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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1925
Page
3
Fort Worth cattle and calf markets were steady to higher with strong rates. Receipts totaled 590 cattle 590 calves 700 hogs and 590 sheep while hogs averaged 25 cents lower than last week. Cows up 25 cents good light calves gained 24 to 60 cents. Steers yearlings and bulls remained fully steady.
Amarillo market list shows prices per 100 pounds for Milo Maize and No 1 Kafir mixed with per bushel rates for wheat oats and barley. Details include per 100 lbs for milo and maize and per bushel for wheat oats and barley.
Open high low and close figures for Wheat Corn Rye and Lard are listed with September December and May contract months. Prices show minor fluctuations in Wheat at around 1.64 to 1.65 for Sept and 1.62 to 1.63 for Dec while Corn trades near 42 and 42 percent ranges and Lard around 17.5 to 17.6.
PanTex Pipeline Company issues Tariff No 11 effective August 10 stating no field gathering system beyond two small trunk lines near Hutchinson County. It will not build more gathering lines in Carson, Hutchinson, or Potter counties. Shippers may use the existing lines free of charge to reach the main pumping station, with possible reimbursement for investments and transfer of installed equipment to the company upon full repayment.
In Breckenridge Texas during a ceremony opening a new airfield two planes collided mid-air. H C Foster of Dallas, 28, died in the blaze while Byron Good, 35, suffered a broken arm and minor injuries. Both pilots worked at Lovefield Dallas servicing government ships before the crash before 3000 spectators.
A smoke haze blankets the southern British Columbia coast from the international boundary past Butte Inlet as fires threaten or destroy prime fir cedar hemlock and spruce stands across the region.
Advertises prices for hens at 16 cents, Leghorn and broiler varieties, roosters and ducks, turkeys with prices for no 1 hens and toms, and butter in stock. Note mentions infertile eggs subject to candling and a loss adjustment of seven dollars eighty cents.
Special to The Globe reports the final big roundup at J. E. Hill ranch in Deaf Smith county drew 275 cattle and 20 wild horses branded before sale. Hereford and Foard visitors joined in cooking, drinks, and community meals as the ranch is set to be divided into farms for cotton farmers with the herd to be sold as colonization progresses. The event likely marks the last large roundup on the Hill ranch.
Mountainaire New Mexico August 8 Citizens of Mountainaire believe the quake center from the Southwest July 30 is southeast of town. Fissures two feet wide were found fifteen miles southeast last Sunday. The zigzag cracks run east west over more than a half mile with uneven depth and side tilts. lighted matches vanish quickly indicating irregular shafts. No bulge reported near the fissures.
Southwestern Public Service will build a high voltage line from Amarillo to Pampa to supply electricity to Panhandle White Deer and Pampa. The Panhandle plant voter approved sale to the firm and White Deer granted a franchise. company officials returned from Panhandle and White Deer and will take charge Monday at noon.
In Chartres France August 8 French aviators Drouhen and Landry surpassed distance and duration marks on a circular route between Chartres and Etampa. They landed at 4 23 a m after 45 hours 11 minutes 59 seconds aloft covering about 4090 kilometers, breaking the 4050 kilometer Dayton record set by MacReady and Kelly.
Funeral services for Otis McClish sixteen who drowned after body found in Amarillo creek Friday will be conducted at 3 pm at Blackburn Funeral home. Salvation Army officers lead, pallbearers chosen from his friends. Burial in Llano cemetery. Son of Mr and Mrs Charles T McClish of 2416 West North Tenth Street.
A special train carrying over 100 oil men in ten gallon hats left Tulsa for Bradford Pennsylvania to attend the centennial and old home week celebration. The group includes many former Bradford residents who became wealthy in oil.
Six men in an automobile stop a United States mail truck carrying airmail from Crissy Field to the post office. They escape with seven sacks of mail arriving from New York. The car bore a commercial license implying taxi or commercial work.
Fez Morocco August 8 Amer son mountain harboring Riffian marauders falls to French forces after three days of bombardment and aviator support. A cordon of artillery drew them in as explosives and a tight siege sealed the capture.
Walter R Simmons faces execution in the electric chair next Tuesday for the murder of Frank Pahl Spencer Nebraska. He has endured twenty three prior notification visits from the warden without visible panic. An accessory to the crime he aided in Glenrock Wyoming with Dr B W McDermott seeking Gov McMullen’s aid for a final resolution.
Col. F. H. Turner is appointed commandant of Texas A and M succeeding Col. C. C. Todd who moves to the Philippines. Turner previously served at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
The column ponders a $3.5 million mausoleum amid dire housing for mothers and children, questions if Christian founders would endorse grand tombs, and notes New York politics with Mayor Hylan facing a 5 cent fare era and Wall Street betting on primaries. It comments on voter intelligence and the race between a 5 cent and an 8 or 10 cent mayor.
Dalhart reports the Panhandle district convention of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce will be held August 24. Convention manager R A Highsmith tours the area to boost interest and attendance. Clarendon plans a sixty-strong parade band and Shamrock also enters the contest. On Sunday night prior to the meeting local church pulpits will be filled by laymen from across the Panhandle.
Chicago officials unveiled a faith healing publicity plan after police vigilance failed to curb crime. Businessmen distribute posters in public transit with slogans promising safety and arrest of criminals, including caps about seven thousand police sworn to get you dead or alive and a card claiming Chicago is the safest city.
Paris reports a large wave overwhelmed a beach party at Bologne. Thirty seven children were present and the death toll rose to thirteen with five missing and believed drowned. Priests aided rescues as Wattrelos villagers awaited news.
Miami August 8 N B T Rooney millionaire real estate operator and land developer set a world record for salesmanship earning 8 000 000 profit in seven and a half hours after subdividing Seminole Beach 115 acres into lots ten days after purchasing for 3 000 000. Buyers snapped up lots totaling 10 997 000.
Chicago, August. Russell Scott, once a wealthy man and a convicted insane murderer who narrowly escaped the gallows three times, entered a padded cell at the Chester asylum for the criminal under heavy deputy sheriff guard. He bid farewell to jail staff and proclaimed his sanity amid preparations for alienist observation.
In New York at Commonwealth Club on August 8 the twelve round bout ended in the eighth round when both fighters clowned and clinched, tapping each other with light blows. Referee halted action. Silvani awarded the decision.
County Attorney H K Stanfield warned that after September 1 violators of new highway laws will face no leniency in county court. He said publicity has informed the public and he will vigorously prosecute all violators then. Until September 1 enforcement will be educational rather than strict.
Dalhart August 8. Dallam County boards plant turnips replacing grass in a bid to feed residents. County Judge McNeill champions the crop after the poor farm site remained vacant for years, aided by favorable rains and fertile soil.
After a week of fog and rain, no favorable signs for a polar dash by the MacMillan expedition planes. Commander Donald B. MacMillan, at Utah Greenland, radioed the National Geographics Society that there would be no long flights until weather improves.
Atlantic City reports no resumption of joint wage scale talks between anthracite miners and operators until a new discussion base is provided by a third party, likely a federal agency. Lewis denies miners driving a broader bituminous field issue.
Messages sent by wireless to the Eastern United States from the West Coast cost thirty six cents a word. This tariff reflects the growing reach of telegraph and wireless services across the country during the period.
Three young ladies a jazz orchestra and a comedy act return to the Fair for a week of performances after recent engagements in Denver and other western venues.
Light rains spread through scattered Panhandle sections while forecasts promise one third to one bale per acre on cotton land and good yields for feed. A Canadian river rise of 4 percent followed heavy New Mexico rains but caused no damage. Rail washouts on Fort Worth and Denver and Rock Island lines were repaired and service resumed after the near cloudburst Wednesday night west of town.
A visiting party plans a North Plains tour to publicize Rock Island’s push to gain permission for a railroad into Amarillo. Many local businessmen are expected to join when new dates are announced. The group postponed departure due to poor road conditions and weather.
Austin, August 8. W. E. James of Austin announces he will seek the Democratic nomination for state superintendent of public instruction in the July 1926 primary. James previously served as rural school supervisor with the Department of Education from 1919 to 1923.
Board of Trustees of the Amarillo Independent School District will receive bids at the regular meeting on September 1 1925 for the depository account to handle district funds for two years from Sept 1 1925 to Aug 31 1927.
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