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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth and Wichita publish livestock and oil market notes for August 23. Cattle roast prices show varied calves and feeders, with hogs and sheep receipts and market shifts noted. Local prices include beef steers around 5.40 to 7.50 and veal ranges, while hogs trend lower by about ten cents.
Mr and Mrs L M Price and their daughter Misa Kath ryp Price from Stratford are visiting W H Fuqua. Mr Price is chief of the national bank examiners for the eleventh district. Miss Price recently graduated from MSU with high honors.
AmarlO produce list shows prices for hens and chicks including Leghorn hens springers and broilers, geese, turkeys hens and toms with per dozen or per unit rates. Also notes eggs infertile and mold free butter and rat control charges.
Market notes list wheat at 1.10 per bushel and 48 high, barley at 1.95 per hundred, maize and Kaffir listed similarly. The fragment notes prices and terms from Oates and others, indicating grain trading data in Amarillo.
Tom Ivey announced in Amarillo the Tierra Blanca club plan for 400 acres eight miles east of Hereford with a mile and a half of deep Panhandle fishing waters. Two hundred memberships at 200 dollars each are offered, with Lubbock’s Bartley-Hesa Company guiding formation and interest from Thomas A. Rowan Canyon E G G Bruner Clovis and Ed Kast. The public may visit the ranch before transfer to the club and fishing has been excellent recently.
Clements the Hillcrest secretary announced Amarillo golfers’ Memphis trip, planned for today, postponed due to a drowning tragedy. John Deaver, whose two sisters died, is a Memphis Golf Club member. Memphis has suffered no event like this in years, as Patty and Mina Deaver are mourned.
Revival services at St. Paul’s Methodist church will begin this morning with the Rev. M. M. Beavers of Canyon in charge. The meetings will continue for two weeks. The church sits at Highteenth and Van Buren streets.
Harold Lloyd tours city streets in a new film project. The comedian invites audiences to watch as he and his entourage stage playful pranks and parades through busy areas, showcasing his signature humor.
Crosbyton Republican A B Spencer nominated for congress in the Eighteenth district after a district convention with forty delegates. Spencer will oppose Marvin Jones in the November election and vows an active campaign. Other nominations were withdrawn when Spencer accepted.
Wiley Pollard defeats incumbent Sheriff Less Whitaker by eighteen votes in yesterday's Potter County primary runoff. Pollard will assume office after the election, with the narrow victory signaling a tight race and local political implications.
Advertisement describes a demure child dress pattern for ages two four six or eight with a Peter Pan collar and embroidery motif No 667 priced 15 cents extra. It notes fabric options and a sample pattern No 2093 in size 4 requiring 2 1/2 yards of 36 inch material and 15 cents price, plus a Spring and Summer Fashion Magazine offer to order for 100.
Totals for Potter County list Felix D Robertson 2731 and Miram A Ferguson 1021 in the governor race with Ferguson trailing. Other statewide races include Edwards 2590 to Miller 1065 for lieutenant governor and Moody 2240 to Ward 1288 for attorney general. Precinct totals are provided for each race.
Returns at 1 30 this morning from 223 of 252 counties show Ferguson 353146 Robertson 274279 Edwards 277785 Miller 282154 Moody 371367 Ward Baker 180861 Terrell 441607 Railroad Commissioner Gilmore 300581 Weaver 202064 166588 Nabors 224209 Smith 284700 Cureton 297475 Wear 214506.
Berlin August 23 Foreign Minister Stresemann delivered a climactic Reichstag speech defending the cabinet appeal for ratification of the London pact. He answered questions aimed at Chancellor Marx, portraying the German delegation’s work as the best possible result that would be endangered if not ratified.
Mail clerk Leo Stack received the congratulations of President Coolidge for thwarting a Jersey City mail robbery on July 31. He killed one bandit and wounded another, and was awarded a $2,000 reward.
Genealogical list shows Kennedy Ferguson aged 88 and others with Ferguson surname connected to Robertson and adjacent counties. Counts include Ferguson entries with numbers like 1,346 in Robertson and 5,276 in Navarro, reflecting a dense family distribution across multiple locales.
Mike Hollander and Paul Nunn with Kiowa adviser George Hunt have secured forty Indians including warriors buffalo hunters and scouts for the Pageant Of The Plains at the Amarillo Tri-State exposition. The group from Oklahoma will perform in a prominent role as a feature of the exposition.
George T. Riley longtime Amarillo furniture dealer has leased 713 Polk Street and opened a new store offering new and second hand merchandise. He and his family recently returned from a coast trip and report better conditions locally than along their route.
James Moore of Itasca Texas died yesterday afternoon in an auto accident there. His niece Mrs. C. W. Cunningham will travel from Fillmore Street to Itasca, with Amarillo relatives arriving later. A brother, Pat Moore, is visiting Amarillo.
J. E. Jeffress returns from Fort Worth where he has been ordering goods for a new store to open on the corner of Fifth and Polk streets in the middle of next month. He reports pulling all his teeth while there and says he already feels like a new man.
Twenty thousand fans jammed Houston streets around bulletin boards as precinct returns flashed. By 10 pm Mrs. Ferguson led Robertson by about 20,000 votes with Harris County voting shifting, keeping the crowd split and traffic at a standstill on Texas Avenue and Travis Street.
Sheriff Less Whitaker concedes defeat in the sheriff race but praises law and order and thanks Potter County voters. He notes three terms as county assessor and one as sheriff and wishes opponent Wiley Pollard a successful administration.
Walter Bromerick, 49, of Miami Ohio, remained in hospital after a Ku Klux Klan dispute in Kansas City. Robert D. Ford, 40, Kansas City, was jailed on charges of assault with intent to kill after striking Bromerick and fracturing his skull.
Amari llo Texas based Cotton and Grain Exchange lists WW. W. Stuart as manager and Vex Hysana Co. of New Orleans contact via phone 3004 for provisions and trading services.
C. W. Whittington of the Hamon-Whittington Mortgage Co in Amarillo muses on Miss Democracy as a symbol of voters choosing a governor. The poem describes a blush and bowed head suggesting pride or possible shame in the election outcome.
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