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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth cattle receipts 5000 with bees and calves priced from 1.75 to 9. Bulls and yearlings reach 9. Cattle categories include cows cutters and heifers. Hog receipts 600 with mids 7.25 to 7.40 and packing sows 5.25 to 6.25. Sheep receipts 1000 with lambs 12 to 15.28 and feeders 10 to 11. Goats priced 2.50 to 3.50.
Kansas City market figures show 5,000 cattle and 6,000 sheep with higher hog values. Cattle includes calves at 12.75 top steer prices around 10.78, beef cows 4.50 to 7.50, stockers 6.50 to 8, hogs 6.80 to 7.58, sheep led by best wooled lambs at 16.25 and clipper lambs at 14.00.
Wichita cattle receipts totaled 600 head mainly stockers with good demand and a steady market. Prices ranged from 6.10 to 8.50 for butcher steers and 4.00 to 6.50 for cows while stockers and feeders reached up to 7.40. Hog receipts reached 1,100 with steady bids. top hogs brought 7.05 and best sows 6.25 to 6.50.
East St Louis April 30 Hogs 14 000 higher choice butchers 7 35 to 7 45 pigs 6 00 to 6 75 packer sows 6 20 to 6 35 Cattle 3 000 strong native beef steers 8 25 to 9 50 Texas steers 6 50 to 6 75 light vealers 8 50 to 9 00 heifers 9 25 beef cows 5 25 to 6 75 bologna bulls 4 50 to 5 00 Sheep 1 000 steady clipped lambs 14 00 springers 15 50 to 16 50 fat clipped ewes 6 50
Amaro produce listing shows poultry prices for hens of various weights from 16 to 18 cents per pound, plus roosters ducks geese and turkeys with set rates. Dairy section lists butter clean and mold free at 16 cents and eggs at 5.55 dollars per dozen.
Amarillo grain brief shows Great West Mill and Elevator paying local growers for wheat basis No 1 hard per mile maize per 10 lbs Kaffircorn per 100 lbs and oats per bushel with details incomplete and no further terms provided.
Miss Jewell M. Davidson city secretary and tax collector returns to her desk in Amarillo after a two week vacation with friends in El Paso She says she enjoyed Old Mexico but is glad to be back in Amarillo The Rev C E Griswold of Second Baptist church calls a special church meeting tonight after prayer meeting attendees urged to attend
Chicago livestock receipts on April 30 totaled hogs 19000 cattle 8000 and sheep 9000. Hogs ranged from 6.00 to 7.40 with choice butchers 7.25 to 7.40 and sows 6.60 to 6.75. Cattle included steers 8.50 to 10.50 and fat stock and heifers 6.50 to 8.25. Sheep saw lambs at 14 to 16 and ewes 5.50 to 7.50 with steady demand.
The New Orleans cotton market opens January with prices around 1.800 cents per pound. Traders note steady demand from exporters and mills amid light buying and seasonal lull in activity.
James L. Powell of Muskogee Oklahoma district governor of the Texas and Oklahoma Kiwanis clubs addressed the Amarillo Kiwanis at a noon meeting. He urged unselfish leadership and civic ethics as future guiding forces. He noted Kiwanis growth since Detroit founding with 86 000 members in 28 districts. Amarillo district has 4 000 members and 56 clubs. Virginia Griggs read, Simon Trulove played violin with Mrs Edward Glenn. both were encored. Rev Milo Atchinson said farewell to fellow Kiwanians.
White Plains New York April 30 authorities probing the poisoning of Mrs Clarence O Baring seek Miss Bildred Beam 27 daughter of a Marshfield Maine sea captain She left Elizabeth New Jersey with her mother last Monday where she taught school The district attorney said he only wants to talk with her as a potential witness The husband testified before the grand jury he poisoned his wife to spur her to travel to California for recovery He remains jailed and admitted placing poison germs in his wife s food
New York April 30 Franklin D Roosevelt former assistant secretary of the navy was chosen chair man of a state committee to promote Gov Alfred Smith for the Democratic presidential nomination. Los Angeles April 30 Mrs Katherine Petty sister of former Secretary of the Interior Fall will appear for hearing before the lunacy commission Monday. She was arrested Monday night for carrying concealed weapons.
Austin April 30 The state anti pass law and its classification of persons allowed free railroad passes was upheld today by the supreme court in a case that has been pending for nine years.
Hanson post of the American Legion will repair flag decoration sockets on curbing in front of merchants. A repair crew will be sent when weather permits. Merchants should not tamper with plugs until staff arrives. Additional flags will be ordered. inquiries to J C Sebastain, post commander. Plans for a July 4 celebration were discussed.
Preliminary work on pavement repair at Seventh and Taylor, Seventh and Polk, and Sixth and Taylor streets is complete. Weather permitting, crews will begin full repair. a temporary filling at Seventh and Taylor will be renewed as needed. City Manager Jeff Bartlett announced. Other asphalt street repairs will start once warm weather arrives.
Eldorado Wisconsin April 30 Joe Hatler 30 shot and killed Frank Dimel 25 on a plan to wed Hatlers former wife Virginia Dimel was set to marry today Both miners Hatler then killed himself A theatre notice for Mademoiselle Midnight at Mission theater accompanies the item
Shoppers from Plainview visit the Globe office while Mr and Mrs George Stedgar announce the birth of George Stedgar Jr A fort Worth engineer John Gulledge earns an annual pass without a disciplinary mark Great Western Cigar shifts from retail to manufacturing at San Jacinto Heights with higher sales reported
The Republican sub committee on arrangements in Cleveland unanimously ratified Congressman Theodore B. Burton of Cleveland as temporary chairman and keynote speaker for the June national convention, following party leaders in Washington.
Jeff Bartlett will hear Saturday afternoon a charge by James Sorenson a farmer that several of his horses were driven into the city to be impounded. Sorenson protested a $1 per head pound fee and said he can summon witnesses to the incident for questioning before Bartlett.
Real estate and business property listed for trade or exchange. Includes $16 500 cash value deals, brick business houses with 15 000 equity trades, 20 western town lots, and 60 000 brick property in Panhandle towns. Cash buyer offers include 2000 ready cash and first lien notes. Blackburn Blog. Phone 501.
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