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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
6
Hogs 1,050, lower bulk 13 to 13.29 dollars. Cattle 600 head incl 100 calves. Steady cattle values with beef steers 4 to 19, cows and heifers 4 to 9.50, bulls 3 to 4, veal calves 5 to 9.50. Stockers and feeders 3 to 7.75. Sheep 200 higher, lambs 12.50 to 13.78, ewes 4 to 5.
August 4 cattle run shows 8,500 head including cattle stockers feeders and butcher stock. Trade slow to steady on stockers and feeders while butcher stock stays fully steady amid moderate demand and steady prices. Omaha market observers note overall even activity with stock movements remaining cautious.
Chicago market notes report hog sales at 23 990 head uneven trading with top at 14 dollars while sows and pigs varied. Cattle 10 099 traded slowly with yearlings rising to 15 50 and vealers 12 to 12 40. Sheep 18 000 slow with native lambs 14 50 to 14 75 and westerns at 15 25.
Kansas City market notes show 4,000 calves at 8 dollars, steers 12.25, yearlings 11.40, grassers 8 to 9.25, fat cows 3.50 to 5.50, heifers 4.50 to 7.59, veal top 11, bulls 4 to 4.50. Hog sale 4,000 head steady with top 14.60 and packers’ sows 12 to 12.25, stock pigs 12.50 to 13.26. Sheep 6,000 head steady with lambs 14.25 to 14.78 and Colorado ewes 7.99, Louisiana wethers 7.25.
East St. Louis reports mixed cattle hog and sheep trading with hogs around 14.00 to 14.75 per hundredweight and heavies near 14.90, cattle dull with western steers about 11.26, cows 4.59 to 5.60, and lambs around 14.50 to 14.75 while ewes and other sheep show softness in demand.
Oklahoma City on August 6 reports cattle sales with 1900 head: steers to 7.59, butcher cows about 5, calves to 8.00. Hogs 590 head market lower, top 15.59. Bulk hogs 14.00 to 14.25, stockers 10 to 11, packing sows 7.59 to 11.75.
Fort Worth cattle and hog prices show mixed levels on August 6. Calves and beeves range $9.50 to $89.50 with stockers $3.25 to $8.50, hogs top $12.55, pork and retail figures $12.50 to $13.26, sheep and lambs around $10 to $12, and various categories for feeders yearlings and sows listed with mixed quotes.
Chicago wheat and corn prices are listed for No 2 red at 1.69 dollars and No 1 hard around 1.63 to 1.65 dollars. No 2 mixed corn trades near 1.97 dollars, No 2 yellow at 1.08 to 1.09 dollars. Mats No 2 white around 48 cents and No 3 white near 41 to 43 cents.
New Orleans spot cotton closed steady with seven points up. Sales on the spot ranged from 118 to arrive 150, with low middling at 22.9 percent, middling 23.90, and good middling 24.40. Receipts totaled 120 and stock stood at 42,9109.
Grain prices from Amarillo show No 1 Kafir at 1.55 per 100 pounds and Milo Maize at 1.80 to 1.90 per 100 pounds with other listed items including Barley at 0.65 and oats near 0.70 in a dated market snippet.
The Rock Island lines announce round trip fares from Texas for the Tri State exposition September 26 to October 1. They also set one and a third fare rates for trips from Oklahoma to Clinton and from Oklahoma and Kansas to Liberal Kansas, extending to New Mexico. Efforts seek Southern Pacific rates from New Mexico to El Paso and Dawson New Mexico.
Amarillo residents show strong demand for the annual trade trip to be held on August 18 and 19. City Development officials say the response promises the largest trip yet and urge prospective travelers to contact the board promptly.
The Amarillo Jobbers and Manufacturers' association will meet at the Amarillo hotel tonight at 6:30. Plans for the second annual Panhandle Plains business conference to be held here during September will be discussed. Every jobber and manufacturer in the city is urged to attend.
A meeting at 4 PM next Monday in the Board of City Development rooms, led by John Gilvin of the Kiwanis safety first committee, will discuss traffic signal systems ahead of a city commission hearing Tuesday night. Delegates from Lions, A B C, Real Estate board, Ad club, Federated Women’s clubs, and civic groups in San Jacinto, North Amarillo, East Amarillo, and Glenwood are invited. the event is inclusive of all Amarilloans and visitors.
County officials were urged by the state highway department to collect a motor bus fee of 4 dollars per seating capacity for all cars for hire with or without a driver. The attorney general said the law is valid and applies to all such vehicles. The department also ordered counties to crack down on single license plate driving and to issue a replacement plate if one is lost, kept by the tax collector for the year.
George Hill the companys general manager said the new directory contains about 5000 names, 462 more than the February edition. The directories are distributed by Boy Scouts and none will be handed out at the office.
John Gilvin community counsel for the Board of City Development and JN Riggs president will address the San Jacinto Civic club meeting tonight. Gilvin will discuss activities and accomplishments of the board and outline its workings at future community club gatherings.
The Rotary club luncheon at the Amarillo hotel discussed youth work in Amarillo. Tom Nelson outlined Boy Scout activities while Dr M W Cunningham described the girls work committee. Mrs J I Kendrick spoke briefly. An electric traffic signal system proposal was presented by Dr A J Caldwell and sent to the public affairs committee. H F E Samson and Gus Leftwich were welcomed as new members.
San Antonio August 6 Thirty six members of the graduating class of 1925 at the United States military academy West Point have been assigned as second lieutenants in the air service and ordered to report at Brooks field in September to enter the primary flying school as student officers in the course to begin September 15.
Denison August 6. J E T Peters resigns as secretary of the Denison chamber of commerce after three and a half years. Peters is immediate past president of the Texas Commercial Executives association and a director of that body.
The excerpt cites Helen Gardener and discusses brain size versus function, arguing that women's intellectual capacity is not defined by skull or brain weight. It contrasts external brain size with inner qualities like sentiment and loyalty, noting historic gender roles and claims about men’s and women’s contributions to civilization.
Tokyo reports the Japanese cruiser Tama bearing the late Edagr A. Bancroft, U.S. ambassador, home from Karuizawa where he died on July 28. Japanese officials mourned him as a peace advocate. Emperor and prince regent sent wreaths. Six officials and embassy reps accompanied the train to Yokohama. A harbor salute welcomed the casket as the Tama departed at 3 p.m.
Boston on August 6 reports 44 indictments in Chelse a liquor ring probe. Mayor Lawrence F. Quigley and brother Thomas Quigley police Inspector are among those named. Two sergeants of police are also indicted.
Dr Harvey J Howard of the Peking Union Medical College, captured July 20 when Morgan Palmer was killed, is held by Manchurian bandits about twenty miles from Fuchom-Hsien. A Harbin telegram from the American consul says Howard is being well treated and efforts to secure his release continue.
Dallas August session of the Cotton State's Protective League heard W. B. Yeary urge producer control of cotton prices as a main relief for agriculture. Yeary, secretary-manager, proposed members hold cotton for an agreed annual price set by a committee after the government September report and a study of current conditions.
Arthur J. Baldwin president of the National Publishers' association told a congressional special subcommittee on postal rates that the new rates tax magazines outrageous. He urged restoring second class mailing rates to the July 1 1919 level with a minimum charge per piece.
The Cooper Irvin Motor Company announces a new exclusive used car department at 101 Polk Street. G A Burks is named manager with full charge, replacing his prior role in the new car unit. H A Gardner becomes new car manager, Sam Richardson leads the truck department. Walter Irvin cites improved service as goal of the expansion.
Shamrock completes the first five miles of Highway No 74 across the south end of Wheeler County in about three weeks under state engineer Larry O Cox. The 44 foot graded surface will have flat bottomed ditches and wide clay shoulders with additional trucks to follow. Farmers hope the road aids crop movement as cotton acreage rises and harvest approaches.
New York August 6 An offer for a fifteen round match between heavyweight contenders Harry Wills and Gene Tunney for the Polo Grounds on September 23 or 25 was placed under advisement by Paddy Mullins Wills manager. Mullins said he was satisfied with the offer though terms were not disclosed and that he would confer with Wills in Germany before deciding. He promised a definite reply to promoters by next Monday.
Amarillo society page reports Here There Everywhere with Reece Allen and Gordon West visiting from Wichita Falls. Mrs Margaret Proctor Smith of Louisville returns from a year as a self funded China teacher missionary and is a noted musician. A benefit dance at River Road schoolhouse tomorrow night funds playground equipment. Mrs Therese Baum ill but improving after a New York trip. Mrs Harry Schwartz rushed back due to her mother’s illness. The column notes several local travels, a five passenger Lincoln Keedan arriving soon, and Elgar F Laird buying a new four passenger Lincoln sedan.
Citizens of Altus Oklahoma have presented a 24 inch loving cup to the Tri State Field Trials association in memory of O W Burkett vice president of the association and Altus resident who died last year The cup will be contested in the members derby and is described as one of the finest trophies in the trials Walter Crossett acting secretary expects to travel to Wheefer tomorrow to finalize plans for the trials which start Monday.
Chicago on August 6 reports three World War veteran aviators and fly ing club instructors vanished ten days ago after setting out toward Detroit. Earl P Banker formerly of Selfridge field Mt Clemens and Twin Cities Eugene T Countellier Norris M Gatherhoal formerly of Kelly field Texas and Chanute field Rantoul Ill were expected to circle Lake Michigan Relatives have heard nothing and investigators suspect they may have stopped at a county fair en route. They used a single plane.
Dick Arnett of Cooper-Windle live stock Commission in St. Joseph Missouri says cattlemen will attend the stocker and feeder auction sale. He notes the river market is strong with high demand for stockers and feeders and that more cattle come from Kansas and Oklahoma pastures than ever before this time of year. Arnett, a Panhandle pioneer, formerly lived in Lubbock.
In Dallas a sprouted watermelon seed was removed from the right lung of two year old Charles Ray Cole, son of C. S. Cole of Mesquite. The seed was inhaled about five weeks ago and was extracted in a bloodless operation with a hopeful recovery.
John Temple Graves, the southern writer, is critically ill in Washington and weaker today becoming unconscious. Family members have been summoned to his bedside as hope for recovery fades.
Edward Kohloff an 85 year old recluse living on F W Hagemeirs farm near Gumbo St Louis County was found dead yesterday in a ransacked shack. A shallow grave was disturbed by dogs. He was last seen July 29 by neighbor Edward Meyer when selling vegetables.
Jenny Lee, 75, famed as an emotional actress, died in Los Angeles yesterday. She performed with Jefferson, Booth, and her husband William Courtwright, starred in vaudeville era sketches, later appearing in motion pictures. The Courtwright and Lee duo divided the theatrical team by her death.
Best home grown Weatherford melons on ice guaranteed at 20 cents per pound. Watermelon time promotes quality fruit at the produce stand, inviting customers to purchase at the market location.
Randal Drug Co at 422 Taylor Street offers double S. and H. Green Stamps on all purchases. customers receive twice as many stamps daily as at other retailers, promoting increased savings and rewards.
Classified listings show multiple entries for house keeping and light housekeeping rooms, furnished or unfurnished, with locations on Pierce Seventh Eighth Taylor Wells Buchanan Harrison and West 9th among others, including short-term options and prices. Contact numbers are provided.
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