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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth reports cattle 6 500 head with calves. hogs 600 head, top 10 10. sheep 1 200 with lambs 9 to 12 50. Kansas City records cattle 9 000 and calves 2 000 slow, hogs 7 500 higher, top 9 80, sheep 6 000 steady to lower. Colorado and East St Louis figures include hogs and cattle with assorted ranges.
Wichita and Chicago wholesale markets show hogs steady to firm with top bids around 14.15 and 14.50. Cattle receipts near 11,000 in Chicago with strong demand for yearlings and fed steers. calves and stockers also active. J. W. Kelly of Higgins Texas contracts to sell 250 steer cars to Burden Kansas at 25 dollars per head for fall delivery.
Amarillo Cotton & Grain Exchange announces H. W. Stuart as manager with Alex Hyman and company listed from New Orleans Louisiana, contact phone 3004. The note identifies the exchange location in Amarillo Texas and references associated personnel and firms.
Market items list poultry prices including hens under and over four pounds four hens four pounds and more broilers leghorns blacks and roosters per pound and per case. Also notes on old toms butter and infertile eggs with price adjustments and delivery charges.
Grain prices paid to local growers by Great West Mill and Elevator include wheat to 1.17 per bushel for No 1 hard. Maize at 1.45 per 100 pounds. Rye and barley prices appear garbled with incomplete figures. Dates and other items lack clear values.
Charles A. Crudgington swore and signed an affidavit denying that Felix D. Robertson, candidate for governor, drank alcohol while a major in the 132nd Field Artillery. He states he never observed Robertson under the influence and disavows Klan ties, dated August 20, 1924, before Notary Cleo G. Clayton in Potter County Texas.
At the Texas American Legion convention in Brownwood, Tom Cheatham Cuero and Col Ernest Thompson Amarillo emerged as new dark horses for department commander, joining Mark McGee Brownwood and R M Wagstaff Abilene as potential leaders. The session also advances plans to oppose Texas boxing bans and to observe National Defense Day on September 12.
Former Texas governor defends education funding and resource plans while addressing a large crowd. He recounts his role in early state university funding and argues his stance on higher education and conservation was misrepresented.
A public auction will be held September 22, 1924 at M and L Transfer & Storage Company Amarillo Texas to satisfy warehouseman lien charges. The sale includes show equipment for the Busby Minstrel Show on a lot with tents seats and related items.
A mixed bag of local notices and remarks including health claims about sunlight making an antiseptic blood, social visits from Dumas and Plainview, plans for a new Palmer kindergarten, a millinery store opening, and a political speech critique of the Klan with reference to Ferguson and prohibition issues.
A party of fifteen Fort Worth business leaders continued their inspection trip along the planned Texas Panhandle and Gulf railway route from Tulsa toward Tucumcari. They will pass Amarillo tomorrow and believe the line is crucial to developing a vast, truck‑dependent region where cotton dominates marketing.
Society Miss Metz Jones of Valley View arrived in the city last evening to spend a few days as the horse guest of Miss Jewell Seales. Miss Jones was accompanied by her brother Frank Jones of Lubbock, who will be the guest of his brother Marvin Jones. Congressman Marvin Jones, who has been on a two weeks vacation in Colorado Springs, returned home today.
A Ferguson campaign gathering features Gulekes and supporters denouncing Ku Kluxism while warning Texas voters to resist factional control. Major Simpson challenges Robertson’s war record as Tom Barton stumps for Miriam Ferguson with governor hopefuls emphasized by Judge Triplett’s praise of Mrs Ferguson.
Brief services are slated for J. S. Blasdel father of Mayor Eugene Blasdel tomorrow afternoon at 1 oclock at Griggs chapel. Afterward the body will be taken to Texas for burial with Rev G L Yates and Rev R Thomson officiating in Amarillo and Rev Stevenson in Groom First Baptist church leading services.
A two week revival begins next Sunday at St Pauls Methodist Church at Eighteenth and Van Buren streets with Rev M M Beavers Canyon evangelist in charge. St Pauls organized two years ago and has shown strong growth. Beavers is described as a powerful evangelist who delivers notable messages.
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