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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1921
Page
7
Public notice encouraging readers to place want ads in The Herald to reach many readers. It advertises a low per word rate and stresses the department’s effectiveness over other newspapers.
Receipts across markets show mixed tones with hogs in Omaha steady to higher and cattle steady to uneven. Kansas City reports firm to strong demand for vealers and yearlings while sheep and lambs show slower trading and lower bids in places, with scattered gains for feeding lambs. In St Joseph hogs and cattle receipts indicate steady to higher packer bids and cautious activity across divisions.
Cattle prices in Omaha on Saturday remained mostly steady with small sales and light receipts. Cattle classes were generally firm, with steers up 25 to 50 cents for the week and yearlings reaching 10.95, while cows and heifers showed modest gains. Light stockers rose up to 25 cents, though fleshy feeders were weaker by about five cents.
Beef and dairy cattle bids include choice beeves $28.60 to $35.00, yearlings $7.25 to $10.45, grass cattle $7.00 to $7.75, cows and heifers around $4.00 to $5.50, and stockers $6.00 to $6.85. Hogs mixed packing and heavy hogs steady to 10 cents higher with tops near $9.20 and most $6.25 to $7.50. Sheep and lamb values steady to lower with fat lambs around $6.50 to $8.00 and feeder lambs $5.50 to $6.50. Kansas City market reports receipts and price moves across cattle hogs and sheep for the period.
In Omaha on September 1 cash wheat offered higher by 1 2c with most grains advancing. Corn up 2ic, white 1c, yellow and mixed modest gains, rye up 142 2c, barley little changed. Wheat and corn price ranges listed for No 1 to No 5 grades and various mixes and durums. The closing note mentions a shift to modern poetry not tied to market data.
Gering celebrated the opening of the new Gering-Scou Mail bridge a 24 foot wide reinforced concrete span with an S shaped approach. The $1,400,000 structure now carries main traffic, surpassing other state bridges. A crowd of about 3,000 attended with music, stunts, and pony races as the first regular passenger train from Lyman arrived, and a daily 7:00 a.m. departure from Gering to Lyman was set to run until land lottery drawings.
Grover Sutton, living about twelve miles south of Alliance in Morrill county, was sentenced to from one to twenty years in the state penitentiary in district court at Bridgport for arson. He pleaded guilty after viewing his farm buildings with an Alliance agent, valued at about 4700 dollars with 2000 dollars of insurance, burned in July. His nephew George Sutton, living near Bayard, confessed to setting the fire and was placed in jail. Grover was brought to Bridgport for the towine, denying guilt until confronted with his nephew.
Notice warns that trespassers are prohibited on the south half of the M4 near the 35 north, range 44, west of the sixth P.M. in Box Butte County Nebraska. All trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Two youths in a car turned at Minatare's main intersection spilling a bottle of home liquor. The strong odor drew in Chief Fred Conklin who chased the car but the couple escaped. The Free Press withholds names.
Mayor T D Deutch asserts a flood of job seekers drawn by a North Platte valley ad for 2000 beet field and sugar factory jobs fuels crime and strains local resources. He cites low county agent applications and vows action by sugar firms to halt the campaign and remove posters.
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