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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1925
Page
8
Markets report cattle hogs and sheep prices across Wichita Fort Worth Chicago South Omaha with varied gains. Hogs higher at Wichita top 13.46. cattle steady to up. calves, sheep with modest shifts. Chicago hogs uneven with top 14.25. Osage region notes mixed changes across markets.
Wheat and maize quotes listed with basis figures in Amarillo grain market notes. The report shows prices for No. 1 hard wheat, Kafir, Milo, and Barley per unit, though several entries appear garbled or incomplete.
Kansas City market notes show cattle 1 000 head with calves 100 dull, steers and yearlings 6 to 8 50, grass fat cows 5 50 to 3 75, heifers 4 59 to 7, veal tops 11 50. Hog sale 1 900 head higher top 19 65, bulk 13 to 15 60, sows 12 to 12 25, stock pigs 12 75 to 13 50. Sheep 2 000 higher, Colorado lambs 15 10 natives 14 to 14 25, 797 Colorado owes 7 25.
East St. Louis report shows hogs at 6500 head with light hogs 14.10 to 14.15 and heavies 13.85 to 14.00. Pigs and sows mixed. cattle around 1500 head with canners 2.50 to 2.85 and bulls 3.75 to 4.50. Sheep about 1000 head with lambs 15.00 to 15.25 and heavies 5.00.
Cattle 1604 steady top steers 7.10 yearling heifers 7 to 8 fat cows 5.50 canners and cutters 2.25 to 3.25 calves 8. Hogs 400 head active top 13.50 bulk 13 and up. Auction dated August 14.
Wheat No 2 red 1.69. No 1 hard 1.65. Corn No 3 mixed 1.05 to 1.06. Ye No 2 yellow 1.06 to 1.07. Oats No 2 white 41 to 43 cents. No 5 white 40 to 42 cents.
Kansas City cash grain list shows Wheat No 2 hard from 1.64 to 1.74, No 2 red from 1.73 to 1.76. Corn No 3 white 99 to 1, No 2 yellow 1.03. Oats No 2 white 41 to 42 cents, No 3 white 41 to .
In Chicago an early wheat setback followed reports of better European weather and lower Liverpool quotations. September wheat fell to 1.62, December to 1.59, while corn and oats showed relative strength. Hog values provided some steadiness in the provision market.
New Orleans market closed steady with 20 points gain and spot sales at 80 for arrival 1 819. Classes quoted low middling 22.35 middling 23.25 good middling 23.85. Receipts 1 462 stock 27 917.
In a early raid at an exclusive North Shore hotel a wealthy St Louis businessman Thomas Fisher Lawrence and widow Mrs Julia Gruner were arrested after warrants were sworn by Mrs Lawrence who accompanied officers. They initially denied their identities and used assumed names Davis. Mrs Lawrence had left home a week earlier on business. Detectives waited in Lincoln Park shrubbery and moved in after they returned shortly after 1 AM.
Kansas City August 14. Will K. Reeme an insurance broker who confessed to sending an anonymous letter to Andrew Mellon secretary of the treasury is held for investigation. Police chief Shreeve says mental evaluation may determine asylum need and notes no statute makes writing a threatening letter criminal unless money is demanded or a threat to the president. The four page letter mailed July 13 accuses Mellon of lax prohibition stance and treasonous acts. Reeme has been known in Kansas City for extreme prohibition views.
W M McGough newly appointed Potter county highway officer urged rigid law enforcement and dealer compliance to curb stolen cars. He said licenses with current transfers and last year’s receipt are required, noting that improper records would reveal past thefts and keep vehicles from legimate current-year licensing. He warned cars on Potter county roads must be properly licensed or justify the lack.
Karr and Walsh Amarillo architects draft plans for a 75 by 75 foot cement floored reinforced concrete garage with tar and gravel roof to be owned by W Howell of Clovis. Construction cost quoted at 15000 dollars. Plans for Jump school in Castro county due in two days for contractors.
A novel dress-like tent has been designed to be worn by lathers during costume changes. The device aims to provide privacy and ease for workers adjusting outfits on set or stage.
Work started this afternoon on another brick business building at the corner of Ken tucky and the highway in San Jacinto. The 75 by 65 foot fronted structure costs about 15000 dollars and includes three business rooms. One room will house I C Mulkins plumbing. Otis Philipps builds the other two sections and has leased one room with the other likely to be filled soon. M C Hancock holds the contract as San Jacinto sees growth in brick construction with L W Bussey adding another brick building east of his Linville drug store complex to house new tenants.
A new Real Service station No 7 at Sixteenth and Jefferson streets opens today with no wait for five gallons of Rose gasoline. H G Kilgore leads the operation and says the station will carry a full line of accessories as well as gasoline and oils, and it is touted as one of the city’s most attractive filling stations.
A man who gave the name Lee Willis and a Miss Bessie Byrne are held in Potter county jail awaiting a Department of Justice agent from Woodward Oklahoma. The agent wired the sheriff about a Mann Act case involving Lee Williams transporting Bessie Byrne from Woodward to Amarillo in June and will investigate. The pair were arrested by the sheriff’s officers at a local tourist camp.
Troop No. 7 Boy Scouts postpone their weekly meeting at the First Christian church due to the death of Jane McCarty Heyser. Scoutmaster Floyd Garwood announced the postponement today.
Aug 14 near San Antonio a dazzling electrical display accompanied drenching rains north and northwest of town. San Antonio recorded .48 inch. Olmos watershed caused a four foot head wash at the Blanco road crossing. Firemen and policemen noted rapid runoff but no river rise or dam damage.
Joe Cloode is in the Potter county jail charged with burglary in connection with an alleged theft last night of material worth about 35 from the Amarillo Junk company. The material was reportedly sold by a junk dealer to B Abramson of the Amarillo Junk company and later offered for sale to the man who sold it to Abramson who thought he recognized it. Bond set at 1000 and he waived examining trial.
Amarillo sailor Merril N Baland has completed Navy training in San Diego with high honors and received leave to visit friends before assignment to the fleet. He joined early in the May 25 enlistment drive and the recruiting office plans full reopening after the fleet returns from Australia next month.
Owensboro August 14 The question of whether Ursuline nuns may teach in county schools while wearing their religious garb was before the state superintendent of education and the attorney general for an opinion. The Davis county board submitted the question after a three month wrangle. Three districts with Catholic majorities risk losing instructors unless nuns are approved. sisters have taught in the schools for five years and trustees refuse to name other teachers.
Newburgh New York August 14 Jansen C Wells 48 a night watchman and deputy sheriff is under arrest for killing his wife He allegedly confessed to beating and kicking her to death as five children boarding with the couple cried The quarrel began after they drank whisky He fired a shot to frighten her then began striking her and knocked her down at least six times He is charged with manslaughter.
Mrs. G V Lain arrives from Sanger Texas to visit son Sam M Lain who owns Linville drug store in San Jacinto. The parrot he acquired from the Randals is claimed to have renounced swearing and tobacco after attending a Salvation Army meeting. Berlin may bridge many streets.
The article argues against the vegetarian movement predicting doom for opponents of it. It notes Miss Harrison the Argentine girl struggles to swim the English Channel due to her vegetarian diet, and mentions changes in diet affecting physical performance. It also notes hereditary Prince Henry now runs a theater department, deeming long education a failure pitiful.
Chicago report says Be Kundred, a Kendallville Indiana gladiolus breeder, left his church after leaders opposed his evolution ideas arising from hybridizing gladioli. He described his excommunication in Rochester New York reports, stating his beliefs were shaped by breeding, not church doctrine.
J Roger Wilson former Amarillo Waples Platter manager will take charge of the Pirely Wiggly store in Clovis New Mexico Monday morning He leaves Amarillo tomorrow ending a seventeen year run with Waples Platter to start his own venture in Clovis New Mexico.
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