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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1924
Page
2
Market reports from Fort Worth St Louis Chicago and Kansas City show declines in hogs cattle and sheep prices. Hogs top near 9.60 at Fort Worth and 9.80 in St Louis with overall softness in packer and feeder categories. Cattle and calves slip modestly with mixed results across regions, western lambs and feeding lambs remain near prior levels in places.
Hog receipts reach 500 with market steady and top at 9.35 while most hogs sell 9.10 to 9.30 and top cuts at 8. Cattle receipts total 600 including 100 calves with beef steers 6 to 8, beef heifers 3 to 4, cows 3 to 5.50, bulls 2.50 to 5.50, canners 1.50 to 2.75, veal calves 5 to 9, heavy calves 2.50 to 7, stockers 2.75 to 6.25, stock cows 2 to 3.76.
Produce items listed with weights and prices including Hena 4 lbs and over Hens under 4 lbs Leghorn hens and broilers priced per the pound. Details note turkey hens and toms weights, and mention butter and infertile eggs terms. Some lines appear garbled or partial.
AmAtillo grain prices show basins and per bushel figures for Wheat Maize and other commodities. The New York Stock exchange lists several major industrials and oil firms with mixed percentages and gains on the trading day.
Geneva August 27 The League of Nations has invited the United States government to send an official representative to the disarmament commission to be appointed by the League assembly This move follows American input in the preliminary study to craft an international arms traffic control convent Additional commissions will begin work after the assembly meets with the third commission focusing on arms reduction traffic control security agreements and applying the Washington naval treaty principles to non signatory powers
Twenty eight officials and operators attended a Texas Independent Telephone association district meeting at the Amarillo hotel. Speakers included R B Still of Tyler who urged square dealing for customers and said value to the public negates need for strict utility regulation. Luncheon followed with a roster of owners and operators from across the state.
Bob Parks praises George Schaefer as one of the best and most trustworthy men, noting his drive to stay busy when work slows. District Clerk J C Skillman says the grand jury is snowed under with work, reflecting a heavy workload in the office.
J Ray returns from a bus trip to Vernon. J S Dickie of J K Bryant Candy company staying in Fort Worth on business. W C Smith and family of Temple Texas visit relatives at 2202 Fillmore. Mrs Bertha Gowdy at 704 Van Buren to return from extended trip to Detroit and Chicago. Mrs J E Baggs of 7038 North Buchanan called to Shamrock for sister-in-law's illness. Edward Moran at St Anthony's sanitarium seriously ill.
City auditor reports the Municipal auditorium costs taxpayers about 30,000 dollars yearly 2,500 monthly covering operating expense insurance interest sinking fund and lighting The city earned 3,489 dollars in rentals last year and plans to pay the occupation tax while aiming for lower future costs for shows.
In Fort Worth a third party, Ralph Duncan, was shot and killed at a garage. W S Phillips, a rival garage operator, surrendered and faced a murder charge while bearing a rifle. Police say Duncan was in a coupe at the wheel when the shooting occurred during a duel between Phillips and Brazier.
Efforts to reopen the old packing plant in the suburbs were struck a blow when the city commission ruled sewer connections would be prohibitively expensive. J. A. Bachelor of Graham Texas had sought city sewer aid after purchasing options on the plant and planned a small scale reopening, exploring cess pools or septic tanks. Tom Cook, once a Miami banker, is in the city.
Paving on Harrison street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ninth streets was ordered by the city yesterday afternoon. Three property owners protested at the 2 o'clock hearing: W. W. Cox J. L. Scott and D. W. Owens. The brick paving is seen as a forerunner to Polk and Tyler paving and the Twenty-ninth street corridor. A protest hearing was set for September 9 on Monroe street paving between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
Mr and Mrs Chancellor Weymouth returned from their ranch northwest of Amarillo to their Amarillo residence yesterday. They moved into the home again after a relocation sentence.
More than twenty boys have signed for a three day Boy Scout encampment at the Delater ramp near Canyon. If roads permit, the event will proceed with a larger turnout than listed. Camp facilities are ready and the group departs from scout headquarters at 6:50 tomorrow morning.
Byron Steele from Amarillo seeks after school work to pay his board. He worked for J L Bivins last year, but that place is closed this year. He and his mother, a rural schoolteacher near Channing, want a larger school and ask the Board of City Development to receive any information.
Police were ordered by the city commission to enforce the double parking ordinance with special vigilance. Strenuous traffic-violation campaigns have led to two-thirds of corporation court cases being traffic related.
The Rev. J. B. Parker, formerly a Brazil missionary, will speak at 8 15 tonight at the San Jacinto Baptist tabernacle corner of Mississippi Avenue and West Sixth street. An open invitation is extended to the public to hear his message. An effort seeks his full time service in San Jacinto.
The Rev M M Beavers at St Pauls Methodist church delivered a faith centered revival sermon last night urging belief in oneself and others as key to success and salvation. He contrasted faith in fellow man with worldly failure and hinted at a second lecture on Gods Faith in Man. Crowds attended despite bad weather and his stories of Abel Abraham moved many in the audience.
James Rockwell Sheffield named ambassador to Mexico by President Coolidge at Plymouth Vermont. A distinguished lawyer and former president of the National Republican Committee, Sheffield served in the New York state assembly in 1893 and 1894. Born August 13, 1864 in Dubuque Iowa, he married Edith Tod in Cleveland on June 2, 1898. they have a son Frederick.
Sam Vaughn and B T Ware along with Loren Driscoll return from a Colorado fishing trip covering 1032 miles in under a week. Mr and Mrs Miles Bivins and Earl Fuqua party came from Colorado Springs after ten days of fishing and golf. The Madden and Arnold couple arrive from New Mexico. Try a Globe wanted.
O. V. Vernon secretary of the Board of City Development left this morning for the East Plains to advertise the Amarillo Tri-State exposition in the interest of a fair development effort.
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