for farmers in the South, including ventilation, heating, and proper construction to prevent decay.
Local Ada produce dealers paid 18 cents a pound for hens and 22 cents for fryers. Wall Street slumped as heavy selling followed an initial rally with loan calls around 10.6 million dollars. Bear pressure eased after the call money rate dipped to 7 percent and Montgomery Ward jumped about 12 points. Total U S. stock volume neared 4.6 million shares.
Kansas City market notes list eggs steady with firsts 29 cents and seconds 25. Butter steady at 56 cents creamery, 46 1/2 cents in lax quantities. Butterfat unchanged at 4 1/2 cents, premium extra quantity 3 cents, packing butter 3 cents. Poultry unchanged with hens 24 cents, springs 24, broilers 29, geese 1 11/2 cents, old ducks 11 8 1/2 cents, young ducks 13 4 1/2 cents, roosters 8 1/2 cents.
Chicago.Hundreds of millions of bushels from Canada depress prices with Argentine rains and Australia showers reducing export demand. Wheat closes unsettled with slight declines while corn and oats show mixed moves. Spot quotes list No 2 hard 1.17 to 1.18, No 2 mixed corn 96 3/4 to 97 1/4 cents.
Livestock market in Oklahoma City reports cattle at 1500 head and calves 900 with demand active. Slaughter and butcher weights show varied prices from $7.50 to $11.00 for cows and heifers while hogs trend 25 to 35 cents lower with top around $10.90 and sows $8.75 to $9.50.
Hogs 13 500 head uneven and lower by 35 to 75 cents with underweights most affected and top at 11.65 for 220 pound hogs. Butchers 10.85 to 11.50, packing sows 9.25 to 10.25, stock pigs 9.25 to 10.50. Cattle and calves: 15 000 cattle and 2 500 calves, slow to weak. choice 1 073 pounds 17.50, steers 1 300 to 1 500 pounds 13.25 to 17.60, heifers 850 pounds down 12.50 to 16.50, cows 8.50 to 12.00, vealers milk fed 8.00 to 14.50, stocker feeders 11.00 to 13.75. Sheep 12 000 with lambs slow around 110 lower, sheep steady. western lambs top 13.90, lambs 92 pounds down 12.75 to 13.90.
New York reports a further advance in cotton prices with November-December futures up 24 points to 19.07, 179 points above Wednesday's low. Gains attracted selling and late afternoon trading cooled to modest declines of 7 to 10 points as the market quieted.
New Orleans reports a fall in October, December, and January cotton futures from intraday highs as frost feared results weaken and profit taking appears. Exports reached 13,116 bales on the day, while prices dipped 25 to 29 points from session peaks.
New Orleans spot cotton ends steady as prices fall 15 points with 7,946 sales and rising receipts to 8,991. Low middling 17.68, middling 18.18 to 18.58. New York spot cotton quiet at middling 18.90 on Sept 25.
Efton Dixon aged three, son of Mr. and Mrs. C D Dixon, died this morning at 3 at the family home three miles west of Ada. Funeral services and burial were held this afternoon at 3 at Magee cemetery near Stratford.
Joseph H. Martin 71 of 230 East Tenth died Thursday at 1 45 PM. Funeral from Criswell parlors at 2 PM conducted by Rev A N Averyt. Interment in Rosedale cemetery. Survived by widow three sons Onie Henryetta Wilmer Ada Harry California and daughter Marie Ada. Family had lived in Ada 14 years.
Mrs Flora Belle Standridge aged 47 wife of Dr C C Standridge died this morning at 3 o'clock at the family home 1130 E Eighth Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 o'clock from the family home Rev C E Wilson pastor of the First Presbyterian church officiating survivor includes husband and three daughters Lela Ola Standridge and Mrs Thelma Sorrels all of Ada
W P McCoy aged 57 died Friday night at 9 o clock at the contractors camp on the new Allen highway northeast of Ada. He had been in charge of the work for the past month. The body was taken to the Arlington Texas home for funeral services today.
C E Henry aged 40 died this morning at 7 o clock at his Center home. Funeral services and interment set for Tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock at the local cemetery.
The New Menace, an anti Catholic weekly, was barred from the mails by Postmaster Mark Mathes for alleged indecent language attacking Gov. Smith of New York. Washington issued instructions lifting the ban today as Charles Murphy received the directive.
Editor planned protest after a postmaster rejected mailing of an issue. The post office department later ruled the article could not be barred. It charged that the Democratic candidate Al Smith was manipulated by the Pope, arguing the church seeks a Catholic president.
East Central campus buzzes four days before the opening gridiron tilt with McPherson College of Kansas. Athletic Director Polly Wallace has the new Tiger field plowed graded and leveled, and the road to the stadium improved. Jap Haskell will referee, Bill Cross umpire, and Bob Sumter headlinesman, with lineup to be announced.
The disqualification mandamus suit against Seminole county district judge George W. Crump will resume in Wewoka tomorrow. Seminole county attorney Homer Bishop asks the Oklahoma Supreme Court to disqualify Crump from presiding over the Seminole county grand jury.
Chicago police report 25 arrests and two women swept up in three weekend raids led by Deputy Commissioner Stege. Confessions linked crimes from a murder during a holdup to the Davis hotel robbery and payroll heists at the Herald and Examiner and Tribune. Charles Stanley emerges as a key figure, with ties to Younglove’s death and the payroll robberies.
Tulsa doctors plan a delicate brain surgery on 11 year old Bennie Elliott to remove bone pressing on his brain. Since a railway accident six years earlier he has been called the town's bad boy and authorities hope the operation ends his trouble making. Bennie’s parents consent after repeated failures of county and state officials to reform him.
In a defense of religious tolerance and against misrepresentation, Hoover’s southern campaign head Horace A Mann cites a false story about an anti Catholic outlet and a detective. He denounces the claim as a frame up and endorses the Republican stance on religious liberty.
Enid Oklahoma September 24 a Garfield county grand jury begins a wide inquiry into county government affairs and the death of Gene McLaughlin a 14 year old Garber boy found dead August 30 in a barn. Foreman R A Champlin leads eighteen witnesses are summoned. No AG aide yet.
Earl Rowland of Wichita John Livingston of Aurora and Robert Cantwell of Duncan were named official winners of Classes A B and C in the New York to Los Angeles air derbies at Mines Field. Livingston won the largest prize money with 12410, while Rowland received 8210 and Cantwell 7155. William Drury 22 won the International race from Windsor Ontario and 5750, Kenneth Whyte earned 2500.
Charley Rose remained in Pontotoc county jail this morning on a petit larceny charge filed by Justice of the Peace T. O. Cullins. He is accused of stealing an auto wrench and a pump from Cad Patterson.
Russell St. Clair Beitzel was found guilty of murdering Barbara Mauger in Hollywood and withdrew his insanity defense, leaving the death penalty mandatory. A new trial motion will be filed Monday as sentencing proceeds in Los Angeles.
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